Dave & Buster's
Categories: Nightlife, American (Traditional) [Edit]
Neighborhood: Near North Side1030 N Clark St
(between Maple St & Oak St)
Chicago, IL 60610 (312) 255-0466
- Nearest Transit:
Clark/Division (Red)
Chicago (Purple Express, Brown)
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Garage, Valet
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: No
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Alcohol: Full Bar
- Smoking: No
- Coat Check: Yes
5 reviews
Neighborhood: The Loop
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61 Reviews for Dave & Buster's
So it's a place for grown men to re-live their childhood memories of sitting in front of the tv - oblivious to the world around them, especially that woman just glaring those eyes at you just a few feet away, waiting for you to grow up and move on. The food - nothing spectacular. It's like going to Applebee's and ordering a Cedar plank Salmon (It just ain't gonna be that good!!!) The Games - for the most part they are out dated, broken, and expensive. The atmosphere- crowded. Imagine Chucky Cheeze when you were little - but the size of a warehouse!!!
Go to waist your money and drink a few drinks, but don't expect to feel good about on your drive home when you realize you spent $200 on nothing!
Well like my fellow yelper Justin, I too was there for a video game presentation from graduating Depaul Students. The place itself is very spacious and well, cool looking. The gaming area kinda reminds me of the arcade at the MGM Grand over in Vegas...just with less than new games and not quite as many, and not very good games...well i guess it doesn't remind me of Vegas at all. I was only able to eat the catered buffet offered to the group. If it was any indication of what the kitchen was capable of, STAY AWAY
and if your looking for a place to drink, save the $12 you'll spend on 2 miller lights... go to Dominick's and buy a 12 pack, you'll feel better about yourself in the morning
on a good note, the heat of the room we were in allowed me to burn off the calories of my beer.
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Dave And Busters, not my favorite place to be on any night of the week. I have been here many times before for company Christmas parties and just random arcade gaming visits.
I had to waste a perfectly good Friday afternoon at D And B to see a gaming presentation, as a DePaul college student used one of our band's songs for his video game. We had the presentation in one of the "party rooms." It was set-up nicely, but things were not running properly. The room was very hot, which made me leave the presentation early. There was one bartender serving a room of 50-75 people, which also made me leave the room everytime I needed a drink. The microphone did not work initially, so the presenters had to speak loudly for the whole room to hear. It was just an uncomfortable mess.
Not every experience has been a bad one. Our company Christmas party was held on the main floor upstairs. Right off the bat, I was pissed and cursed my company's name left and right. It turned out to be pretty good though, as the bartenders were pouring drinks at a nice pace. I have never tried the food at D And B's, so I have no comment on that. People seemed to be enjoying the food buffet.
The arcade games seem out of date and odd, but I am not much of a gamer. I'm more of a drinker.
My overall opinion? Go here if you have to, but you are better off not being there.
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For real, why do people like this place? Crappy video games and over-priced drinks do not equal a good time.
I actually had a really good time here for my friend's 21st birthday. The food was actually better than I expected, and the games were fun. However, it is probably the people I went with that made it more enjoyable. I can imagine it getting boring if you only go with one other person. So I recommend this place, only if you go with a crowd who are young at heart and like to have fun. I was also impressed at the decor of the restaurant... very neat.
I've been here once , a long time ago for a Christmas party. I do not I feel qualified to critique the service and the made to order food. I did enjoy the catered food , although nothing really standed out enough for me to remember the specifics of my meal all these years later. The bar seemed well stocked and the prices on par with most of the neon and mirror filled bars in the area , i.e. high. The real pick to click here are the games. As someone that is not content just to drink to excess , video games are a welcomed distraction. They seem to have at least some of the newest games and alot of the cool linked racing games. I'm not a big fan of the vibe there though , it kinda feels like Gameworks in Schaumberg if it was invaded by douche bag frat jerk-offs. Really , I'm in what is essentially a large arcade with booze , and I get judgmental looks from the clientele because I took off my sweater and am now wearing a Punisher t-shirt? Sorry I'm not wearing a Zambrano Jersey and backward Gamecocks hat (GET IT , IT SAY'S COCKS ON IT!). I'll bet I would probably enjoy the D&B in Addison , but I don't know that I consider this place a destination location. It's pricey , but I guess you pay a bit of a premium for playing newer games S-faced.
