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
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