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| - Bored, I decided to give this one a try. In retrospect, I should have stayed bored. Tanner's is a Midwestern chain of sports bars. In fact, I was at one a few years ago in Overland Park, KS. I don't remember how it was, so this review is based solely on this location.
The decor is sports bar, the walls are decorated with Badger paraphernalia, there are a couple of big screen televisions, and the classic, not as young as she wants you to think, bleach blonde bartender with bad skin, is working the bar.
Can they screw up a Fat Tire? No, they can't and if all I did was drink, the review would be higher in the stars category. However, I made the mistake of ordering something to eat. I ordered Chicken Lips, which is Tanner's take on chicken fingers. Tanner's version is bland, tasteless, not greasy, but rather kind of sinewy and dry. The sweet potato fries were soggy, not crisp and again, bland.
It is odd to me that such a bar would set itself up across the shopping plaza from TGI Friday's, offer relatively the same bar food and yet prepare it worse makes no sense to me. Maybe the business formula of putting a sports bar in a corporate park, surrounded by a few corporate motels and hoping the deuche bag creepy business travelers will flock to your door to sit around make small talk with the bar maid and spend their expense account on beer is the one they presented to the bank. I guess we will wait to see how long this one lasts and who the next tenant at Greenway Station will be.
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