We visited Basey's , 415 S. West Street, on a Sunday (but not a Colts game day), because one of our favorite bartender/waitresses, Cathy, works there. It's a deceptively small-on-the-outside but actually rather roomy place that is literally in the shadow of Lucas Oil Stadium, and it has been there since long before LOS was built, although it appears to have been recently renovated: It has a very clean and neat interior decor, more like a family restaurant than a bar (and they do have a family room), and there is a very festive covered open-air bar in the back that has roll-down transparent plastic curtains and overhead space heaters for cold days, although on this day in the early fall it was completely open and quite pleasant. We ordered some hot wings and an order of fried pickle chips, both of which were decent and not outrageously priced, although the "Boom Boom" sauce for the chips was just okay, seemingly a combination of Thousand Island dressing and cocktail sauce. Arrrgh, Matey! Here be the end the of "good" part of the review....
Apparently Basey's has NO well drinks or well liquor: If you order, say, a Gin & Tonic, they give you something like freakin' Tanqueray and charge you accordingly, like $7 or $8 a round. Cathy even apologized when she brought the bill, knowing we'd better be sitting down when we read it: With our two appetizers and our usual 3 drinks each (Honest, Officer, I've been PBT'd before and never tested over the limit, I swear!), plus a non-alcoholic 8 oz. ginger beer that I later learned was $4.50 (!), our total was right at 80 bucks, with a decent tip for Cathy's excellent service bringing it up to almost $100. I guess you have to expect to pay more to drink Downtown, but for us that won't be happenin' until the next time we win the Lottery. Drink up, but very SLOWLY! www.baseysdowntown.com
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