***** Chaser’s Sports Bar & Grill, 2107 10th Avenue North, Lake Worth, Florida 33461, (561) 623-0509.

During the past 20 South Florida years, I have eaten in more SPORTS BARS than there are Chins in a Chinese phonebook (credit: Soupy Sales- 1956). You know what a blur is? Let’s just say, that give or take a “handful”—the game is basically the same…bar, tvs, wood decor, young energetic waitstaff, huge menu loaded with just passable food, reasonable prices.

Now…every so often I come across a “sports bar” which kinda breaks the mold. For sure, Chaser’s got the bar, tvs, wood decor, young energetic waitstaff, reasonable prices—now get this, the food was realy-really good. Just so you know, the menu is not “huge”-but it definitely gets the job done. Where most of these joints are “microwave” city, a recent outing had me doing… 1/2 lb. charbroiled bacon cheeseburger ($8.95) that was right-up there with the best stuff served by the so-called gourmet burger outlets—delicious grilled garlic wings (10-$8.95), the penne ala vodka and philly cheese steak were also-right on the money.

You can check menu/prices at www.chaserssbg.com.

Another cool thing about this joint, it has a “band-schedule” which features some of the top local- rock/pop/blues/folk bands in South Florida. You can check that schedule at the previously mentioned website.

I really enjoyed Chaser’s.

Chaser’s is open Sunday-Wednesday 4pm-midnight, Friday-Saturday 4pm-2am.

*By the way, www.southfloridadines.com has one of those $15 gets you $30 coupon deals going…if that’s your game!