My wife and I visited Roscoe's for the first time on the afternoon of October 8, 2009. While the beer selection was quite good, we could hardly tolerate the smell of the place. The odor of old cooking grease permeated the entire establishment. The other problem was the clientele seated at the bar: They were speaking in "expletive this, and expletive that." And if that wasn't bad enough, the female bartender was loudly encouraging their expletive, expletive, well, you get the idea, expletive behavior. Tired of the expletives and the odor, we finished our beer and left, never to return. Later, we burned the clothing which we wore into Roscoe's.

i'm not sure what the place was like back when the original barfly review was written, but it is way off. this is just a cool, friendly neighborhood bar with excellent cajun food and a great happy hour. pinball, pool, video poker, friendly barstaff and regulars -- really all you could ask for in a neighborhood dive bar. no pretensions here, just a cool mix of locals and working folks out to have a mellow good time. and the happy hour prices can't be beat.

My girlfriend just moved out to the 82nd & Se Stark/Burnside area. We desperately needed to find a bar that felt like home. Roscoe's is it. It has everything that a dive in inner NE or SE has, but isn't as busy as often. Good selection and prices, with free pool on Sunday make this a must. Its an island of comfortable in the middle of a sea of awful, 82nd ave. You can find us there several times a week, when we're not bouncing around my inner NE hood. The only downside, the just 21, not from the immediate neighborhood kids who blitz the pool room for hours on end, without warning.

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Great place to hang out and get a few drinks. Good late-night food and the staff is really friendly to a bunch of loud, smelly, drunk rugby players that come straight from practice. I'll definitely be back.

It's open again, under the name Roscoe's.

Clifford's/Roscoe's has been closed for a few months with no sign or anything explaining why.

I moved into the mt. tabor neighborhood a few months ago from the foster ugly neighborhood and have been looking for a good bar to shoot some pool and have a drink. clifford's has the potential to be a really great bar. I have gone a few times on the weekends and they tend to be relatively busy. The staff seems generally nice, not overtly rude, and the food is pretty basic (good for a french fry and onion ring craving). Service is what should be expected. The crowd seems harmless, though as usual, the old drunk men try to talk to you. When I went with some friends last year some hookers showed up, but when I talked to the owner a few weeks ago we mentioned that he has been working on keeping them out since they bring in a different crowd. He said he wanted a neighborhood bar, and I am happy with that idea. I know they have a happy hour but I don't remember when. There are two pool tables in front, though the owner said something about moving things around once the poker machines came in. I have always been able to get on a table, and everyone who has been playing when I've been there has been nice. It would be great if more people who like to play pool will come around on weeknights, I could use some competition.

The music is good, that is about it. The place is TOO small really and all that I saw in there were musicians jamming. It wasn't really a showplace, or a club to present a show to the public. It kinda reminds me of someone's living room, which is cool in a way. But in a way sucks because there were very few hot looking guys to dance with. Where are all the hot looking guys anyway, they aren't definitely at blues jams! verybadkat@yahoo.com if you are a hot looking guy and want to dance with me at Roscoe's look me up on my yahoo profile and ask me to dance!

Well the bar is now called Clifford's. They have acquired the back room and it has band Jam's. The other night we even heard some crazy spoken word and beat box. One Pinball machine and a poll table. My buddy ordered the pot sticklers. Big Mistake. Stick to the Beers. The had a few IPA's like Pelican and Cascade I beleive.

I'm a regular at Roscoe's. It's an OK place, made better when there's good music. This Friday 10-14-05 at happy hour, the Two Hills Trio will be there. The last time they played there they packed the place. Those guys have an amazing repertoire -- old time American songs from banjo to jazz.

OK, since Debbie wrote a glowing review of Roscoes I thought I should check it out again. She is right, it's a TOTALLY different place now with new ownership. Strong cheap drinks, good food, very clean, friendly service, and Great entertainment. Live Jazz on Mondays, Blues on Tuesdays, Karaoke on Wednesdays, More live music on the weekends. NO cover charge! Plus an all you can eat buffet on the weekends. I must say I was VERY impressed and will Definitely going there often. The only complaint I had was the pool cues didn't work for me, but maybe I just suck at pool.

I read the Barfly review and was shockingly surprised to find a cozy, friendly, and personable atmosphere. New Ownership! The scene was casual and relaxed. A large mix of people all intermingling for the night. The "Yanks" were on stage and soon everybody was getting down to some explosive guitar licks. Dancing, rocking, groovin all night. Service was personable and menu and kitchen accomodating in the late hours. Great time, great atmosphere, and it wasn't smoke filled and dirty. Wow! Going back tonight for some more of those rocking blues from the YANKS and great people.

We expected Roscoes to be a dive, but we thought it might be kind of like a wichita pub wannabe so we decide to check it out. We arrived around 8:30 on Saturday night, they weren't terribly busy. The first thing we noticed is the SMELL...awful B.O. mixed with something equally offensive but indiscernible. We decided to sit down anyway to at least see how the service was. The table was filthy, in fact the whole place looked like it hadn't seen a mop/broom/sponge in quite some time. We waited for about 15 minutes but were completely ignored. Definitely wont be going back here again.