RoundAbout San Diego

Gosh! What a huge disappointment Trophy's was last Friday for our weekly happy hour. Charlie, Alex, and I were out as a family and decided on Trophy's because of it's sports theme - we thought Charlie would enjoy it. Happy hour is Monday thru Friday, 4-7pm and we arrived around 5pm. The place was pretty empty which is odd because it's in the middle of a shopping mall (Grossmont Plaza). Other bars in the mall are quite busy during happy hour.

First off, the happy hour menu was not particularly interesting and the only beers on special were Bud and Bud Lite. Although the online happy hour menu offers 7 items, the actual bar menu only offered 5. We ordered the cheesy fries which I thought were great, the french dip sliders and the mini cheese quesadillas. The filling in the sliders was dry and somewhat chewy and the au jus did not help much. The quesadillas were just boring. Still hungry but with no options that appealed to us on the happy hour menu we moved to the main menu. Charlie and I decided to split the lobster bisque and the Sante Fe quesadilla and Alex went for the soup (mushroom/artichoke) and sandwich (hot pastrami) combo. The bisque was returned after one taste each - not good. The quesadilla was loaded with chicken, green chiles, black beans and jack cheese and was pretty good - very filling. Alex's soup and sandwich were mediocre at best. I'm not into sports and the food was not very good so it's doubtful I'll ever go back.

I would like to point out that our server was very friendly and did not charge us for the bisque.