
rtcrooks November 5, 2009 at 4:50pm

rtcrooks November 4, 2009 at 12:37pm
Marti's, Marti's, Marti's, oh why does my bank transaction history have your name on every other line? Oh wait, that's right, because every other time I use my debit card it tends to be at Marti's Bar and Grill. The truth is I wonder why this is. Marti's is one of the more popular bars in San Luis Obispo and at first it doesn't make sense at all. Then I started to think about it. Marti's is one of the only full on sports bars in downtown besides Firestone's. Marti's has a great bar menu and excellent happy hour specials, as well as nightly specials for people to drink their minds away at a pretty cheap price. But the biggest thing that probably makes Marti's popular is that it is perfectly catered to a college town. It doesn't try to be too dressy, it has all sorts of drink specials and clubs like the "century club" that cater completely towards the college crowd that still tends to think of drinking as a sport. They open it up to make a dance floor on the weekends, and they will even set up beer pong tables for you during the week if you like. Marti's does what a college bar should do: it doesn't try to have a theme, it plays a wide variety of popular music in all genres, has some of the hottest bartenders in town, and doesn't overcharge for drinks because it's obvious that people on a college budget can't afford and don't want to spend $6 on a beer they could buy for $1 at the store. No one is going to say that Marti's is a bar with a very specific character such as a saloon or a lounge, but Marti's more than makes up for it with the character of the staff and the regular customers that hang out there.
Tags: top bar list, sloshspot top bars, san luis obispo, slo

rtcrooks November 2, 2009 at 6:40pm
rtcrooks November 2, 2009 at 4:54pm