Pirate bar last night

Went to the pirate bar in Silver Spring last night (corner of Georgia and Bonifant).  I'd never been there before but had heard many good things.  As it turns out, we were there from 8pm-1am.  My impressions of the place:

1) Really good food.  Had a cup of shrimp bisque, and a turkey sandwich with a side salad (instead of fries).  All very tasty...especially the salad.  I don't expect much from bars in the ways of veggies, but this was very good.  Sandwich was on homemade bread that was perfect.

2) Good alcohol.  There were four of us (the check noted our customer name as "four girls" LOL) and we split two pitchers of grog, which as it turned out were pitchers of rum, rum, and more rum.  That maybe explains why we only went through 2 pitchers in 5 hours between 4 people.

3) Great outdoor seating.  Perfect night for it too.

4) But...horrible service.  I'm not picky about service, but it was really bad here.  It took a long time to be seated.  Then it took the waiter 45 minutes (no joke) to take our orders.  Food came out quickly, but some of it was missing and it took forever to get that rectified as well.  If you are planning to camp out there anyways and are in no particular hurry, this could be overlooked (we did).  However, if I was trying to get somewhere (movie, etc.) I would have been pissed.

There was also a belly dancer, but I did not think she was anything special.

Also, we broke in the new fish deck of cards.  The old one was getting a bit marked so I bought two new ones: saltwater fish of the world and freshwater fish of the world.  Heresy of heresies though, there are NO TILAPIA!  However there are plenty of other funny names to keep you occupied, and there are plenty of tuna (no dolphins, since they are mammals).