The Cooler Restaurant & Bar - Eugene

This is DEFINITELY a sports bar. Not my type of place because I'm not a huge sports fanatic, but its very spacious, lots of TVs, the drinks are delicious and they have pool. One of their pool tables were messing up but the bartender was quick to fix it. Overall it was fun.

This was my first visit to The Cooler, which was recommended to me for lunch as an easy 'walk to ' by Lithia Nissan of Eugene while my Pathfinder was in for service. On entering The Cooler, we were barely greeted by the female server who was closest to the front door, who briefly told us to choose a table. We chose a table in the elevated dining area, not the bar. We ordered three entrees, a lovely cobb salad (5 stars), a hamburger with fries that arrived with a tasty dipping sauce (5 stars), and nachos with chicken (2.5 stars), which arrived with real cheese on them but the entire dish was almost as hard as a rock. Although not burned, it was microwaved too long; thus, it was extremely difficult to break the hardened nachos off the plate and each other. All the servings were generous. Daniel T. was our server, and he was friendly, welcoming, attentive, efficient, and fun (10 stars), well deserving of the 20% tip I left. Am adding a photo that shows a bit of the darkish, bar-style atmosphere. If I owned this venue, I 'd have the decor thoroughly cleaned, as it generally looks a bit tired and dusty. Had I been able to eat more than just a tiny portion of my nachos entree, I would have awarded 5 stars instead of only 4 stars.

5-stars as a great place to 'hang ' with buds and watch a game. Kudos to the staff that did a great job with a big crowd that was there to honor the passing of a previous owner, not to mention reliving a night from our distant past :.

Ate breakfast here while i was getting an oil change for my truck at Lithia. It was good and waitress was nice and the portions were so big that i couldn't eat all of it.

I usually only stop in when I'm waiting for my doctor's appointment at Slocum for my legs and the places clean oh they have good snacks