The Silver Ballroom — Restaurant in St. Louis

I don't like pinball and this is still my favorite bar. I come here three times a week for a drink. Great prices, nice selection of beers, friendly staff, and the best meat pies. Eating an old meat pie out of a warming cabinet at a bar sounds gross but I promise you, they are amazing. Sit at the bar your first time- the surface of the bar is a visual history of the St. Louis punk music scene. Warning: the punk jukebox will skip 20-50% of the songs you play at random. However if you pay for 7 and hear 4, you're still paying about as much or less for those 4 songs as you do most other places...

This is such a cool little bar. Drink prices are reasonable and the bartenders seemed nice enough. But, of course, the pinball is the real draw. They have a great selection of games, all of which appeared to be well taken care of, with the exception of the one machine that was out of order when we were there. The bathrooms were also super clean. The one that's designated for women only has a cool hand lotion dispenser with Bath and Body Works lotions. Definitely a plus there. This is the kind of place that makes me really sad that I don't live in St. Louis, because I'd probably be there...

The Silver Buzzkill

Went there on a Saturday night but didn’t arrive until about 10:15. The website said they close at 11 for some reason. In reality they must close at 10:30 because the first drink we got at 10:15 was also last call. Then at 10:30 the door guy starts telling people to leave. At 10:40 we were headed out the door and hadn’t even been there a half hour. Literally didn’t get a chance to finish my first pinball game.

I’m sure they don’t need my business much like I don’t need their...