Dave & Buster’s

My food was microwaved. Come for the games eat somewhere else before hand

Went early on a Sunday and had a great time! We were greeted by a friendly young lady at the front desk who explained how it works to us. She loaded up our card with $ 29 and the two of us played games for over an hour. The place looked clean, only one of the shooting games was acting glitchy — everything else worked fine and I got some sweet ball jar glasses and a stuffed animal for my dog with my 1200 tokens.
Nice way to escape the heat for a bit

Definitely a fun place for the entire family. Arcade, bowling, decent food, bar… a good way to cool off and have fun in this triple didget weather.

We were visiting from Washington state and went here to watch a Seahawks game. My sister in law who lives in town recommended it. I guess they just walked into the bar area and sat in a big table with a great view of the big screen. This apparently really pissed off the bartender who proceeded to ignore our group and give us dirty looks all day. I guess they said those tables were reserved and even asked when we were going to leave a one point. Even though we sat there from 2 – 5 pm. Those tables weren’t reserved until 8pm. They left the whole darn best seat section empty all day and kept sitting everyone in the shitty lower level tables. Bunch of dicks for no reason. Since there was a home Cardinals game actually taking place in town the place was empty all day. Bunch of dicks for no reason. Power trippin.
I can’t believe you would take your kid here. Finally made my way upstairs to play some games after sitting around drinking all day. There is a huge bar in the middle of the game floor. What? Why? Is this a kids place or a drinking place. Weird to me its even legal. AZ must have changed some drinking laws. When I was 18 (in AZ) I couldn’t even go the bar to see my friends band play. Even when we could we had to stand behind some chain link fence to separate us. Now you can get shitfaced while hundreds of five to ten year old’s run around you in circles unsupervised. WTF??? So weird. One reviewer commented on the avoiding games with guns, which I get, my sister is the same way with her kid. What I don’t get is why you don’t have a problem with THE GIANT BAR IN THE MIDDLE OF A KIDS PLAY ROOM???
Games are a super rip off. Totally agree it is rigged.

Dave & Buster is a huge scam. They change the price of their games based on peak loads and use cards to get kids to forget how much they are paying did the games and reload, reload, reload. When we went the games were about 75 cents each for 30 seconds game.
Next they claim you can open a rewards account for free and without what they call a power card. But when I tried to do this they insisted I needed to pay for a power card to open the rewards account.
Finally the food was good but the orders were all messed up and the initial delivery was 45 minutes and our server said they are supposed to deliver the food in 7 minutes. We got there before 5 PM so it wasn’t a peak time. They had to credit money back for this.
And they don’t print the prices of the drinks on their menu so you don’t know you are paying double the normal cost for drinks until you get the bill.
Overall not recommend.

I love the concept. But this location is absolutely filthy. Went on a Saturday night and felt like I was at a nightclub in Mexico. Crates and crates of dirty dishes everwhere, glasses, food, trash. I almost didn’t want to drink… Almost. I had a couple that were very good but pricey. One of the bartenders was very rude. I did not want food I was too grossed out by the filth. The tables weren’t cleared after people left, they just left the plates there to smell. I do not recommend allowing your teens or children here without supervision. It is very easy for them to access alcohol. The restrooms were a disaster! Bloody pads on the floor, soiled toilet paper, half the stalls were clogged and the doors didn’t work. I hope this was an off night because I can see myself going back, just not to this location. Should mention that this was upstairs.

Love this place it’s so much fun! I’m guessing they have over 200+ games to choose from. Always have weekday specials & you get the inside scoop when you sign up for their emails. The first time you sign up for their emails you’ll get $ 10 on your next visit ! Which is pretty cool.
Taco Tuesday’s are delicious & fun
$ 2 tacos chicken or beef
$ 2 corona & corona light
The tacos are actually really yummy ! Who would have thought !
I enjoy being my boys here because mom can play too & maybe if in the mood have an adult snow cone or their signature purple people eater which is layered with Stoli Ohranj, HYPNOTIQ, island pucker & cranberry juice !! Yum
Remember to bring your play card to load chips on if not it’ll cost you an extra $ 2
Wednesday’s are half price bowling & ½ price games
Enjoy gaming fellow UnilocalERS

