JerZee's Pub and Grub

          While wandering around and enjoying the cars at the fabulous Rides on Monmouth Car show recently, we decided to duck into JerZee's Pub and Grub and make a contribution to this blog as well.
          Located at 708 Monmouth in Newport and on the web at http://jerzeespub.com/, JerZee's is an interesting cross between a sports bar, a neighborhood pub and the local entertainment bar. While there are lots of places up and down Monmouth that fill one of these needs, JerZee's manages to do all three without sacrificing any of them.
          The place is bright enough to see but not too bright to distract from the numerous televisions. In the evening they offer up live music and when we went in the place had a good number of regular who were sitting around and having a great time. But the service, unlike some local watering holes, was not completely centered around those regulars. We were treated very well, getting fast, friendly service.
                                                                            Burgers

          We each ordered up the basic JerZee Burger which fresh Angus chuck delivered daily from the butcher across the street. Yeah, that's fresh. The burgers are cooked over an open flame grill (which you can see in action if you walk toward the back of the establishment) and you can taste all of this coming together in a very delicious sandwich.
          Add in a fresh bun and a wonderful garden and you have a winner. Now let us sidetrack for just a minute. We have a small garden at home where we grown our own tomatoes and lettuce (once that bacon plant starts sprouting we're gonna have some killer BLTs) and the tomato that was on our burgers was as good as anything we've pulled out of our garden.
          If there was a downside to these burgers it was that they were prepared medium well to well by the cook. We both prefer a little pink in the center but so many restaurants are going this route lately that it seems more the norm than the exception.
          The fries were also quite good though they had a little too much salt. They also had a sprinkle of pepper which both of us enjoyed.
          Overall we really liked this place and it gives us one more option whenever we're heading to Northern Kentucky in general and Newport in particular. One of, it not the best burger on Monmouth. Go see for yourself.