BarFly's Review of Roscoe's
“Is this a gay bar?” A routine query of Roscoe’s newcomers, as often a sincere question as fond hope. All walks welcomed, but its ardent regulars are mostly heterosexual, dirty-pretty (and pretty dirty) boys, found littering the premises, compromising as many positions as possible, on any given night. Gus Van Sant could cast his next three movies in the course of one beer, here. A dive-con-tutti-dives, Roscoe’s offers all the standard entertainments, augmented by a regular schedule of vile eating contests (odd Sundays), official Short-Shorts NIghts (Tuesdays), and randomly enforced toplessness (boys, only), among other downmarket delights. Don’t ask what’s in the day’s special shooter - ingredients scary enough to been made in China are guaranteed. Pool x2, several video games, juke heavy on the cock rock. Skinny alleyway patio perfect for re-enacting Star Wars’ garbage masher scene. Come in Threepio! $1 pints, $2 well, $3 menu 4-6pm M-F & all night Thursdays. Sundays: SIN happy hours prices w/OLCC card. Fridays: Ladies' night happy hour prices w/XX chromosomes.
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Clifford's/Roscoe's has been closed for a few months with no sign or anything explaining why.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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