Hals house special is NOISE. My friend and I went to Hals specifically to hear a musician who was playing there. We had dinner, and then left after the first set because we could not hear the music. The room is divided by a low partition, and it has a very high ceiling. One side of the partition is tables and booths; the other side is a long bar stacked 3 deep with people. (This was 8:30 Sunday evening.) The noise from the bar required the people at the tables to shout at each other in order to be heard, which only added to the din. We caught the attention of the owner to ask if the noise level lowers later in the evening only to learn that no, it doesn
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