Saskatoon nightlife: Piggy's

Piggy’s has a great ambient atmosphere with a lot of hanging lights. While this is great for lighting it falls short at the same time. The ambient lights are good however there are too many harsh lights that detract from what the mood is trying to set. Even though the lights need some work it’s nice that the seats are all black leather backed as are the booths and they are quite comfortable.

Some of the things you notice are the interesting pig decor around the main bar. 

Piggy’s does have a single pool table as well, though it seems a little cramped in its current location. Moving it to a space with more room might help enhance what it offers to customers. The corner wall by the pool table is a beautiful wood mantle that has a tv in the middle of it. While it’s a good location a fire place might add to that corner with some couches.

Piggy’s features live bands on the weekends, not many places do this anymore, which is unfortunate. The food is decently priced. I had one of their hotdogs off the menu, this is something else very few places in the city offer, hotdog plates. It was interesting because you would figure it would be a small overpriced hotdog, but it was a big foot long hotdog with a generous portion of fries. I recommend the beer battered fries they are quite tasty.

They have a steak special on Tuesdays and a wing special on Wednesdays I give Piggy’s a 3.5 out of 5. The atmosphere is great, the waitresses are friendly and smoking hot. I didn’t have to wait long for drinks so great customer service. What scores Piggy’s lower the lack of seating and while the stage is in a good spot not all the tables are. Where I sat I couldn’t see the band very well. Also they have VLTS which are located in a good spot but because they are not partially walled off it distracted from the mood if the establishment.

A couple minor improvements some maybe costly it would definitely jump up as a place to go and hang out in time. In the mean time come out and check out the live bands on the weekend and the great Tuesday and Wednesday specials. Like them on face book and check out their prizes in Facebook and their website www.piggys.com.

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Saskatoon nightlife: Canada day 2014

The day was July 1, the year was 2014, Verb hosted Canada day in Friendship Park Saskatoon. The air was electric, the laughter contagious, the music was filled with energy.

Upon arrival the park began to fill up, ages young and old celebrated Canada’s 147 birthday. Verb agents scoured the park with water pistols. The music vibe was that of dj’s showing off their talent with original mix of music that made those around celebrate in dance. There was no cake to celebrate but there were burgers and hotdogs. Disco Dog food truck kept bellies full with a variety of different ways to cook hot dogs. Mmm is all I could say about the definitely not healthy but oh so good hot dog I had. The dog was covered in bacon, eggs, cheese, hot sauce. Loaded dog with oh so delicious maple syrup wrapped in a warm naan bread.

The day started with the lovely Duchess of Dub…. Dj Purl Halyk at noon, followed into Swing Edition who graced us until early afternoon. Cam Watson entertained us with his take on psy-techno and goa techno mixes. The party only became more charged, as music artists graced the stage one after another setting the air on fire. The music changed over to Dj Danger, and DJ Nick James took us into early evening lighting the stage up with techno and dance music. Emilio Del Canto blew us away with his house/electric music. Currently he is Spadina Freehouse’s resident DJ. DJ Us Marshall Catterson took us near the end of the night. But as the lights began to fade on Canada Day J.A DJ finished off the music for Verb’s first and very successful Canada Day cultural festival.

At the end of the day everyone seemed to have fun. Our local talent had a chance for exposure. Disco Dogs got to have more exposure. Even the little ones were out and about with the face painting. Only thing that could have been better is having a bigger face painting area and perhaps someone giving out or selling Canada products. All in all a well planed event, it’s only going to get better next year. 

Keep a look out for my interview with Duchess of Dub coming soon. GreenRider signing out.