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King Keg
Categories: Food Grocery Food Beer, Wine & Spirits Grocery, Beer, Wine & Spirits [Edit]
5221 W Rosecrans AveHawthorne, CA 90250
(310) 536-9414
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 9 am - 1:30 am
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
11 reviews for King Keg
11 reviews in English
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Review from P T.
Newport Beach, CA
9/19/2011
Great liquor store - they carry Go Pong beer pong tables for just $75
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Review from David R.
Los Angeles, CA
2/3/2012
One star for the younger guy that was stocking shelves. He was actually cordial. Otherwise I would give this place ZERO stars. The owner needs a lesson in how to speak to potential customers. Speaking to people in a condescending, stern manner is how you scold bad children, not how you treat a person walking through your door looking to become a customer. This guy was a total jerk. DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY HERE!!!!!!!
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Review from Lori T.
Redondo Beach, CA
10/1/2011
Do not go here! The owner does not know how to run a business or how to treat his customers. In fact, he's a complete jerk at all times to his employees and customers for no reason. King Keg will no longer be receiving my business.
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Review from g c.
Manhattan Beach, CA
1/2/2009
They have a great selection of beers to choose from but they lie and overcharge about their prcies.
My friends and I went in there to get a keg of beer, we had our own keg and our own tap...they wanted to charge us $125 for crappy coors light. It was only $65 at BevMo.
Another incident...I called ahead to see if they had a bottle of MOET in stock and the person quoted me $43. When I walked in the guy tried to charge me $60!!! -
Review from Lauren V.
1/7/2010
Maybe I shouldve looked for "Tariq". Judging by the previous reviews, he must be the key to the apparent awesomeness to this store.
From the freeway, this place seems like your typical run-of-the-mill trashy liquor store. Go into the plaza and pull up next to the yellow hummer, you'll see how wrong my first preconceived notions were. Its nice. Very nice. Next to a kabob lace that i'd like to visit sometime.
The store is clean, seems very well stocked and organized with high-end liquors (they have Laphroaig! no liquor store or even bevmo near me had it!) and beers and such. Its very classy looking for a liquor store, like one of my favorite liquor stores in newport beach.
Too bad that as i walked in, there was about 4 little girls and a guy who looked way too young to be selling liquor, busily playing a computer game behind and next to the counter. How delightfully unprofessional.
Ok, im not trying to be a bitch about that, but you feel like such a degenerate trying to buy cigarettes and liquor and lotto tickets in the midsts of kids. What made it worse is that they all seemed to glare at me as i walked in, like i was interrupting their game.
The young guy behind the counter continued to ignore me as i stood there and after a few minutes of standing, he finally gets up to help me.
I hand him my purchases and the entire process is made painful because he's moving exceptionally slow and has a look on his face that screams, "ughhh, why must you bother me?"
Here's the reason i decided to write this review...I was recovering from laryngitis and my voice was still deep and raspy. He asks coldly if i want anything else, i say ,"no" and he hands me back my stuff sarcastically saying, "here you go sir" then smirks and then lethargically corrects himself,"i mean, madam".
I raise an eyebrow at him, he just looks at me, dead behind the eyes and helps the next customer. He was just dull and sarcastic and treated me like some bullshit hassle. That really grinds my gears when service is not only bad, its mildly insulting.
Ok, I can be accused of being petty and i accept that, but it was just one of those things where you think to yourself, i can just let that snot-nosed punk get away with that. There didnt seem to be any other higher authority present so i couldnt complain, so this blurb on yelp will have to do.
This place would probably be great if there was an (or more) adults present. Unfortunately for me, there was not. -
Review from Aaron D.
Hawthorne, CA
5/30/2010
They have a hug selection of beverages to choose from but I think their pricing can be a bit better.
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Review from Brian B.
Livermore, CA
3/1/2007
For a strip mall liquor store, this place is top notch. Into a fairly small space, they've really thought through their merchandising. I find it annoying when a small store has 80 12 packs of Bud in the cooler and their 'exotic import' is Sierra Nevada. Not so at the King. Also a pleasant surprise was the wine selection which included some higher end wine (Cakebread, Silver Oak) at prices that are competitive to Von's. Wedged in next to a Hawaiian BBQ and a Curves, it looks a bit seedy from afar but come on in, the King delivers!
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Review from Greg S.
Long Beach, CA
6/23/2007
owned by a guy named Tariq Amin, only do business with him. Everyone else is on commission and you'll end up paying more...compliment him on his store and you'll walk out with free cups, ice and even a jockey box. . .good variety of beers and wines, look for the yellow hummer!
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Review from A. Christine T.
