Tini Bigs Lounge

I've known Tini Bigs for over 8 or 9 years, and it's a favorite of a lot of folks. It's got a great location (the sports arena and theatre folks pack in afterwards), even if the crowds seemed to have thinned out over the years.



They have good dash of creativity behind the bar, so it's a fun place to sample one of their masculinity-endangering-jumbo-martinis, or order something from their well stocked bar. I know some of my cigar smoking friends frequent it, even if they now have to now stand out in the cold to smoke after buying it (yes they have a small cigar offering).



Decent drinks aside, I'm not a huge fan of the staff there, it's an unfriendly lot, so be warned, you'll get three times the friendliness from Parisian waiters on a hot August day right before closing, than their staff. They succeeded in making me, the customer, feel small. And I've heard this from others. Perhaps it's because they have been highly rated in the past, but that's no excuse. In any case, they better come down to earth before someone else on the ever growing list of good cocktail bars eats their lunch.

Tini Bigs is a decent place to take a date. The bartenders are reasonably skilled, if not over confident, but good to chat with at the bar. They are entertaining in making their trademark, battleship sized martinis. Forget the service in the rest of the bar, it's abysmal and unfriendly. I long for old days when the place was almost always packed and the service was good. I guess having to smoke your cigar outside helped kill the romantic, smokey martini bar atmosphere (and yes they still sell cigs).