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I confess! I confess! I secretly dig this place.
My D&B Dirty Deeds done Not so Cheap:
I had a birthday here.
I went here at least 8 times.
I love lighting up the L-E-T-O-H over and over.
I adore air hockey and often score for the other person in my wild ways.
I enjoy double-teaming on the basketball shooting.
On dual-play shooting game, I adore using BOTH guns at the same time like star in a cheap-thrill action movie. Take that, Zombie, F*cker!!!
I like beating others at Trivia by wild guess alone.
And the dirtiest deed? My friend and I used 2 balls on the horses for several rounds. Of course our pony tore up the track.
But then we gave all the ticket-loot to the kids next to us --- It was a Robin Hood moment as they didn't have a chance against the horse that already had a 6 inch lead and was co-opted by a middle aged pro with some highly seasoned mechanical reflexes and a mean glint in the eye.
Oh. To a Robert, a fellow NY expat, I met at the bar. Good Luck with your next big thing. Kindly, me.
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I consider D&B the inner circle of hell, possibly even the nucleus of the fiery pit. Does anyone see this place for what it really is - a kiddie training camp for casinos. I'm all for arcades but this place is downright sinister. It completely disgusted me on every level. The food is straight up inedible. Only the very shallow end of the gene pool bring their spawn here.
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I have never had a good experience at this Dave and Busters. Waitstaff is terrible. Food takes forever. The first time I went there our food was screwed up. The second, we waited 15 minutes before a waiter approached our table, at which point I decided to leave and told the hostess why (that a waiter hadn't approached our table)... Anyways, she actually said something snappy back to me. I decided to give it one more try and took my boyfriend there for games and drinks... The bartender was a complete jerk...He was actually saying to customers down the bar "I hope you're not ordering a sprite that's all people have been ordering all night." I was COMPLETELY appalled. I really thought I'd like this place, but really, never once have I had a good waiter/bartender/hostess, etc. Their customer service is just terrible. I will never go back.
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We came looking for food and some games. We walked up to the restaurant and the hostess was in a discussion with a surprisingly calm man who was saying that he had been waiting over an hour for his food and wanted to know if his order was lost. The hostess said she would see what she could do. We walked up:
Her: Welcome to D&B
US: Can we get a table for-
Her: We aren't serving food anymore because a kitchen backlog.
US: Are you understaffed or something cause we could go back and help out?
Her: No everyone is here. Have a good time!
If half the work force was out sick I can understand having a backlog but if everyone is there why the wait...didn't seem very busy at all. We asked if a shuffleboard table was available and the person behind the counter just sat for like 15 seconds before saying "I don't know...Hey are there any available shuffle board tables" to a guy at the same desk. The response "yeah." Nothing more...our response was "thanks" and we left.
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Yes a fan of the D&B. How can you not like this place? It's an adult playground (not the sexual kind...hmmm there's an idea). As I was saying, they have a bunch of pool tables, tv screens where you can watch the game, good drinks, pretty ok food and the best part...when you get done with all that...there's a whole room full of toys for boys and girls of all ages! You can show off your skills at b-ball, video games galore, gun shooting and much more. Yeah, I know it's a bit of sensory overload but drink in hand, friends by your side and within 10 minutes you won't even mind....you can let your competitive streak go wild. Power hour here I come.
Came on a Friday night because a friend chose it as the location to celebrate her birthday. Big mistake. They charge a $5 cover after 10 p.m. (no big deal). And although you have to be escorted by someone over 25 if you are underage there were children everywhere. Service in the restaurant was horrible. It took at least an hour and a half to get food with no apologies made. Quite a few smelled as if they had been smoking various things throughout the night. Sad, this could be a fun alternative to bars and clubs but definitely didn't live up to expectations.
