The Arcade On Detroit — Restaurant in Lakewood

Weird and pretentious. We looked up arcades in Lakewood, after having dinner in the area with our toddler. When we walked in, we realized it was more of a bar than an arcade, but settled on playing a few games before going home. I got one drink, while my son and boyfriend played, and closed out my tab. As the parking meter was about to expire around 730p.m. and we were getting ready to leave, we were given dirty looks and told that it was 21 and over after 5p.m. I don't see why it was necessary to make us uncomfortable and ruin our evening; when mistakes are bound to occur at an arcade\bar called "the arcade," my son was clearly not drinking, and we were obviously not staying long. I wouldn't go back, even if I was actually looking for a bar or if it was the right hours to just play games, after being treated like a pariah for purchasing a drink and putting money in the machines with my family at...

I don't have an opinion on food, yet, because the kitchen wasn't open when I went. I don't the space itself is conducive to a Bar Arcade setting, at least in this current iteration. The games are really close to one another so when a friend and I were playing a two person game, there wasn't enough space for anyone to play on the cabinets on either side of us. The "pay for play" model was a little problematic because they didn't have an in-house atm when I went, so I had to go to the bank to get money and ask one of the bartenders to break a 20 so I can then put it in the change machine to get quarters. That was kind of a pain. I am going to go again, hopefully the kinks are worked out...

I want to give this place 1 star so everyone thinks it's horrible but it's not. I just want it to keep quiet but then we're gonna go out of business. Just wait until you're a few beers deep and good and stoned and someone orders tendies while you're playing Revenge from Mars

Functional machines (only 2 or 3 down in our visit), no issues with coin drop/quarters eaten, responsive staff to IF my currency would have been eaten, wide mix of pinball machines and arcade games, change machine on site, clean bathrooms, community-oriented due to graffiti wall, Ohio Lottery, free...