We threw a lot at the wait staff, showing up on a Wednesday night with seven families of the large variety. They handled it well enough, but the food left a LOT to be desired. My Philly cheesesteak looked tasty, but the meat was so dry it was almost worse than had it looked disgusting to begin with, you know? Lots of pool tables and big TVs, but we couldn't get anybody to change the channel for us. I'd come back to play pool, but not for any other reason. read more

My FB Singles group had a Meet'N'Greet there last night... I reserved tables and there was a mixup so when we arrived the night manager Theo was a bit unprepared (not his fault)....BUT HE WAS A CHAMP!!! He got us all set up and going with very little delay! The waitress for our section, i was told, was new but she was AMAZING!! Props to Theo for handling 50 people as a surprise like it was just another night! So professional and so welcoming.... We will be having more events here because they didn't make us feel like a problem!! His boss should give him and that fabulous waitress a raise!!! read more

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Went in today (Sunday), played on 9' table as usual, service was ok, not bad, not great!. Ordered usual hamburger grilled medium, with mustard, pickle ,lettuce, tomato, n fries. Burger was extra well done, hockey puck-saw dust consistency like, no tomato, no mustard, (mustard and tomato never arrived in spite of two requests, fry's were barely warm. Definitely not the usual meals I've come to expect here! wtf's going on in the kitchen? Need new fry chefs and manager! read more

Great dive bar that is larger than what you'd expect. Lots of pool tables and dart boards. The giant leather chairs are amazing. There's also a private room, with a speakeasy type entrance door. Their good is ok and their mixed drinks mid at best. But for those that don't need a fancy drink, the basic drinks are cold and come at a great price. read more

It's been about a year since we were there last and it's always been good. But going back today was a huge surprise! The place was so clean and nice. The two ladies who served us were fantastic and really took great care of us. Food was very good and a good value for the cost. You got to get in there and eat, watch sports or place any of the many games they have. read more

They have lots of tables but I severely don't recommend going on the weekends or if you're from out of town. It can be difficult, confusing, and somewhat unwelcoming. One waitress was nice once she realized we were disappointed and leaving, but that was not how she started off. I hope other people have better luck than us. Nachos were good. read more

Our whole group got cut off and kicked out for being bad at pool. The manager obviously had little man syndrome and loved the power of kicking people out. We weren't playing like professionals so he assumed we were too drunk. Don't come here if you aren't a professional pool player. read more

I've visited this facility often and I have yet to be disappointed by the atmosphere, the service or the food. Thank you for all, eight-ball SIDE POCKETS and Game Over! read more

Serving size is huge! Waitress's are attentive to our needs. Pool tables are nice! A bit loud for the hard or hearing because of the music.

I have been going to this place for 10 years to play pool and eat lunch with some friends. Almost every Thursday or Friday, great tables, good food and great service. Megan is great but we want Amber back!!! Those two are the best and the reason we go on Thursday or Friday. Amber can work rings around anybody we've had lately.BRING HER BACK. read more

Poor service. An establishment cannot have 6 servers walk pass customers without acknowledging them. Waited at the bar for 15 minutes and no service was provided. It wasn't even busy at the bar. I am a person of color and so was my family. A white customer came in after me and still got service before we did. read more

I really don't want to trash my local bar I'll give you guys some suggestions instead... Word on the street is that the drinks are weak. I have counted pours (seconds) for doubles that were not to be considered doubles. One time I went in with a friend and we drank doubles all night and had a hefty bar tab, but neither one of us were as drunk as we should've been! Other people I know have had the same experience. If you come here, stick to beer. Also, please invest in heaters of some kind on your patio. You're the only bar that doesn't have at least one installed! Why? Thank you for providing and up keeping nice pool tables! We love how large and accommodating the place is. Alright bar food too! read more

Had the chance to catch up with a long time friend and she choose SidePockets. GREAT CALL SHOT! The service was very friendly, prompt and had great teamwork. Always close but not intrusive. Rainy, cold day was perfect for the warm vibe. Beer cold, food great. Had not been in years but this east sider will be back! read more

Friday's until 5, $5 pool on the short tables. Great deal when you have a group and 3 hours as we did! There are monthly beer on tap specials. I think there were 8-10 beers on tap with a good variety of styles, they also have a big cold fridge of bottled and canned varieties. read more

The place has recently changed. Adults are now being carded as they enter the doors and if they do not have a driver's license, they are not allowed to drink. My family stopped in to play pool and have a couple of drinks. Even though I am over 50 years old, I was not allowed to drink since I didn't have my card with me. Very frustrating! The employees at the front are also not nice about the new policies either! read more