Super pissed about the way this location handled the Pacquaio/​Bradley fight!
I received an email stating that the fight would be shown here. It was even listed with the info you could pull up on google…
We always go to this location for the PPV boxing matches and each person that goes usually runs up a bill of no less than $ 80. And every time we’ve gone, the downstairs bar is always full of people there for the fight.
This time around we show up and put in our drink order then ask when they were going to be putting the fight on. The bartender went and asked her manager who then told her they were paid by someone to NOT show the fight anywhere in the Dave and Busters EXCEPT this upstairs room that this «unnamed» person paid to rent out.
It completely blows my mind that Dave and Busters would even allow something as selfish as this to happen. So because someone wants to be a greedy stuck up d! ckhead and ruin things for other people, Dave and Busters is just going to accept the money and not allow others to watch the fight and have a good time.
Needless to say, a company like that isn’t worth my continued patronage and we won’t be returning for anything.

Avoid this place. Extremely disrespectful bartender and manager. When I presented them with a valid Washington state ID the bartender (didn’t get his name, young and douchey looking with a soul patch) left with it for over ten minutes, came back and blatantly lied saying its «Arizona state law» they can’t take my kind of ID which I know is not true. Then proceeded to be an asshole about it. Definitely don’t recommend this place to anyone

NEVER GOING BACK EVER. you couldn’t pay me to go back here after I was treated. They have a rule where you must be accompanied by an adult to go inside, or be 18. I am 18, they checked my ID at the front desk, I went upstairs, 2 more employees checked it. The third one that did, took it and would not return it, insisting I wasn’t 18, and they kicked me out. I am an honor student, and eagle scout. Nobody should be discriminated against like this, this is outrageous, especially cause I eat and play their every month. They need to higher more compitent employees, or drop that rule. I will make sure that none of my friends, family, or anyone else ever goes back. I suggest you don’t either, until they have a change in policy.

Wide variety of food and drink choices on the menu. Took a little while for our food to arrive and we were the only ones in the restaurant part of the place. Had really great spicy peanut chicken Thai noodles.

I like how they have 10 pin bowling. Great drinks at the three different bars. Two restaurants. Lots of new video games. A pool table room that has shuffle board. Upstairs on the balcony you can smoke. Food is good. I like how you can get a 10 – 15 dollar meal or pay 24 for it and get a 20 buck play card. Servers are all friendly. Why I only rated it a four star is they constantly forget food sides or whatnot. Actually every restaurant does. So I shouldn’t complain. No restaurant is perfect. So actually gonna give them a five star as games, food, and drinks are awesome. It’s a fun place to go with family, friends or on a first date.

I’m not planning to ever go back to this place. It is insanely overpriced. $ 20 worth of credits will last one person literally 7 minutes! Even the more fun action games last less than a minute without you adding more credits. Yes I know most arcades are that way but usually kids can get enough tokens to kill at least a half hour to 45 minutes! Years ago D&B used to have virtual reality type attractions in addition to the games and those were more adult oriented and fun. That’s what I expected this time instead of a bunch of claw machines and roulette type games. Although they advertise games and suggest it as a place for all ages, it’s really more of a teens and 20’s date night kind of thing. On the other hand, what teen has enough money to keep their date entertained at those prices?
The prizes, yes I realize they are typically cheap in an arcade type place, but these were so cheap that kids couldn’t even find a couple trinkets and an adult would find nothing at all since even the candy is too too many tickets. Hundreds of tickets for one, very small, piece of candy, holy cow!
It’s not for kids because of the prices. It’s not for teens because of the prices and it’s not for older adults, who could afford it, because of the games, so I guess it’s for 20 somethings with a lot of money? Personally, I would spend $ 60 or so and buy a new video game rather than blow that much in a half hour (excluding food) at D&B and have nothing to show for it, but a not memorable memory.
I wasn’t even inclined to buy the food, since my credits didn’t last long enough to stay for food. I was only there for 30 minutes or so!
If I EVER went back it would be to try the food and drinks, sans the games, but since they don’t have any kind of food reputation, why would I?

