Wednesday 12th of August 2009 01:54:27 PM

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You’ll find an OK selection of craft beers - three local beers (Roslyn Brewing’s Roslyn and Brookside, and Iron Horse’s Irish Death) and four other bland choices. This is one place that really doesn’t have proper glassware - the beer is served in rigid plastic pint “glasses” (or even flimsy plastic when they’re really busy).

It’s an old fashioned/old town tavern style place that’s been in business since 1889. There are old worn wooden floors and a classic large old wooden bar (uniquely in this instance, with a metal spittoon trough by your feet with running water), and tall ceilings made from long narrow wooden planks. The bar back is made of classic wood with columns and has a large antlered deer head, but it’s been modernized by being fully mirrored and adapted with adjustable glass shelves. One long exterior wall runs along the main street in town and has a lot of windows and vertical wood paneled wainscoting. The opposite interior wall is old brick. An adjoining room, accessed through an arched brick doorway, is on a lower level and is very dark. Miscellaneous wooden tables and chairs as well as two pool tables and a shuffle board fill the rest of the main room. An unusual cast iron stove is beside the center of the interior wall.

The burgers we tried were decent and served on what looks like a gold miner’s pan (very appropriate for the history of mining in this area), made of tin and covered by a sheet of waxed paper.