Jake's Place Bar & Grill

We've been to Jake's a few times in the past and I was never impressed with anything about it. But it's very close to "home" and they've got a great deal on burgers Thursday nights.

So, last night our group of six headed over to Jake's and were received with a very unenthusiastic welcome. Actually, it wasn't until we started moving chairs around to make room for everyone at one table that anyone noticed us at all. A server finally wandered over with menus and let us know that Big Jake burgers were $3.75 and domestic bottles were two bucks. That was a good as it got on the service. Three of us sat for ten minutes in the middle of our meal with empty beers until we flagged her down to bring more. Maybe that's one reason the place was mostly empty on a night with a pretty good burger special.

The burgers were better than I remembered and that's the only thing that salvaged our visit. Fries were just so-so. Jake's serves its burgers bare but has a table off in the corner that's supposed to be a condiment bar. I like being able to serve myself as much pickle and onion as I want but last night the table was a mess and didn't offer any tomatoes at all-I gotta have tomatoes.

Just gotta love a waitress that is on the phone the whole time ur in the place..gotta go to the bar for a refill..bartender was friendly.

A very typical, semi-divey north Johnson county bar and grill. The crowd is almost exclusively middle aged and probably middle class. It's popular with local motorcycle enthusiasts too. There seem to be a lot of regulars but everyone was pretty friendly to me.

Not much in the way of drink selection but the prices are very reasonable. Well drinks were on special my last visit and the tab was six dollars and change for three drinks.

I didn't try the food but the menu was classic bar and grill fare, with several kinds of burgers, chicken fingers, tacos and the like at reasonable prices.