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Lara and I were simply famished after the Yelp fashion show and we need to find someplace close by to grab a bite to eat. We decided to go here as it was really close and open and we were both close to resorting to cannibalism in order to fill our stomachs.
The place was not very crowded since it was quite late already. It was very loud though. Our waiter was very good - very quick and very knowledgeable. I had the Philly cheese-steak sandwich which was good but it seemed to be missing some onions and peppers. The beef was very good though.
It did not impress me enough to say that I have to go back but in a pinch, this place will do just fine if we need it.
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Yelpers are pretty much always right. I went here for a birthday get together so they get one star because they did give us plates and a cake server for the cake I brought, but there was a $5.00 cover and high school kids and rude people were all over! The valet was no where to be found, and most of the staff was pretty rude. The line to redeem tickets was really long too. When we were standing and putting our coats on to leave at the end of the night a security guy came over and said "are you waiting for people, or what?" Classy.
So some friends of mine were in town with their new baby, and they picked D&B because I think they thought it would be able to handle our large crowd well. I got there early and sat at the downstairs bar. My vodka & 7 was not as overpriced as I expected so that was good, but all the drinks were weird prices b/c they didn't include the tax in the price or round up...which was a pain, who wants to deal with the pennies? Soon others joined me, and they were ignored by the bartenders and staff for a while (who were just gathered around shmoozing)--it wasn't crowded so I can't excuse this, and hello, don't you want the money from a bunch of people wanting to drink? My friends put their name in for a table, and after oh, an hour or hour and a half, we just commandeered some tables by the bar that had opened up b/c otherwise we might still be waiting. The server tried his best, so I won't blame him too much, but it was a disaster after we ordered. Some people didn't get their food for about 45 minutes after everyone else did, and I never got one of my dishes at all. Also, one of the beers was servied in a cracked glass. My spinach dip had 6 million bland tortilla chips and 2 cups of bland salsa, but the bowl of spinach dip itself was 1/3 full and small. When I asked if that was the normal portion, he said yes. Wow. I don't think I have ever had such a small portion of dip in a restaurant. Also, one person at my table ordered a milkshake, and there was no ice cream in it...it tasted like warm, frothy, turned milk. To be fair, the waiter himself re-made it and it came out better, but that first one should never have been brought out. The place itself was loud, crowded, and not a clientele I was enjoying. This is the only D&B I have ever been to, and my friend said ones in other cities are much classier and nicer....so maybe I would go in another city, but not here.
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Overall, it is pricey to have a night here, but I suppose if you're into the games, it's worth it. The best deal is the 16.99 for dinner and a ten dollar game card. Sunday thru Thursday and Friday and Saturday before 5pm... There are a wide variety of dishes and all are decent sized. You get tickets for playing games and can buy little toys or trinkets or give them to random kids wandering around and restore (or install) their faith in strangers and humanity.
Oh yeah, and one of my old co-workers swears by the game in the back of upstairs (yes, by the kids games), where the light goes up and down a long pole, and there are ticket numbers that you win on the side. When you hit the button, the light stops and you get that number of tickets. 500 or something is in the middle. Swipe your card 3-4 times in a row to play 3-4 times continuously. You will get the timing down and I've seen him nail the damm thing... it's sick... You can get an atv with like 80,000 points...
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If you must go to a Dave and Busters, head out to the suburban location. It's much cleaner and friendlier there. This D&B's was a nightmare.
Service: We went with an all-adult group, were told we'd have a table in 20 minutes, waited well over an hour and then were sat in the downstairs section near the kiddy parties (not what we had requested) on folding chairs. It was so cold down there (hello, it's winter in chicago, turn on the heat!) and we felt like we were at Chuck E Cheese. Plus, the hostess was a terribly rude person, saying comments about us under her breath and shoving her noise in the air when we asked if there was anywhere else we could sit. Finally, after multiple complaints to the manager, we were moved. The only reason I'm giving this even one star was because the manager did her best to rectify what had already turned into a very bad situation.
