It’s been a number of years since we’ve been to the Troubadour Restaurant and Bar in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
We used to go a lot when Jim McCoy and his wife Bertha ran the place as an old-fashioned honky tonk. We would eat steaks, drink beer, play pool, listen to music, and squeeze onto the dance floor and dance with friends past midnight.
Now years later, with the Troubadour having changed hands a couple of times, we decided to go back. We heard recently on the grapevine that Mary Fairchild was doing the cooking and running the place. We knew Mary’s cooking from her recent run at a restaurant in downtown Berkeley Springs. That was good enough for us.
The regulars at the bar were their usual Troubadour raucous selves. Six people were in the back room playing pool.
November 22, 2024
The great food has followed Mary to the Troubadour. The Troubadour steaks are better than they have been since Jim McCoy ran the place. The mainstays are still on the menu – burgers and fries, onion rings, sandwiches – the usual.
But Mary is starting to incorporate her trademark spectacular specials – last night it was the avocado egg rolls and chicken enchiladas – washed down with a couple of bottles of Coors Light. Amazing, as usual.
And Friday is NY Strip Steak night.
Mary’s husband Tom Thorpe is jump starting the Wednesday night pool tournament – starting this coming Wednesday November 27 at 7 pm. And Tom is beginning to schedule live music. Tonight (Saturday November 23) Connor will be on stage playing traditional country and classic rock.