Horizons Online Edition

Issue date: 4/15/09 Section: Diversions

Media Credit: Jeroen Geeraert Coyotes Joe's Bar and Grill is located almost outside Whiskey Row.

Do you need a good reason to call in sick and twisted the next day? How about a really good reason to call in sick and twisted the next day and drink two-fisted for more than a couple hours? On the edge of Prescott, almost outside of Whiskey Row, is a place that will get you to drinking, dancing, playing pool, eating, or whatever you feel like doing in public when potent potables are present.

Is Coyote Joe's Bar & Grill just another booze-hole/pool hall for run-down cowboys out here in Prescott? Just another convent for all the hippies coming down from their acid trips? Maybe instead it is simply there for another round of "starving artists" trying to make it big. For whatever reason, the bar got stuck here and has to make do.

The truth is Coyote Joe's is all that and more: for the ol' lonesome cowboy who can't make ends meet and might have to give up the farm, there's a Happy Hour to cheer him up that always goes from 4 to 6 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m. every night with 2-for-1 Well, Wine, Draft and half-price pizza, and for when he's just sold the farm and feeling really down he can start drinking before noon on Saturday and Sunday when they're open 11 a.m. 2 a.m. or from 3 p.m. 2 a.m. Monday to Friday.

Do you like hearing bands just getting their foot in the proverbial door of the music industry? How about ones that can actually play? This place has you covered on both preferences, with more than a few open microphones and an open roster of bands that play just about anything that couldn't be found on the jukebox (which is pretty difficult considering all that they've got on the thing).

The reason that anyone might have first gone through Coyote Joe's doors was to get twisted on a few brews, or to try a couple mixed drinks that, in all honesty, are good enough to rival those found in gay bars. The reason that anyone would stay is because it is the kind of place where you could find the Prescott College kids working on their Macbooks or the leader of some strange new occultist group trying to unwind where his followers won't find him. It's just…that…good.

While it is a very eclectic group of dudes and dudettes found in Coyote Joe's, you never get the sense the bar is over-inclusive nor the sense that any one group-not even the group of drunken girls dancing to Thriller-has entirely taken over the bar. Given the propensity towards alcohol at Coyote Joe's the bar also, as a last little tidbit of gratitude toward its fanbase, offer a pretty sizable number of deals.

If you want a drink, some music, some pool, or just a place to people watch all creepy-like from the corner, I would suggest Coyote Joe's.

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