Pool Hall – Shoot.Resto.Bar.Club

I suspected this wasn’t really a good place to shoot pool but I like to be thorough. Sometimes. So I headed out to check it out. It’s close to my house which is a bonus.

As with many things in Medan this is a separate building tucked behind several other buildings and not visible from the street. Arriving after dark I was nervous at first but the large parking lot didn’t have any sort of sketchy feel. The thumping of music could be heard as I went up a few steps and entered the place.

This is first and foremost a club and bar. You enter into a large main area fronted by a bar. My growing language skills are still more than inadequate at times, especially when I can barely hear the other people for the music. Beyond the bar are lots of bar tables and seating leading up to a stage sitting under an elevated area where a perky DJ was pumping out a mostly American dance hits mix. Though it was sparse when I first arrived just after 8pm, people were coming in and it looked like a band was setting up on stage. Lighting was typical club – dark with lots of flashy bits coming from the huge LCD screen over the DJ stand. I thought at first you had to buy bottles of liquor (like a bottle of whiskey) as opposed to having individual drinks, but this turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part.

Sort of like the misunderstanding that this is a place to shoot pool. Google has pictures posted of this place showing two nice tables. However I was shown to an upper alcove with a single table in an un-airconditioned area of the club. I decided I wasn’t going to stay. But I clarified first that you can order individual cocktails, though they seemed to be out of a lot of things as I perused their menu. Probably quite a popular spot with the younger folks, but not a place to shoot pool.