This is one of our favorite spots in Colorado Springs - convenient when there's a show at the Pikes Peak Center and a great place to show off to out-of-town guests! Anyway - we stopped by there for drinks and appetizers/tapas before the Steep Canyon Rangers with Steve Martin played at the PP Center the other night. If I could get the managers/owners of MacKenzie's to do one thing - I'd tell them to hire Ramsey as the full-time bartender (and pay her what she's worth) or get Sean back! While service was okay - it was not up to par with either Ramsey or Sean. There's a lack to personal attention to the customers - the bartenders are just that - bartenders - and too busy, to boot! Sean and Ramsey always recognized the regulars, service was FAST, and you felt special when they were behind the bar.
As for the appetizers - the spinach dip was good - served in a bread bowl can never be wrong. The carpaccio was wonderful - sliced thin, flavorful, with just perfect capers, toast, onions and garlic. And, of course, I got the bacon-wrapped, blue cheese stuffed dates. Simply to die for. Really. Excellent! Love the dates! Did I say the dates were great? Well, they are!
So after a couple of Killer Kool-Aid’s for me and Chop House Manhattans for Mike, and tummies full of appetizers - off to the Pikes Peak Center. MacKenzie's? Definitely DO AGAIN!
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