Diamond Lounge — Restaurant in Grand Forks

I’ve been a patron of the Diamond for about 20 years. It used to be a great fun place to go on a Friday / Saturday night.

Now however, they have HORRIBLE bartenders. The heavyset, angry woman who works behind the bar needs to find a new line of work. The Bar was not busy at all - we were seated at the bar and she ignored us despite the fact we had an open tab. We waved at her, tried to get her attention but it was over an hour before I finally tapped my shot glass on the bar to get her attention - that didn’t work either - just upset her even more. We finally had enough and decided to leave. Had to scream at someone (the server) just to get my card to close my tab. Horrible.

I’ve never received such horrible service at ANY bar in this town as I did on 4/5/2025 at the Diamond. I also was not the only patron who was frustrated. The entire side of the bar I was seated at ended up leaving in frustration. I had several other patrons tell me “yeah she won’t serve you, “ There was a woman with dark hair (who was the WORST) an elderly woman that didn’t appear to be doing much of anything - who also ignored us. And a very rude female server.

It’s clear the bartenders (at least the heavyset woman and the server) have ZERO interest in making tips or making the bar any money. And why would they? Bar is owned by a gambling operation now. They don’t care about service so long as those gambling machines and tables are running.

Do better. I’ll never be back so long as that woman...

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