During the first four NFL Sundays of 2015, Scoreboard Sports Bar & Grill gave away food to patrons, said Jon Deba, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Heather.
The couple wanted to encourage repeat customers, but they also wanted to make a statement: Scoreboard was not an average sports bar. Instead, Scoreboard, which opened Aug. 3, 2015, off RM 2222, would put food first and sports second, Jon said.
“To me, the sports come secondary to what the food is,” Jon said.
Scoreboard’s kitchen makes sauces, seasonings and salad dressings from scratch, Heather said, and cooks use fresh proteins, including hand-cut steaks. Jon designed the menu after spending several decades working at Austin-area restaurants.
“I got paid to learn what people pay a lot of money to learn as far as cooking from scratch and getting recipes right and putting out some good food,” he said.
