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    Helen's Place

    3.9 (11 reviews)
    InexpensiveDive Bars, Fast Food
    Closed 4:00 pm - 1:00 am (Next day)

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    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    5 years ago

    Great time and wonderful people. The bartender Jill was fantastic and on point with delicious cocktails

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    7 years ago

    A good home town dive bar. Food doesn't exceed bar type munchies, but the staff and clientele is the tops. Highly recommend.

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    Friendly staff, feels like a great neighborhood hang-out. Known for their great steak dinners. And from experience they are excellent.

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    9 years ago

    Great place to hang out, always the first place to hold fund raisers to help the community. Good people, great bartenders!

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    11 years ago

    Always a fun time! Monthly steak dinners and the wieners are great! Staff is awesome too!

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    Lucky's Bar & Pizza - Taco Pizza

    Lucky's Bar & Pizza

    3.4(19 reviews)
    1.3 mi
    $$

    The first thing you notice at Lucky's is the noise. Country and classic rock pour out of the…read morespeakers. Pool balls crack. Laughter runs into arguments about nothing that matters. The room is full of people whose hands do real work, now wrapped around pool cues and plastic cups while they forget about roofs, engines, kids, and bills. We stayed for about an hour. Long enough to see this is a regulars' bar, the kind where people walk in already laughing at a joke that started three nights ago. Alli clocked us as soon as we came through the door. "You're Tim, right?" She then began quoting the parts that she liked from last year's RI FOOD FIGHTS Lord of the Pies review back to me. Sometimes word for word. Out of the blue. Nodding as she went. She agreed with it. Lucky's knew they'd landed near the bottom of my list. No excuse making. Just a little hope, I think, that this year would read differently. I wanted that too. They know exactly what they are at Lucky's: a bar that feeds and waters the people who live nearby. The neighborhood's living room. The staff and the neighbors have always been the stars. The pizza finally caught up. They make their own dough on site every day. As far as I can tell, that's how they've always done it. What changed is how it all comes together on the pan. The pie that landed in front of us looked like exactly what it is. A really solid Greek pizza. Crust on the thicker side, with a soft chew and a clean crunch at the back end. Sauce with an herby backbone. A little sweet but with enough acid to keep it from feeling heavy. Cheese that melts into browned, salty pockets you hunt down at the edge of the crust. Greek pies don't try to innovate anything. They just have to be honest. This one is. Last year, Lucky's was dead last on Lord of the Pies rankings. This year it climbed to dead center. Twenty one out of forty. That doesn't sound heroic until you remember nothing else about the place changed. Same bar. Same crowd. Same noise. Same staff. The only difference was how good the pizza is now. I have no confusion that Lucky's is a bar that serves pizza, not a pizzeria that happens to have a bar. The difference now is that THIS pizza can stand right there with all of the other places that put "pizza" in big letters on the sign. But how many of those places are this fun or friendly? Alli told us maybe a hundred people had come through with coupons. She laughed and said you can usually spot the "pizza people" as soon as they walk in. She wasn't wrong. We were those people. What mattered was how her regulars handled it. Our friends ended up spending most of the time talking to the guys at the pool table. People at the bar asked where we were from, how many places we'd hit, how this pie stacked up. At no point did we feel like outsiders passing through to collect another stamp. If you live nearby, you already know what Lucky's is. If you're cutting across Foster on your way to a casino or just trying to get lost for a bit, you can walk in, grab a pie, and sit at a bar that doesn't treat you like you're intruding on an inside joke. The pizza moved from forgettable to solid. The time we spent there felt like a little redemption story. And everyone in the building had a hand in writing it. And who doesn't love a nice, hot pizza or a happy ending?

