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| - This place recently opened by where we live, and we love new places, so we went Friday night. Their angle is that several menu items and drinks are five bucks, hence the name of this joint. They have a full bar, the beer was cold, the food was good, and the service was friendly. We had chicken wings, sloppy-joe sliders, burgers, and boardwalk fries. Everything was inexpensive and a cut above typical bar fair. I'd recommend everything we had. There was a guy walking around we thought was the owner, turned out he was the owner's dad. He helped the servers get food out between stopping by tables to say hi and see how everyone was. He gave the place a real family feel. Everyone on the staff including our waitress seemed happy and genuinely invested in making the place great. I love live music, but we were there too early to stick around for the band that went on at nine. Now that we know, we'll hit this place at a later time on our next visit, make it more of a night out than just a dinner.
Two suggestions for the owner if you're reading this... first, move the shuffleboard table to the opposite wall, when the band is loading in, the game in inaccessible. Secondly, lose the jukebox and just play music. The songs are fifty-cents to a buck each, it's expensive and the jukebox doesn't get loaded up resulting in lots of silence. You're sacrificing your ambiance for whatever you make off the jukebox.
In short, we had a great time, loved the place, the people, the food, the drinks, we'll definitely be hitting this place again very soon. It's a great neighborhood bar kind of place.
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