Unicorn Sports Bar

Not my first time here, but first time before noon.. Glad we came, they have a new *daily*…read morebreakfast menu to go along with their daily earlier hours... We had the breakfast sandwich with potato wedges, fish tacos and explored the new House created verity of Bloody Marys . Forgot the name of the one I had, but it was sailer themed. All super good. Savanah served us and was great and charming... We took advantage of the trivia cards there and learned a couple/few things.. Great place, highly recommend.

Place is always great and relaxing; come here when in town when working. Great service.read more

Appetizers

Caprese bites! Fave new item on the menu.

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Margarita by Chelsea

North End on Pearl

3.7(51 reviews)

Had the Reuben sandwich super good lots of meat cheese and just a right amount of thousand island…read more The bartender was great treating as well super friendly got a set up with the dogs outside. Everything was excellent and she brought the food out in nature we're taking care of. . Will be outside sitting area clean, very comfortable

Tasty food and chill atmosphere - cold drinks and nice staff - all around a good experience- we'd…read morego back & recommend it

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The Porch Light Bar & Grill

4.7(29 reviews)

3.2 mi

Wings were good, but the menu said buffalo wings and there was no sauce and no spice. Big salad was…read morevery poor. Brown and wilted greens topped with a 1/4 cup each of chopped celery, raw onion, mushy chopped tomatoes, and coarsely chopped chunks of carrot. Who puts celery and raw onion on a green salad? It's like the chef rummage around in the fridge to find some kind of vegetables to throw on top of yesterday's lettuce. The atmosphere is terrible. We sat outside in the back because it was a nice evening. The area was in the process of being demoed for construction. Torn up broken pieces of lumber everywhere. I remember thinking when I sat down, "Is this a joke? " There were ashtrays on the tables. People smoking cigarettes. I don't even know if that's legal. Then they started a poker game? The clientele was kind of rough looking also. We will not be back.

The Mac and cheese is a must get it's so good and I'm literally obsessed customer service is nice…read moreand place has lots of games.

Clean and cozy

Waffle fries

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Farrelli's Pizza

2.9(437 reviews)

We traveled states away to come have a sit down meal with family and friends just to be treated so…read morepoorly. We together made a group of 17 people - we didn't want to be seated together because we had a lot of littles and tried to explain that to them. But the man in the picture who's leaning on the counter refused to do that for us. Each adult tried a couple times to kindly explain why but got cut off with a hard no which is ridiculous. We just wanted to enjoy a meal.. with family.. but this guys ego was killing it. Hope he gets therapy. Anyways! Spend you're money somewhere else

The food here is good! The servers in the dining room are attentive and polite!…read more However, the hospitality up front is this place is consistently lacking. The hosts are rude, rarely answer the phone, and are dismissive of guests (experienced this personally the last few times). The service in the bar is slow, taking sometimes 15-30 minutes to get greeted. Another time, waited over 20 minutes for the check. The bar is pretty busy though and the bartenders/cocktailers themselves are super nice when they have time!

Watching some football while waiting for my table. Plenty of giant TVs behind me.

Burrata with roasted tomatoes

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Hazy IPA

Halftime Sports Saloon

3.3(29 reviews)

3.5 mi

It's basically a four-star place. Wouldn't go any higher than that. It's Been here a million years…read moreand it's not supposed to impress anybody. But you're there for the company and the TV screens and I was there for the Tuesday night trivia 2 weeks in a row while I was home visiting family. They have Taco Tuesday and you get some pretty good tacos for a cheap price! They also have other daily specials. Drinks were flowing and employees were super friendly. Good to go up to the bar to order as they're not really wandering around too much. Lots of people here to play pool as well. Plenty of televisions showing plenty of sports things. Ambience is definitely not there too impress you at all! But trivia was definitely fun and worth it! You're going to be competing against a lot of other teams.

Wound up there in a busy weekend morning. Still got a seat at the bar. Ordered drinks and…read morebreakfast, food took quite a long time, but was worth the wait once we got it. Would consider returning. Beautiful drive over from north Tacoma.

