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| - I'm not some ass face who thinks gay people are vermin and their bars are cesspools of shittyness. I'm open minded, and I have been in here a few times.
Roscoe's has everything a good sports bar should have, darts, pool, lots of screens, and a well stocked bar. Sure, they play crap on the radio, but it's what their customers want, and I'm understanding that if I walk into someone elses domain, I have to be prepared to listen to their music.
Bartender there is legit. I saw him once at the bar and when he ID'd me, he said "thanks Fred." Two weeks later, I went back and sat at the bar at the same spot, he said I look familiar and guessed my name was Fred. I was pretty damn impressed. They pour rather freely, they have great 2 for 1 specials during the week, and the Buffalo Chicken Pizza is one of my favorite things to eat in town.
Overall, Roscoe's isn't a place I would really go to just to hang out... kind of a sausage fest, even more so than most sports bars. They also have music playing over the sports, which is fine for most games but when it's a big game, the TV should take precedence. That all said, Roscoe's is the only gay bar I've ever felt comfortable in. I've been in Amsterdam and Kobalt as well as a few others, and they always make me uneasy after a while. I'm not afraid of being hit on, nor do I care (I'm too scruffy and dirty for a gay bar anyway) if I am, but there are almost always conversations that I'm just not ready to hear.
So yeah, Roscoe's is a 3 star bar overall, but I wanted to give it a fourth star for being a gay bar that a straight can feel comfortable sitting in for a while.
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