BarCode Entertainment Complex

Went for AfroBeat brunch. The vibes are nice but I am not a fan of their practices. We arrived around 5 so it wasn’t busy. The eventbrite flyer said brunch was $50 per person for 3 courses. We ask if there were separate prices for the individual brunch items and the waitress knew nothing. She just asked us what we wanted even though we were concerned about the pricing. We put the order in and waited an hour for our food to arrive, and started questioning why everyone else who came after us received their food. After waving down the waitress she comes to tell us the kitchen isn’t serving brunch lmao. She had an hour to tell us that and she didn’t until we asked. 3 of us ordered off of the brunch menu and they brought over 2 comp margaritas lol. Then while we were waiting for the brunch that was never going to arrive we ordered a hookah which they only had one flavor and they wanted $30 cash which we didn’t know until after they brought it to the table. There is an atm but suppose I didn’t want to use my credit card and pay the atm fee to get out money. They need to have that info disclosed. 40 mins later the hookah coal went out and we asked the guy if we could get another coal and he said no that we had to pay $35 for another refill lmao. At this point I’m irritated because I’ve never seen hookah practices like that. The coal burned unusually fast as well. So now we were hungry and irritated. So our brunch randomly came out after being there for 2 hrs they didn’t even tell us they were still going to make it. The food was great though 🙄

Later that night we ordered a round of shots for 4 ppl. I was at the table behind with another friend and I told the waitress that barely spoke English that my friends wanted shots bc no one had came to our table in a hour. She brought the shots to their table and came to me with the $32 bill. I told her to take the bill to them since they’re the ones who wanted the shots but on her way there one of my friends at my current table took out money and gave it to her to cover the bill. The waitress still proceeded to go over to the other table and demand payment from my friends. We literally watched her. We thought she was telling them that our other friend paid but it turns out she asked for $30 more lmao. I couldn’t believe it.

So then we finally got our bill and my card back. I looked at the bill at it was just a number, no breakdown of what it was we were paying for or anything. I asked the girl to bring the full receipt back. We were charged $80 for two little pieces of salmon and mashed potatoes, $40 for chicken and waffles (looked like 3 little egos and two little pieces of chicken), and $5 for a 16oz Poland spring water and 2 margaritas for $12-13 each lol. The bill came to $193 which included their 18% service fee and 6.625% sales tax. At that point I was irritated because I asked the waitress in the beginning what the brunch prices were and she was clueless. Then the whole purpose of us going was because of the Afrobeat brunch that was advertised for $49.95 for a 3 course brunch and mimosa pitcher and that was not displayed on our bill nor did we have 3 courses. And I feel like they should’ve compensated us for having us wait for a brunch they said they weren’t going to bring out and brought out 2 hours later.

Aside from the jacked up customer service and policies that aren’t listed anywhere the music was fire. We stayed for 5 hours and it was 5 hours of continuous fire being played on the speakers. The ambience is nice and it is very warm. So I’ll give them that. But I went with 4 ppl. We paid $45 each to get in, ordered 2 hookahs for $60, 6 drinks for $60, paid $120 for small brunch plates so everything was about $500 for subpar service. It’s a rip off but if y’all like those types of practices then it’s the perfect place for you.