If you're from the north country you already know of what I speak... yes, none other than the famous ANCHOR BAR in Souptown (Superior, WI).
So here's the deal for you folks not privy to the legend of the ANCHOR...
The Food...
Ridiculously cheap and good tastin' hamburgers... I'm talkin' most burgers on the menu are $3.25 - and it's not one of those joints where you have to add 50 cents for a piece of cheese and 50 cents for bacon and 50 cents for blah blah blah... none of that bullshit at the Anchor. Besides that they have a wide assortment of burgers... from the Green Olive & Cream Cheese to the Cashew to the Mexican... on and on... our newest favorite we just tried the other day was the Ruben Burger... Kraut and Swiss Cheese on a burger... it was delicious! And of course you have to order up a side of fries at a whopping $1... yeah, thats right... ONE dollar... and these fries go from the whole potato to your plate... they actually have sacks of potatoes sitting in the back room or "Kitchen"... no frozen, coated grossness... just real fried potatoes - almost as good as the burger. So a burger and fries run you just over $4.00. Our last bill at the Anchor (2 burgers, 2 orders of fries, a cocktail and a Lion Oatmeal Stout) came to a grand total of $14.00!
Those famous $1 fresh fries...
DellMarie ready to dig in... and my Ruben Burger... smothered with sweet suculent fried Kraut....
The Drink...
Yeah, I suppose you
could order a Miller Lite at the Anchor and get one... but they pride themselves on having a wide, wide assortment of imports and micro brews and just generally GOOD beer... The last couple times I've drank down Lion Oatmeal Stout... hand crafted in Sri Lanka.... outstanding. Many good beers on tap as well - Goose Island, Summit.... I'm forgetting the rest... The bartenders aren't shy about mixing a cocktail how it was intended... if you get anything less than 50-50 of booze to mix... you must not be in the Anchor. And the price on all the imports and micro brews is about the same as you would pay for a crap beer anywhere else...
The Joint...
Its the Anchor... so it has a shitload... and I mean a SHITLOAD of shipping type of stuff all over the place... screwed to the walls, hanging from the ceiling etc.
They also have a little nook in the corner that you walk up to dubbed the "library" because it two walls of books in there...
And my favorite table is the one with 3 old skool barber chairs that you can pump up to raise and lower yourself... nice and cushy and duct taped and ratty....
Anyway, there is a big-ass fake sword fish that hangs on the wall by the bathrooms... oh, the bathrooms... the men's is a pure shithole... graffiti everywhere you look - mostly things about "your mom" and "sweet masturbation" and the like.... there's a big hole in the wall above the one and only urinal... must have had to do some plumbing....
But despite that, The Anchor is a narrow little bar that gets packed by 5 or 6 o'clock... and don't even try to get a table on a Friday or Saturday if you show up around those times... you're standing around for 45 minutes or so till something opens up....
The Staff...
Usually bitchy and crabby... not your typical bouncy 22-year old college student waitress... they're old-PallMall-smoking-Souptown ladies... once we even got asked out of the blue to pay our bill becasue we kept ordering drinks.,.. I guess they thought we were going to try and skip out and not pay... though I will have to say the service lately has been SUPER fast and bordering on pleasent.
So... obviously we LOVE the Anchor... if you ever find yourself in Souptown on Tower Avenue... don't stop until you get to the Anchor... you won't regret it.
As you can see... I actually broke a sweat sawing through the big beast.... but I'm cold now!
