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| - Edit 5/23/11: The staff has gotten more surly and obnoxious. Now it is NOT BYOB for free, there is a "corkage" fee of $5 a case or 25 cents/beer. Their shitty website still advertises free BYOB and when we pointed this out and that our group of 8 - and our $80 - had a right to leave, they fumed and protested. They made DMV workers look sweet. This place has turned into a nightmare shithole.
More of the games are broken. CHILDREN are allowed in at night, even though there is rampant drinking. You wouldn't let a child into a bar, so why would you let a child into this place? The owners and staffers have NO discretion whatsoever. In addition to 5-10 year olds running around, somebody brought a baby into the tiny room with a pingpong table.
And then the baby got hit with a ball. And then the parents didn't care.
There were a bunch of frat boys and their ugly, wrinkled dates. They were loud and sat on the games while not playing, preventing others from enjoy themselves. One of them nearly spilled his drink on me.
It was a very uncomfortable environment all around.
This place is quickly becoming a location for losers, complete with awful employees who let children, babies and obnoxious frat brothers in. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they'd let dangerous ex-cons in so long as they paid the cover.
I won't return.
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Original review:
I like this place very much. I don't love it.
Pros: Unlimited Thursday nights for $10. Nice snack bar. FANTASTIC selection of games. BYOB, no corkage fee. You can easily spend 3-4 hours here with a bottle of wine or a six pack. Cheaper than a bar with pool tables. Great cheap jukebox, I think 75 cents gets you 3 songs. Free parking lot.
Cons: Owners are an old grumpy married couple. Woman SMOKES indoors near snackbar, so 1 pool table is smoky. Owners are never helpful, but they're also not nosy. Duckpin bowling isn't free. One in the four times I was there had some weirdo grunge/dirty hipsters in their 20's who wore magic outfits. Gross.
Overall I would (and have) returned. 2 hours on Friday is $8, 3 hours on Friday is $11. Thursday nights all night is $10.
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