Jupiter’s Pizzeria and Billards

If you are coming here for the videos games and prizes turn back around. The majority of the games are out of order. If they are not out of order, they either take your tokens are gives u low tickets per game. The prize selections are cheap. You are spending $ 20 you end up getting a prize that cost $ 0.25 in those quarter machines. There was trash everywhere on the floor and the person working didn’t care to pick any of it up.
Their game selection is weak and there’s tons of naughty kids running around without parent supervision. A group of kids were shooting basketballs across the room into the basketball game and the worker who was emptying the token machines just walked passed and didn’t say anything.
This will be the last time I take my family here. They could make this an amazing place but it lacks TLC.

A good craftsman never blames his tools.
I, however, am not a good craftsman.
I couldn’t make crap on the pool tables there last Wednesday. I took my time, I thought I stayed down, I followed through, I didn’t always think WWJD (what would Jamie do) and hit as hard as possible. But I still couldn’t make anything.
Wait, that’s wrong, I made the cue ball several times.
We’d hit and watch the ball roll off, badly. Looks like it’s gonna be an easy shot right in front of the pocket… nope, it’s off by an inch.
One time, I took my time, and tried a long shot, that rolled off by 2 inches.
Granted everyone else played under the same conditions, but they are maybe better craftsmen.
I, however, am not a good craftsman.
There is pizza, there is beer, there is other drinks, there is devil boxes, there is a place for kids to be kids, there is pool. There is a Tuesday night half price large pizza special, but it’s probably dine in only, ya cheap bastards.

I called to reserve a room for a cheer banquet (Large groups, I would suggest making a reservation, and ordering ahead of time, this place gets busy!). Their event coordinator made everything simple for us. She helped us with the quantity of food we’d need for a group of 100 kids/​adults. She even calculated what the total cost per person after tax, and tip for me. All I had to do was chose the time we wanted our food served, and the servers took care of set up and clean up. They are in the process of remodeling too! There is new carpet and freshly painted walls. Our servers also told us they are creating a private party room out of the old OTB, and purchasing new furniture for certain areas of the building. This is a great place for all ages! There is an arcade for the kiddos, pool tables, and a bar for the adults. Our guests were very impressed. We will be back!

Probably the worst place I’ve been to in a while and definitely not a good place for large groups. We came here with a reservation for 20 people after a graduation, and this place is equipped to hold a larger party, which is why we picked it in the first place. However, I would say after the experience we had, they should just not accept a large reservation if you’re not going to staff it to handle the group. We had only 1 person wait our table even though there were several other workers at the bar and people who were doing nothing that could have helped.
The food is Grade C and the service is grade F. Let’s start with the food. For a pizza place, I would say this is just mediocre because there was nothing special about the cheese, sauce, flavors, or anything. I’ve had much better thin crust pizza and can probably make better pizza at home than this place. We had pre-​ordered our pizza since we had a large group and that was a mistake. Our pizza came out cold. If you pre-​order, it shouldn’t mean that they make the pizza hours in advance and bring it out as is. If you were going to do that, at least make sure the pizza temperature is hot enough to enjoy. The breadsticks were soft and tasty, but they didn’t bring enough sauce for the breadsticks, and with how bad things were already going, we were tired of asking for more and waiting forever to get anything.
Now for the service. From the start, our waiter did not have the table ready with the right number of cups, plates, napkins, or anything. The first thing we asked for was water for the whole table .He brought out 2 glasses at a time and went through half the table. We asked for a few pitchers of coke and he said «well someone said to bring waters for the whole table». So we said yes, waters for everyone and 2 pitchers of coke. He never brought out any more waters or cups for water. We ended up just using disposable plastic cups we asked for to get more water To him, it was like we could only ask for coke or water, not both. So from the beginning, this guy couldn’t even take care of water. He also had brought over a broken plastic cup which was leaking all over the table and when we told him, he told us there were napkins on the table and we asked him to bring a rag over and we were the ones cleaning it up versus him quickly reacting and taking care of it.
We then wanted to order more breadsticks b/​c there weren’t enough for everyone even though we placed the order based on the number of breadsticks they told us were in 1 order. My uncle wanted to order a beer and so when he came around he mentioned that and the guys says «only one thing at at time.» Really? if you’re a waiter and you can only get one order at a time, then I’d be in your restaurant for 5 hours trying to eat. And if you can’t remember something, that’s fine. That’s why they invented a notepad and pen.
All the waiter had to get was our drink order and bring out breadsticks since we had pre-​ordered pizza and the kitchen brought that out. For 2 simple tasks, the waiter could not remember anything and did half his job on drinks. I’m not sure how you could work at a restaurant and not be able to get drink orders in one shot (especially when the majority of it was just water and then 2 pitchers of coke, and 1 beer). the entire time he had given an attitude to the table and we ended up doing most of his job for him by getting plates, napkins, and trying to find crushed red pepper shakers on other tables before asking him to bring 2 to the table.
Overall, I would NEVER bring a large group to this place and honestly, I would probably never come back for the food since it was nothing special.

