It’s getting warmer. Time to think frozen.
Get ready for Grilling Season with Billy Goat borgers—in your grocer’s freezer!
Cheezborger! Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
Pull up a chair at the Pier.
Enjoy the fresh air and great food at Billy Goat Tavern!
Cheezborgers on the Pier. Now that’s livin’.
The Cubs started the 1994 season horribly, losing twelve home games in a row. Their worst home start in history. In an effort to end this streak, Sam Sianis and his goat went to Wrigley Field only to be denied entrance yet again. Amidst the chant of “Let the Goat in!” amongst the Wrigley crowd, Hall of Famer, Ernie Banks helped by escorting Sam and his goat into Wrigley. The Cubs won the game 5-2, ending their worst home start ever.
Little known fact: when the Cubs won the 1908 World Series their winning pitcher’s name was Orval Overall, who went on to win MVP: “Most Vicious Parents.”
The happiest and healthiest person in Wise Guy’s corner is also the one who has been here the longest. Bob Borgstrom says, “When I was a teenager we’d go to hockey games at the Stadium, and between periods we’d sneak over to the original Goat. People were always four or five deep at the bar, so we’d called out our drinks and pass over the money nobody ever asked how old we were and that was a good thing. But boy, did that place smell. Really bad because of all the animals around.”
Bob and a couple of other white-haired Billy Goat regulars remember all of the taverns and restaurants that used to pepper the neighborhood. And he remembers the day the Billy Goat opens: “It was painted fire engine red. It was like sitting in a firehouse. And it was tough on Billy at first. That first year he must have gone through 25 bartenders. All of them were stealing. That’s why he used to sit in a high chair right by the stairs with that kid’s hammer that squeaked and that he used to bang on anybody he saw staring at the girls walking down the stairs and say, ‘Don’t pay attention to that!’ What he was really doing was watching the bartenders and the cash register.”
The real reason why Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat…
Legend has it there was a Billy Goat Tavern on the other side of the Delaware.
