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| - It is what it is and doesn't try to be anything different-a cozy dive bar with a homey feel. We came here this past Friday night to catch the 2nd and 3rd periods of the Penguins game. My boyfriend had been there before because he grew up in the area and currently lives about 7 minutes away, but this was my first time here although I had driven past several times before on the way to his house noting it was crowded each and every time. We walked in around 8 and the whole bar (which is small by the way) was taken. A man sitting at the bar, who I took to be the owner, said we could sit "anywhere we felt comfortable." We chose a table in the middle room area near the big TV so we could easily both see the game.
We were greeted quickly by our server who brought out our beers to us shortly after. The draft list was pretty basic and they only had 1 beer that jumped out at me-Troeg's Pale Ale, so I went with that. They have a pretty big menu-salads, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, pasta, and even breakfast on the weekends. It looks like they play the Premier League Saturday and Sunday mornings just FYI. My boyfriend was ravenous so he wanted to start with a chicken quesadilla. When it came out it was HUGE for the $5.99 price. It was cut into 5 pieces and there were press marks on it too so either it was grilled on a grill or in a paninni type sandwich maker. It was ok, I only had one piece though and he ended up taking 2 pieces home with him. Basically in summary, it was an above-average bar quesadilla, nothing spectacular but not inedible either.
For entrees I ordered the greek paninni sandwich and chose the regular fries as my side. The paninni, priced at $8.50, was massive! It was served cut into three portions and had lettuce,tomato,onions,tzatziki, and lamb meat. I think it could have used more tzatziki, however, the flavors were all reminiscent of a gyro which was exactly what I was looking for but in sandwich form. The fries (crinkly ones) were clearly of the frozen variety and were way way way too salty. The sandwich was solid though and if I find myself here again, I think I'd try the rachael paninni since this paninni was pretty good. My boyfriend ordered the steak sandwich. It looked kind of sad coming out to the table-it was served on this tiny hamburger bun as opposed to what you would expect-a hoagie bun. He ate it though, however, he will eat nearly anything so the fact he ate this is not a true reflection on the actual quality of the sandwich. He said he remembered getting it before and it did come on a hoagie bun so not sure what is going on here. He chose steak fries as his side and I tried one of them-also clearly of the frozen variety. The portion of his fries was about six-literally six sad looking steak fries on his plate next to his sad looking hamburger bun steak sandwich. They are not winning any points for presentation here, however, I chose to not dock points based on the fries because prices are so cheap here and fries are a compliment to a sandwich, never should be the main factor in ordering one.
We each had a couple of more beers and our bill came to a total of about $30, which is good for 4 beers and 2 sandwiches plus a quesadilla. My boyfriend did make the comment that Gil's seems to lack consistency of ingredients-case in point the hoagie bun vs. hamburger bun for his sandwich. He also noted the fries were different on his last visit as opposed to this visit. Will we be back? Probably-because it's close (to his home), cheap, and our meal on this visit was decent. Will we be rushing back here? No but we did have a decent meal and some beers on the cheap so we will keep that in mind in the future!
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