    They advertised an adult Easter egg hunt on Facebook. It appeared in my feed and immediately…read moretapped into my competitive side and love of winning things. Also a win for my husband, the egg hunt is at a bar! Cost of admission: a canned good. Marked in the calendar! We pull up about 50 minutes prior to the egg hunt and only 5 cars in the parking lot, one hood up and being jumped. We questioned if an egg hunt was happening? We left the canned goods in the car and walked in. Wasn't expecting much but this place has small bar charm! A bar that seats around 15 people. Wood paneling, pool tables, from the looks of it a highly used fireplace and a little pizza place. Just enough. Still didn't look like an egg hunt was going to be happening but I noticed a table in the back corner that looked like raffle prizes. We sat, started with drinks. Ordered food. Small pepperoni pizza, fries and buffalo wings. Everything was ok. The wings could have been better (small) but the other food and kind service made up for it. The locals were energetic and animated. Other people started piling in for the egg hunt. Think some with real Easter baskets. Some with plastic bags (like me!) Some had chia seeds to donate and others had donettes. Just an FYI- if you plan on going next year make sure to support the bar as well. The backyard has a fenced in area but the egg hunt was inside that area and on both sides leading to the back woods. When we left at least an hour after the egg hunt had begun, there were still 7 eggs and prizes still hidden. What did we win? 1 six pack of Whalers seltzer, 1 six pack of Whalers beer, one pint glass, one 2nd annual Lucky's sticker (it was legit) and candy. Now what did we also leave with? Someone leaving passed us a gold token for a free beer from the bar and the bartender gave us a jumbo egg filled with nips. I declare I love Lucky's Adult Easter egg Hunt I had a lot of fun. This place has won me over.

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    Dark Horse Tavern - Beef and Guinness Stew

    Dark Horse Tavern

    3.9(46 reviews)
    23.4 mi
    $$

    We recently tried the Dark Horse Tavern on a Saturday evening. We got there at opening (5 o'clock)…read moreand it was already dark out, it was confusing where the entrance was, but we found it. We entered and were immediately impressed by the decor and setting. You really feel like you entered a time capsule from a different era, everything is beautiful. We were seated in a cute little area. We ordered our drinks and we really wanted the fish chowder for our app, but they didn't have any (so disappointing). My husband decided on the chili and nothing caught my eye for an app, but I had some bites of the chili and it was very very good! For dinner my husband picked the Beef and Guinness Stew and I picked the Fish and Chips. My fish was very good, but it said it came with hand cut fries and there was no way they were hand cut, they tasted like everything other frozen fries I've had and they were really skimpy on the fries. My husband's Beef and Guinness Stew was awful, he said the meat was very grizzly and tough. We really enjoyed our experience dining in such a beautiful place, we might come back in the summer and give them another try.

    Amazing waitstaff, great ambience, and terrific food. I wish we lived closer. It has a sort of…read moreclandestine/hidden gem vibe. My husband had the beef and Guinness stew and I had the classic wedge salad - both fab. Our server was so attentive. I recommend trying the cocktail of the day, if you happen to be a cocktail person.

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    Black Pond Brews

    Black Pond Brews

    4.5(56 reviews)
    4.7 mi
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    After enjoying hiking in the area we came here and enjoyed the pulled pork poutine, wiener…read moreschnitzel and beers! While their IPA was pretty average, the strawberry rhubarb brew was great! The schnitzel was nicely prepared with a side salad that was tasty and a decent mustard. The poutine fries were nicely done and fresh, but IMO, there was a bit too much gravy and not enough cheese curds on the poutine. That didn't stop us from devouring the whole thing though, it definitely was not bad. Ambience is chill with music playing at a lower volume. Mostly couples and small, chill groups in the spot. There was one small group with a baby but the baby was not overly loud or disruptive. Outdoor seating is available but we opted to be inside with the AC. Bartender seemed to be the only employee working both the tables and the bar and a little overwhelmed, so service was a bit slow. Would definitely stop back here and highly recommend the strawberry rhubarb brew! Clean, gender neutral restrooms.

    Went here on a whim to attend the book fair hosted by a local bookstore here in their event space…read more I cant lie this book fair was pretty lackluster and overpriced, so we decided to grab food and drinks since we were already there anyways. The brewery was very busy and the line was long, with slower wait times, but the food and drinks were worth it. The buffalo chicken tenders were great quality, not overly spicy or salty, and came with a chunky, house-made blue cheese dressing. The bacon cheesy fries were a standout. The beer cheese was perfectly smooth and flavorful, topped with crumbled bacon and thinly sliced purple onion, which was surprisingly really good. I also tried the pomegranate Down East cider, a flavor I hadn't seen anywhere else, and it was my favorite I've had so far. Atmosphere was decent but on the smaller side. Overall a good experience, though not somewhere I'd go out of my way to return to

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