How do you pick a bar when your only
deciding factor is that you haven't been there? My first time
picking a random bar I just used a random number generator website
and counted my way to O'Donnel's Pub. This week I decided not
to leave it to chance by instead leaving it to you, the readers. Two
bars were neck and neck till the final hour but Thor's voters rallied
hard tripling his votes. I owe Thor Platter a beer for picking
bar #15, Jammy Buggars.
My friends couldn't wait for me to be done with work at 8 so I met them. When I told the hostess I was meeting people she sadly told me that trivia had just been canceled (the trivial man had a flat tire and wasn't willing to run his equipment to the bar.) Jammy Buggars was nicely arranged with brick and wood work. There are three sections, the bar, dining, and game room. Since trivia was unanswerable, we were in the dining room. I let our waitress pick my meal as I couldn't make up my mind. She was also able to both pronounce my second beer and understand my horrible mispronunciation of it. I also didn't write it down so if you know it, put it in the comments below.
My friends couldn't wait for me to be done with work at 8 so I met them. When I told the hostess I was meeting people she sadly told me that trivia had just been canceled (the trivial man had a flat tire and wasn't willing to run his equipment to the bar.) Jammy Buggars was nicely arranged with brick and wood work. There are three sections, the bar, dining, and game room. Since trivia was unanswerable, we were in the dining room. I let our waitress pick my meal as I couldn't make up my mind. She was also able to both pronounce my second beer and understand my horrible mispronunciation of it. I also didn't write it down so if you know it, put it in the comments below.
The owner came by and introduced
himself. Soon afterwards, my food showed up. I ordered the fish and chips.
The fish was good, the breading was different than any I have
had before, but in a good way. The overall report of the food from
my table mates, that had mainly had the bbq, was that it was good but not
spectacular. Jammy Buggers does have my favorite buffalo wings from
the wing crawl. The sauce was a little thicker and had a good
flavor. Plus the meat was definitely the highest quality of the
crawl as well. Obviously, better quality food has a higher quality price tag, but Jammy Buggars is striving for more than cheap bar food.
They of course have a higher quality beer list then just beers that you see during the Super Bowl. My first beer was a Victoria Golden Monkey. Its full of alcohol and tastes like good beer. Basically it's as awesome as it sounds. But like this beer I think it is better if you've had a beer before you meet a gold monkey in steam punk attire.
As normal, when I went off to take
pictures of the bar I got sidetracked for a half hour. This time it
was talking to the owner, Jim. Highlights of our talks were: gossip
about the future of Sullivan’s (and no I'm not telling,) why
doesn't anyone know that the Shamrock is awesome (we don't know,)
Jim's worked real hard trying to make a great and unique bar, and
yes, I do accept free beer.
The women departed. Johnny and I moved
to the bar for free beer and to root on the Orioles. The beer was
good I had another Weneaidfslahifhieaojflisjhfioe. We then got to
try a new beer from Akron's Hoppin' Frog, “Natasha Rocks”
America. It is a chocolate rye imperial stout. I don't like
chocolate, rye or stout beers for the most part but this beer was
pretty damn good.
The Orioles were not good but kept up a
healthy amount of denial into overtime. A worse baseball team was
brought up, from one of the other bar patrons. This one from Cleveland. No not that one, I'm talking about
the one from the National League. The Spiders were Cleveland's
professional baseball team in the late 1800s. During their final
year in the NL they were so bad, partially their owner
that both owned a second NL team and referred to them as a side show
attraction. That meant teams couldn't make money playing in Cleveland
because of the extremely low attendance. The Spiders ended up playing
most of their games at the opposing stadiums. The Spiders lost most
of their games, officially achieving more away losses than
any other professional baseball team ever will. No matter how
bad your favorite team is, they will never be as bad as the Cleveland
Spiders. That was also the Spider's last season and they are in no
way connected to the AL's Indians.
The game was over and the bar was empty
it was time for us to go. It was also the first time Every Bar in
Lakewood closed down a bar. Jammy Buggers was voted as the bar on
Detroit Avenue that we needed to go to and for good reason. Many
different establishments have resided in the JB location: Nikos, Route 6,
and Nikos to name a few. Jammy Buggers has endeavored to break the mold of the
terminally closing bars of 15625. It's not simply a nice looking bar
with good food and beer. Jammy Buggars is constantly working at
making the food and experience better. You can tell they put effort
into finding quality ingredients and a unique taste. I had a great
time at bar #15. They won't have to be jammy Buggars to be open a
year from now and you'll feel like one if you give them a visit.
Awesome: Customer Service, Craft Beer, Gastropub Food, Wings
15625 Detroit Ave
216-767-5922
sprenger1355@yahoo.com
Great review... See you for that beer soon!
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