Food: D&B makes a very bad attempt at pub grub. I love pub grub, but this was just not up to the task. Everything tasted fake and microwaved. My husband's burger looked like it came from McDonald's.
Entertainment: I'm not much of an arcade games person, so I'm probably a bad judge of this aspect. There seemed to be a good variety of games but quite a few were out of order and a lot of them looked dirty and beat-up. The prizes were awful! They didn't even have a good candy selection - what's an arcade without good candy??
Overall, I'd say skip D&Bs all together and go to ESPN Zone instead.
Oh boy. Where do I start here.
-This place is NOT good for kids - Unless you want your kids surrounded by booze, and pseudo-gambling. Most are loud, rude, line cutters.
-Don't eat here
-Don't come with a large group on a weekend
-Is this where all of Chicago's white trash parties? Or was there just a fugly person convention when I went?
-The drinks cost a little too much
-They attempt to get every $$ they can from you, either when you walk in the door ($1 coat check), or when you are purchasing 'points' ("Supercharge" your card??)
The layout of this place sucks - and the games are way too close together. Nonetheless, it is a fun place if you can ignore everyone else in the place.
Here is an example of the caliber patron at this place:
I am sitting at the bar, waiting for the tender to get me another massive beer when this lady (major white trash) knocks her beer off the bar - she was drunk - and promptly says 'Bartender, someone reached over and knocked my beer off the bar'. The only thing holding me back from saying something was the thought of my girlfriends red face via utter embarrassment.
I only go to Dave and Buster's when when my buddy brings his kid to visit, but it's a pretty cool place. I was surprised that the food was decent, and they have deals where they give you free tokens with certain entrees. I'm not much for arcade games, but they were fun. Like all of these places, the prizes were a joke. I have somehow managed to avoid drinking when I visit this place. Maybe I should next time.
I feel like a kid again at Dave & Buster's. Playing skee-ball, hoops, and air hockey really brings me back. Yeah, you can drop quite a bit of money here if you're not careful. I also get a blast from the past with all the weird trinkets at the prize counter. Though nowadays, there's nothing that could possibly catch my eye. I like to just enjoy the games and give my tickets away to some kid who has some big prize on his mind. The pool tables are fun too.
I was here for a work event, and the buffet food is ok, but I've never actually ordered anything off the menu. Drink service is pretty good though, our waiters were timely.
Ok, it's Dave and Busters and we all know it's not that great...But they get 3 stars because:
a. They have the race car game that I find incredibly entertaining
b. We had a big work party there and the buffet was good and they kept it full, the bar service was fast and the drinks were strong
Overall it's just a place where you can waste a lot of money and have a decent time if you like video games. There's not enough selection of games and you need too many tickets for the good prizes (if there are such a thing).
It's a fine place for a large party, especially if someone else is paying for you to drink and play the race car game.
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Dave & Buster's is Chuck E. Cheese for adults. For that reason alone, I have to give it at least a few stars, because as Miss N. observed, it's nice to have a place we can go to play skeeball and other silly arcade games without looking like creepy pervs. That said, the last time I had been to a D&B was in California when I was a teenager, and I remember LOVING it. I think I loved it a lot more as a teenager than I do now as an adult, and having visited the D&B in Chicago, I finally understand why.
The problem with D&B is that they are trying to be Chuck E. Cheese for ADULTS... yet they still let kids in, at all hours of the day & NIGHT. We were there for a friend's birthday this past Saturday, from after 9 p.m. until very late, and the place was packed with not only beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking adults, but also children of all ages, including a BABY I saw being carried around by one woman. Seriously?! The sign says that all minors must be accompanied by an adult at all times, but how likely is that? Especially since each adult can bring along FOUR CHILDREN. This all makes sense during the day, but I'd hope their evenings would have a cut-off, especially on weekend nights: no kids after 9 p.m., maybe? Seems reasonable to me.
But I digress. We had a lot of fun at D&B, but I have to assume that was partially because we were so drunk the entire time. If we had not been drunk, I'm sure certain things would have begun to annoy us, like the crappy chips & dip, the fact that the games OFTEN malfunctioned, and the overall din that made it difficult to hear yourself think, let alone hear each other speak. However, since we were drunk, those things bothered us (or at least me) only in retrospect.
