QBall Cafe — Restaurant in Virginia

Right from the start when I walked in the sound system sounded great. There's a jukebox with probably the biggest selection I've ever seen. The vibe is great on a Sunday night with 6$ per person tables and a great variety of people. It could be packed or it could be nearly empty but it's always comfortable. You can smoke in here too so be mindful. Most everything in the bar is retro and all games are maintained immaculately. The chairs on the wall have some small tables but I would recommend eating at the bar for the best dining experience. They have items like burgers, sandwiches, salads, wings, snack wraps, fried pickles, cheese fries (or tots) and even unexpected treats like their veggie spring rolls. The fries are great for sharing and the wings are juicy; they make their own in-house sauces with a variety that can appeal to most appetites. Buffalo tastes unique to the place without messing too much with a classic flavor. They offer weekly shots that they invent for special occasions, like when they offered a Beetlejuice shot for the movie premiere, and have a great selection on liquors. Also, it's one of the best places to drink if you're on a budget with 3$ cans. The cafe also offers darts, giant Jenga, a boxing punch game, hula hoops, board games and much more with events being hosted from time to time. Everyone working here is very dedicated and easy to talk to, they make sure everything is done well. My friends and I go every Sunday night and we absolutely love it here. It'd be cool to...

When I walked into this café, I thought … WOW, nice pool hall! I like all the pool tables on one side of the facility and then all of the dartboard and a 13th table on the other side. (Should trade in that overflow table for an air hockey table!)

Anyway, I thought the place was great. The drink selection is really limited. Plenty of beer and cider, but for people who don’t drink beer and cider the selections are REALLY limited. No wine! None … not a drop. And the liquor displayed was bottom end … Jack, Jim, and a few other headache kind of names. Nothing good.

But, the one thing that will keep me from going back was getting the bill for shooting pool. Most other places charge by the hour per table, so that keeps things reasonable. Q Ball Café charges $0.12 per person at the table, and they do not have a means of keeping track who actively is playing pool during that time, so if you are associated with a pool table, you are getting charged $0.12 per minute ($7.20 per hour). Other locations are A LOT cheaper that this Café.

It's really too bad … great set-up need to fix the bar selections to include something for everybody BUT, STOP OVERCHARGING FOR POOL!!!

Right now, I won’t be back because of the cost of...

I'm gonna make it my mission to take some decent photos of this place, at least for yelp/facebook/their official website... because it's so much better than their own online pics would suggest.

Online it looks very scuzzy, with ads for bikini or poledancing contests, ads for booze specials, posters for live acts and DJs. For some reason, they don't promote the pool at all.

But it's a real pool hall with decent equipment. The cosmo tables are odd-looking, not a big name brand, but they play great... solid 9-footers with good fresh cloth (as of late 2018 anyway) and good rails. Other reviews mentioned smoke, but maybe they changed something... I'm a nonsmoker and had no problem. It's reasonably clean and well-lit and much better than the local competition (the green room). Servers were friendly and music was reasonable (there's a touchtunes jukebox, which thankfully was playing a lot of the stuff I can tolerate).

I got no comment on the bar or beer selection or quality of the live acts, because I'm just looking for a good pool experience. Maybe the place is not so fun for pool players during live acts. But on a quiet evening with no special events, I found it a great spot to...