Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar

I've been to this place about a dozen times.  A few of the meetup groups I belong to hold monthly happy hours here, and I play euchre here once in a while.   The place is hit or miss on service.  Sometimes you get a great waitress, and other times, you end up going up to the bar to order a drink because she is nowhere to be found.

Food is average at best, and overpriced.   If you get the nachos on their appetizer menu, with steak and avacado, it will cost around $18...for nachos.   I just had their buffalo chicken sliders.  The buns were stale the chicken decent, the fries cold.   My friend ordered a cheeseburger.   The waitress delivered it, with the top bun off, showing the blackened-chared cheese.   She was actually handing this to my friend - and I told her to return it that it is burnt cheese sitting on top.   The waitress took it back, slapped on another piece of cheese over the burnt cheese and brought it back out.

I'll continue to go here when there are group outings, but wouldn't recommend coming here just to eat.

My fiance, and a couple of friends of ours, went here on a Saturday afternoon, before going to catch a matinee of "The Hobbit"...because we're all nerds.

I haven't been here in a while, and wanted to try something different, so I suggested Boston to everyone.  Since no one other than me had been here, they were all for it...

To try something new.

We sat down and went to order food.

My buddy Chuck's wife, Melody, asked for a "sweet tea"

The waitress said "We don't have sweet tea.  We have unsweetened and raspberry'" which was fine with the wife...it was probably better for her to have it unsweetened anyway.

Then I ordered my burger, which I asked for medium.

"We serve our burgers medium-well."

To me, that was odd.  Most places serve them that way, unless the customer asks for it rarer.  I've never been to a place where it's like "Ehhhhhh, no, customer-boy.  You can't do that here."

Then our food came and it all looked good.  I ordered the Jalapeno-Onion Burger.  My fiance had the Chicken Caesar Salad.  Chuck had Pulled Pork and I forgot what Melody had.

Melody  asked for mayo for her fries...she must be part Canadian.

"Sure, that'll be $.50 more."

She didn't think anything of it, but I was like "SERIOUSLY?!  It's extra for freakin' MAYO!!"

Anyway, whatever.  

We ate our food and I guess the beef part of the burger isn't the only thing that they medium-well on the sammich.  The onions were burned and there wasn't a whole lot of flavor on the burger...other than the heat that came from the jalapenos, it was pretty bland.

And the waitress didn't seem too interested in helping us, though we were genuinely nice to hear, hoping we could get her to smile.

I wasn't too pleased with my visit here...not at all.  It may be a long time before I come back, but I will say this:

It's STILL better than The Purple Onion...

I'm a regular. Reside in Tinley Park. Good food. Great service and  easy access if you live on or near I-80.  If you're seeking good pizza, go for it. It's a decent Sports Bar.