What everyone else says is true: You're going to pay a LOT of money to play overpriced arcade games (way overpriced) and leave with cheap prizes. But hey -- my boyfriend won me a stuffed lion at the claw machine! and we combined our tickets to get the birthday girl a finger-shaped nose hair trimmer, a gold & bejeweled grill, and a lightsaber... where else can you really do all that, and drink at the same time?
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The food was pretty good; I had an appetizer (Philly Cheese Steak rolls)....as far as Dave and Busters as a Arcade there were only 3 games that appealed to me; Rush 2049 and 2 basketball games.....I don't know but Dave and Buster's would probably be better as just a restaurant because games suck
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nana h. and i have the same birthday, and decided to forgo the barhopping of our "early early twenties" past and have a real celebration...at Dave & Busters!
This place, as you know, is not "cool", what with the cheesy corporate vibe and the jocky geeky types getting their white collar shirts all sweaty playing basketball. So I will judge it on how well I was treated on my birthday. I got ONE free shot from ONE of the bartenders, and even then, I think it is because my dress was cleavage bearing. Nan did not get ANY (and we were even wearing coordinating outfits). But then, I played Spin-and-Win and won the coveted 1000 ticket prize!! (it must have known it was my birthday) I was drunk and it felt like I won the lottery. When I went to go cash in my tickets, I knew I wanted to get a Food Chopper, which was 1000 tickets. With the other tickets I won, I easily had 1000+.
The lady took out all the wet tickets and refused to accept them. I was sitting at the bar! Big deal! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I OBVIOUSLY WON THEM! I caused a scene and asked to see the manager. The manager grudgingly accepted them but made a huge thing about it. "We don't normally do this," she said with a glare. She counted them by hand and then bossed the employees to set them aside to let them dry like it was the hugest deal in the world. I feel sorry for these people, that they work for such a shitty company, and actually care enough to follow the rules.
So, I acted like an 8-year old brat and got my food chopper. I got my money's worth!
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I love Dave and Buster's! Its like a grown up chuck e. cheese. The games are great, the food is good and its worth the pay. Only thing its missing is a strip bar and it'll be perfect
I live right around the corner from this d&b and have a hard time dragging myself in there. I was once charged cover to eat! Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like they are gonna get stuck in some cross gang violence here? The kids are very unruly and confrontational. The wait staff acts like they hate their lives, probably because kids dont tip, and service doesnt exist here. BUT, one good thing is that they have a very large and quite tasty mixed drink menu. You will need plenty of these to last an evening here. The food is really hit or miss.
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I will never go to this place again. It is a Chuck E. Cheese's for the 21 and older crowd. D&B is two stories high and consists of an arcade, dining area, and an overpriced bar.
You can waste money here literally quicker than you can take out your Zippo and burn it. All the arcade games are extremely overpriced. They try to disguise this by making you buy a charge card to hold you money on, in the form of credits. You swipe the card before you play say Skee-Ball or House of the Dead and it deducts some decimal-laden amount of credits like 7.4, or the like. Because of this dollar to credit conversion you don't realize how much you are actually spending on each game. I bought the plan where the dollar per credit ratio worked out the most economical and I still went through the 160-170 credits in about a half hours time at a price of $27. My recommendation is that if you want to play arcade games, go to one of those TA truckstops and play the games for one-third of Dave and Busters rates.
Some of the games are just for fun while others you play to get tickets. Once you accumulate enough tickets, you can trade them in for some plastic piece of made-in-China junk or a knick-knack.
I don't know if it was because I went on the weekend or not, but they were charging $5 cover at the door. The establishment was very crowded with group outings and families. It was hard to navigate the aisles at times. Their parking garage rates were $15 for 1-2 hours and $17 for 2-3 hours, but if you look hard enough you can find metered or free parking on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood. Hint: Try over along North La Salle Drive.
