Yes, it's loud and expensive, but it's all about the location and the "yard" glasses of beer. I mean c'mon, where else can you get an obscenely tall glass of alcohol, besides Vegas that is?
The atmosphere is nice and the service was a little slow, but to be fair they were near capacity and at least the servers were making an effort. What I can't stand is when the place is near empty ( see my Blue 32 review ) and still takes for-ev-er.
The food was nothing that memorable, but the kids and wife had no complaints, so I would say its at least average for the area.
Definitely a good place to spend some time before or after a movie night.