CLEARFIELD – Local restaurant, Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR).
America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on July 23.
Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owner Dennis Liegey about the restaurant’s special place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.
Open since 1977, Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub began its early days with a menu of prepackaged sandwiches and fifty-cent bottled beer in a building that totaled 600 square feet.
After about a year, Liegey and his wife purchased property and began building the present location of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub. It is now run by Dennis Liegey III, Leigey’s son, who has worked in the business for over 25 years.
The menu at Denny’s is extensive, with an enormous variety of burgers, appetizers, salads, seafood, steaks, barbecue, milkshakes and specialty cocktails. They also have 40 beers on draft, all served in a cozy, rustic ambience with wood-paneled walls and a busy, sports-and-beer themed decor.
Popular menu items that may be featured on the episode include the house-smoked fish tacos, Coach’s Wings, sauced with a special blend of barbecue and spices (one of 32 sauce varieties served), the Old School Stuffed Pepper Burger, which features a sausage stuffed pepper on top of a burger, and the McAfee “412” burger, named after Pat McAfee, an ESPN sports analyst. It is a blend of ground beef and pastrami, topped with red slaw, fries and cheese.
But, the biggest draw for Denny’s may be the burger challenges, which have landed the pub on the Food Network, Travel Channel and in the Guinness Book of World Records for the ‘Ye Olde 96er’, the largest hamburger you can order in a restaurant, according to Liegey.
It weighs in at six pounds of beef, and there is a three-hour time limit to eat the whole thing.
“We have created a fun place for people to meet and relax and enjoy unique food specials and drinks,” notes Liegey. “We are most proud of being part of our community and providing good jobs to our employees.”
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub offers sponsorships and does fundraising for numerous charities and organizations in the community, including local schools, Toys for Tots, the Salvation Army, veterans and first responders and the Clearfield County Fair.
America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location on Tuesday, July 23 from 3 pm to 6 p.m. The press is invited to attend.
The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on its Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ Web site.
Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are selected based on their customer reviews, menu items, social media presence and level of involvement with their community.
They are found through customer nominations, internal vetting or by a restaurant applying to be featured at www.americasbestrestaurants.com.
About Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub:
Open Wednesday through Sunday, Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub is located at 1452 Woodland Rd., Clearfield PA 16830. Telephone is 814-765-7190.
For more information, please visit www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com.
About ABR:
With offices in Florence, Ky., and Las Vegas, America’s Best Restaurants is a national media and restaurant marketing company that travels the country telling the stories and highlighting the unique food of locally owned independent restaurants as part of their ABR Roadshow.
Restaurants are featured not only on ABR’s Restaurant Network of social media channels and Web site, but also each individual establishment’s Facebook page.
With over 1,500 episodes filmed, America’s Best Restaurants is the premier marketing agency for restaurant owners and operators to have their story broadcast coast-to-coast.
Visit AmericasBestRestaurants.com to learn more and to view the episodes and profiles of hundreds of America’s Best Restaurants.