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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Restaurant Review : Coop's Bar and Grille

Located in scenic Quincy, Ma. This is one of my favorite places for chowing pub grub. Now mind you, this is not gourmet dining. If your looking for some pretentious review from some puss foodie about the garnish setting on the exterior of the plate, fucking scram. If you wanna know about some food to take down on a hung over Sunday, look no further. Lets take a look at some of the up's and down's of this South Shore establishment.

1. Appetizers - B+

-The number one app they have going has to be the wings. And these aren't of the baked in the oven covered in some shitty BBQ sauce variety. These babies are deep-fried, crispy on the outside, moist on the inside deliciousness. Dip 'em in the honey mustard or buff sauce, you wont be dissapointed.

-Gotta also point out the nacho's, covered with chili. Everything you'd want in a mound of nachos is on there. Hot peppers, onions, a couple different cheese's, shallots, bacon bits. Throw the chili on there and you wont need to eat again for 6 hours. Thing is devestating. But that's probably because im a huge fucking slob and take the whole thing down by myself. If you split it with 2 other's you'll have plenty of room.

-If you dont want to go into a coma from the regular nacho's, go with the "Poor Man's Nachos." Same thing, only steak fries instead. Not as huge of a serving, but damn good.

2. Burgers - B-

These burgers are very good, but not mind blowing by any means. They have alot of the basics, BBQ burger with onion rings, blue cheese burger, etc. My favorite has to be the:

- "Shocker Burger" Don't be deceived by the name, this burger has nothing to do with finger-blasting teenage babes under the bleachers. But it features pepper jack cheese, jalapeno's, bacon, and some spicy sauce. Rock solid choice.

3. Pizza - A

Easily my favorite part of Coops. Everyone talks about "South Shore" pub pizza around here. It is a personal pizza with a flaky crust. Many eateries on this side of the city claim to have the best pub pizza going. "Town Spa" in Stoughton, "Lynwood" in Randolph, but Coops is right there with those grease pits, if not better. I'd take it over Town Spa any day.

-"Boston Cheese Steak" Thing is fucking legit. Steak and Cheese on a Pizza. BAM.
-"BBQ Chicken" Also excellent. Sweet sauce, solid chicken chunks. WHABOOM.
-"Buffalo Chicken" You know what it is, absolute money.
-"Cheese" Don't sleep on the basic with a little tabasco. Only 5 beans too.

4. Drinks - D

Easily the low point of dining at Coops. For beer, you're safe if you stick with bottles. But their drafts fucking suck. They taste like they haven't changed the taps in a while, and the choices aren't that great. They also offer the "Coops Brew" on the cheap, its Natty Light. I dont know why they're trying to claim they brew beer, its a blatant lie. Don't get me wrong, if your looking to go in there and hammer away you won't notice. But if you've been there as many times as me the reality will set in.

5. Atmosphere - B/D

If your looking to watch sports and grub down this is where you want to be. You can slap hands with the Quincy relic to the right of you every time Brady slings a TD to Gronk. You can slop out and not worry about it. Also featuring KENO and Golden Tee. For that, it get's a B.

BUT, if you think your going there on a Friday night scoping babes, think a-fucking-gain bro. Place is hurting. That is unless your looking to take down some 45 year old scag of course. I'm sure you can pull down "Dottie" from Quincy High class of '76, and you'll be happy as a pig in shit. She can give you some war stories about how the place used to be called "Frenchie's," and she smoked her first Newport Light 100 out back by the dumpster. But unless that's what your digging for, best keep your eyes glued to the T.V. and the nacho's.

Overall: B

If they had a better beer situation going on, they'd be looking dead at an A- rating. But the food and sports atmosphere are so fantastic im still there at least every other week. Go there to grub, you won't be dissapointed.

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