The prior reviews are, for the most part, unfortunate and damaging. The Backstop is a neighborhood tavern, a gathering place. I've been a tavern-goer for almost 60 years (20 in the Backstop), and this tavern is the best.
I'm an 1-hour evening patron and the place is always clean, the bartenders polite and they pour a hellofa good drink. The Backstop, Coffee Cup Cafe' and Ace Hardware are the backbone of what's left of Old Town. Sure, there are elements that would like to turn the place into a biker bar, a drug store and Woodstock West, but the tavern has survived.
I've NEVER seen a person forced to go into the tavern. Maybe the owner could get perfumed Wipes for the fatty part of some patron's brains.
Ray Collins
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