If I could give this place zero stars, I would. Save yourself some money and go to one of those truckstops in Indiana if you want to play arcade games and not be in a crowd. If you really want to throw away money, join a charity or support stripper moms.
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This place is soooo much fun, especially if you can rope some trivia-challenged folks into playing a round of trivia with you... blahahahaa more tickets for you!
The game selection is very good, and the layout of the place is highly conducive to losing yourself in a heated match of DDR or basketball. Dave & Buster's is very clean and well-kept as far as arcades go, and they keep their games updated. None of that collected hand-grime on the rolling-cue-ball a/k/a "joystick" thing on some of those old 80s games.
The prizes (at least on the day that I went) were good, and you didn't need a billion tickets to get one thing. I got a decent-sized stuffed cat for my few hours of games. Granted, I whomped a lot of people at trivia and I had unlimited gaming due to an all-expenses paid event, but still.
Food is also good. I came here for law school orientation and they served a nice pasta buffet with steamed vegetables and good bread.
I've never been a fan of mega-arcades that peddle video games geared toward inciting violence in pre-adolescents. However, against my will I stepped into Dave & Busters for only the second time in my adult life. Surprisingly, I ended up having a great time.
The complex is massive, and yes you're going to drop some change on your "power card" or whatever they call it, but once you do, it lasts surprisingly long. My friend and I bought a $25 card and it lasted us for two hours, and provided a lot of entertainment.
In terms of the actual games and things to do, the second floor holds more of the "carnival" games that I actually enjoy, such as skee ball, basketball and the little horse racing game that you shoot water at to make the horses go faster...you know that one, right? Seriously, competing against 8 year old girls and 60 year old grandpas is a lot of fun. My favorite game of the evening had to be the old time gun-shooting saloon, though. It's the one where you aim at bulls-eyes with laser-guns and each time you hit something the target is activated. Maybe I'm simple, but I had a lot of fun remembering my days at Adventureland in Iowa...and managed to have much more fun than I thought I would.
The drinks are predictably priced for the Clark/Division corridor, and I didn't eat any food while there (it looked to be priced reasonably, breaded and fried.) Overall, if you're looking for something different once in a blue moon, Dave & Busters isn't a bad choice. Embrace all the children there and let yourself go, and soon you'll be making new friends. So what if they're 20 years younger than you.
We went here recently for a work outting. I have to admit, this place is just ok. I like the games but there really isn't a very good variety. Everything is really close together and is hard to enjoy when you have such a big group standing around in the same area. The food really wasn't that good. On the plus side, they do offer a parking lot at a discounted price and the drink prices were reasonable.
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This place was not as fun as I expected it to be. There was not as good of a gaming selection as I anticipated, and compared to other places. It wasn't too crowded, so we didn't really have to wait to play any games, but there wasn't that much there that I was very excited about anyways. There were a lot more kids than i imagined and the food was nothing special. It was a fun night out for our company department outing, but I'm not running to go back.
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"An extra star for playing the numa numa song on the loudspeaker aka "Dragostea din Tei" WHICH WAS FUCKING AWESOME! I shook my booty like only an uncoordinated Jewish girl can!
Other than that, if you're not that into new video games you're not going to like this place and I didn't really like it here. I felt sick the whole time and it was BORING. I don't even think they had DDR. The best part of the evening was watching big, fat black ladies hit on Jeff L. and then when Jennifer D. went up to get Jeff the big fat black lady looked at Jennifer drunkenly and went "HERRROOOOOOOOO" and stuck her finger in her face. It was highly hilarious!
There were lots of screaming, unruly kids and they didn't kick them out at the right time. That sucked! I just think a lot of newer games are really boring and I don't like fighting or racing games and that's all there was. The best part is the trivia game and even that gets old after awhile.
BOREDBOREDBOREDBOREDBORED!"
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I came here for a birthday party last month and had a lot of fun!! I think everyone has to remember that this place is a glorified Chuckee Cheese-type establishment. You have to expect mediocre food, drinks to numb the annoyances, and crappy prizes. Looking on the bright side, this place has a big selection of new and old games, generous ticket distribution, and a fully stocked bar. The food is ok. Overall, it is a fun place to meet up with friends and battle them in air hockey, ski-ball, and that dance dance revolution business....
