Cuzzy's Restaurant — Restaurant in Camden

Avoid at all costs if you value your safety! I used to enjoy going to this local bar; mostly for the fun crowd it attracts. I love a good local bar. I’ve worked in the industry for decades and pride myself in being a gracious bar guest. I clean up after myself, am polite and tip well. But there is one bartender in particular who is downright demonic, mostly to women patrons.

I was in with my partner to help celebrate a friend’s birthday. As the designated driver, I decided to order just one tall drink and slowly consume it while I was there. I had about a quarter of my cocktail left, when said bartender grabbed it from me and tossed it in the sink. Again, I’ve worked in busy bars for years, so I understand that mistakes happen. I also understood that I needed to call the mistake to her attention before she does 10+ more things and forgets about tossing the drink. So I started to get her attention: “Excuse me! Hey, hello, excuse me!” With not even a glance or acknowledgement letting me know I had been heard before she stormed over to me, GRABBED ME BY THE ARM and yelled at me for trying to get her attention. She shook my arm while yelling at me! I wasn’t even upset about the tossed drink. But once I tried to call her attention to it, it seemed more like she tossed it on purpose because I had been stirring the ice with my straw and it set her off. I was absolutely crushed. The way she grabbed me and spoke to me was so far out of line. She spent the rest of my time there that evening taunting me for no reason. She legitimately pointed and laughed at me. I was entirely sober and the only thing I was guilty of was trying to correct her mistake.

I decided to call this horrible treatment out to her boss, Chris Cuzzy. I was supposed to have an in-person talk with him (which I know I am not entitled to a busy person’s time. I just thought he would care for some reason.) but he did not show. I tried calling and emailing and my problem has been dodged. I tried to ask a couple other locals for advice and they have told me that this bartender has done things like this to other women and were unfortunately not surprised by her behavior.

A few weeks later, I decide to brave Cuzzy’s again as I had a few friends enjoying a game of pool there. I had someone else order my drinks as not to upset this bartender again. About an hour into my stay, the bouncer approaches me to kick me out. “Did I do something wrong?” I asked. “Yeah, you said H*r assaulted you.” Ohhhhh cool. So the boss told her but did not give me, the clearly upset customer, a chance to be heard. THEN the bouncer continued with “And I’ll assault you myself if you don’t get out of here right now.” Seriously? This man is huge and frightening. And that’s how you treat someone who was just concerned about her treatment in your bar? I wasn’t causing a scene, or protesting, or behaving in any way other than peaceful and at this point confused at the treatment I was receiving. You’re going to threaten me with violence? Not ok!

All of this is clearly uncomfortable and I wish it hadn’t happened. I used to enjoy my time at Cuzzy’s. But after being grabbed, shaken, yelled at and now threatened by their staff, I have to warn people about the people employed here. I work in the industry locally and am often asked for recommendations from tourists on where to go. And I have to tell them… do NOT go to Cuzzy’s if your safety or comfort are valuable to you. They don’t...

My husband and I were staying in Camden and had a craving for some Nacho's so we decided to try out Cuzzy's and were very disappointed. The nacho's they have listed on the menu are chili nacho's and the cost is $19.99 . We are vegetarians so we ordered just extra cheese nacho's with onion's and jalapeno's and no chili.

When they delivered the nacho's we less than impressed. They were extremally small and made on a plate you would use for a side dish. At the cost of $19.99 there should be an impressive amount of nachos! The cheese was not fully melted and they came with olives and tomato's both things we did not ask for. We did mention this to the waitress but her response was " well that's just how the kitchen does it " Which doesn't make any sense because we were requesting a custom nacho. She did not offer to re-do the nacho's or take the unwanted olives or tomato's off for us. We let her know we were dissatisfied

At the end of the meal when the server delivered our bill we noticed that there was no subtraction for the removal of the chili on the nacho's but there was an additional cost for the extra cheese of one dollar. Total for the awful , small and undercooked nacho's was $20.99. Unbelievable and highway robbery!

We then asked the server why there hadn't been any reduction in the cost of the nacho's seeing as we did not get the chili. A tiny plate of tortilla chips , cheese , jalapeno's and onions does not cost $ 20.99. She left and went to talk with the bartender ( we could see this conversation from our table.) When she explained the situation to the bartender we saw the bartender shrug her shoulders , shake her head and make a gesture as if to say " whatever" The server came back over and told us they can't discount the nacho's the price is the price.

I then asked to speak with a manager and her response was " We don't have a manger working at this time... not sure where they are or when there coming in" We expressed to the server our dissatisfaction but gave up at that time because there was no point in furthering the conversation.

To say the least we won't be returning to this restaurant!...

Sundown? Fear for your safety.

One star, Uncle Cuzzy, one star.

Twas the eve of Thanksgiving and all through the town, open signs are off and Google says, "closed closed closed closed".

A young couple from the city visiting and wanting to replenish their bellies stops in. Kitchen closed.

"Try La Cave around the corner (it was excellent, highly recommended) and come back here after dinner for drinks. Last call 1am."

Done deal, thanks for the invite.

We return to Cuzzy after an excellent meal (and drinks!) from around the corner. We're tired and calm from the day's endeavour and sit at the bar, intending to chill and throw some money at the town. We order two drafts, fairly priced - standard fair. Karaoke blasting in the corner, some great voices and some terrible - the true reality of humanity, let go and live a little - no one is here to judge, right??

The man stands to kiss his girl and dance a little when a townie aggressively swoops in and steals his seat,

"Hey man, I'm sitting there."

The remaining story was quite frankly appalling and the insults of crude words and suggested violence thrown at me and my lady insulted the youthful audience of this bar more than it did us.

Honestly, there is a bigger picture story here - about the youth and dysfunctionality of the rural cities in America. The broken townies, so lonely and ignorant - the world is out there for their taking - but they know no better and succumb to such close minded destructive and childish behavior. I feel bad for this type of crowd, I really do.

We meant no harm, but the emotional intelligence of adults acting like twelve year olds drove us out.

I hope the daytime crowd isn't like this, or this place has no...