Cooley’s Stone House Tavern

Great place for a beer! The staff is friendly and the beer is awesome!
Try the rare vos, it’s outstanding. The place is welcoming and you can chat it up with a local or with another tourist. It is a pub after all!
Go in, enjoy a cold beer, some hot wings, and great company.

Went there Saturday night for game one of the mets and cubs. My girlfriend, close friend and I were in town for the weekend and just wanted a cozy fun place to watch the game since we’re mets fans from Queens new York. We originally sat in the back room being 2 hours early for the game, our server came fast and got our orders perfect. I had the jersey burger which was a cheese burger with a fried egg on top medium well, my girlfriend had a plate of mild wings. The burger was cooked perfect and the egg was nice and runny the way I like it, the wings were hearty and mild and very tasty. After we ate we moved to the bar for the game and had a bunch of drinks, the buy backs were fair and we had a blast, plus the mets won. If you’re in town and want a place to eat that’s cozy, friendly and has great prices and service, look no further!

Great little off the beaten path — typical bar fare. But the service and the attentiveness — on an amazingly busy Saturday afternoon. Tons of TVs to watch College football or MLB, NFL. We had apps and salads and burgers all good and reasonably priced. Highly recommend

Good food with decent prices. Pot roast sandwich with side of gravy and store made chips was really tasty. Why only 2 stars… it was noon and men’s room had NO SOAP or paper towels to clean up prior to eating. It is also the restroom the male employees use. After complaining to the bartender, 10 minutes later a waitress came in the restaurant carrying 2 bottles of Softsoap. Really… out of soap in a restaurant… not appetizing.

This isn’t a fancy place to eat or drink, but it’s good. The female bartender made a perfect, large margarita and though it doesn’t seem like rocket science, I’ve had swill that turned my stomach on the first sip.
It’s loud, lots of loud townies, but I’d recommend it for the person looking for a well-​crafted drink or an ice cold beer in the heart of Cooperstown. They do serve food and had lots of tables partaking, but I didn’t try any of it out.

Great Pub to take a break in after catching a game, shopping or visiting The Hall of Fame. Good beers on tap and good bar food. Try the Rueben Fritters and Wings. Laid back atmosphere..

Excellent hot wings and a super good hotdog with fresh home made potato chips. Really like this pub, good mix of people, nice vibe (locals and tourists), away from kid-​family-​centric Main St. Great place to duck into for a beer and a bite.

No refills on a $ 2.50 Iced Tea. Weak. Avoid this place. I get this town is a tourist location but there are more options that will refill your tea. Try the Double Day Café. They refilled our teas several times.

If you want to get away from the family-​centric hustle and bustle of Main Street Cooperstown, dip into the dark confines of Cooley’s Tavern. You might run into a few locals as well as plenty of adults off the hook from keeping an eye on any kiddos.
Cooley’s meets the requirements of a good watering hole. Loose Irish theme. Cold beer on tap — from Bud Light to Yuengling to a couple local (Ommegang) brews. Plus pub grub that is a notch or two above average.
We had some beer and some wine and the house sausage (served very burger-​like) and some wings. No complaints here.
There’s also plenty of booths and a big dining room for people to hole away if they’d like. The bathrooms were a little dirty and in an an awkward location, but that’s kind of what I’d expect from a place like Cooley’s.

We felt lucky to get a seat during Saturday afternoon of Induction weekend, but that was short lived. We ended up here after a search for the best burger in Cooperstown pointed us this way. If this is the best burger in Cooperstown then they need some new chefs…
Very mediocre and the service was just awful. I don’t know if he didn’t care as we were only a two-​top and other tables were larger parties but we were completely ignored. I clearly got a different beer than what I ordered and after asking for water 3 times we finally got some. It also took 20 minutes to get the check after asking and we had to track him down at the bar to get it! Needleess to say, we won’t be back to this place.

Great little place! Food was very good. Was a little warm inside. Prices weren’t too bad. Waiter was very good.

Very good food and awesome service. I think this is considered a local place BUT that doesn’t mean tourists aren’t welcomed. Atleast that’s how I felt. My wife and I went to Cooperstown for a weekend getaway Oct 18 – 20. Our first trip back since the fall of 2004. We stopped in Friday night and Saturday afternoon for a bite to eat and some drinks (we also did the same thing in 2004!). We had the same bartender and waiter both days and both are fantastic. Helpful, friendly and quick. The prices are great too. I can’t wait to stop in again! Awesome place!

