GAME OVER — Restaurant in Alton

This was our second time at this location, the first was a fairly large birthday party and that went exceptionally well and the most recent was a date night out.

Shirt story: We had a slight issue but the amazing bartender and GM on shift were great.

TLDR: The money manager was hanging out off duty in the kitchen, I identify this person and that because I asked prior to leaving and this was the information I was given, talking to the kitchen folks and upon walking up the counter I attempted to gain the attention of the person who previously assisted me. He approached the counter and I said I would prefer to speak with you from the other diners ordering. We proceeded to meet at the door to the side but he was unable to get past her and when I tried to speak with him she very rudely shut the door in my face. I just kind of stood there in total disbelief and went back to the counter and proceeded to share with them what both my partner and I experienced. She then decided to engage with me and after my brief description and her rude snarky tone I firmly announced that I was not asking for a refund but simply for them to be aware of the issue and to do better. I do not take the time to bring awareness to these things for self gain. I want our communities to grow. We spend our money at these establishments and as opposed to just boycotting I choose to try and engage with them for an opportunity to do better. The engagement with her was definitely the worst part of the experience, I do not believe she personally represents them in a whole but as I said before the rest of the employees, staff and whomever was scheduled definitely made up for it with their kindness so we will...

I had my son‘s birthday party there last year. Everyone had a great time from the children to the adults so this year I wanted to have my son‘s party there again because everybody had such a great time. It was terrible this time I spent $300 for my kid, my six-year-old to have a birthday party for unlimited gameplay When you get the unlimited gameplay the cards don’t work correctly. It took a while for them to even start working then when they did work, it will cool down and not allow the kids to play it for a while for my extra $50 but when you go down there and you spend your money and buy a card there’s no delays and there’s no cool down. They tried to give us one table for all the people that I had mind you I spent $300 on the party paid for it ahead of time in February then I had a big party come down there. We spent money at the bar and bought more food. It was not a good experience. I would not suggest anyone paying their money to have a party down there you might as well just go down there and have a good time. It’s no point of spending the money for the party. It’s not worth it. I was gonna have my cousin have his son‘s birthday party there this summer. It won’t happen. We’ll be back at Dave & Buster’s like we were last year. And I told them I wanted my money back. I didn’t even wanna have the party, but they couldn’t find my receipt to give me my money back so she went on ahead and accommodated me and gave me three tables instead of just one. Not...

I had heard about this from a friend, but they really undersold it. I’ve been to all the arcade bars in the general, St. Louis Metro area. This is by far the biggest and has the most modern games that I’ve seen.

It’s par for the course that you go to these places and a lot of the games don’t work. When I was there, I only came across one that wasn’t set up and everything else worked as expected. They seem to be very well taken care of.

There’s pinball, light gun games, VR games, racing games, retro games. They even have that massive tomb, raider light game that you almost never see anywhere, as well as every version of Mario Kart that hit the arcades.

I felt the prices to play the games was pretty reasonable compared to others out there. Obviously VR games are the most expensive.

The food and bar area is also quite good. The food is things like burgers and hotdog, but it’s quick and it’s solid. The bar has lots of drinks, but particularly as focused on frozen mixed drinks. The woman that was helping us recommended mixing a couple things together and it was really excellent.

Definitely worth the time if you’re in the area. Let’s say you’re going to Fast Eddie’s or something? I would stop in...