Please do yourself a favor and don’t eat at Dave & Buster’s, ever!
I used to be a huge fan as it is one of the few places where you can eat, grab drinks, bowl, and play arcade games but it seems in the past few years, Dave & Buster’s has steadily gone downhill.
We have now eaten at D&B on two separate occasions over the past two months and the food was horrendous. This past time, my fiancée ordered the Chicken Caesar Salad (pretty simply) and I ordered a hamburger (pretty simple). I’m sure you are now thinking, «how can they mess that up?» The salad came out with lettuce that was withering, chicken that looked like rubber and was cold, and as you can imagine, it tasted just as bad. The hamburger I received looked like the bun had been sitting in their kitchen since bread was first invented and the meat had a taste unlike that of hamburger. On top of it all, we left with quite a sick feeling in our stomach.
If you want to go to D&B for games, I would still recommend it. It’s a fun environment, although a little overpriced, but it’s nice once in awhile. Just make sure you eat BEFORE you go!

Pros: Great games for kids and adults of all ages. There are only a few «gun» games and those are easily avoided if you have little ones (or big ones). For $ 25 the three of us played about 15 games which took us about 30 minutes. This was perfect amount of time for a 4 year old plus mom and dad looking forward to dinner after. The games seemed modern and felt pretty clean.
Cons: The smell (upstairs) of spilled beer made me feel as if I jumped back in time to the crappy bars of my early twenties. Bartender didn’t seem knowledgable about the beers — I asked for a Laganitas and she didn’t know what I was talking about, but the beer was on the menu. My husband went back and showed her that they do carry it.
We did not eat here — so I can’t comment on the food. The downstairs bar smelled much better than upstairs. Will come back again!

Dave & Buster’s is the dream of every adult who is still a kid at heart. For all the arcade enthusiasts, sports fans, and those who like to have drinks at a bar followed by some virtual racing, this place is the bomb.
Back in my hometown, a place like this doesn’t exist and when visiting Arizona, I needed to give it a try. Although there were plenty of kids making their way around when we went, we didn’t feel out of place by going here. Note: We didn’t spend any time downstairs and were by the bar and arcade the majority of the time.
I highly recommend looking up any online deals. We were able to use one to get over a hundred points (not sure on the exact number) on our Dave & Buster’s card for a little over $ 20 and there were enough points that I still had plenty over left over after an hour. Tickets were relatively easy to win and the prizes were extensive.
For me, I wouldn’t come here for the dining experience. The bar had some good drinks and the fries were some of the best I’ve had but, based on the orders of my friends, the fries and drinks are what I would limit myself to when not enjoying the arcade. Hope to see what the locations in other states are like because of how many leftover points I have.

We went here on a Tuesday night and the place was deadsville. Since we have a couple of kids we elected to go upstairs for them to partake in the games.
We ordered a couple of combo meals, which was food and tokens for the games. When the kids wiped through the tokens, we started to realize that. the games were a little on the pricey side. No more. games after that.
When the food. arrived we were all quite hungry. but alas, even that didn’t help. The food was dull, unevenly warm and served in haste. Grandpa liked his ribs but everything else was just plain average. I got the feeling from looking at things like cleanliness and staff uniforms that the management is just barely holding on.