First time we went there to eat we left because they acted like we were invisible. We tried again a couple months later and we were not very impressed. Burgers were mediocre, meat didn't have much taste, buns were tasteless and too thick, I took the top bun off of mine because there was no point in eating it. Big Place with plenty of pool tables, tv's, but we came here to eat. Service was slightly below average this time, could tell they were understaffed and it wasn't even busy yet. Slightly over priced for the quality compared to many other places in Wichita. The side salad was actually the best part of our meal. read more

Despite the restaurant not being busy in the slightest, I waited 45 minutes to be served a RAW chicken sandwich. The only thing the waitress said was "oh sorry" and we had to ask for the sandwich to be taken off the bill. 0/10 recommend, I'd rather go literally anywhere else. read more

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Krystal is the best waitress! She is always friendly, has a great sense of humor, and has amazing customer service. ask for her!

Timely, attentive (but not TOO attentive) service, knowledgeable about what's available and patient with questions. Recommendations for sours on point (thanks Bryan!). Nice selection of appetizers and a clean, well organized environment. Plenty of tables, big screens and seating. Highly recommend and thanks again Bryan! read more

Hard to figure how they've been in business this long. Horrible service. And the food wasn't even marginal. My sandwich was microwaved which turned my Philly Cheesesteak into a gloppy tough pos. My suggestion is to avoid this joint at all cost read more

This is my personal favorite place for getting chicken wings. I'm not much for pool but this is a great place for that. Love the oversized chairs to sit and relax with a drink read more

Food is good but the people at the front desk, bar, servers all were all rude as fuck both the 2nd and 3rd times we ordered from them. The 1st time, their boss was around so of course they put on their masks that time. As professional as they sound on the phone is not how they act when my husband or I pick our food up. They've ignored us multiple times, turned their backs on us, been very short...not a very welcoming atmosphere really, unless of course you're WHITE, that is. An older white lady arrived after us and after completely ignoring us even before she had arrived, when she got there they began talking to her and servicing her. Had a tip ready after getting the food, still ignored so I kept it. Then they "forgot" the gravy on hubby's chicken fried chicken when on the menu it says it comes with it. The food is good but not THAT damn good to deal with this. I'll also make sure to add this review to the popular wichita food groups. Nobody wants to pick up food from b*tches with stank attitudes or discriminatory biases. Seek help. Get therapy and find a different job, you miserable bigots. Edit: We just got a full refund and they're making my husband another chicken fried chicken. Their boss is here now so not surprising that they want to do their jobs now. read more

Elayna has got to be one of the best bartenders out there ... keeps you entertained and happy plus keeps the business safe during these troubled times !! Get it Sidepockets !! read more

It was really warm inside started sweating and I hadn't even gone through run game of pool yet was there with a friend of mine we had one picture of beer and only had one table wasn't even on the table for 30 minutes so it was very expensive 18 bucks for a picture of beer and a pool table and then me and my friend were both sweating our butt off in there because it's so warm so it's kind of hard to give a positive rating for this place at this time read more

the girl names sage provided great service. she needs to be rewarded.

Since the remodel, this is one of the nicest places on the west side of Wichita. The burgers are exceptional TVs everywhere very nice seating options the pool tables are very well maintained the service was much better than I expected read more

I haven't been to Side Pockets for like 4 years. This place used to be really cool and laid back and fun atmosphere . I came in today on the 3rd of August 2022 and was shocked when the waitress basically ignored me at the bar when I was trying to order a drink . Also serve someone that just walked up as while I was waiting there for like 10 to 12 minutes . She was very rude to my girlfriend and I will never be back to this place again! read more

Don't come if you are thirsty or hungry because you probably won't get waited on. Which is a shame because they do have good food. Come often to play pool... they had one and only one decent waitress but I understand she is no longer working. read more

If you are wanting to make the safe and smart decision by bringing a 19 year old designated driver to avoid driving drunk, don't bother because this facility will kick your driver out even though you were trying to be smart and not drive drunk. read more

We had our 2nd visit and we came for the Chiefs game (12-23-18) we again sat in the same place like last visit. Again our waitress was worn thin. We had bad service again... All orders were slow for odering, slow receiving, and no pre-bus!!! We had a table full of dishes, drinking glasses. We ended up cleaning and moving our own table. I know servers get hit but it would be GREAT to have a full staff that can handle the over flow. What finished it off was paying with cash. The waitress to my cash (granted it wasn't much $3) and never brought back the change to even be offered as to get a tip. That was the LAST VISIT, I gave a 2nd attempt, there will be no 3rd time. read more

