Stopped in Bigsy's Sports Grill for dinner. It was our first time visiting the restaurant. It is…read morelocated right off of I-465, on the east side of the highway, at Brookville Road. The atmosphere is 100% local dive bar, complete with pool tables. They have a lot of big screen TVs for sports viewing. They were even broadcasting the sound for a local sporting event. A huge plus, in my opinion.
The menu consists of normal bar food items. They have chicken wings, pizza, burgers, and various sandwiches. They have daily specials. We visited on a Sunday, and the special was a tenderloin sandwich for $10.99. We ordered that, along with fried mushrooms for $8.49. Domestic beer on Sunday is $3 for 16 ounces. We had to get that as well!
The mushrooms were good, but not enough of them. There were eight mushrooms in the basket, which is over a $1 a mushroom. A bit expensive in our opinion since they were not extremely large mushrooms. The tenderloin, on the other hand, was extremely large. It was OK.... I have had worse and I have had better.
The men's room was ... very rough. Dirty, graffiti on the walls, a broken and overflowing urinal, a bucket of cleaning supplies including a toilet brush on the floor, and a broken soap dispenser. There was no way to wash your hands. It made me wonder about the servers. However, there was only one, and it was a female. She was serving the entire restaurant, as well as the bar. And, she was also the bartender! As a result, service was slow. There were about 20 patrons in the establishment. Going back to the bathroom, and the hand washing issue, I did not dare let my mind wonder if the cooks were male. I did, however, wonder with the toilet bowl brush present, if this was a self service bathroom with regards to cleaning.
As mentioned, the service was very slow. It took about 50 minutes from the time we sat down, to ordering, to getting our food. The waitress, however, was very nice. She stated that she was new. And, we never saw more than two employees. One was our waitress, and the other was in the kitchen. Our waitress was extremely apologetic. She apologized for the slow service when she brought the menus, when she brought our drinks, when she brought our food, and when she brought the bill. We did not linger, we ate our food and left. The entire process took an hour and a half, start to finish. A positive is that when we left late at night, the place was very well lit outside.