Iggy's Layton, UT

Now it's time to get down to the business of the blog( Observing Sports on TV). On Sunday afternoon 11/22/2009 Tina and I went to Iggy's in Layton, UT. Now the first thing is that I had to call ahead to see if my games would be on Rams v Cardinals and Jets v Pats (Tina is a Jets fan because of #6 Mark Sanchez). If where you are going to watch games at on Sunday is a true sports bar they will have the game on and there is no need for a call ahead. Still since they were going to have the games on we headed up to take in the afternoon action. We got there about 1:45pm about 20 minutes before kickoff. As I expected on a Sunday afternoon in Layton, UT the place was not crowded at all. The hostess checked again to see if the games were going to be on and then sat us at a booth to the side of the bar. At initial glance there is only 5 TVs in the whole restaurant, and from my perch I could only see two of them. Still we were there to see our two games of interest.

The menu at Iggy's is pretty big with lots of different options. They had about eight different apps, a full list of burgers, a full page of different sandwich's, and many different entree options. So if you have a big appetite it's the place to go. Since we had a birthday party to go to we just decided to get a couple of apps. We decided to go with the cheese fries first. They came out and they were crispy and hot, and there were no green onions on it as we asked. Overall they were pretty good, but the cheese fries that went to the table next to us looked better than ours. Next we ordered some nachos. They were about the same as you would get at any other sports bar in the country nothing too special. In the end we were happy with what we ordered.

Now you can't have an afternoon of football without a few cold beverages. Iggy's had two sizes of draft beers 16oz and 25oz, a wide selections of bottled beer, a full list of liquor drinks, and your usual soda, tea, flavored lemonade, and coffee. I went with the 25oz draft of Bud Light. The mug was not chilled which did not make the beer as cold as it should of been. Still for the price of $6.00 for 25oz it was not all bad. After two 25oz drafts I finished off the afternoon with a 16oz of Watasch Hefeweizen. Now that glass was cold and the beer was very refreshing especially with the slice of lemon squeezed into it. The total liquor bill came out to $16.00 which isn't too bad for an afternoon at the sports bar.

Now for a few positives and negatives of Iggy's. The positives first cheap beer, good cheese fries, and that the manager came over to our table to make sure the games we wanted were on the TV. The negatives were that I had to call ahead to make sure our games were on, no sound of any game, average nachos, and the limited number of TVs.

In the end Iggy's would be good for a Monday night game or a playoff game, but not good for the sports fan who wants to watch all the early games to keep track of not just their game but all the games.