Drinks were delish

Taco Tuesday

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The Loose Wheel

3.4(280 reviews)

2.8 mi

Wow they have men serving in here now! Nice!! Friday before it gets too crazy with football. Hawks…read morevs KC (3-3) right now. Still early. Came in for the Friday special. Love their fish. Always fresh and the breading is soooo crispy. Joes are a $2 up charge but worth it! Our iced teas were never MT either. He always came around and ck'd on us. Great service today. It's getting loud now so time to go. Till next time. Thanx for the fish fix!!

Popped in to try their homemade potato chips which are really good,just don't know how they cook…read morethem..air fryer?Kinda like a kettle chip,but no grease.My burger to accompany said chips was okay.This place is big and it caters to sports fans and gamblers as there is a large bar just for pool tabs.Lots of TV's,naturally and two pool tables...free on Sundays.Our server was polite and informative.Plenty of World Cup specials to please soccer/football fans.A/C was a bit on the cool side,but apart from that,it was a good experience.

Alcohol... duhhh.

Holy Tree Hugger Salad!

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Bloody Mary's

Stack 571 Burger & Whiskey Bar

3.7(706 reviews)

0.3 mi

The bahn mi burger is delicious! The rest are great too. Waffle fries with truffle parm is a great…read moreside. Staff is friendly! It's a 4.5 stars for me once they bring back the calamari. We tried the Nashville wings - they have a korean gochujang twist - it's kinda nasty. Was gonna take them to go because my wife at 1 and a half, i took a bite and left the box.

The food was okay. Hamburger meat was good but the bun was dry and sauce was bland. My burger was a…read moreblue cheese with bacon but the blue cheese was mostly absent. Too bad. The regular fries were over salted and the truffle fries were really not good. Seemed like flavored powder. I was disappointed. The shake was overly sweet. I only tasted the chocolate and peanut butter and banana. Of course, that is very tasty but overly sweet and the ice cream seemed not even to exist. Everything is expensive but that would be fine if the food was exceptional but that was just not the case. The service was very friendly and good. Kudos to the staff. The space is huge. It is attractive and the noise level is pretty good for the number of people in there. High ceilings help. One problem with the number of people though is there are only two unisex toilets available and my wait time was ten minutes. I may have gotten unlucky with my timing but it seems like two larger restrooms plus the single unisex bathrooms would be in order for over a hundred people.

Nashville Chicken Wings

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Beer Flight

Doyle's Public House

4.0(396 reviews)

3.7 mi

This Irish pub did something really fun--they feature a pop-up bayou menu with a Cajun chef, and I…read moream truly hoping this turns into a full-on Cajun restaurant one day!! I'm a gumbo girl through and through, and my guy is all about crawfish étouffée, so this was basically made for us. Everything hit the spot in that comforting, rich, "yes, I will need a nap after this" kind of way. And we cannot skip the homemade moon pies--absolutely worth every calorie. No regrets. None. Also, the hurricane drink? Yummy doesn't even cover it. Let's just say it matched the whole vibe perfectly. If this pop-up becomes permanent, I'll be first in line.

Stumbled in by accident and glad that I did! Quaint English Bar covering a variety of the UK…read moreCountries. Menu had many delicious choices that you would not see in other places. Food was both fast and delicious! Drinks with good pours and overall reasonable prices. Friendly and Attentive Service. I will definitely come back here again

Sausage Biscuit Buddies

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Doyle's Scramble

Welcome Restaurant

4.5(55 reviews)

Ambiance top notch. The atmosphere makes you move and dance. Incredibly inviting. The smell in the…read moreair takes makes you yearn for nibble or 5! Highly recommend for fun, laughter, food, culture, entertainment. All around hot spot for any evening out!

