Roggie’s On the Avenue

Staff is lovely. Oreo cake is yummy, yummy, yummy. Ribs were an incredible disappointment. They were tough and it tasted as if they ran out of BBQ sauce and threw on A1. But the cake was so good and staff was so pleasant I would probably order from them again.

Not so easy on the digestive systems of many… good luck! Stick with grabbing a few beers and watching the game.

The reason I come here is for the 25 cent wings from 5 — 7 pm every day and all day on Sunday. They are cheap, they taste great, and you have a choice of 3 — 4 flavors. Also have Magners on tap, which makes any place great in my book! Its pretty dead on a weeknight, but I think thats better than the general Allston weekend crowd, and its a nice place to catch up with friends or watch a game.
As an FYI the «chicken fries» are just chicken strips, not french fries. I was surprised that our waitress brought us wings and chicken fries without mentioning that we were ordering a whole lot of chicken. Just a word to the wise!

Wasn’t really that impressed with Roggie’s. We ordered a pizza a couple of weeks ago and meh… not that good. Keep in mind it was about 2am when we ordered, but hey they advertise as being open so I don’t think the quality of the food should be any different at 2am or 2pm. Our pizza was a bit undercooked, over– cheesed, and lacked pepperoni. I mean, it had pepperoni, I think 5 on the whole pizza and the cheese might have been better had it not congealed and the dough might have been better if it wasn’t so chewy and the fact that I have to explain away every problem with my food is why I won’t be ordering from this place again.

If you don’t want to pregame in your apartment, this is a great place to grease the wheels. They serve dollar beers and two dollar kamikaze shots. But be careful — starting your night at the Avenue can lead to bad things. Like throwing darts at the wrong wall on the first floor of Uno’s across the street, puking in an alley off of Allston Street, or being removed from the Coolidge Corner Clubhouse for eating half a sandwich off an empty plate.
«Seriously, what’s the problem? I was hungry, and it was just going to go to waste!»

I haven’t had the pleasure of coming here on a Friday or Saturday night (and I’m not sure it’s the kind of place I’d like to try for that, unless you’re into the whole «dumpy and low-​key» weekend night experience), but for a game night, or a casual Thursday night– this place kicks ass. Why, you ask? One reason, and one reason only: dollar drafts.
When I headed into the Avenue last December to catch a BC football game, I ordered a Coor’s Light. The waitress said, «Oh, well if you’d like to go for a Bud Light, it’s only a dollar.» For serious? In a city of $ 14 cosmopolitans, this is my holy grail. Whenever I try to pull a BS «I’m a poor college student and I can’t afford to go out» excuse, my friends inevitably drag me here, and I spend less than ten bucks to get wasted.
And if I do feel like upping the classiness factor and splurging for that Coors Light? Two-​dolla.