No, no, no.
Firstly, the facility is beautiful and everyone I encountered was friendly, if a little too overbearing. (I swear, our waiter was at our table every 3 – 5 minutes, interrupting our conversation to check on us and ask a question. Enough with the check-​ins already, give us some time to dine uninterrupted!)
Secondly, I sat down and my menu is sticky and wet and that set the tone for a less than stellar experience. What I take away when I encounter a sticky, wet menu is that at some recent point someone wiped it down with a wet towel but they didn’t get it fully clean. or dry, so they did a crap job overall; and I’m about to dine here. Yay.
Lastly, the food came and I was horribly disappointed. I ordered the Lobster Alfredo with Shrimp and a 5″ Petite Filet. That’s a lot of high end items on my fettuccini for $ 18.99 so I expected a pretty decent lunch. Sadly it wasn’t good at all. The pasta wasn’t hot and wasn’t cold, it was… tepid? The presence of lobster was non-​existent in the weak flavored pasta sauce. (Perhaps they waived a piece of lobster over the sauce as it was cooking? That’s the only possible explanation.) The shrimp were on the ragged edge of being undercooked, too soft to the touch and still lightly translucent in places, a telltale sign of being underdone. And finally, one half of my petite filet was nothing but sinewy tendons, leaving me all of 2.5″ of meat for my lunch; that annoyed me because I’m a girl that likes her meat. (TWSS!)
My 9 year old son ordered the kid’s mac and cheese for $ 4.99 from the kid’s menu and received… wait for it… a bowl of lukewarm Kraft mac and cheese and nothing more. Not a small side of fruit, or fries, or anything else to lessen the insult that I just dropped $ 5 on a small bowl of mac and cheese that would cost me less than fifty cents to buy at the store and get enough to serve the whole family. Ah, but I forget that I am paying for the ambience of this place: sticky menus, and incessant interruptions, and all!
I ordered a side of sweet potato fries for $ 3.99 for my 4 year old daughter and her food was the only thing that was good about the whole dining experience!
And don’t even get me started on the price of the games at this place. The word exorbitant comes to mind.
Nah, my experience here was no good. My dining partner’s experience was no better, having ordered a Chinese Salad that came generously mixed with finely diced kale, when she despises kale and it wasn’t listed as an ingredient in the salad on the menu. She spoke to a manager and got her horrid salad removed from her bill. I just sucked it up and paid my bill in full and felt queasy all day long after eating one of those undercooked shrimp. :/

What can ya say about food, drinks, games, and prizes! Good things! I gave a three stars for the following reasons:
1.) Came into the dining room on the first floor with a party of 12 (mind you we called ahead), ordered drinks & appetizers that didn’t take too long to come out. Nachos, calamari, and atrichoke dip… they were okay — average. Drinks… I ordered the Watermelon Coronita-​Margarita drink which was pretty delicious, it is a definite must try. Comes with your own little bottle of Coronita flipped upsidedown in a Margarita. Also tried the Banana Split drink. This drink is DELISH!
2.) Ordered dinner… Most of the entrees came out in a timely fashion. Except my Mom’s. She ordered the Bacon-​Wrapped Sirloin Medallions & Grilled Shrimp Skewer things — they took at least 10 minutes longer to come out, I had to go request for a Manager because the Waitress wasn’t checking in with us about it at all. (She’s another story… down the line.) Mom finally gets her order, asked for it medium-​rare, and it comes out rare. I mean rare. I’m surprised it was cooked-​looking on the outside! She sends it back, asks for medium. It comes back out another ten minutes later… it’s well done. She takes a few bites. It’s not good. She’s had enough, over it. I send it back for her, ask for it to be removed from the bill.
3.) Waiting… waiting… where’s the waitress? Have you seen her? For the beginning of our arrival, she was attentive. Towards the end, mind you the dining area is less busy than it was when we got there, she was just not around. Oh there she is, finally! Can we have our bill… Wait another ten minutes… Okay we don’t even want to look at it just take it, swipe it, lessgo play games… At least she was nice? Took a couple family pics for us!
4.) Games were fun. They have a new Star Wars pod that you MUST TRY. Most of the games were up and running. There were only a few that were down. Warning: the «beer pong» game is always breaking down. Just don’t. Just. Don’t.
Other than that it was a fun time!

This last time we were here, was 3 months ago for my nieces birthday party with all her girlfriends. Started off in the bowling alley area, which is located on the lower level. My sister got bowling for the girls (12), endless amounts of pitchers of soda, hamburgers, chicken bites and french fries. I don’t know if that is a package or not but i know they have other packages, see attached pdf i found.
The was plenty of attention from the servers and very helpful with getting the bowling started. The girls had a really good time, i know my sister is really glad that she chose Dave & Busters. After the bowling the girls ran upstairs to use the coins we gave them. They had a blast and even more fun trying to decide what to get with all of their tickets they got.
4 stars because the cost of this place was nuts. They have a pretty good racket going on here, the kids love it!
This place is great for groups of people, and lots of kids.