This was one of the first places my group visited during our stay in Cooperstown. It was pretty decent. We got some drinks and appetizers here. The wings in particular were very good; they weren’t skimpy (I hate little, skimpy wings) and their hot sauce was indeed hot.
It was pretty dead when we stopped by, so we had the full attention of the bartender and the rest of the staff. It was a good experience and I’d probably stop here again.

A buddy and I wound up here after a day trip to the Hall of Fame. We were looking for a casual lunch spot before we left town, and this fit the bill. We both had burgers, and we were both impressed with the food. Prices were fair, but do take note that they don’t do free refills on soda.
The ambiance is pretty cool; they’ve got some autographed pictures on the walls, including one of Goose Gossage (former Yankee pitcher) that was right over my shoulder as we ate. It’s not the fanciest place in the world, but we got what we wanted.

Really good wings and a good selection of beer. I would say this is the best bar in town.

It was Game 2 of the Tigers/​Giants 2012 World Series and I’m in Cooperstown. It’s a town where baseball was created so there must be a ton of late night options to watch the big series and get some food? Wrong. Many of the potential sports bar options along Main St closed well before even the middle of the game so luckily I stumbled into Cooley’s. They claimed to be open well past midnight so I was in luck. The bbq and mild buffalo wings along with sweet potato fries did the trick for my meal but I was much more focused on a San Francisco win. The sticky bar countertops didn’t bother me too much because I didn’t have a lot of expectations when I went in.

Ugh.
I wish I had been more persistent in finding another lunch spot.
I wish this place had air conditioning.
I wish the table wasn’t so sticky.
I wish our waitress had a personality.
I wish my chicken sandwich was a real grilled chicken breast and not a Tyson chicken patty.
I wish that when I asked for some barbeque they didn’t bring me out a little pre-​packaged container of sauce (like those given to you at fast food joints).
Not that I make the trip to Cooperstown very often, but I definitely won’t be back to this place.

This place is getting 4 stars for only one reason, a wedding showed up, after the wedding. And it made for an amazingly awesome viewing. Besides this, it’s just like the place across the street, quiet, not too busy, and decent beer.

My best friend moved to Cooperstown in early January, and I decided to tag along to help with the trip. I definitely didn’t expect it to be such a small town — there is only ONE stoplight! Most of the businesses are centered around baseball, since the National Baseball Hall of Fame is located here, and it is definitely a summer vacation town. So, most of the shops are closed during the winter. There are 2 smalls pubs/​taverns in town, Cooley’s and Shermans, and they happen to be right across the street from one another.
Since we had nothing better to do, my friend and I walked less than a block from her apartment to where the bars are. Shermans was already closed for the night, so we stepped in Cooley’s. The front bar area is a small space — there is the large bar and booths on one side, and 1 tall table on the other side. It appears as if there is another dining room in the back, but it was closed at the time. We ended up at Cooley’s 2 nights in a row, and the bartenders were both friendly. The drink prices are really reasonable — living in Las Vegas, I am used to paying $ 9 for a fizzy yellow beer. Not at Cooleys — they have a fairly decent East Coast selection of drafts/​bottles, and I believe the most expensive beer was $ 4. Heaven! LOL. We ordered food both nights. The 1^st night we shared a reuben sandwich with regular fries, and some variation of mozzarella sticks. The sandwich was REALLY good, as were the fries. The mozzarella sticks were different, but delicious. They looked like egg rolls. The next night I had chicken wings. They were nothing spectacular, but definitely edible. We also shared the macaroni and cheese bites, which were awesome! Hooray for fried bar food!
Due to the season, it was never really crowded while we were in there. Each night, there were a couple of the older, crazy town drunks. It was pretty hysterical, but then again, I am easily entertained. :) I can imagine this place getting pretty crowded in the Summer when everyone comes to town for little league camps and the HOF induction weekend.

Nothing special here but a descent place to grab a beer, watch the game and throw some darts. Overall, the perfect low key place to end the night. Enjoy!