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Cleveland's Best Bars: Scalpers Bar & Grille

Make sure you're not on a diet when you visit this Lyndhurst sports bar known for its high-piled burgers.

by Dillon Stewart | Jan. 27, 2022 | 1:00 PM

Courtesy Scalpers Bar & Grille

Courtesy Scalpers Bar & Grille

Scalpers owner Frank Pines Sr. has been sabotaging people’s diets with food porn Instagram posts of high-piled burgers for more than a decade. “People say ‘You’re making me fat. I saw that post and I had to come in and eat it,’” he says.

But since 1994, long before Instagram, the Lyndhurst sports bar has been the place to shamelessly slam some greasy grub. The bar inherited a lengthy sub and burger menu when it acquired neighboring Sharpy’s Subs in 2005, but chef Dom Cesa's wings are the menu’s raison d’etre.

Try This: The Scalpers Slob ($15.75), which piles two fresh beef patties, provolone and American cheese, onion rings and barbecue sauce. 5718 Mayfield Road, Lyndhurst, 440-442-3577, scalpersbarandgrille.com

Click here to learn more about 50 of Cleveland’s best bars, drinks and bartenders.

Dillon Stewart

Dillon Stewart is the editor of Cleveland Magazine. He studied web and magazine writing at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and got his start as a Cleveland Magazine intern. His mission is to bring the storytelling, voice, beauty and quality of legacy print magazines into the digital age. He's always hungry for a great story about life in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

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