I was really looking forward to finally trying out the new Sheraton's new bar. Man, was I disappointed! One - it's just a hotel bar, and it *felt* like a hotel bar. I'm glad I only came for happy hour and not a nice meal because I totally felt like I was just in a hotel.\nBeer - OK selection (random New Belgium beers I'd never heard of, a Four Peaks beer I'd never heard of - how is that possible? - a Nut Brown Ale, a Lagunitas, a couple Hefeiwizens... all in all it was about 10 beers on hh special) that were only $3 on hh ($3.75) otherwise. That's pretty price. No wines by the glass under $10 or on hh special - bummer. Good sounding food selection on hh - notice I say it sounds good, but it was not good, not at all!\nWe got the sliders ($9) and sweet potato tots ($4). Sliders (2) were dry-meat, bland little things that came with fried onions and some kind of horseradish sauce that was just terrible. Sweet pot tots came out *burned* (really?) and not finely chopped and mashed back together in tot shaped and fried, like regular tots, but simply cut into tot shape and then fried (or, in this case, burned). Which means when you bite into it, it tastes like a grease ball. They came with ranch (again, really?) for dipping, and (now I just sound nit-picky, but this place is supposed to be nice, right?) it was the watery, runny kind of ranch that reminded me of the kind you got in middle school. \nMy friend got the chicken wrap that actually looked pretty good and she seemed to enjoy it, and a side of fries, which came with ketchup and ...well I don't know the other dip was supposed to be. It was orange, so I hoped it was a chipotle mayo or fancy mustard that would help my tots. But no, it was thick - but congealed like it had been untouched and left out for awhile, and tasted terrible. I really can't place what it was supposed to be or taste like - the seasoning that came on the fries didn't help either. how can you mess up fries?!?! (OK, to solve the mysery, I just looked up the menu and it says \"Creamy garlic\" was the indiscernible fry dip. Um, what??)\n\nOk, enough bad stuff, here's what I did like. Root beer (Virgil's) on tap. That's pretty cool. And, my all time favorite part - the prints from Mexican artist Theresa Villegas they had up (though sort of out of sight by the bathrooms). She does these amazing prints inspired by the traditional La Loteria card game (her prints are of the same name). I originally heard of her when she showed at the Mesa Arts Center two years ago and have never talked to anyone who knew about her, let alone seen them anywhere! I thought that was amazing. Also, when the bartender overheard us talking about having ridden the light rail, she informed us that by showing our ticket we got 25 percent off our entire bill! Wow, that's a great deal (I think that only runs through the end of this month, though).
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