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This part restaurant, part bar, part arcade is the former site of a movie theater. Today, the completely renovated space still offers several reminders of the old digs. First off, the place is absolutely enormous. The outside front of the building still has the original marquee announcing events and happenings. Inside, there's an enormous arcade offering table games, video games and more. In the back, there's a two story bar/restaurant area with a balcony over-looking the stage. The stage area is where a twenty five foot diagonal screen calls home. On most days, an HD projector streams sporting events on this and six other surrounding screens. An onsite DJ alternates between the game-day audio feed and music during commercials. On the weekend nights, the place turns into a musical concert venue. The screen is lifted to reveal the elevated stage where cover bands play. In the rear, behind the stage, there's a newly built outdoor patio with plenty of seating, a full service bar and TV's galore. All in all, it's really an amazing space. I could only imagine the overhead that it costs to keep everything up and running.
As for the service, food and drinks, it's hit or miss. The food is your standard pub grub. Nothing fancy. Mostly greasy bar food. The beer selection is rather limited despite them having two dozen or so drafts. Most of them are generic domestics. I usually just get a Newcastle Brown Ale. The clientèle typically ranges from your average UFC fan or impersonator, jocks, frat boys sorority girls, to the average middle aged suburban dweller.
If you can get past all of that, it really is a great place to watch a game. If size is your thing that is. The giant cinema sized screens are something to be marveled. I don't know that I've ever seen something quite like it.
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