Uncle Joe's Grill & Sports Bar — Restaurant in City of Ithaca

Pretty much Ithaca's only real 'Sports Bar'. Big TV's in every direction tuned into a game or ESPN type channel. Bar stools, booths and tables with room for groups. They also have two pool tables if you're looking for an activity.

Excellent wings and boneless wings, several good flavors including 'Uncle Joes Hot' that is a like a hot barbeque sauce as well as traditional 'Red's hot'. "Vlad" sauce is my favorite as it's hot and a little sweet at the same time - kind like the best 'Asian style generals chicken' ever. Also great is their 'Sport' sauce (ask to mix it with hot) Years ago had the best burgers you could find, three years or so ago, they changed to just very good, still probably the best in Ithaca.

Good drink prices ($4 22oz domestics on Sat/Sun) and nice selections with local crafts (lacking in rum options though). Also, every bartender I've interacted with is friendly and helpful. When I've sat at a booth, the waitresses are also great.

Not really a college place; the crowds are friendly locals watching ESPN and playing the 'cloud' jukebox. Place can be CRAZY on Sundays during the football season - lots of TV's playing all the games - most are Bills fans, but Ithaca's diversity has groups cheering for every team and that makes a pretty cool...

Male bartender very disrespectful tonight, asked for my license first time gladly gave it to him he turned down my fiancé even though she’s 21 when he asked for hers but it’s their bar they can do that and her and I didn’t have an issue with it, 15mins later a friend of mine was getting a drink for himself yet the bartender wanted my ID again I wasn't even ordering a drink nor was I at the counter to begin with, I just wanted to play pool. I walked over to the counter gave him my ID a second time and then he rudely tossed it on the counter not before eyeing me up and down along with the ID, like it’s real lol you saw it 15mins ago. He didn’t even acknowledge me at the counter after that, like a water would’ve been nice. We are all adults here it’s very immature way to act and puts a bad reputation on Joes and I love Uncle Joes, good food, good atmosphere, never once had a bad experience at Joes but today don’t know why, sadly I won’t be...

Ordered a burger. Medium rare. LTO and bacon. My friend ordered the same but with cheese and rare. Both came without the onion. My burger tasted like it came out of the package and went directly on a griddle with no seasoning, very flavorless. It also had no pink left in it. Let the waitress know very kindly we did not receive our onions.

She came back out with a bowl of oversized 🌙 cut, dry, red onion, and said the cook was dramatic. She was very nice, problems definitely in the kitchen.

My partner ordered wings. Large, baked, very fatty, skin wasn't crispy, sauce was forgettable.

Seems more like a billiard dive. Menu is not worth ordering from even with the lower pricing. There are much better spots to get a burger and a pint for cheap.

The eating area is surrounded by TVs in which I think maybe 2 weren't on the same ball game. It kind of defeats the purpose of...