Re: Hopsfrog Grill
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Hops-patron
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Date: February 15, 2017 08:47PM
Hopsfrog was a pretty damn good restaurant prior to being forced to move to the smaller space they occupy now from the lot the PNC Bank stands on, due to rent hikes from the investment conglomerate that owns that strip mall. That was about 2007 or so, if I recall correctly. Via a second party, the owner confided that he'd have gone out of business anyway when the recession hit if he'd been paying full rent on the old property.
They served a lot of Greek and Italian style meals that were delish. Live music on Friday and Saturday nights. It was a great hangout. Now, it's more or less a watering hole for Burke locals to have a couple beers and some good pub grub. All types, a lot of fed emps. Not long ago, I met a guy who was celebrating before setting off on a multiple year sailing trip in his own boat around the world. The staff is always friendly and they remember you if you go often enough.
Hands down, they still serve one of the best burgers in the area because, as it was explained to me, they never use frozen beef. It's always fresh ground. Awesome on a Saturday afternoon with a cold beer and an afternoon to hang with a few friends.
Back before they moved, it was a good place to meet women. The bar area was a full room separate from the dining room. It had a central sunken bar and a lot of table space. Windows that opened on nice nights.
It's not that anymore, though. There's not enough room. And since Virginia changed the smoking laws, the smokers have to go outside like pretty much every single other restaurant in the state except for those that ponied up the cash for indoor smoking like Hard Times up the road.
But if my poor math is correct, that was all before you were old enough to drink, wasn't it Joeypants69? So I suggest you take yourself and your frozen ball sack somewhere out of the area next time. Because I'm pretty certain that all the 'college beauties' you're trying to 'scam' are way too smart to fall for any of your tired-ass pick up lines and have no interest in sharing your STDs, either. Us long-time patrons of Hopsfrog, Fats, Auld Shabeen, and Hard Times, etc., aren't interested in you breathing our air, drinking our 'suds', or scamming our daughters. ('Suds'? Really? How many times have you seen Shawshank Redemption?)