Skip and Jan’s Sports Bar

Don’t believe the negative reviews. While this place is still a work in progress, it is a GREAT neighborhood bar. The food and drinks are an excellent value for the prices, and the Chicken Wings are as good as anything in the Gilbert area.
The waitresses were also very friendly and attentive.
PS — We were there for the Cardinals — Panthers playoff game.

I like the atmosphere but the service is absolutely horrible. The waitresses were drunk or Hi on something, sorry it shouldn’t take 15 minutes to put beer and ice in a bucket on a slow night.

Went out looking for a place to watch the GB game on Sunday, S&J’s just opened recently, let’s check it out.
I’ll give it 3 stars for now, I didn’t try any food. All I could see on the menu, was fried, fried fried and of course burgers. The waitress recommended the flat bread, maybe next time.
Service was slow, our waitress seemed new, didn’t quite know what was behind the bar, but she was attentive after she got rolling.
One thing I will say, this place is über clean. I could drop my food on the floor, and could pick it up again, it almost sparkled, that is the main reason I’ll be back to try the pool tables and food. See you soon!

Service is horrible. Food isn’t all that much better. Happy hour prices are great.

Great new building and beer selection. The pool tables are perfect.
The service sucks. When you are playing pool, expect to have to go up front and order your beer and food. I literally waited 45 minutes until a server acknowledged me while I was playing pool. I loved skip and jans before and I hope that this area improves or I won’t be spending much time there.

This place lacks identity. Tons of tv’s and billiards tables. Pretty cool little bar. Happy hour beers are reasonable, $ 2 for a pint $ 3.50 for a mug. I was scared to try any food here because of the previous reviews, so i got an order of tater tots — it’s pretty hard to mess these up. They weren’t bad, and the bar is pretty cool. I’d recommend more decorations or a theme. If the food gets better this place could be my new local bar!

It was UFC fight night and I needed an somewhere close to home to watch Ronda get her butt kicked. I heard this place had wings, and beer, and television — sounded perfect… right?
Maybe I didn’t come on the right night.
There was a birthday party happening and all the waiters and waitresses seemed to be catering towards that so service was kinda slow… We were 3 fights in before our waitress greeted us… about 45 minutes? By then my friend had already walked up to the bar and ordered directly from the bartender.
We ordered wings, and as soon as they were delivered I knew I would be donating them to a homeless person. I’m going to do a comparison to Zipps right now, because Zipps knows how to do bar food. When you order wings from Zipps, it’s around 6 – 10 big plump wings that has a smell that entices everyone in the area to order more wings. The wings here were about 25 skinny little wings with no flavor and dry as who knows what. And the smell… The lady from the table next to us scrunched up her face and asked «is that your wings?» They smelled awful and the odor was strong. I tried to hold onto those wings until UFC 193 was over to deliver to a homeless person but the smell from them was so strong I was advised several times to just throw them away.
I really hate to write such a bad review, so now I’ll mention some positives — the televisions were great, the beer was good, and the prices were affordable. This place is so close to where I live and has some great potential to be a fantastical local bar, it just needs some help with the food.

Okay. Much better than the place that took up ¼ of this corner before. That said, why is there no dart boards and more games outside of pool? Weird with all of the space they would leave it dead vs put in something to take my quarters
Keep improving options and you might stick long term.

This place could be good but it’s not. Huge rooms, grey walls and no style, a cold feeling. The bar is this gigantic horseshoe with a lot of wasted space and the bartender is running from one end to the other, I am sure she is exhausted just running around the bar it is so big and only one bartender on a Friday night.
I ordered the French dip, the beef was good, the bread was good but certainly not generous with the beef, very skimpy and the aujus was cold. The only other food I saw coming out of the kitchen were chick wings. Chick wings you can get everywhere. From the time we ordered food until it arrived, 40 minutes. A good bar is not easy to do, but there are several in the area that are more comfortable with very good service.

This place has a lot of potential and I hope it can find its footing. We ate here on a Saturday night and started with the fried zucchini sticks and a dozen wings (half medium/​half hot). We ordered this at the same time we ordered our beers and happened to receive both at the same time (roughly 15 – 20 min later). It would have been helpful to have a list of all the beers on draft, but that’s just on a side note. The wings had great flavor and had quite a bit of meat on them, definitely would recommend trying them. I ordered the Southwest Burger medium rare and it came out well done. Still gave it a shot and found that it still had good flavor as well. The tater tots were surprisingly very good with a nice crunch to them.
Not sure if they were just really understaffed that night or if it can be chalked up to the «newness» of the place and as it was just a bit disorganized. The waitresses were nice but it seemed like they were having a difficult time managing all the different tables as they didn’t seem to have specific assignments. These are just some of the small details that added up over the night that led to the rating, including the two small styrofoam plates received for our apps at a table of four. Our waitress even felt compelled enough to apologize to us multiple times for, in her words, «terrible service».
Again, as far as the size of this place, the large bar, lots of pool tables, big TV’s, good draft beer selection, and decent food, I think it has a lot of potential and I would like to come back to try again.

The New and Approved Skip and Jan’s is awesome! Great grilled honey hot wings !! Love the lunch specials and the staff is friendly and welcoming! Also, a great place for billiards play, NFL package and special events! One of my favorites! I get around more than you know !! and success to the new Skip and Jan’s ! Tall cranberry and tonic in a beer mug with a lime!

If you like to spend a coupla hours playing billiards this place is perfect. Went this morning for brunch & football. Bar/​restaurant side is very spacious with lots of TVs — need some respacing btwn them around the bar though. Well priced food specials & beer; no specialty food to knock your socks off but good standard pub grub at good prices. Very friendly staff take good care of the customers.

Same great billiard with a new fresh look and location! I am very impressed with the new location. Skip and Jan’s was formally located in Tempe, AZ. They recently closed the doors of the Tempe location and opened in Gilbert, AZ. I am not only excited that it is much closer to home for me, but it was beautifully remodeled in the process. Skip and Jan’s took the old First Round Drafts location on the Northeast corner of McQueen and Warner and gave it a major facelift. The old FRD was 100% gutted for this transformation. The fresh paint and new bar top gives a fresh, clean, fun and welcoming feel. They just opened their doors on Wednesday, and I have already made two visits. It is quickly become our local hangout. Skip and Jan’s offers 18 top of the line pool tables. When I say top of the line, I mean it. They have to have some of the best tables in the valley! The pool hall is in a separate room from the main bar, but don’t worry you’ll have enough servers to still take care of your drinks and food! I personally like the separation because you don’t get the noise and the sometimes distracting people in the bar affecting your game. The bar offers music, shuffleboard, old school sit down PacMan, pin ball and of course GOLDEN TEE! There are plenty of TVs to catch your favorite teams in both the bar and billiard!!! A lot of the staff came from the old location with a couple of new faces. I was told they will be getting a new menu shortly, but right now I love their tacos!!! In fact, I love that their food is traditional bar food: hotdogs, hamburgers, tacos, cheese crisp, wraps, oh and their fries rock!!! They are crinkle fries — The BEST!!! If you couldn’t already tell, I will be back soon!!!