Side Track Pub and Grill

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  NEWS ITEM: Side Track has changed its name to "Tavern on the Corner"
  
  Seedy, smoky and oddly situated in a window-fronted commercial strip-mall, the Side Track Pub and Grill is known by locals simply as "Pub", not *only* because its original sign said simply "PUB", but also because it is, after all, Spring Hill's only "pub". Don't let the name fool you, however. The unhappy visiting Brit will find little comparison between the Cock 'n' Bottle and the Side Track (or "Tavern on the Corner", according to its new sign), except perhaps the smell of old smoke. Here is no warm and inviting "Publick House" with fine taps of Bitter, thick carpets and tweedy schoolchaps.This is more along the lines of a freeform, rough-and-tumble roadside purveyor of cheap beers and liquors -- the type of place that topshelfs Old Granddad and calls anything but the American "pissner" triumvirate (i.e. Bud/Miller/Coors) an import, and prices accordingly.
  
  A baroque decor of free brewery paraphernalia, football schedules and blaring television sets combines to reflect both the source and purpose of its alcoholic commerce as, on any given night, a motley crowd of local hooligans, bikers, druggies, yuppies, Taco Bell employees, hippies, frat boys, California ex-pats--and pretty much any other Station / Hill resident who wants to drink alcohol--mingles, ogles, sloshes, burps, struts, teeters, gropes, vomits, mutters and whistles.
  
  All that being said, with the few nightlife options available in town, a good night out can be made of a trip to the "Pub", given some good friends an adventurous attitude, and maybe an order of the greasy but good Pub burger & fries (surprisingly, one of the best burgers in town). Also, karaoke is offered a couple nights a week to enthusiastic amateurs and a disinterested audience.
  
  Service can be slow and/or forgetful.

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  Posted on 10.01.07 matt c.

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