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| - Ray's Place was the first place I ever visited in Kent. For a Bar in Kent, it's really nice inside and the food is good, the beer list is excellent. For a restaurant, the service is slow and the place is just too damn loud... so if you're looking for a place to go out with people where you'll have plenty of time to talk but where you can't hear anything, Ray's is the place.
The food is good and it is generous. The sandwiches are delicious, particularly the cheeseburgers. The reuben is also a favorite. I've never gone wrong with the daily soup specials either. The beer list is pretty diverse and deep, with probably more than a dozen on draught, though I think a nice budget option (PBR anyone?) would be a good addition.
In my experiences, Ray's has different clientele at different parts of the day. Lunch seems to be mostly Kent business people and such, dinner seems to be more the university faculty, and at around 11 pm it shifts markedly toward annoying preppy college brats. While it's loud during dinner, it gets really loud when drunk frat boys yell at each other during the later hours.
Ray's is the best bar-restaurant in Kent, by far (though not the best bar) in terms of things you ingest, but beware the changing atmosphere and the noise.
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