We went pretty late in the night, and ordered a Pesto Margarita. It took about 25 mins to come out but it was made to order. I’m a sucker for thin crust (deep dish= casserole) and it was very delicious, the pesto and cheese complemented each other and the tomato cooled everything down. Not too salty as most pesto pizzas turn out.
The atmosphere is really nice, friendly for all audiences, with almost as many TVs as there are tables (and there are many), and there are lots of billiards tables as well as an arcade in the basement floor for kids which includes a bowling alley!

Decided to give Jupiter’s another shot, but completely avoided the bar this time. Our server was phenomenal and we enjoyed playing pool and the arcade games. The pizza, as always, was great. I think the key is to just sit at a table! Avoid the bar (which unfortunately means no take out) at all costs.

Food is decent, about what I’d call bar food quality. Service was terrible. Place wasn’t very clean.
Came for lunch at about 11:45am on a weekday. Ordered pizzas and one buffalo chicken sandwich. Pizzas took over 50 minutes to come out, and even then only because we asked and were told by our server Meghan «they are sitting in the window just waiting for the sandwich», we asked her to bring the pizzas out anyway so they don’t sit in the window getting cold. Sandwich took another 20 minutes (well over an hour after ordering) at which point everyone eating pizza was done (were they gonna leave the pizzas in the window that entire time?). Manager did comp the sandwich but I don’t want free stuff I’d rather have decent service. Other notes were a side of tzatziki sauce that was ordered didn’t come out with food and we had to ask another server for it it, and the off-​brand ketchup didn’t come out til I was halfway done with my fries.
Papa Del’s can’t open their new location soon enough.

Food is good. Services is HORRIBLE. Wait staff is so slow. You have to hunt them down for food and drinks

My dad is a big fan of their pizza (he likes the bianco, I believe). When I come home, I usually order deep dish. However, this time I was in the mood for something a bit lighter. I was going to order Monical’s cause it looks so good (I don’t know about the taste since I haven’t had it in forever). But my brother assured me that Jupiter’s is way better. So Jupiter’s it is. They have a lovely variety of specialty pizzas. But I am a picky pizza ingredient person. We just got a large pepperoni pizza. Order was expected in 25 – 30 min. I seems like it was ready even earlier than that as our pizza was not piping hot when received. Disappointing. Taste was OK — nothing special. The restaurant is a fine place to hang out and have a drink. There are also plenty of games that patrons were taking advantage of.

I like the pizza, other items I have had are standard quality bar food. Never played pool at this location but seem to have a lot of tables. Nice looking bar and most of the time service is good.

We went to Jupiter’s in a party of fourteen from my husband’s work. I’m not a game and sports bar type of person, but most of the raucousness seemed confined to the lower level. We sat at the bar and had a beer until everyone had arrived. We could find no menu or list of beers, but the bartender we spoke to was helpful and polite when we asked. When all were present, a member of our party talked with a hostess who indicated we could sit in the booth area by the pool tables. Some of our party wanted to play pool, so this was just fine. We had no requirement to be seated close together. Since there is no wait service provided in that area, which I found very strange for a pizza place/​bar that serves drinks and food, we ordered our food at the bar and additional drinks needed to be obtained in the same way. The pizza was delicious with generous toppings but I ran out of anything to drink soon after the pizza arrived and just didn’t want to go through standing at the bar like a goose to get another. A member of our party still did not have his food after everyone else had theirs, and when they did bring it out, it was dropped on the floor and had to be remade. Accidents happen, so I don’t hold that against Jupiter’s, but the fact that one person hadn’t received their food yet when we were finished, I do.
If the above issues alone are not enough to keep me from going again, this is: while we were waiting for our food (we had our drinks on the table), the same hostesses we had talked with earlier approached our booth and in a manner suggesting we were bad children said, «Ummmm, did someone seat you at this table?» One of our party replied that we weren’t seated specifically at this table, and the hostess interjected «Well…we need this for other things.» Other things such as what? Customers? I thought that is what we were. We told her that we had spoken to the hostess, HER actually, that we were a party of 14 and were told to sit in this area. She said, «Oh. yeah, ok.» and left. At least my husband and I left feeling that Jupiter’s doesn’t quite value their customers. So, I would definitely enjoy having their pizza again, but not as a dine in customer.

