Scooter and Bab’s
Little hole in the wall bars are awesome. No one cares what you are wearing at a hole in the wall bar. No one is there to judge you. You are free. You can actually carry on a conversation with someone else and not have to guess what they are saying—because you can hear them! Oh the awesomeness of a hole in the wall bar, I bow down to thee.
Trouble is, sometimes it can be difficult to find a good hole in the wall. However, never fear. I am here to assist.
Scooter and Bab’s Sports Bar and Grill, located at 918 East Euclid Avenue in Des Moines, is a great hole in the wall. It is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Lunch is served from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and dinner is served from 2 p.m. on. Happy hour is from 3-6:30 Monday through Friday. Specials on wells and draws are offered during happy hour.
Since Scooter and Bab’s is sports bar, it offers specials for avid football and baseball fans on game days. Specials include $4.50 pitches, $0.75 chili dogs, and $1.50 bowls of chili.
Sports aren’t your thing? Don’t worry. The bar also offers food and drink specials on nongame nights. Taco Tuesdays and homemade pizza Thursdays go from 5-9 each week. You can also sing your little heart on karaoke night every Friday from 9-1.
Scooter and Bab’s is one of my favorite local spots to go and knock a few back. It draws everyone from college students to business executives to union workers. Everyone is welcome at Scooter and Bab’s.
My ratings
Food: 3/5
Drinks: 4/5
Prices: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Atmosphere: 3/5
I like that you rate the places, and look forward to benefiting from your research. Are you ever going to explain the 3/5 grades etc. that you give a place? I am curious.
thebestintentions - October 2, 2009 at 11:38 pm |
I have never heard of this place… I like how you included the type of customers it attracts. For me, that’s the most important part in determining if it’s a hole in the wall bar that I would want to go to!
Emily Barger - October 4, 2009 at 6:28 pm |
Sounds like a great place; I’ll have to try it out. One of my favorite places is Skip’s on Fleur. It’s not really a hole-in-the-wall, but it does have that friendly, everyone’s welcome feel. You know one of those places where “everyone knows your name.” That was a reference to an old TV show–can you guess the show?
But seriously, The bar at Skip’s is cozy and intimate, with the added bonus of great food–definitely a “5″ on your scale.
jennifer Richards - October 8, 2009 at 2:27 am |