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A Touch of Taste

Bag’s Bar

940 Front St.

Potter

308-879-4227

Open: Daily 10 a.m.-late

Bag’s is the sort of place every village needs.

The corner bar and steakhouse in Potter is dark, sometimes rickety – enough so to send a nervous quiver through the spine of any first time visitor. Yet it is also vibrant and colorful, glowing with local character.

More importantly, the narrow kitchen turns out some impressive dishes.

Take their farm yard cheeseburger, for example. At a half pound (you can order more petite patties) the beef glistens with fatty, flavorful juices over a bittersweet, caramelized veneer charred into the meat by the bar’s well-tested grill.

The patty is teased with just enough salt and pepper, then topped with...well, the cooks allow a slice of cheese to melt into the egg as it fries. It’s a swarthy, messy and glorious version of the all-American classic.

Their Husker burger balances a stack of onion straws, covered in melted cheese, over the same roughhewn patty.

Monday night is burger night at Bag’s. But the menu also features choice ribeye, t-bone and strip steaks that many locals swear by. But the kitchen has no fear in trying its hand at deep fried walleye or such panhandle anomalies as grilled salmon.

Perhaps there is reason to be wary on that one.

Fries come in regular or beer battered form, with the latter resting under golden brown debris--crumbly bits of flour drenched with the foamy stuff to lend a malty background note.

Yes, Bag’s is also a beer joint, cheekily promising free beer--tomorrow, always tomorrow.

Likely you can go wrong with an occasional order. But the red meat, the outstanding burgers and the local flair more than make up for any such misstep.

 

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