My husband and I used to come in here fairly often when they just sold video games, and we always found great stuff. I'm not a big video game nerd, but I would find things for my old school Game Boy Color.
Since the good ol' days they've done a remodel and are now a bar with a restaurant and you can rent TVs/games to play. This sounded like a fun idea for a date night.
We came in a couple of days ago, ordered pizza and then went to play some games. The restaurant and the bar and two separate entities within the building, so they kind of freak out a bit if you try to order anything from the wrong side. I thought the woman at the pizza counter was having a small stroke when we tried to order sodas from her, even though the machine was literally part of the pizza counter.
Now we go to the bar and order sodas, paid a higher price for two that included gaming. The bar tender seemed to have no clue what he was doing, or he was just shady, and I'm not entirely sure which one I feel like is correct. But I'll explain.
My husband ordered the two sodas and paid $3 each for them, the gaming was included in this price. Nobody said refills were extra. Until after we had gotten them and went to play video games.
We had our sodas while eating outside and then stopped to grab refills before starting to play games.
Then the bartender's memory suddenly returns to him. But instead of owning his mistake and letting us know for future reference, he demands more money right there. That's one of those things where if you screw up, that's not my problem and I shouldn't have to pay for. Learn to use your words before there is a problem.
My husband paid for both of us to play, and when we sat down, he only acknowledged my husband by giving him a controller. So again, I paid for something that I wasn't even given the option to utilize. Followed by the bartender demanding more money from us for the soda that we weren't even told about.
That seems super shady to me. Normally I wouldn't care if this was a legit thing, had he either said something or just owned the mistake. I know what those fountain soda drinks actually cost the company too, so this was even more shady to me because they were out absolutely no money by just owning the mistake and dealing with it.
Normally when an employee makes a mistake, the business takes the financial hit and it falls under the category of the cost of doing business. Instead the bartender was happy to leave a bad impression that he was shady. I wasn't impressed. My husband played and had fun, but I wasn't impressed.
The music inside is extremely loud, and games cannot be heard, plus people yelling over the music really takes away from the fun. Conversations are out of the question until you want to scream at each other.
The food wasn't bad. Not great, but not bad. I hated the garlic knots, and the pizza was three stars. Although it has given me the worst gas and cramps since eating it, and continues because we had leftovers.
My husband said we would go back once just so we could play a specific game together, but after that he didn't want to return. Now that says something to me! He's normally much more forgiving of things than I am, so when he says he's not interested in returning, it was definitely less than a stellar experience.
Thankfully because of another review, I found a better recommendation to try out instead of returning here even the once that my husband suggested. So no, definitely not returning here again. This is one of those things where I wish it was better and wanted to return, but no. There's nothing to ever bring me back again. read more