Gators’ Crossroads

Get out of your rental car and see a «locals» kinda place. Relaxed staff. A smokey, boozy bar that serves cold beer and warm burgers. Watch TV and the locals play pool while eating lunch at the bar. Clean bathrooms, inexpensive eats & drinks, cash only. Recommended.

I loved it. I went during the day and had yuenglings and gator bites after jet skiing and I thought it was awesome. The bar tender was a great guy funny and great personality. It is a bar kinda looks like a biker bar but I didn’t see any bikers. I give it five stars because I enjoyed it and it was great for what it is. I can’t put a bar to fine dining standards if u know what I mean. Either way I loved it. The bar tender is an NYU educated artist.

Hoping I survive long enough to write this review.
Okay, I did survive and well there isn’t a whole lotta good to say about Gators Crossroads. That is of course unless you are looking for a kinda seedy, barley a step above a trailer park, type of biker watering hole bar, out in the middle of nowhere. Or you are camping next door, got set up late and don’t feel like cooking in the dark. As I did.
So, this place doesn’t look too bad from the road at night. As I walk in it still has a bit of an inviting feeling to it. Old and in need of renovation but a local hangout type of ambiance.
I belly up to the bar and am greeted by the bar tender Tracy. Friendly and quite the character in a interesting way. Don’t want to say much more, you will just have to experience her for yourself.
They have your usual suspects on draft and in the bottle. Nothing surprising here and the menu is pretty straight forward with your usual bar foods. So I order a draft and BBQ pork sandwich. Beer was fine, pretty hard to screw that up, but the pork sandwich came out looking like it was made was made hours earlier and sat under a heating lamp til I ordered it and to top it off the bun was stale. Sad to say the chips were the best part of my meal.
Now to be fare, this place looks like it could be fun at the right time. It has a lot of room inside, a decent size bar and a couple pool tables. I believe they have bands here on some occasions and I bet this place probably fills up with bikers at those times.
I do not see myself ever coming back here to eat or even to sit and have a drink. But if by chance I am in the area and there is a band I may stop and give it a second chance.
For now I will just wish Gators Crossroads the best of luck and will hope for the best. Cheers.
P. S. CASH ONLY. Almost forgot to post this. There is only a small sign behind the bar to let you know. Very easy to miss and they should be more upfront about this fact.