Make sure you ask lots of questions when you are planning a large party here. Booked my rehearsal dinner here months in advance, and they ended up sitting our party next to a large retirement event tonight which gave speeches on a stage with a microphone for almost an hour. While we knew going into the event, that there could be other events there with us, we were not warned that another party would have access to a microphone that would be so loud that we couldn’t hear the person sitting next to you talk. The sound of the speeches was also piped into the bathroom so we couldn’t get away from it. Terrible experience. Big events and brides be warned.

I had a meeting with my cycling club on Tuesday. It turns out that they have twice as much beer variety as what is shown on the beer menu! When we suggested to the waitress that they put something on the menu to indicate that they offer more beer than whats listed, she got quite snappy with us.
In general the pizza here is pretty good. It’s thin crust and really thin but not quite St. Louis style since they use real cheese. I’m a huge fan of garlic so I like anything with garlic as a topping. The Tuesday special is by far the best. Now that I know they have a pretty varied beer selection, it’s even better!
Our cycling group comes pretty often and they’re always good about splitting up the check for us.

Jupiter’s Pizza is a wonderful place to come whether it be a large group or a small one. I came here with a large group with about 21 people and they were so kind to help us out with combining tables and getting everything we needed on point.
Our waiter Joel was great with what we asked for! He helped us with this being our first time with suggestions. Not only that, but he split the check in whatever way we wanted and that helped up a lot. He also helped us with problems when we were playing arcade games since some of the games were malfunctioning.
Now the food. It was really good pizza, but I felt as thought it was just average pizza that you can get anywhere. The crust was a little burnt, but it was still amazing pizza and I was very satisfied.
The restaurant had a great atmosphere and has a very family oriented feeling. There were lots of TV’s for us to watch and it was fairly clean.
Overall, if I am ever in the area I will definitely come back. Glad to have visited here when I was in town!

I tried to book a reservation for 18 people. Someone was supposed to call me back to confirm, never got the phone call back then I call back the next day & Heather tells me they’re not accepting anymore reservations. I guess I will go someone else that wants my business!

If you’re looking for a great family-​friendly place to eat that serves delicious food, you will not be disappointed with Jupiter’s at the Crossing! I recently visited Jupiter’s with my family — my husband and myself, my teenage daughter, my toddler son, and my mom — and we loved it! We’re not from the Champaign area, so I was a little apprehensive about choosing a yummy spot to eat, but I stumbled on Jupiter’s and I’m so glad we did.
The Good: Our initial thought when we walked into Jupiter’s was WOW… really! We were so impressed with the modern feel and large space — lots of dining tables, video games, pool tables, and TV’s…lots and lots of TV’s! Gotta watch those Illini games somewhere, right?
So the space was great, and I was hoping that the food would live up to the fantastic venue. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that it does! We ordered chicken wings as an appetizer — SO GOOD, a specialty Gyro Pizza — unique and delicious, my toddler had a personal cheese pizza, and I had the Chicken Bacon Ranch Grinder — a favorite of mine. All solid choices.
The Bad: We found nothing to be lacking at Jupiter’s.
Overall: The venue is spacious, the food is great, the restrooms were clean, and there were video games the kids could play while we waited. An all-​around fantastic choice for a family meal.

DO NOT GO FOR LUNCH!!! Stopped in for lunch and after waiting a hour for 2 small pizzas, we had to get them to go because otherwise we’d be late for appointments. The kicker… PIZZAS WERE COLD! This is the second time it took an hour to get our food. At least the first time the food was hot. We will not return!!!

I’m from Chicagoland so I’m somewhat of a pizza snob. They’re thin crust is excellent IMHO although my skinny wife and I can almost take down a large pizza no problem. Their breadsticks are hit or miss. Great place for large groups and sub-​adolescent children. Also a great place for adult couples looking to socialize and enjoy a beverage and good meal. Great atmosphere!
I’m surprised this place doesn’t have a higher rating honestly.

Came here for the pizza, and it did not disappoint. Very thin crust, great cheese, sauce and meat. The parmesan in the shaker was actually grated, not dumped out of a green can. Not sure if I’ve ever seen that before. Regardless, it’s a good thing.
Only knock that holds it back from getting 5 stars is the crust. It was a bit dry. Works good supporting 3 meats, cheese and sauce, but Papa Dels is better.
On a positive note, the wait staff was very good. Service was quick and friendly, even on a football Saturday after the game. Nice big TVs, but provider is Dish and their selection of sports is limiting.

Pizza is good, even better on half price night. Beer selection is interesting. Service is spotty, I’ve had great servers and terrible ones. This location serves a family crowd so if you don’t like dining with kids around, avoid this place.