The only reason I'm giving anything more than one star is because of KRISTA. She is the absolute most sweetest and genuine person employed there. Every other employee I encountered, would not acknowledge you. You have to grab there attention and even when you do, it's the biggest Inconvenience. Huge shoutout to Krista for being an amazing serve to our large party even when she was extremely busy. She deserves 5 stars -- not the bar itself. read more

I came here with my buddy on his 21st birthday and was treated very rudely by the bouncers. I am under 21 and obviously the designated driver. We were standing around for a while and I had to use the restroom and was followed in by one of the bouncers and he immediately accused me of trying to wash the sharpie off of my hands and then proceeded to COVER the backs of both hands with sharpie which you can still see today, two days later, and after lots of scrubbing. Needless to say my hands were very dry and itchy after having that much sharpie put on my hands and we left very soon after. I will not be coming back. read more

My friend and I went in for the burgers. I really hadn't heard of Side Pockets, so we thought we would give it a try. It's very dark inside, coming in from bright sunshine. We found our way to a table and were greeted very quickly and given menus. After our drinks were served, we ordered our basic burger order...cheeseburger, grilled onions, pickles and mustard and fries. The order was served. The thing I noticed first was the size! At least 1/2 lb. as advertised. PLENTY of onions with pickles on the side. The first bite proved especially satisfying. And the second and the third, etc. We both noticed after that that the onions were difficult to bite through, like the skin of the onion had not been peeled away before grilling. Finally we just had to scrape the onions off. I hope just a one time occurrence. A-OK otherwise. Fries were tasty too. read more

The staff work hard here and it definitely shows! The food and drinks are awesome and it is the perfect place to hang out with friends and watch sports. read more

The place was extremely warm I could barely play a game of pool without sweating my butt off and it was really expensive for just a picture of beer and a pool table so this place doesn't rate very well in my book read more

Skeptical at first but the atmosphere is pretty chill. Parking is great. There's a crap ton of pool tables ( if you're into that) lol. The touch tune does work. The love seats are a little too "soft" lol and my boyfriend says they're a little too far from each other for us to hold hands or such lol . Drinks are fairly reasonable. read more

This place is my stompin' ground! Heart the staff (especially Barb, Matt and Steve), heart the tables (bar boxes AND full sized), heart the drinks and dig all the screens in there. The volume on the jukebox could be turned up a little but it's not so low that you've gotta shut your date up to hear "More Than a Feeling". It can get pretty damn packed but who could blame em....50 cent pool and extremely reasonably priced alcohol. They're not your typical bar dive prices but you definitely get your money's worth. Haven't gotten my paws on the darts yet but they look like they're in good condition. Haven't seen any bar brawls go down so drama is minimal. They also just built an outside patio area for you smokers. Cough. This place is for both the casual and serious pool player. I'll probably see ya there! read more

We usually have a good experience here. The servers are nice. The food is great, the best fried pickles ever. The pool tables are in really good condition. If you love to play pool this is the place to go. I have had a couple bad experiences with their wait staff, but usually it's a good experience. read more

So my girlfriend and I like to play pool, and if you ever go to sidepockets you'd know that they have a crap load of pool tables. The pool tables are all pretty nice and well taken care of. That was the positive of my evenings there, now my negative: Both times we went we received little to no customer service. At first we would think it's a little busy and maybe they just haven't found the time to make it to us, but then when i see the table next to us getting service several times and I have to approach the server and tell her we need attention that is an issue. One of the times we went the server was attending to her family which was 10 feet away from us and she still never even came by to fill our water...it was really annoying. I'm not sure if this is a race thing because i was the only black male in the whole place , I try to leave race out of this but I went there before with a big group of not as diverse guys(mostly white) and I actually got great service then but when my girlfriend and I went I received horrible service that says something. Then last week I went there with a friend of mine(another black male) and unlike the time I went with my girlfriend, I didnt even have a server come up to see if we wanted a drink or to order any food. Again it's busy and all but when i see you take the order of two tables on either side of me it tells me a little more than it's just busy. Finally after me complaining to my friend within ear reach of the server they finally came over and asked us if we would like anything....we've only been there playing pool for an hour with my friend having already ordered several beers from the bar. This establishment has not lost my service because it's about the only good pool hall in Wichita that i can think of(if you know any ones close let me know and I will be happy to take my business elsewhere) but as far as anything more than just pool I go get elsewhere before visiting. read more

Great environment with a ton of pool tables and super-cheap drink specials! Appeals to all ages.