Varsity Pub

Varsity Pub is the best place in town to eat.  Whether its for a date, family in town, or lunch at work.  My co-workers and I try get there once a week.  They have us down to a T and know our order every time.  If you have never been there, the Buffalo Chicken Panino is the best and by far my favorite.  Hands down the best place in Marshall to go out to eat to.

Impressively good pizzas. The panino's are also great and unique. I did the Chicken Alfredo panino this last trip. It's probably the best pre-marathon carb loading a person could do. Unfortunately I wasn't running a marathon the following morning. The atmosphere is 50% sports bar and 50% town bar. They get busy some nights of the week. The service has always been good when we've been in here.

Decent food, HORRIBLE service.  I think the place may be run by chimps.

We came for dinner around 8:00pm on Saturday, and we were surprised that a place called Varsity Pub in a small college town wasn't completely packed - that should've been a warning to us, but we were very hungry after a long day out exploring a state park.

We ordered a steak panino, an 8" pizza, and 2 orders of teriyaki chicken wings.  About 20 minutes later, we got a steak panino and an 8" pizza.  They were both okay - apparently a panino is a wrap sandwich made from the same cracker crust as the pizza.  That's not the panino that I'm familiar with, but it was decent - exactly what we expected.

What we didn't expect was a 60 minute wait for chicken wings.  The college freshmen at the table next to us ordered teriyaki wings about 10 minutes after us, and somehow they got their order before us - but only by about 5 minutes, meaning theirs took about 45 minutes.  Our 2 orders - for our two kids - took longer and amazingly DIDN'T HAVE ANY TERIYAKI SAUCE on them.  Yes, after 60 minutes my kids got plain chicken wings.  If it had been a busy night, I may have understood a 30 minute wait for chicken wings.  But 60 minutes on a night when the place wasn't close to full?  Chimps.  That's the only explanation I can think of.  Well, I can think of a few more, but chimps is the most charitable explanation.

There's more (lousy beer selection - basically all generic macrobrews - and NO WAY OF LOCKING THE SMALL UNISEX BATHROOM DOOR) but suffice it to say that we won't be stopping here when we're passing through Marshall again.