Bucca's

Bucca's is a cool place.  Good food at reasonable prices, a number of good beers on tap and usually very good service.  It's a wide open high ceiling place so sometimes the acoustics stink - not much you can do about that.  Lots of TVs well positioned so always able to watch a sporting event.  I may be a regualr now.

We go here often as it's a local place and there are very few places that are super-local if you're looking to have drinks and don't want to go far.  The food is actually really good here, definitely above normal bar food.  However, I've never really had great service here.  In spite of going once or twice a week with my boyfriend and always tipping extremely well, we often have to wait longer than an ideal amount of time for service.  The male bartender tends to flat out ignore you for his one or two buddies if they pop in, even if you have to ask for something several times b/c he's clearly socializing, not serving someone else.  He wanders away from the bar often and there will be no server at all behind the bar---that's annoying as crap.  He's married to the female bartender.  She's a cute girl but completely disinterested and over being there, and you can just tell.  Don't go if you're feeling lonely and looking to chat up the bartender...not gonna happen.  Her husband the male bartender often shows up to check on her on her shifts and we've seen him nearly get in a spat before over someone else talking to her, it's just an odd situation.  Food is good but need better service and personality behind the bar, especially for the amount of times and amount of money we go.  After being outright ignored while he chatted up a friend right in front of us, delaying our drink order by over 5 minutes in an otherwise empty bar, my boyfriend has decided we're boycotting the place for a while.  Bar games are fun but the trivia DJ is such an idiot that she mispronounces things badly enough that you may miss the question, and the Bingo guy is the kind of guy screaming into a mic that won't shut up b/c it makes him feel famous.  Spare your eardrums and avoid that night.

Good food and atmosphere.