By Patricia Summerfield
March 9, 2010
I went to check out Cool Daddy's Pizza and Pub for lunch. The new restaurant/bar is located in downtown Green Bay. It is a long and narrow building with a large bar to one side and a few small tables set against the wall on the other side with an assortment of photograph copies of different famous dads with their son or daughter. Cool Daddy's has a cute promotion, if you bring in a picture of yourself with your dad they will hang it up and give you a free drink. In the front of the room there is more seating with a few tables on a higher platform facing large picture windows and a partial floor to ceiling mirror on another small portion of the side wall; the ceiling is exposed and painted black and the flooring is made up of ceramic tiles.
For lunch their special today was the soup and salad bar, all you can eat for $5.50. There were three types of soup set up on a small table covered with a very thin white plastic tablecloth with a pattern of large colored circles; the soup choices were tomato basil, clam chowder, and chicken booyah. Right next to the soup was a small stand set up containing the salad bar which was not aesthetically attractive and with limited selections. Cool Daddy's choices on the salad bar were a bowl of iceberg lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, sliced black olives, sliced fresh mushrooms, sliced green peppers, and strips of white chicken meat, surprisingly no tomatoes, onions or cucumbers, and one small dish of creamy coleslaw. None of the salad dressings were labeled except for one, the fat 
free ranch so it is left to one's own interpretation. I asked if the soups were homemade and was informed that they were. I took a sample of each soup and to my horror the chicken booyah tasted overwhelmingly sour, next I tasted the tomato basil which was made with canned tomatoes and dried basil; it had a spicy tomato flavor, and the clam chowder also had an odd flavor with again a slightly sour taste. I mentioned this to the owner that to me the chowder had a vinegar sour taste to it; he sampled it and said it tasted okay and had the other staff sample it also. He did say that they add mozzarella cheese to the clam chowder, which is an interesting spin. A server then brought out some French garlic bread pre-sliced in a plastic basket with a paper napkin liner; the bread was toasted and lightly buttered with a hint of garlic, it was not very appetizing. Cool Daddy's owner was nice and said I came on the wrong day; the best time would be when they have their pizza buffet because Cool Daddy's make their own pizzas.
