Busy Body — Restaurant in Tacoma

This establishment gave me the worst birthday ever! I just turned 21 and chose to bar hop to find my vibe of what I liked this place instantly caught my attention with the beauty but boy was I wrong about it .. I went July 11th around 10:00pm and whoever was bartending was very rude I’m a young black girl who has never been to a bar before but miss black hair insisted that she won’t serve me because I haven’t tipped her all night mind you I’ve only had 3 drinks from there and they were bought by some of the customers who found out it was my birthday she said because they didn’t tip she wouldn’t serve me so I insisted to take care of the tips and write them in because I’m a server as well and understand her point of view she became so snobby and refused to let me tip her even thought I was trying to calm the situation down and then mocked and laughed at me with her friends and said “your with people who go to bars so you should know to tip” I reminded her I have and none of the people I was with ever been to a bar and she said “well you should know about bars” I walked away.. she was very rude I wish I knew her name maybe I’ll stop by sometime to get it because she TRULY ruined my birthday and should be FIRED I do not think anyone should go this establishment I felt discriminated against and shamed publicly because yes ofc there were people around! Drinks were nice at first tho (it’s not a real good photo because I was just taking photos of my drinks but I just seen she was kinda in them...

I had high hopes for this place, but this is one of those spots that people will go to once, have a mediocre experience at, will never come back to, and will shrug their shoulders at when it inevitably joins the list of subpar 6th eateries to shutter within a year.

I got the McMel (Imitation Big Mac), fries, and the purple frozen cocktail. The pre-tip total for that was a fairly shocking $36. Being more expensive than Wooden City for the same order meant that the food would have to be pretty tip top to be justifiable.

The burger was ok. It meant to copy a big mac, and achieved an average homemade big mac level, but with a ton of salt added on. No one would pick this burger over the Camp Colvos version at 7 Seas. For $14 with no side. Woooooff!!!

They then charged me $6 for fries. Looking at the reviews piss me off more, because clearly $6 was supposed to get me a full plate of fries, whereas I got a half order because it was split amongst my burger. So there are different ways to get great fries. I like crispy fries, but sometimes soggy fries can be great too. At Busy Body, I ended up with fries that weren't crisp, but kind of soggy and not cooked all the way through. Very al dente can be good on pasta, but was not good for these fries.

The purple frozen cocktail was ok. Kind of too much going on, kind of too sweet, kind of disappointing.

Overall, my experience here was probably closer to regrettable than forgettable, but there is no scenario where I'd advise...

I do not recommend this place, for some many reasons. As soon as I tried to talk to the bartender, before saying anything she warned me they had no beef (so no burgers or anything), fine. I ordered the elote dip with chips and the popcorn chicken, my boyfriend ordered a drink and I ordered pepsi. As soon as she handed me the pepsi, the color was off, despite the fact that had more ice than drink, the drink itself was a very light brown, like if I added a hint of pepsi to my cup of iced water, I tried and it tasted nasty, so my boyfriend asked if she could swap for a new one since that one tasted nasty, she gave us a table number thingy and said she would bring the pepsi. Almost 20 minutes later the food arrived and she was still serving other people, I worked in service, I know how busy it gets, but she is serving other people that got there after me, where is my drink? So I walked there and asked about it just for her to tell me she doesn’t know how to “fix” the pepsi, if I wanted something else, she had an attitude and told me “I was just going to go there talk to you”, but she didn’t, at all. After that I opted for a sprite which was surprisingly WORSE than the pepsi, watered down, the popcorn chicken is more like wings, and the elote dip was okay, but again, everything else was not so I feel like that was not that special to the point of going back. The decor is cute, they have patio tables (out in the sidewalk area), besides that, nothing really stood out about this place....