Best cocktail bar in town, especially if you don't like downtown. Chill, low key.
Marc Morrell
Large assortment of martinis and cocktails. Great atmosphere for having a few drinks with friends.
Ginger Flodman
Great people and a new owner is striving for improving
thad alexander
This bar is really neat. I like the set up and deco. It's a place you can hang out and have conversation without the distraction of t.v.'s or loud music. Those are the two stars. As I was speaking to the bartender about what I was going to have, I was completely blown off by a patron that approached the bar. Not good customer service. Here's the real kicker. I was paying cash per drink. At the end of the night, I was presented a ticket with six shots on it that I didn't order! Really ? Sorry, but I will not be back anytime soon.
Michele Bliven
Love the atmosphere and the bartender was awesome!!
Nicole Leigh
Great low key atmosphere for a girl's night out to sit back chit chat on the couch. There is a great selection of drinks. Ashley, Taylor, and Rob go above and beyond in doing their jobs efficiently.
Polina Arushanova
Used to be the place to go for martinis, since the original bartenders have left, can never get a full martini glass! Each martini looks and feels short on measurements. They have also lost a lot of consistency, never the same drink twice. Hard to spend $12 on a half full martini that’s made different with every visit!
Jas Campbell
It’s ok. Decent service and drinks.Just nothing there to bring us back.
Michael G
Good atmosphere great drinks and awesome employees. Best bourbon ricky and cranberry old fashion in town hands down
Dillon Walker
Hi y'all. My name is Dillon. I worked at Cliff's briefly in August 2020. I had been looking to find a job before my last semester of my bachelor's degree program at UNL started classes. I got a few offers, but I decided to take the one at Cliff's because I could work weekends, and I figured tips would be good.Bartender Dustin Erdman summarily fired me two days before classes started, without giving me a reason. And that's within his purview, I'm sure he'd say I wasn't experienced enough for the job or what-have-you. We didn't really see eye to eye.What was not within his purview was illegally withholding my pay for several months. I'd call him up and he'd give me the ring around, "I'll have to talk to Barb she handles payroll." I was never allowed to talk to Barb myself, see. Or whatever her name was, I forget.The employee handbook reads, "paychecks will be issued approximately nine (9) days after the pay period has ended." And I don't recall exactly how long it was before I saw my check, but I think it was around 6 months. They paid me only after threatened with a citation by the Nebraska Department of Labor. And incidentally -- I think they should've been cited. Not paying your employees is a serious offence.And indeed, it seems this is not their first run-in with the Department of Labor. If you Google the parent company, Mo Chara LLC, you'll find a court order, United States District Court Case no. 4:16CV3066, Thomas E. Perez, United States Secretary of Labor v. Bryan A. McFarland. I am not familiar with the details of that case but it doesn't look good.The same Bryan A. McFarland was also sentenced to three months in jail plus probation for assault, as you can read about in the Journal Star.To my knowledge he either no longer owns or at least no longer manages Mo Chara LLC, but as I personally can attest, conditions have not improved for employees with regard to pay.If you believe businesses should pay their employees, my advice is don't give Cliff's Martini Lounge your business. Or the Watering Hole. Or any other Mo Chara LLC business.Good day :)
Customer service above all else!! Makes you come back time and time again. A big shout out to the owner Anita who will go above and beyond for her customers!!
Me Myself
Great drinks and nice atmosphere. Hopefully Bud will come back, ? ?
William Cover
Always pleasant excellent staff a great place to meet with friends and have a conversation
Joe Vavrina
Zero enforcement of the mask mandate. The bartenders weren't even wearing masks.
Best cocktail bar in town, especially if you don't like downtown. Chill, low key.
Large assortment of martinis and cocktails. Great atmosphere for having a few drinks with friends.
Great people and a new owner is striving for improving
This bar is really neat. I like the set up and deco. It's a place you can hang out and have conversation without the distraction of t.v.'s or loud music. Those are the two stars. As I was speaking to the bartender about what I was going to have, I was completely blown off by a patron that approached the bar. Not good customer service. Here's the real kicker. I was paying cash per drink. At the end of the night, I was presented a ticket with six shots on it that I didn't order! Really ? Sorry, but I will not be back anytime soon.
Love the atmosphere and the bartender was awesome!!
Great low key atmosphere for a girl's night out to sit back chit chat on the couch. There is a great selection of drinks. Ashley, Taylor, and Rob go above and beyond in doing their jobs efficiently.
Used to be the place to go for martinis, since the original bartenders have left, can never get a full martini glass! Each martini looks and feels short on measurements. They have also lost a lot of consistency, never the same drink twice. Hard to spend $12 on a half full martini that’s made different with every visit!
It’s ok. Decent service and drinks.Just nothing there to bring us back.
Good atmosphere great drinks and awesome employees. Best bourbon ricky and cranberry old fashion in town hands down
Hi y'all. My name is Dillon. I worked at Cliff's briefly in August 2020. I had been looking to find a job before my last semester of my bachelor's degree program at UNL started classes. I got a few offers, but I decided to take the one at Cliff's because I could work weekends, and I figured tips would be good.Bartender Dustin Erdman summarily fired me two days before classes started, without giving me a reason. And that's within his purview, I'm sure he'd say I wasn't experienced enough for the job or what-have-you. We didn't really see eye to eye.What was not within his purview was illegally withholding my pay for several months. I'd call him up and he'd give me the ring around, "I'll have to talk to Barb she handles payroll." I was never allowed to talk to Barb myself, see. Or whatever her name was, I forget.The employee handbook reads, "paychecks will be issued approximately nine (9) days after the pay period has ended." And I don't recall exactly how long it was before I saw my check, but I think it was around 6 months. They paid me only after threatened with a citation by the Nebraska Department of Labor. And incidentally -- I think they should've been cited. Not paying your employees is a serious offence.And indeed, it seems this is not their first run-in with the Department of Labor. If you Google the parent company, Mo Chara LLC, you'll find a court order, United States District Court Case no. 4:16CV3066, Thomas E. Perez, United States Secretary of Labor v. Bryan A. McFarland. I am not familiar with the details of that case but it doesn't look good.The same Bryan A. McFarland was also sentenced to three months in jail plus probation for assault, as you can read about in the Journal Star.To my knowledge he either no longer owns or at least no longer manages Mo Chara LLC, but as I personally can attest, conditions have not improved for employees with regard to pay.If you believe businesses should pay their employees, my advice is don't give Cliff's Martini Lounge your business. Or the Watering Hole. Or any other Mo Chara LLC business.Good day :)
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Customer service above all else!! Makes you come back time and time again. A big shout out to the owner Anita who will go above and beyond for her customers!!
Great drinks and nice atmosphere. Hopefully Bud will come back, ? ?
Always pleasant excellent staff a great place to meet with friends and have a conversation
Zero enforcement of the mask mandate. The bartenders weren't even wearing masks.
Good service, good drinks.