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| - We have been to Nitty Gritty several times for the food, not for partying. Our most recent visit was prior to the Penn State basketball game. They have a great location near the Kohls Center, but on a game day, even if you arrive several hours before game time as we did, be prepared to battle the diners and the pregame drinking crowd. We put our names in upon arriving and sat there waiting for over an hour. In the mean time a lot of larger parties were consistently being seated. It seems as though parties of two are not a priority during their busy times. After an hour I checked with the guy who was initiating the seating with his clipboard and headset, and he fumbled through his pages and didn't even find our name. He was however gracious enough to seat seat us promptly. There seemed to be quite a few open tables upstairs so I really don't understand why we were not seated earlier. My feeling is they cater more to larger parties of patrons and to the drinking crowd as tables full of folks seemed to camp out there. Well we wait another 10 minutes before our waitress finally acknowledges us by asking if we wanted drinks. Since we waited as long as we did, we already had time to review the menu and ordered our drinks as well as our burgers. Lucky for us the wait for our food was not as lengthy as our other waiting periods. I ordered a cheese burger done medium with chips and when it arrived the chips were cold as was the burger, and the burger was well done, not as ordered. The bun was generic and quite dried out, either from being under a lamp or from not being fresh, seeing that it was a Tuesday. Either way the burger was sub average. I would have sent it back but game time was in 45 minutes. Needless to say we ate our burgers drank our sodas and got the hell out of Dodge. You know if your into the party scene before the games the Nitty Gritty seems like a nice place to do this, but we're just not into it like we were when we were younger. Overall not impressed with the food, the pregame chaos or their seating practices or lack of. Waitress was almost non existent other than asking if our food tasted ok, never asked if we wanted a refill on our sodas. Frankly she was not deserving of the $4.00 tip that we left, so it was her lucky day.....
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