I was nervous. I gripped my husband's hand as we approached the doors. "But... you remember. The rumors," I whispered, stopping him in his tracks. "What if the rumors are true? What if their personal pizzas really are..." I gulped. "The wrong size?" Disturbing stories had reached us, tales of personal sized pizzas that were not personal sized. Would they be serving us tiny little bagel pizzas, one at a time? Would they be serving us a pie the size of a tire? There really was no way we could know! There is only one true measure of the vaguely titled "personal size" pizza after all... and that's the one that's exclusively in my own head. What would I have to do to get the facts... ask the cashier???
My husband squeezed my hand, his grip a reassuring anchor to reality. Brushing aside my hesitation, he flung open the doors of Bytes Eatery and Arcade like it was a saloon out of the Old West. After walking around to get a feel for the place, we placed that fateful order: one order of funnel cake fries, one personal sized pepperoni pizza, and two glasses of water. We topped it off with a midnight lemonade and a strawberry lemonade from the bar. The fate of this eatery (and my digestive system) hinged on this one order.
I cannot expect you to imagine the gratitude and relief I felt when I saw that the personal pizza was the exact size it was supposed to be, so I took a photo just to demonstrate my relief (as well as the size of the pizza, which was 12" in case you were curious but were too shy to press the cashier for details). Food quality? It's not the top floor restaurant off a downtown skyscraper, but that's not what we came here expecting. The pizza was hot, the funnel cake fries were crispy and sweet, and we ended up ordering another round: funnel cake fries, truffle fries, sliders, another lemonade, a cider, and a bloody Mary. All pretty good, for arcade fare! And when I checked their milkshake selection and asked if it was possible to mix banana and chocolate, I was most graciously accommodated.
"Not at all like the rumors said!" I sobbed joyfully into my shake.
The food is good and the games are fun. In fact there's some really inventive two-player games I haven't seen anywhere else. It gets pricey if you stay for awhile, racking up food and games, so keep that in mind if you come. But this is a fun place to play games with friends or dates and I'd absolutely recommend it for a good time. read more