great ale but verbally abusive barmaid. some great beers & ales here and edible food. one of their barmaids can be a pain in the drain (more later).
they have a very small oven - food orders can be backed up on busy nights for 30 minutes. pizza crust is lousy but their sandwiches are fine. fish and chips are very fishy flavor (never again!). except for an occasional dead-beat bar-fly type , it's generally a good "higher end" upbeat clientele from a diverse social-economic demographic. you'll find flaming liberals, neocons/conservatives, libertarians and anarchists and "just give peace a chance" kinds here. all are usually (amazingly) well behaved and laid back. because of that diversity be prepared to have "interesting" random conversations at the bar that can range from typical bar talk (bawdy, sports & local gossip) to rocket science, philosophy and theology. that is, if the bartender is not monopolizing the conversation and interjecting her opinions (whatever happened to the old bartender rule - "a bartender should be seen but never heard?").
on that proceeding point, if you want good free entertainment (and have the rare fortitude to take the abuse & insults) try to catch one of their older female bartenders ("sheryl") in one of her "many splendered moods". in one instant her gruff manner can be tolerable and congenial (in her own "special" way) then a moment later (or the next time you come in) she can go from dr. jekyl to mr. hyde. the roller coaster ride can be either fun or brutal as it "coasts" from a sarcastic and flippant or cold indifferentism and descends rapidly into the dreaded verbally-abusive mode. so, if she does not like you for whatever reason de jure (or becomes stressed at the high pour rate - which is quite often) she will become very catty & "punish you" to make her sentiments conspicuous. so, on such occassions be prepared to sit at a filty bar top with no service for a long time waiting for "your slot" in her pecking order to come up before you are even acknowledged (i.e. when she's done asking everyone-else at the bar if they want anything even though they have full pints in their hands and food in front of them).
coasters is an "interesting" clash of cultures - but what would anyone expect from a place that caters to the blue-collar bud-light sort sitting side by side with: craft ale drinkers, wine sippers and the red-bull jagger bomber crowd? cheers...