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Duffy's Boalsburg Tavern
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- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
6 reviews for Duffy's Boalsburg Tavern
Date Visited: Monday 6/22/09 (Lunch)
Once again, the smell of seafood may have been the thing that made my eating experience less than it could have been.
After a morning of driving and site-seeing, we stopped at Duffy's to refuel. I had the Grande Nachos (or something like that), which were definitely grande. It had a little bit of cheese, guacamole, salsa, some greens, and sour cream. It was all piled up on the plate with a bunch of chips. If there were more cheese on the chips, I would have been happier. Beans or black olives could have helped too. It's a nice restaurant that probably needs more parking spaces and a waitress that needs to be a little quieter, especially when sounds travel quite easily where we were seated.
Went into room behind bar with friends, two of them beind under twenty one. Knowing that this may cause a problem we called in advance to Make sure that as long as we had someone over twenty five we would be fine. Being as this is the law in Pennsylvania. As soon as we entered we where kicked out, being told that the
Person we talked to was wrong. Later I
Called back to refresh them on the pa liquor control board laws and was told that the bar tender was wrong and we could come back. Fuck that, complete waste of time.
I'm pretty sure that I couldn't have been more underwhelmed by this place. Our server was the worst server I've ever had in my life, which makes him worse that the one who basically asked for my number while I was somewhere with my then boyfriend. He was just so apathetic to everything; we had to ask for refills repeatedly, he messed up our food order, insisted I had ordered a salad (when I got a sammich) and instead of saying "Hey I'm going to go check on what's going on, I apologize" he just walked out and we sat there for about 5-7 minutes until he brought out my food and just set it down, blaming another server and never apologizing. On an amusing note, he asked how a friend wanted his veggie burger cooked; we all got quite the laugh out of that.
When check time came, the first time he said to make a list of how much we wanted on each card, and he could split it that way. The second time, he said that the only way he would split the check was evenly over credit cards. Luckily we had ordered things that were all about the same price, but it could have been a real hassle. It took him about 20 minutes to bring out.
I have a high tolerance for service mistakes-- as long as it seems like you're trying. The food was mediocre, but the service really just killed it. Smile, and act like you care a little bit.
One perk? With our party of 11, they didn't add in the gratuity... with such horrible service, we would have paid the full amount, but only begrudgingly.
Wing night is Wednesday evening, 25 cent wings with several great flavors.
Friendly staff, in a historic surrounding. This was a tavern in the 1800's. Don't concern yourself with the creaky floors, this gives the place character and charm.
Parking is not always the easiest to find. Dress can be casual or formal as there are different dining areas for any occasion.
One of two pubs in this little burg, you'll probably run into the rowdier group of the locals here. (of which I am proudly a member)
Certainly historic and in a beautiful setting. Can't complain about the quality of the food and it was very busy at lunch time on a Saturday afternoon. I got soup and salad, which was a seafood bisque and a small salad with raspberry vinaigrette. Well done. There was just something about the atmosphere and the service that left me cold. Maybe it was the poor up-keep of certain areas of the tavern--like big holes in the floor boarding that sort of looked dangerous to me. And the mishmash of furniture and furnishings. I love history, but it just felt like they were trying to cash in on the historic past without really keeping the place up to snuff. A bit pricey too. From the looks of the clientele, no one was local. Also, there weren't many choices to eat elsewhere. Boalsburg is a pretty small berg.
My client (T.P.) took me out for dinner at this place.
It's a nice historical Tavern with outdoor settings. There are 3 parts in the Tavern, casual dining with paper napkin, fancy dining with real napkin, and a bar.
We were setting near the window, nice view outside as the weather is good. The service is so so. T.P. ordered a fried zucchini for starter. Large fries size zucchini strings covered with beer batter were fried to golden brown, served with radish source. I was saying "this is how you make something health, not health"
I ordered Pork with Orange Sauce and T.P. ordered the Crab Cake dinner. The plate came out little cold as the one waitress was busy running around with 6 tables of people. T.P.'s crab cake looks funny, it has a hard shell (like a crab :). My pork with orange sauce is okay, the orange sauce is bit plain, not enough citrus flavor. The 2 sides, rice and vegi are really small portion too.
As we are leaving, I notice lots of students from Penn State were have group dinner over there too.