The Ground Round.

Most chain restaurants have a happy hour so it was a pretty safe bet trying out the Ground Round. As it turns out, I have been to their late night happy hour before back in my waitressing days. The ladies and I used to hit the Ground Round after a night of serving jerk-faces at a different, local eatery in Bangor (I won't mention names, they did not have a happy hour so it's not really worth mentioning anyway!). We would always sit at the bar and order at least two appetizers - as that is part of the deal - and likely a tall, cheap beer.

The details of the Ground Round Happy Hour are:

3-6 Monday through Friday and 10pm-close Monday through Sunday (the late night happy hour!)
$1.99 Appetizer with the purchase of one at full price.
$2.99 Mugs of Bud, Bud Light, Coors, & Miller Lite


In addition, the Ground Round also has some sort of daily special each day of the week.

A fun addition to happy hour - even more deals!!

We went on a Wednesday and were not interested in the "All you can eat rib feast". I did however get a Pinnacle vodka drink but note that it was actually more expensive than a well-vodka drink ($5 versus $4.50). I guess 50cents more isn't too bad for a slightly better, flavored vodka though!

Kid's pay what they weigh on Sundays and Thursdays? I don't want to be an asshole but I bet a lot of the kids that come through Ground Round weigh more than the actual cost of their kid's meal .... just saying. That doesn't seem like a deal to me... unless you have some tiny kids then, deal-city!!

Anyway, we took advantage of the appetizer deal and got one appetizer sampler and an order of nachos. The place was pretty packed for a Wednesday evening in the lounge/bar area. Our waitress was a nice, middle-aged or so woman. She messed up our order a bit - we asked for beef on the nachos and got chicken - and it took a while for me to get my second drink (a beer) but hey, it was busy and no one is perfect. Christina and I have both been waitresses, we can empathize, so complaints from us.

First drinks - well vodka and tonic, Pinnacle (some flavor I forget) and soda

 

 

Busy bar

 Finally, our food was exactly what you'd expect from a chain restaurant. It came out quick, it was greasy, filling, and delicious. While I may be a food snob at times, I can definitely get down with some unhealthy, chain restaurant bar food. Bring on the jumbo nachos.

So, since this was part of the happy hour deal, we got the appetizer sampler at full price ($12 I believe) and the nachos for a mere $1.99! Sweet deal if you ask me. Make sure your second appetizer is almost as expensive as the first so you are really getting your monies worth ...

So for 2 cocktails, 1 tall beer for me and 1 tall and 1 regular-sized beer for Christina, and these two sizable appetizers, we each paid under $20. Happy times were had!