Next up the street was the little add-on to Dusty's Cellar, called The Tap Room. Styling itself a sort of strip-mall pub, the restaurant features relatively few small, tall tables, a long beer list, and a menu full of comfort food. Burgers and sandwiches, fish and chips, burritos, pasta, steaks, chops, pot pies, salads. Unlike Dusty's itself, the prices are pretty good.
We started with the artichoke and chips appetizer. Like the rest of the meal, it was basic but good. Odd shaped bowl prevented scraping out the last of the sauce, but that's a minor quibble.
Cindy and our son (home from college) had burgers. Mushroom/swiss, something like that. I had a burrito. All were exactly as good as their price would have you believe. I mean that as a compliment. Unlike Dusty's Cellar, where the food should have been MUCH MUCH better for the price, in the Tap Room the taste:cost ratio was just right. Perfectly good food for a reasonable price. The restaurant was as cozy as a strip mall restaurant can be. We liked it.
Rating on a scale of 1-10: 8
Will we go back: Yes.