This interesting compilation of American, Colombian, and Mexican was a fun change from the normal…read moreMexican/American restaurant. Food was unique and amazing. It is not a fusion of the cuisines. They are separate. But all on one menu. The empanada appetizer was great. We tried the beef, chicken, jalapeño w/ cheese, and guava wi cheese. Fantastic. Recommend the guava with cheese and a cup of coffee for dessert. We tried the Arepa appetizer also. Good, but not great. The "breading" was a bit dry for my liking. But still good. Also had the beef birria... it was excellent. Many things to try here that are new to our pallet. Atmosphere in the restaurant section isn't great. Basically a very open diner. We went early, so it wasn't noisy. I would guess on busy days it probably is. They have a bar also, but it wasn't open when we were there. Service was very attentive and helpful with recommendations.

Dining room

Picada

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Classic Margarita, choice of salt, sugar, or tajín rim.

Macaluso's Italian Restaurant

4.3(538 reviews)

My friend's big 50th was catered by the great team at Macaluso's who came in and set up the plates…read morea food. It started to rain a little so we had to wait a little longer than usual. Apps: the stuffed mushrooms were absolutely delicious. It had a little kick to it as well. The bruschetta (i think) was also super yummy. The mains: the chopped salad was awesome! I flew home the next day and took some in a zip lock bag for dinner later. The salad had garbonzo beans, black Olives, and it was just exceptional! The meat balls were huge and fabulous. The risotto was the best risotto I have ever tasted! I am not a fan of risotto and I had some and took some back home to LA. The ravioli, the green beans and the lasagna was also very good. I wish I transferred my food to another plate before they had to pack up their plates and silverware. It would have been a great midnight snack. The fellas that came to set up was very friendly and helped drying every thing off when we got rained on. Over all my friends are happily eating the leftovers in their freezer.

Food solid 4; Service 3.5; ambiance 4.5…read more foccacia bread-very good! Served at perfect temp. Had to ask for olive oil n balsamic though?!?! Caesar salad very good with perfect amount of dressing and very fresh, crisp romaine lettuce. Mussels vongole saltate was very good with sauce mixed with juice naturally blended wonderfully. Octopus carpaccio was okay but had better. Octopus wasnt marinated enough amd was cut too thinky. Pesto gnocchi & Alfredo macalusso were cooked perfectly but both were quite salty. Ambaince is quite quaint overall. We sat outside on a nice weather day but table was on a slant and very small. Cant fit more than two entres in table so kinda had to hurry up and finish our appetizers rather quickly to make space. Service could be better with more attention. Waitress only came to us 4 times bringing our menu, to take order, ask if we wanted dessert and lastly our receipt.

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Mocktail drink

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Michelle F.

5 years ago

Went to this bar , October 30th , we to a pub crawl, this venue was one of the spots to go to , not worth your time, bartenders........ not worth your time, I made a mistake an took my drink in a different area, in stand of them saying hey can't drink here, they cut me off no question asked. I asked them why, no answer they said I was not following the rules, well they didn't inform me I couldn't go in a current area to drink an smoke , so they cut me off. At this point in my event I wasn't even nearly Intoxicating. So whomever go's to this bar, be careful, don't get drunk , they'll get you. Sad to say . I don't want anyone to go to jail, because they can't get there shit straight read more

Marisa C.

12 years ago

I remember walking past this bar as a child and always thinking that it was the silliest place in the entire world. I mean Unicorn? To my 12 year old self it was hilarious. I finally went in there on halloween now that I live a few blocks away, and I think I found my new happy place. While the interior may be a little shabby, the place has some serious spunk. and not to mention Darryl, I had just met the man and I've never met someone so genuine who is a bartender. He really cares for each of his customers and gives you his undivided attention. He is what made that place worthwhile and his drinks are what will have me back next weekend. read more

Vivian L.

3 years ago

For those of you who are not aware.. unicorn had an ARMED ROBBERY last nite, the 14th of august.. looks like these types of incidences are increasing read more

Sonja H.

3 years ago

Cheap pool tables but if you're lgbtq+ I'd AVOID, the bartender likes to talk loudly with patrons about his transphobic opinions.

Dori Z.

6 years ago

Decent dive bar.

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