The Brooksider Sports Bar & Grill

I'm a sucker for patios and I love their patio! Great place to knock back a cold one and catch a game! They usually have a great wait staff out there too. The inside on the other hand I've had some weird experiences with a fleet of heavy set waitresses that give very strange service filled with awkward pauses and uncomfortable sighs. We laugh at it though so it can be taken as a form of entertainment.

If I was ten years younger, I would probably love The Brooksider.  Maybe I'm too old now or maybe I've gone at the wrong time, but I'm not sure The Brooksider is for me.  I'm a big time patio drinker and I love how large the patio is at The Brooksider, but I felt a tad bit old and I'm really not very old!  They've changed the interior of the place quite often so I'm not really sure how to describe it.  It's pretty big....large bar in the center with a dance floor and tables around it.  

Downstairs is the boom boom room.  Yes, you heard me correctly....it's the boom boom room.  Think back to college and your early twenties where you would party in the basement of a frat house and get all sweaty dancing the night away and at some point, people had a pants off dance off.  Well, that's the boom boom room at The Brooksider.

The staff and specials really aren't that great.  Service seems to be slow and there isn't anything special about the specials.  I never feel like I'm really saving that much money.

The Brooksider isn't a horrible place, but there are better places in the area.  I like their patio and they do have TVs out there, but I feel like the crowd is a tad young and immature.

I had been here a few years ago and didn't like it. Good to know little changes here. It's such a mediocre bar that pours weak, charges higher than it should, and has below-average service from bartenders who think they're a lot cooler than they really are. And probably a bit too old to work at this kind of bar. Their beer selection is better than you'd think, though.

The seating situation is awful. There are a couple decent sized tables, but those fill up early. Past that, if you have more than a couple people, you're pretty much screwed. You can either roll together a few round tables (we all know how that goes...half the surface area is wasted), or most people end up standing. Lame.

Add to that the $5 cover for a band that was just...absolutely awful. And the songs they chose...my gosh, who could "get crazy" to bad remakes of Coldplay, Maroon 5 and Michael Jackson? They assured us it would get crazy...but get crazy it did not.

I will give it one thing - the patio is large and enjoyable on a nice night, with an outdoor bar. Ok, two things - the bathrooms are surprisingly clean (as is the entire place, for the most part). Note that doesn't mean spotless...it means surprisingly clean for this type of place.