Jordan's Place Bar & Grille

A perfectly acceptable bar-restaurant from the 1970s.  I don't think this place has changed much since then, because walking in there felt like going through a time warp.  At lunchtime Mallory's was full of big, all-American, working guys who've probably been eating/drinking there since the 1970s.  And they've got a shuffleboard table.

The food is dirt cheap and strictly bar food.  You will not find dried cranberries, bleu cheese, or organic anything.  Instead you'll find burgers, BLTs, and club sandwiches all for under $5 or $6.  Every day (weekday?) there's a generous blue plate special that includes a couple of sides and will run you, if I remember correctly, something like $7.  According to the waitress, the burgers are made with fresh ground beef, never frozen, and they're still $3 and change.  The sandwiches and burgers come with a large starter salad that has lettuce, cucumbers, onions, carrots, and tomato in it.  Pretty impressive for a side salad at a bar.  I had the turkey club, which was pretty good.  Nice proportions of bacon, turkey, cheese, and tomato, and the sandwich wasn't too big that I couldn't eat all of it.  Of course, that probably means all those big guys in there need to order two to feel full, but I was happy.

Mallory's is a good place, homey, comfortable, and it does what it does and it does it well.