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| - TK's Urban Tavern may not be schmancy enough to be called a gastropub, but with its mix of semi-elcelctic brews and farm-fresh ingredients, it ranks several notches above a pub'n'grub.
I tried the pulled pork sandwich with apple slaw, havarti, and horseradish en baguette, fries, the BLT, fruit salad, and a side of ale battered onion rings with jalapeno aioli.
The pulled pork sammy was tasty and much lighter than its traditional BBQ-slathered siblings, though I wish the slaw had a little more oomph and apple tartness. Any BLT is a good BLT in my book, and TK's may even have a great one with its high quality ingredients and an added fried egg (I guess it should be a BELT then, and you might need to loosen yours after consumption). The onion rings were a thing of battered beauty, but the jalapeno aioli was a bit blah- I recommend kicking up the heat with some chile sauce or indulging in their flavorful homemade ketchup instead.
All this accompanied by TWO Samuel Smiths Ales. There didn't seem to be anything too out there on the beer list, but there are a lot of tasty standards like Guinness, Stella, trendy-again PBR, and a couple of local brews, too. Like the food, it's nothing fancy- but TK's isn't trying to be. It's just plain good.
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