Leon's Garage — Restaurant in Marysville

The building is great, and the feel of it is awesome. A lot of money and care went into building it. Everything from the cement bar top to the "lift" long table is really a great touch. The place is new and feels it. The wait staff is definitely friendly and accommodating, but lacks coordination with others servers working areas. You may wait a little while before you can get started. This will leave you going up to the bar to get your own drinks for the first round. Not a deal breaker, but room for improvement. The beer selection size is very respectable, but very random. I would like to see some effort on getting high rated local brews in. More attention into generating a beer list that is less pray and spray would be nice. The Co-owner seems very open to serving any local microbrew which is great. So, it may be a work in progress, I am not sure.

The prices for beer are very fair. Someone mentioned that there are no drink specials. I personally hope there are NEVER any drink specials on domestics. I think the area has plenty of those places and sure as hell doesn't need another one. I would like to think this place wants to be a little different. Hopefully, it will keep out the riff-raff. Yeah, you know who I am talking about. It is probably you....haha.

As far as the food goes, it is better than average Marysville food. I think the BBQ is pretty good. I think most people would be pretty happy with what they get. I got the BBQ nachos, which would have been 1000 times better with real cheese and not that canned lazy crap that is always liquid. The actual pork in the nachos was very good, but ruined largely by the slop cheese from the can. It isn't difficult to put shredded cheddar on something and put it under a broiler for 30 seconds. Not sure who's fault that is, but shame on them. I don't understand taking hours and hours to make good pulled pork to just slop on canned cheese.

The music that is played in this place is also random as all hell, and is largely based on, I am guessing here, the bartenders mood for the day. Ace of Base was playing for what seemed like forever. I am not going to lie, this really killed the mood in the place. Music has a huge impact on the environment. I wouldn't let that bartender play DJ again. Why not install a jukebox? Get a little extra cash and people can actually listen to music the like.

The bathrooms are clean. Yes, this is important, and again I repeat, THEY ARE CLEAN. KEEP IT UP! Actually to my girlfriends delight they had possibly every girly product available in a basket. LIKE EVERYTHING. Actually this came in handy, because she forgot to plan for her female event. Instead of ending the night short, we where good to go! So great job on that GM!! The entire place is pretty clean, and doesn't smell of skunked beer. The surfaces were not sticky, and I did not feed defiled!

This must be the best spot in Marysville to drink, because it does get crowded, and the parking is a pain. So plan to park on the street if it is hopping.

Overall, the bones of this place are solid, and I am very excited to see what they do. It could go either way. It could become my go to spot or someplace I would rather not even think about.

I am rating this a 5 stars. Not because I think it is perfect, because it isn't, but you know what? It is way better than anything else in the area. If I didn't like it, I would not waste my time on the review. So go to it and enjoy. talk to the owners, let them know what you think.

Did I mention the people that go there are pretty...

We were in on Friday 13th. We were passing through the area and haven't been for a few years so we thought we would check out the band and have a beer. The new expansion looked nice and it was great to see that they had a band area and then a sit-down food area. The sound person did a great job; we could hear everyone in the band and it wasn't too loud. In the past, it was way too crowded and loud with a bad but we were very pleased with the changes.

The restrooms and bar was clean, no complaints there.

The bar/counter when you first walk in was our first disappointment. The self poor beer was new to us and I don't feel the girl behind the bar did her part to be helpful. We asked for one beer each and wanted to pay cash. She said we have to pay with a card. We asked for a menu and she told us to scan the code. We are not really a big fan of scanning codes or using our phones in public. Just trying to have a beer and hear some music. She scans our credit card and hands us a card; we obviously had no idea what to do with the card. She said it keeps track of your tab. Seeing how new we were to this concept, I would think she would have simply showed us what to do. No! We go over to the beer station and have no idea where to get a glass. I walk back over to the bar and see a few on a tray that seemed to be clean so we took two and went back over to the self serve station. I watch another person in hopes to see what the process was. He used a dirty glass and had the beer spout down in his beer. Cross contamination is not my thing. We walk over to the lady behind the bar to cash out. We asked what we do with the card she gave us and she didn't answer. She took our money and didn't ask if we needed change and didn't bring back any change. I mean, tip? For what? We had to wait for her to come back to ask again "What do I do with this card"? She said, after you cash out it's no good but I can take it. Seriously?? I waited 4 days to write a review because I didn't want to write off of bad feelings.

We finally got a beer but the process was just overwhelming. We went back to see the band. There is another bar with servers back there. Why in the world did the orginal person just not say, if you want to pay cash and have a server (or even a smile for that matter), you can go back there?????? The service back there was so fast and easy, they were friendly and gave me my change back ( I left the money for a tip because I was served with a smile).

We most likely won't be back unless there is a band we want to hear and we will for sure not go to the front...

I'm typically not one to go through the effort of writing a bad review but there are a few aspects in particular about this restraunt I feel like I should touch on. The place is SUPER cool looking which is one reason we decided to try it out. Break down of the menu if you haven't been there 2 salads 4/5 sandwich's 3 kinds of hot dogs (including plain) some appetizers 3 options for their kid menu

With such a little menu and it being a small self owned business youd think it would be some amazing food. Such a little menu and the good reviews really made me think they put all their time and effort in to perfecting the items they serve. No. Not at all. We arrived at 6:30 and they weren't busy at all. It was just my husband and our two boys. He ordered the pulled pork and I ordered the brisket. Both boys decided on kids meals grilled cheese. When we got the food it was already cold, kind of annoying but okay. They're sandwiches we will deal. But for being two different types we literally could not tell the difference. They tasted exactly the same, came on what I can only figure was tiny hot dog buns and both were completely tasteless and dry. For being $9 a sandwich and having 4/5 sandwiches you'd think they'd at least cook them with SOME KIND of seasoning, something and possibly on a flipping normal sized bun. I was pretty sure we both got the pork but by what the waitress said she mixed them up and my husband got my sandwich? Literally couldn't tell the difference. Our boys grilled cheese were.... really there is no use in renting any more. We spent $30 on food we should of just stayed at home and made. Super bummed. Save your money and spend some quality time at home with warm...