Tugboat Tavern

Giving them a solid 3 star rating as there are definitely some pros and cons…
Pros: Extremely friendly, accommodating staff and service. Laid back, relaxing atmosphere. Overall quality and price of food.
Cons: Just some of the food options. Not a fan of cheese wiz on nachos (prefer fresh shredded cheddar), and their french fries were a little bland, and not crispy at all. Sandwiches come with an up charge for fries as well, so you can imagine the slight disappointment when they weren’t as good as I’d hoped.
It’s fairly close to where I live, so I will definitely return and try the wings everyone speaks so highly of.

I can’t find the right words to describe how much I love the wings here! Really friendly staff, feel like I’m on Cheers here!

Spotless inside, food is amazing every time. Great staff, always a friendly face and great service. Wish I could eat here everyday, delicious with large portions and fresh ingredients. Can’t wait for our next visit, yum.

The food is great and the owners are amazing. Not your typical chain restaurant. Must go spot if you are in the area.

I never understood what the meaning of life was until I moved to Cohoes and had a Tugboat Tavern Stuffed Burger. I get it now. :)

A best kept secret. Don’t let the outside appearance fools you. The menu is really different. There are many varieties that I will have to visit several more times to try. It seems that the chef is really love his (or her) job. The food taste good. The presentation is awesome. The price is very affordable for the amount and quality of food.

Best food in the area. Sausage soup is to die for! Staff/​owners are great people. I love this place

I really wanted to love this place since it’s a stones throw from my house.
After reading the reviews for Tugboat I was excited to try the hot wings. The wings were large but I thought they were dry, lacking in flavor and overly saturated in bar grease. I didn’t enjoy.
The hand cut french fries on the other hand were pretty good. A huge portion was served and I ate every last crumb.
The ambiance was interesting. Typical town bar. Tugboat themed. :) Dark, cramped but cozy enough to enjoy a drink in peace. I hear there are pool tables in the back!
I won’t be scrambling to go back, but I was happy to check out a Van Schaick original. It’s great to have a place to grab a beer after some pond skating.

We love to come here after work .(we work at restaurant) great atmosphere. the food is always awesome. The staff is very sweet .you have to meet the owners Ian and Kathy.

Great place! Came here for trivia and food. Had 4 different types of wings in our party and every last one of them were amazing! Trivia was too much fun! (It’s on Wednesdays) Heard the seafood is amazing and the restaurant is family owned and extremely nice!

A friend suggested that we try this place, so glad we did!
It’s definitely a small restaurant/​bar but cozy and comforting. The family run staff was so nice. It was very refreshing to actually see service in a restaurant.
We ordered the steamed clams, fresh and with Hot, not warm butter. We were given a nice baguette with herb butter, delicious. Fresh salads with all homemade dressings, a ginger soy and a raspberry vinaigrette both excellent. The calamari with pepper salsa was fantastic, on the smaller side but, perfect for an appetizer. We ordered the special, chateaubriand with blue cheese sauce, let me just say: if you closed your eyes, you would have thought you were in a 5 star restaurant. The meat was cooked to perfection so tender and flavorful, served with a mashed potato, carrot, hard boiled egg mixture and buttery mix of vegetables, loved it. Then an order of the linguine with white clam sauce, tons of clams, which was also very, very good.
We didn’t have room for dessert, so we took a piece of cake home. Our waitress Melissa said they source their desserts from a small business, they try to support other small businesses, which we really like to hear, great!
I highly recommend this restaurant and can’t wait to return to try more of the food there. Oh and the beer is fantastic too!

What can I say about the Tugboat?
First, I traveled in here to meet a friend in 2008 to see him before I moved away. He stood me up and left me in a bar I’d never been in, alone… and it’s absolutely the best thing anyone could have ever done to me!
The beer is always cold, the owners, bar tenders and other staff have become family and when I crave their wings, nothing will make my cravings subside but a 12 hour drive for a dozen HOT WINGS. There really is not enough I can say about the food here, there’s REALLY not enough I can say about the service or the people who run this family owned business.

Great food ever time I go there. Its really delicious, I’m not kidding! Fun place to watch football. Plenty of room.

Tugboat Tavern was a random pick for me that really worked out. The food is great. I particularly like their wings: they’re definitely meaty, so they’re not those junk skimpy wings with the standard Frank’s Red Hot sauce on them. The burgers are very good, soup is excellent, and they have these buffalo potato chips that are lights-​out. I’m honestly not sure if the chips are only a special, or if they’re available all the time, but they’re homemade potato chips that were made in buffalo sauce. They’re fantastic.
The owners are really friendly and service is always good. This has become a favorite place of mine where I can grab a drink and something good to eat.

If you’re looking for trivia on a Wednesday night, the Tugboat Tavern has it starting at 9:30. Bring a team or join a team, the atmosphere is very welcoming. Teams are limited to a max of 4. A wide vareity of categories with nontraditional questions. Lots of fun. Winning team gets a free round. Food is fantastic, the kitchen is open until 10pm. Try their award-​winning wings!