Venice, CA
7/10/2008
We have a kegerator and love having beer on tap whenever we want. King Keg has delivered all our kegs for us, and they hook them up. Today we had our kegerator serviced by the owner, basically for free because he gave us a number of parts, and he threw in a lesson on how to pour beer too. Great service, and the biggest selection of beer I've ever seen.
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Review from bob n.
Torrance, CA
11/8/2007
I wish I had as good of an experience at King Kegs as the other reviewers had. This was my first time buying a keg and I automatically just went with King Keg for my keg needs. I have also gone to that store to buy some liquor in the past and the night salesman was very nice.
I called a sales person and told him that I would need a keg of "Rogue Dead Guy Ale" for a bachelor party I was putting together (I am not sure what his name was but he sounded middle eastern). I tell him that on the internet site, I saw that they had the beer I wanted listed with 2 different prices. $179 for just the keg and $199 for the package #2. And also the same beer with the same volume was listed as costing $199 for just the keg and $220 for the package #2. He doesn't listen to me but tells me that the keg is $199 and I would need to rent the pump and ice bucket for an extra charge...
No problem, I would like to know if I could get it for Friday (its Monday afternoon). He quickly tells me that it shouldn't be a problem but someone is looking it up as we speak. Ok, cool, thank you...
Then he takes down my drivers license number, name, phone number, address, credit card number, and the 3 digit security code on the back. Even though I tell him that I will be paying for it all in cash in less than an hour. But no problem, and I gave him all the information...
The guy that was calling to make sure they can get it by Friday then starts talking to my sales guy in some other language for a bit and when they are done I was asked what time on Friday I need it by. I tell him as soon as I can get it. Then he starts rambling on and on about how he needs to pick it up from the warehouse, drive it here and there and just giving me needless details... I just say, "whatever time I can pick it up, just let me know." Bla bla bla.. "about 2-3pm." Ok, no problem.
Then he talks some more to someone there with him (in another language) and gets back on the phone with me and says, "If we cant get this beer, what is another beer you would like." I told him that the beer that I was ordering was my friends favorite beer and that I was throwing him a bachelor party. So that specific beer was really the only beer that I was interested in. He talks some more to someone there. He then tells me that I need to tell him what backup beer I wanted if they cant get my first choice. So I ask him, "when would you know if you can't get the beer that I wanted?"
He tells me that I am not listening and says, "listen, if I can't get you your first choice beer, what is your backup beer? What is your backup plan!?" I then tell him that if he cannot get the beer that I wanted then my backup plan would be to get it from somewhere else. "Rogue Dead Guy Ale" is the beer that I am looking for.
He then just tells me, "Ok, then get it from somewhere else."
"Huh?!? I would rather just get the beer from you guys, but you asked what my backup plan would be if you can't get it. And if you cant get the beer then I will look someone else."
"I don't want to be responsible if we cant get the beer you want and you don't have a backup beer. So just get it from somewhere else." Then click... He hung up the phone.
It was the weirdest thing. I was not rude at all and I bit my tung through most of the conversation. The only thing I can think of is that he couldn't get the beer that I wanted and was just looking to sell me a "backup plan".
So I call a friend of mine who buys kegs frequently for advice and he tells me, "yea those guys over there are #$*@ heads". "You should just try Beverages and More."
So I call up a "BevMo" and I tell the first person that I talk to that I am trying to get a keg of "Rogue Dead Guy Ale" for Friday. She asks me to hold for just a second (I hear some typing). She gets back after less than a minute and tells me that the soonest she could get it is Friday. "Perfect!" "When time could I pick it up?" She tells me that the store opens at 10am. "So it will be ready when the store opens?" She gives me a yes sir and then tells me the price... $159... I tell her that is great and that I will also be needing all the gear. So I asked how much is that going to be. She tells me that there is no charge for the gear, just a deposit that I will get back after I return the stuff. Wow...
"Do you want my credit card information?"
"No, just pay for it when you pick it up."
"Thats it?!"
"Yes sir."
I then just say "wow!.. You wouldn't believe the phone call I just had with a place called King Keg trying to get the same thing." She says, "Oh yea... I have heard a couple stories about that place."
I will never go to King Keg for my keg needs and I would recommend that anyone interested in a keg, just go to BevMo (There is one in Torrance). Its not far from king keg, I saved $80 for the same thing, I didn't need to give my personal information over the phone and Bevmo made it feel effortless to get what I wanted. -
Review from Benjamin W.
Los Angeles, CA
7/18/2008
DO NOT ORDER A KEG FROM HERE. My company ordered a keg from here with a specific delivery time. When it did not arrive on time we called. They said it was on its way. When it did not arrive after a half hour so we called again, and after chewing us out on the phone for calling again, they threatened to cancel the keg, basically turning a problem that was their fault into our problem. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE ATTITUDE. EVEN WORSE CUSTOMER SERVICE.
