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| - My husband and I and our two boys have been to the two sister restaurants, Spokes on Southern and Boulders on Broadway for many years with our two boys and always have felt welcome and had a good experience. They are now 10 and 13 and we were looking for a place to dine tonight with a great beer selection, good food and a pool table. Boulders on Southern seem to fit the bill and we were all excited for our monthly night out. Our service and food were good and our waitress did a fine job getting us what we needed but we were disappointed with the IPA selections.
We told our boys that they were not going to play electronics tonight, so they had fun playing the board games available instead. When we finished our meal we headed over to the pool table and dart area. Although, I do not feel my boys were disrespectful or misbehaving, they were approached at least 5 times by the manager telling them they were doing something wrong. My husband and I are the types that don't mind adults correcting our kids and I feel the manager approached them in an appropriate way, so I didn't think much about it the first few times. We just reminded them of the rules, were playing with them and told them that if any adults were waiting, we should give up the games. By the fourth or fifth time they were approached(none of them warranted in my opinion), I was frustrated and wanted to go home. I had to ask several times for a check and to get my license back from the dart deposit. I am just frustrated with society! Everyone is so easy to judge IPhone use at restaurants and overuse of electronics by kids but when you let them do anything else, people seem to judge and belittle them. I don't get it, and I don't think it's fair to treat families this way when they are trying to enjoy your restaurant.
I feel my boys are like any others at this age. They may not be perfect but I feel we have raised them right and that they weren't doing anything to deserve the treatment they received. So, I can not recommend this as a family friendly restaurant and in the future I will just stick to Gilbert restaurants that almost always seem to welcome kids and families! I really wanted to love this place and was hoping we could visit with our kids again in the future. I don't believe this will happen but I hope they can make some opinion changes about children in the future based on this review.
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