Cooking with Oscar's Sports & Grill

We're in for a big treat. It already smells so good here in the Scratch Kitchen, Oscar's Sports and Grill. A very popular spot in Saline for nearly 20 years now. So joining us in the kitchen, owner James and chef Alfredo here with us. Hello, hello. Hi. Okay, we were just doing all the big sports talk. We had Ryan holding it down, pistons. Ten minutes from the big house here. Let's go. Yes, yes. So this is where folks might want to go after the game. They kind of stumble into you and then maybe stumble out as well. Talk to us about Oscar's. Well, we're a scratch kitchen, family-owned 20 years. Okay. Everything's handmade from our mozzarella sticks, our Cajun pasta, vodka pasta, which we're making now. Yes. Our supreme pizza, hot honey pizza. So I mean, we do everything. We get our buns from Benny's Bakery, we get our meat from the butcher shop. So everything is fresh. That's important because sometimes you think of these sporty kind of bar vibes as it just being frozen stuff that people are ripping open a bag and throw it in a deep fryer so it is when you say scratch kitchen that means a lot right it does because we can take pride in what we do we just want people i guess to enjoy what we enjoy and we really enjoy the food the making of it the process of it just fresh by the way this you just need two that you need butter and garlic if you just do that in your house and you invite a male friend over he'll think he'll be in love before you even write it chef before you even start cooking. That's all you have to do. So we got the 13 by 15 shrimp. He's going to put the noodles in. Chicken. We got to put the chicken right now. Heat it up a little bit. Okay. Got a little sizzle going. Yep. Ooh. He's fancy. I assume the vodka pasta is a big seller at the place. Oh, it's one of our most popular dishes because you have the 13 by 15 shrimp, which are the big ones. Yeah. We got the chicken and then the vodka sauce. It is vodka in there. We pull it off. Yeah, how do you make vodka sauce? That's the sauce I've never made. All right, so we got already the sauce right here right now, right? And there's actual vodka in with the tomato sauce? Nope, we're about to put it in there. Oh. No, heat it up a little bit. Oh, I see what you're saying. Get it nice and hot. Nice and hot, right? Okay. It's an add-on. I didn't know that. Does it burn off? It does after you eat it. I know that's right. So we've got a red sauce. Red homemade sauce. Mm-hmm. I'm going to take a bite of this pizza. Yeah, this hot honey pizza is so good. I really like it. Oh, it's so good. It's a slept on pizza. But quite tasty. And that's the best part for the pasta. The vodka. There's the vodka. Oh, there it is. Oh, we missed it. There we go. We're watching meat. There's that flame. I know that flame's coming soon. But you're going to go poof. Also says a lot about the food, right? If you're coming to maybe watch a game, you might think wings pizza. But if someone is sitting down and getting pasta, you know you're getting a nice hearty meal. Yeah, and that's the thing. We just want to give like a four-corner entree, and the vodka pasta offers that. You get garlic bread with it as well. What if you're a Michigan State fan? Well, you know, we are a sports bar restaurant, but we're a scratch kitchen, so we love everybody. You do? Everybody. Not all maize and blue? Not all maize and blue. If there's a sports and grill in 10 minutes away from Spartan Stadium, I would expect it to be heavily focused on Spartan Athletics. He says they love everybody, they love everybody. We love everybody. What's this burger situation over here? Yeah, what's on that? So you want to tell them what's on the burger? Yeah, this is a Chipotle burger, the Oscars. It's chipotle sauce, jalapeno. Jalapeno. That's what's on top. We also have the dynamite shrimp, and we do have the wings. We brought Asian zing. A little bit of zing, but really good. And then we bought the buffalo wings. You get a pound of wings with an order, so that's like seven, eight wings. Oh, my. Yeah, so we feed you guys when you come. I'm looking at these. Is it garlic knots or cheese bread? What do you have there? Those are pepperoni rolls, and we hand-mix them, and we throw them in a pizza oven. Get out of here. Delicious, absolutely delicious. You need a pepperoni roll? Yeah, absolutely. You guys are creative in the dishes, I like that. It's about to be done, let's put it in the oven. Chef Alfredo, what was that white sauce you put in there? Cream. Cream, yeah. So it was red sauce, cream, and vodka. I mean, it's very simple. Very simple. Yet delicious. I know, that's what I mean. Why don't I do this at home? Because you're making steak off. Well, I like that. Can I put some on the plate? Yeah, absolutely. Give me a second, please. Oh, good. Good. Working in a scratch kitchen, it's me, don't worry, you're good to go, let's pop it in the bowl. That's the mark of a good chef though, he said it's not very good. You want to put it in the special? Yeah, absolutely. I'm not here to boss you, you're in charge. It's popping in there. Terrific. Yep. Good to go. Now you open seven days? Seven days, 1130 to 11pm every day. We have karaoke on, I'm sorry, we got karaoke on Thursday, jukebox bingo. What's your favorite karaoke song? are the champions. We have trivia Wednesday and Saturday as well at 7 30. I love it. That's a good one to yell. All right. Thank you. Information right there on your screen. Tell us where you're located. We are in Saline, Michigan. Come check us out. We can't wait to see you guys.