MARIE REDS

• MARIE REDS
  
• 3007 E Abram St
• Arlington, TX 76010
• mariereds.com
  
  
  Just about anyone in DFW who rides a motorcycle is familiar with Rick Fairless and Strokers on Harry Hines in Dallas. Sooner or later I'll be doing a review on Strokers but for the last three years Ricks ex wife Tina has owned a small bar in Arlington named Marie Reds. This is a fairly small place and makes a nice local neighborhood dive bar but in good weather it has the potential to be a great biker bar due to the very large backyard it has. With the backyard the club can accommodate a large crowd of partiers and her parties normally consist of a band and Barbecue with all the fixins cooked by her now boy friend Andy who invented the club's signature shooter-shot called a Bad-Andy. It consists of equal parts Jack Daniels Black and Kamora (Kalua like coffee liquer). I tried one, it was very tasty but a few of them would definately do you in. She sells not a pint but a 20oz draft beer for only $2.50 and bottle domestic beer is also $2.50.
  While Tina was working at the old Iron Horse Factory she would bartend on Saturday nights for her dad who ran a bar just down the street. She saw this place worked a deal with the then owner, changed the name and Marie Reds was born. She said they are planning a reunion of old Iron Horse workers sometime in June of this year.
  I sat and talked with Tina and Andy for quite awhile and found them very engaging and just good people with some great stories. Definitely the type of people needed to run a good neighborhood dive bar. My favorite type bar of course. I am going back tomorrow night for two birthdays parties with food and a band. I will let you know how that turns out.
  
  
• Marie Reds next night
  I went back to Marie Reds the next night. This night the backyard was packed with people and bikes. There was barbecue by Tina's boyfriend Andy with all the fixings plus a really good band called Pull My Finger. I must say I do like this bar. Andy showed me one of three bikes he owns, a chopped hard tail that he built himself a couple years ago but I swear it looks like it came right out of the sixties before there was old school. Tina told me they have a birthday party every month with a band and barbecue. I definately plan to be there.