Oh my god, if my company has another stupid after meeting event here I may just step in front of a golfer in the driving range simulation and take one on the noggin to end it all! Food is horrible! The service is just weird. Good lord, don't stare deep into my eyes as I place my order for a Coors Light.
Line of the night "please don't sit on the pool tables." why I ask? "because they cost over $15,000" What the hell? Is the felt made from human hair or something? I have never heard of a pool table at a shitty corporate bar like Dave & Buster's costing $15,000. Was the waitress that gullible to believe that? Or did she think I was that stupid?
Dave & Buster's YOU SUCK!
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Most games are cheap looking, like carnival games. Many were broken. Few fun games.
We always have a blast when going to D & B. The food rocks... amazing salads (try the chipotle chicken ceasar one or the parmesan crusted chicken), great staff and enough ticket games to keep you going. Sun - Thurs you can choose a meal off of the power combo menu for $15.99 which includes a $10 game card.
The prizes (if you save up enough tix) are pretty good, xbox, PSP, game boy games, stuffed animals galore and of course the little stuff to make the younger kiddos feel like they're leaving with something.
Remember to park at the lot across the street to save $$ (the valet is $12 - lot across the street is $6).
My hubbie and I are kids at heart and our son has to wrestle the game card out of our hands to get to the games - LOL!
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I used to love places like this when I was 8 yrs old...these days the games and loud noises just doesn't do it for me. It is a fun atmosphere, but not a fan of all the screaming kids running around this place. Food isn't too good either so I wouldn't recommend eating here, but they do have some good drink choices.
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The novelty of this place used to be the games. They've fallen behind due to other competitive forces, like XBOX, Playstation and Nintendo. Regardless, it's a decent place to catch a sporting event and the food is fine. How bad can you mess up a burger?
When the bf & I got sick of going to the same places night after night, I recommended Chuck E. Cheese. He threw out Dave & Buster's, thinking that then we wouldn't look like the Bonnie & Clyde of creepy child fanatics. "Good call," I quipped.
I'm not a fan of video games or this kind of place generally, but he, being the younger of us by 8.5 years, LOVED it. We ate an average tasting dinner & then went on our merry way to the games.
We shot dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, beat about seven little kids at that "roll a ball to score points to make your horse win the derby" game, got a zillion of those tickets at some random color gambling game, played twelve hundred rounds of skee ball, & he shot virtual enemies in some stand up, put a helmet on & turn around in circles war army game.
He also won me a tiny stuffed animal (we're not sure what kind of animal it is ... is it a cat? a bear? a mix of the two - a cear?) the first time he made that mechanical arm move to the middle & clamp down.
Lest I forget, we also dodged a zillion little kids running around in packs like wild animals who have no regard for the fact that they come up to your hip at most, knees more often than not, & it is easy to crush them like grapes when they scurry by. We also had to push our way through couples & gaggles of skantily-clad teenaged girls who thought it was perfectly fine to just stop in the middle of an aisle & stand there. (ps: preteens? those '80's outfits you have on didn't even look cute in the '80's & I should know. pps: parents? you actually let your daughters leave the house looking like prostitutes at age twelve?) & I lost track of how many times so-called "adults" swore loudly in front of little children. (probably #1 pet peeve) Language! LANGUAGE!
Our tickets got us a set of cool looking shot glasses, which, when we opened them at home, we found out one was cracked already & the other three broke pretty much the second we set them on the kitchen counter.
All-in-all, though, despite my protesting, we had a fun night out ... even though I did feel like a g.d. tourist the whole time.
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I would actually give the food here 3 stars but everything else gets negative 5 stars.
I have no problem with the little kids, what little kid wouldn't freak out in a place like this, that's cute.
The other 2 major demographics of clientel annoy me. Trust Fund Teenagers and drunk, out of town business people.
However, the burgers are quite good.
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