English Tap & Beer Garden (Boca Raton)
***** English Tap & Beer Garden, 5050 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, Florida 33486, (561) 544-8000.
Silly me!
Something like 2 years ago, a restaurant named English Tap & Beer Garden opened in Boca Raton…until last Friday night, Jeff Eats “thought” that the joint was a British pub where fish & chips were the primary dish served and people who looked liked Winston Churchill- sat around eating, drinking and waiting for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby to be born. But oh contraire, it’s really an “American Style” joint that seats something like 250 inside/outdoor patio and serves all kinds of appetizers, salads, burgers, sandwiches, flat breads, wings, meat/chicken/seafood entrees and desserts…it has 2 full bars, 1 inside/1 oustide—tons of beers on tap and loads of flat screen tvs.
Real fast, the ENGLISH in the “title”—the joint’s creator was Todd English the celebrity chef/entrepreneur…like Jeff Eats said 4 seconds ago, silly me. Before I get to the “meal”…what’s with this American fascination with this Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby thing? If memory serves me correctly, didn’t we kick their (that’s the British) asses back in 1776 or 1783 or whenever it was? So what’s the big deal with this baby or for that matter anything even remotely connected to the Royal Family? Let’s get serious here, do you really think that Prince William or his brother Prince Harry or for that matter their father Prince Charles could competently run a Sunoco station (you do remember Sunoco Gas don’t you?) on his/their own without a brigade of Buckingham Palace guards instructing them the whole way? Well I don’t—talk about being members of the “Lucky Sperm Club.”
Anyway…
Last Friday night, Jeff Eats, Mrs. Jeff Eats and another couple gave the English Tap & Beer Garden a “try”…and I gotta tell you, the joint is terrific.
As I mentioned above, there is both inside and outdoor patio seating…in fact, though I didn’t do a head count, Jeff Eats’ money says that more than half-the seating is outside under huge umbrellas. The ordered items included… mac & cheese with bacon, meatball flat-bread, bacon cheeseburger, crab cakes, bbq babyback ribs, bbq pulled pork sliders—and I gotta tell you, that everything we ordered was delicious.
At this stage of the game, check www.theenglishtap.com for menu/prices.
English Tap & Beer Garden is a real casual joint…your tee shirt/shorts ensemble will work perfectly there. Just so you know, the joint has all kinds of daily food “specials”-you can easily stuff your face for $9.99 and $14.99–it also has loads of drink/food happy-hour specials.
Let me wrap this one up…Good food, real reasonable prices. terrific energetic young staff, cool inside/outside seating setup.
Jeff Eats really enjoyed this one…
English Tap & Beer Garden is open Monday-Thursday 11:30am-midnight, Friday-Saturday 11:30am-2am, Sunday noon-10pm.
One final thought on this English thing…in retrospect, the English-did give us Gerry & The Pacemakers—for which Jeff Eats will always and forever be deeply indebted.
jeff, they do a prime rib special for $12.99 that is fabulous. http://www.theenglishtap.com
They have a terrific selection of beers on tap.
Food is also very good.
Jeff, The Royal Family is sort of like our Simpsons. Comical looking and sounding characters. Good for the tourists.
The UK economy profits from the royals. At one time there were some lesser royals that were costing them plenty, but they are out of the budget now. I go there plenty so I am pretty aware of that. Some here are jealous because they wish they were born as a royal. There are some kids born to ultra wealthy people in the US you can say these same things about.
King Edward VIII was a Nazi Sympathizer.
This Royal Family nonsense is beyond being absurd. Has anyone of them ever run a business? Or had to earn a daily wage? A bunch of jokers. Sort of like the Kennedy Family. Old Joe like Edward was a Nazi Sympathizer. Did any of his kids, grand kids every run a business ? Nope. Everything was handed to them. That said The Kennedys got theirs, Joe jr died in WWII, John and Bobby were assassinated. Ted the murderer almost got killed in a plane crash. John jr died in a plane crash. The list goes on and on. Things have a way of working out to even the score.
Got to agree with you. These people do nothing but be born. Absurd.
Jeff, Gerry & the Pacemakers were great but my favorite from back then was The Dave Clark 5.
Jeff Eats,
My wife and I ate there last night.
I had a bacon cheeseburger with ff which was delicious. My wife had the crab cake sliders. She really enjoyed them.
Very pleasant restaurant with plenty of outdoor seating.
What the hell is a royal family? What the hell is a monarchy?
Anybody who follows these clowns is a joker.
Leave it to Jeff to get a discussion going on the Royal Family in a restaurant review.
When you watch this nonsense about the birth of some baby you can appreciate how Hitler almost beat them. You all do know that if it wasnt for Lend Lease and the US coming into the war England was a goner, This royalty obsession is so foreign to Americans that it’s laughable.
And the funniest thing of all is that none of the complainers about the royals have ever been to the UK.
robertw,
the point most were making is that Americans seem to have gotten all worked up over something that should be of absolutely no concern to us. what does prince whatever have to do with the United States? the Royals as you call them are just a big reality show.
People got worked up about Beyonces baby, Kim K etc as well. Sort of entertainment news.
The tv coverage of this baby’s birth is absurd. Who gives a rat’s ass about this foreigner.
jeff, the british are the same people who thought that they could trust hitler or as Neville chamberlain said, “peace in our time.” this king and prince and duke thing is ridiculous.
at least the british don’t role over like the French do every time the germans make a move. the british are a tough bunch of cookies.
People here forget the British were allies with the US in WW2. If not for the US the French would have been taken over. Harry made a great point. Per the Queen. She is sort of an ambassador of the country. There are some Brits who don’t care about the royals or dislike them but in some ways it is just a sort of jealousy. There is also pressure being the kid of a royal or even some of the top celebs in the US or top business people like Bill Gates, etc.
Terrific burgers and fries.
My wife and I ate there last night.
Good food and drink.
Very relaxed atmosphere and on a nice evening the outdoor patio is a great place to sit and eat.
Ate there this evening. Delicious burger and sweet potato fries.
jeff, used one of those 20 gets you 40 bucks at English tap. food was really good. service was only fair. waitress seemed to be a bit of a space cadet.
great deal using that food deal. saved some nice money for me and my wife.
jeff, food is ok. service needs work.