The Wellhead Sports Bar — Restaurant in Texas

Sports bars rank among my favorite places for food and drink. I love watching my favorite sports teams while I eat food and drink craft beer and I am always game for a new establishment. When I learned that Wellhead Sports Bar opened up, I was more than ready to give it a try since it’s a sports bar and less then 2 miles from my house.

Walking inside Wellhead Sports Bar reveals a single dining room space with a bar along the back wall. There are tables and chairs for seating plus bar seating. There are lots of televisions tuned to different sports viewing plus a jukebox for music. Based on the appearance, this looks like a cool place to sit back and chill.

Where I have issues with Wellhead Sports Bar is with the service and food. When I last visited, there was one person working the tables, and nearly all of them were full. That meant waiting a long time to get served initially and a long time for repeat service. There were far too many customers for one person to handle. But what was less easy to forgive was the lack of care in making the drinks. My wife ordered an old fashioned but was presented with a drink that was something else entirely. The person making the drinks obviously didn’t know how they are made, or someone miscommunicated. My wife went ahead and finished the drink, since it still tasted drinkable, but then she ordered a different drink and, again, it wasn’t quite right.

There were no problems that I could tell with my draft beers. They were poured right and looked nice in the glass. It just took longer to get served than it should have. And the food? Well, I ordered a burger and onion rings and while I loved the onion rings, I wasn’t too thrilled with the burger. It was rather ordinary and nothing exciting.

It’s great to have a new sports bar in the neighborhood. I’m not going to write off Wellhead Sports Bar just yet, because I think they were not having the best of days when I was last there. The drinks were the greatest disappointment, but other than that, I found the atmosphere nice and the limited staff was trying as hard as they could. I’m going to rate Wellhead Sports Bar average for now and look forward to better visits...

The bartenders are the only reason to come back to this place. This is where I either start or end my night on many nights out... but it's all because of the bartenders.

Every time I walk into this place it feels like i'm walking into a cavernous industrial space. Their prices are fair. The drinks are cold. The crowd is generally friendly and the karaoke dude is a lot of fun. I've heard they have a great grilled chicken sandwich, but I've never eaten here and the only things I've seen come out of the kitchen are fried.

I think this place is owned by some former roughnecks and they seem to want to cater to the blue collar crowd, but I get the feeling it's mostly the owner and her friends who frequent this place.

It's safe. Clean. Cheap. Plenty of parking... but it feels like just another neightborhood bar struggling to survive. Maybe if more people go they could make it feel more inviting... so go and spend some money. Let's see what...

Three strikes and this place is out for me. First time, we were sitting at a table with friends. Boyfriend was walking to bar to but our drinks. Found out the next day they told our friend we walked out tab and made her pay since we were at her table. How can you walk a tab when you didn’t run one? Went next day to talk to manager. He was not helpful at all. Second time back, we waited for 10 minutes and no one came to serve us, so we just left. Then last night, we gave it another try and the bartender spoke extremely rude to me for no reason at all. We will never be back. They need to better with hiring and...