He’s back! No, not Brett Favre but the one and only Dave Dipino.
With that said, we decided to ease David back into the fold and cover an event we all know the big guy could handle, some Sunday night football at Benny’s Ice House in Boynton Beach, 9803 S. Military Trail.
Now walking into Benny’s, which believe it or not I had heard great things about, the place looks more like a tiny hurricane shelter than a bar. I hoped that meant the place was built to withstand tons of Category 5 fun. We would have to see.
Benny’s was classic. The inside was a spitting image of the bar in the movie “Dazed and Confused” with pool tables, a wrap around 1970s bar, the smell of old men or WWII vets smoking in the air and even the video game Galaga in the corner. I didn’t have any quarters, so I couldn’t play.
I am not kidding when I say that an older gentleman actually sat down beside me, was wearing a short-sleeved, white button down shirt, pulled out a cigarette from his front pocket, lit up and asked the waitress, who he already knew, for a cold one. A cold one is war veteran talk for a beer.
He then turned to the guy to the left of him and started to complain about his wife, Al Bundy style. It was classic. There is that word again.
It really was like a "Cheers” and I think the faithful were not very happy that we “young bucks” were crashing their party.
So in textbook Rothman fashion, I decided to stay a while and order a Miller Lite and 10 jumbo hot wings. Dave ordered the chicken philly. The cook was Criss Angel or some kind of magician because his sandwich came out as a steak philly.
To my delightful surprise, my wings were meaty and bursting with flavor. The cold Miller draft was a nice complement to the fiery wings happily burning my mouth.
You aren’t going to take an important date there on a Friday night but if you are looking for a warp back in time to a bar that looks like Goose and Maverick from “Top Gun” might walk in, then Benny’s is the place for you.
Oh yeah, didn’t we go there to watch football? Well, maybe next time.
*** Three stars out of five.