Q Bonkers

This place used to be awesome when Dallas owned it. New owners don’t seem to give a damn. Pool tables are crammed in close, can’t shoot without bumping into other players. The food is lousy & lukewarm. Prices have gone up under the new management. But by far the most upsetting thing is the staff. I’ve been shooting pool at this location through multiple owners, for many years, always wore my MC colors here without any issues. Now all of a sudden I’m getting attitude because I’m wearing a vest? Lady couldn’t even be bothered to smile when I asked her how her day was. I used my manners, yes ma’am and no ma’am, and still got the turned down mouth and cocked eyebrow. Me and a buddy just wanted to chill and give our money to a local, instead of lining Dave & Busters pocket. This place won’t be seeing another dime from me, my club, or anyone we associate with. When bikers aren’t welcome in a pool hall, what’s the world coming to?

Bartender (woman late 30ds maybe 40ds died blond hair) is rude as hell no customer services skills what so ever not like this dive bar cares about who they hire. Only reason I come here is because their cheap… but hey you pay for what you get. Cheap pool is sh**y service. It’s extremely rare that I give a ONE STAR but this place makes the cut ONLY because the bartender other wise this place would get a solid 4 star in my books. Beer is decently priced at $ 14 and change after tax for a pitcher of import. Pool is the best priced At only $ 6 an hour thats a steal! Just be ready to get treated like SH*T when you play here.

Nice chill place. Wings were good. Clean place. Not busy at all for a Friday night. Bartender was nice. I think it’s awesome the chef was a big fat black guy. That’s how you know you know the food is good. Although I did only try the wings. But hey I would order them again. Cool place.

Pros: More like a dive bar type/​hangout spot. Tables are great and well maintained. Plenty of tables, different types of arcade/​video games, jukebox & cheap pitchers of beer.
Cons: Couldn’t make me a Adiós! Super Boo!

When you’re in Riverside don’t ever expect to find top-​of-​the-​line anything unless you’re at the Jaguar dealership.
You have to take things with a grain of salt when you venture into non-​corporate venues such as Q-​Bonkers. Yes, there are plenty of tables to shake your stick at and they keep the felt running fast and level. And that’s pretty much all you can ask for at a pool hall in the Riv, I mean seriously, what does a fancy pool hall look like?
As far as action goes, your best bet is to come during league nights or early in the afternoon, just don’t expect to go higher than $ 5/​ball. There’s plenty of parking in the front and rear as well as street parking.
And when you’re done shooting pool, you can skip across the street to the hookah bar for some more sophomoric fun!
Does the fun ever start…

This is more run down pool hall that I shot at. I only came here because the APA league had a new team shooting out of here, otherwise, I probably never would of came. Its darker, not as well lit. The tables were pretty okay from what I remember. But with so many other places close by, this place needs to step it up a little. They do have arcade games and a good amount of tables though.

Typical dive bar/​pool hall — pool, darts, pub food, etc. but DON’T EVER GO HERE TO SEE BANDS.
Overbooked too many opening acts and didn’t enforce allotted time restrictions on each band. This eventually forced them to cancel the headline act — Riverside’s own, Voodoo Glow Skulls. They told each band to play only 3 songs and all played about 30 minutes. Of course they ran out of time and blamed the police for enforcing the terms of their entertainment license. They should have canceled some of the opening acts at 7:00 when everyone realized they were running late. $ 20, a half tank of gas, and a few hours of my time wasted!!!
It gets worse. At least 200 kids under 18 who had been there since 6:00, all who paid $ 20 assuming they were going to see Voodoo Glow Skulls, were told at 9:00 they weren’t allowed inside to see the headline act at 10:30. Evidently they have an occupancy limit around 100 (they sold about 300 tickets). A near riot ensued.
So to summarize, about 300 people paid $ 20 to see a bunch of opening acts and all missed seeing the band they came to see. And no one knew they were going to miss the headline act until 9:00 for the kids and 10:45 for the adults. And I asked. No refunds were offered. DON’T EVER GO HERE TO SEE BANDS.

Big and Dark
«Men — No shirt, no service. Women — No shirt, free drinks»
Dark pool hall, table lighting is good, plenty of space
13 9ft tables (1 brunswick, 12 — not sure what brand but they play nice)
1 Barbox
1 air hockey table
touchscreen games
darts
arcade games
beer
digital jukebox
shark/​sea theme mural on brick walls
action
table-​time ranges from 6 – 10 $ an hour