Urban Review: Salute/ Beer Garden
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Roba: After a dry Ramadan, spent mostly at home and at Books@Cafe, the urban reviews are back up and running. Since Salute was our 4th to last outing, we decided we’ll review it quickly.
In the Salute building there’s something for everyone; head to Grappa on the first floor for an oldish crowd, Salute on the second floor for a youngish, loud crowd, and the Beer Garden right at the bottom (our favorite) for a mid-twenties to mid-thirties crowd. They all share the same menu save for Grappa, and their food and drinks aren’t all that bad, especially the pizza and the arageel. My favorite part about Salute though and what keeps me going is the ambiance- the view is fantastic and the crowd is always surprisingly diverse.
What we dislike about them though is the staff, who are very unfriendly, rude, and extremely slow. We’ve had several bad experiences with them and that makes us avoid it as much as possible.
Moose: Salute will always have a special place in my heart since it brings back the memories of Netherlands beating Yugoslavia in the second round of the 1998 world cup.
Every time I walk down the stairs I can see Predrag Mijatovic’s penalty kick shaking the whole goal as it bounced of the cross bar, while Mhammad and I jumped and hollered with other Dutch fans. (We later found out that they were not real fans, they were just hoping to win a scotch bottle in a raffle based on randomly picking the Dutch to win) . That was a great Dutch team and their coach at the time is proving that he is easily the best coach in the world who can single handedly change the fortunes of any team (just look at Russia these days).
Ah yeah, Salute… an excellent place, the downstairs garden is one of the coolest places in town. But if I were them, I will take my chances with the occasional bar brawl over having a fat idiot “greeting” the people at the door, giving them the impression that they are walking into one of the offices at the eighth circle (formerly al-Abdali), not to a really nice and laid-back hang out spot.
Location: Jabal Amman
Reservations: Yes
Phone: (06) 465 1458
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