At Tastes Like Teen Spirits, authenticity is the name of the game. From CRT TVs and Street Fighter II machines, to jukeboxes playing boy bands and hackey sacks, this bar has everything you love from your childhood. They also have a few things maybe you don’t miss so much.
As soon as I stepped in to the front door, a jacked dude in a letterman jacket pushed me against a locker and called me a gay slur. Ah, nostalgia. We were then greeted by a very friendly bartender who showed us a menu full of drink whose names were all plays on the TV teen dramas we all loved to hate back then.
My friends and I then started chatting at the bar and the topic of anime came up. We maybe got 2 sentences in before that same jock from the entrance heard us and running superman punched my wife in the face. We had become so adjusted to how open everyone is about it nowadays that we forgot how much of a target it used to put on your back.
After icing my wife’s grotesquely swollen eye, we decided to relax with some pogs. Man those things took me right back to having friends over at my house and just playing for hours. Unfortunately, this is where things got wat too accurate. I have no idea how they knew to plan this, but paid actors who looked exactly like my parents burst into the room and started screaming at each other in front of me and my friends.
It was a lot for me and I ended up sobbing on my way out the door but jeez guys, if you’re looking for a true 90’s experience, you’ve gotta check this place out
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