Overnight in Dayton Ohio

…continuing with our late summer road trip to Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.  One more post about our visit to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton Ohio will follow.  Then the final trip home… 

As you can see, we overnighted at a Holiday Inn Express in Dayton.  I have traveled for years for various retailers and suppliers and I’ve never been welcomed with extra membership points anywhere… On top of that, this particular Holiday Inn Express was clean, appeared updated and well managed.

For our evening meal, I’d chosen Bagger Dave’s Tavern in Centerville Ohio.  I liked the casual menu and it was very well rated on Facebook and Google.    

Like so many newer restaurants, Bagger Dave’s Tavern’s dining area and bar have that industrial look softened by a fair amount of wood.  Televisions seem to be part of the décor in most establishments these days.  Outdoor/patio dining was available as well.  Backlighting bottles behind the bar feels like a current ‘thing’ as well.

If you look at that sign at the left of the bar in the previous photo, a number of craft beers are available.  Of course, wimp that I am, I stuck with my Miller Lite. ($4.00) If I was bolder…or younger…I might have ordered a pint of “Mad Tree Psychopathy”, “Rebel Yell”, “Sonder Voss” or, “New Holland Ichabod”.  Craft brewers must spend hours trying to come up with new and eye catching names for their various brews…

Laurie ordered her current favorite mixed drink a Moscow Mule. ($7.00) We decided to have an appetizer and sandwiches for dinner.  There were only 4 appetizers on the menu and I was a bit burnt out on fried pickles, Laurie’s favorite, so we went for the “Pretzel Rails and Beer Cheese”, soft-baked pretzels served with warm craft beer cheese and pico de gallo. ($4.00) It should be noted that we were served during ‘happy hour’ so our drinks were less expensive than other times and our appetizer was smaller and less expensive as well.  The appetizer was the perfect size for us...

I decided that I’d order a burger for dinner.  This was my “Blues Burger” with bleu cheese crumbles, tomato, lettuce, Cajun spice, Santa Fe Chipotle sauce…all served on a grilled pretzel bun. ($14.95) It was big, it was juicy, cooked as ordered and the French fries were pretty tasty too.

All in all, there was 6 burger options ranging from a basic burger all the way to burger constructions that were quite a bit more complex.  For example, “The Train Wreck” comes with a sunny-side up egg, fries, caramelized onions, mushrooms, cheddar cheese, lettuce and Railhouse Thousand Islands on a grilled sesame brioche bun. ($14.95)

The menu at Bagger Dave’s Tavern isn’t huge.  In addition to the burgers, there are 5 featured sandwiches, a chicken tenders dinner, fish and chips, a 12” pizza designed as you’d like, and a couple of dinner salads.

Laurie went for the sandwich menu, picking the “Crazy Train Grilled Cheese” with Muenster, Cheddar and Parmesan cheeses, Applewood bacon, apple slices and garlic aioli…and she chose the marble rye bread over the sourdough bread. ($12.95) Her sandwich was accompanied by a cup of “Roasted Red Pepper Gouda Soup”.  Laurie was quite happy with her meal and she really liked the apple slices on her sandwich.

Bagger Dave’s was founded in Michigan in 2008 and it grew quickly, perhaps too quickly.  At one point there were 26 restaurants in Michigan and Indiana… Bagger Dave’s Tavern is currently a much smaller chain of restaurants with only 6 locations, 4 in Michigan, 1 in Indiana and this one is in Centerville Ohio…a suburb of Dayton.  Address: 5299 Cornerstone N. Boulevard.  Phone: 937-310-1247.  Bagger Dave’s Tavern Website can be found at: https://baggerdaves.com/.  

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Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Take Care, Big Daddy Dave