Big Al's Pub & Grubberia

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  This bar was a lot of fun! I loved the cheap/reasonably priced drinks, I loved the diverse crowd. I can't speak for the food since I ate elsewhere before the bar but overall atmosphere gets 5 stars. One thing I would like to say, this place needs to check who they allow to play live music in there. The guys who played Saturday 3/1, Kevin Marshall and Scott Sutton, were incredibly racist and made no qualms about it in their songs. I'm a white guy and I was extremely offended by their ignorance. If you read this, Big Al's, don't let these a-holes play in your bar anymore. Also, they were way too loud. Good bar for a night out with friends, just check the schedule for live music and make sure the aforementioned "musicians" aren't there.

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  Posted on 03.04.13 Greg D.

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  My best friend and I have been coming here for years and years... like 14! We used to go every week purely for the Buff-which sandwich and their amazingly good sweet tea. Now we go maybe once or twice a year when we suddenly remember we haven't been in forever since neither of us lives anywhere near there anymore. The food never fails and the prices are good. I've never had issues with service here like some other reviewers. True they tend to leave you alone to eat in peace and if you need something I can see how that would be annoying. Otherwise it's perfectly adequate service.
  
  As for the cleanliness of the place, first of all it's a bar and it looks like a bar. It's always rather dark in there and hard to see and it hasn't really been updated much but honestly it's a local bar lol.  Not sure what people are expecting.  
  
  Honestly I come here when I'm feeling nostalgic and want a great chicken sandwich/fries and sweet tea :-)

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  Posted on 03.04.13 Jacqueline P.

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  went back to big al's last week after not being there for a while and while the food was good as always, I have to echo what the last poster her from April stated. The place is a sh-thole.....dirty inside and out, bathrooms seriously look like the urinals could come out of the walls and the toilets are terrible, everything on the walls looks like it was last cleaned in 1999, ceiling tiles look even older and saggy in spots...I first started going there in 1992-3 and seriously i don't think ANYTHING there has been changed or updated since then, or even cleaned much, inside or out. Theres a big difference in trying to be a "dive" type bar and just a place where its obvious no one cares about the place.....also they've had that big muddy lot beside them for 20 yrs; take some patio pavers or lay some gravel down and get the ton of people who are littering your sidewalk smoking off to the side where you don't have to wade thru them.....you guys make a ton of dough there..invest some of it

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  Posted on 07.26.12 larry s.

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  Went there just today with a friend to have some pizza and wings. For bar food it was pretty damn good and priced just about right. Beer was inexpensive as well. Staff was friendly and even the patrons (had to have been all regulars) we nice. All you could want in a dive-y strip mall type place.
  
  The only major downside was the inside was about as dirty as I have ever seen a bar/restaurant in charlotte. The ceiling was stained from years of cigarette smoke (how long has it been since you could smoke inside?) and it seemed like every square inch of the miles of sports paraphernalia on the walls was covered in dust or grim. The bathroom looked like it was in a serious state of disrepair and wall tiles were practically coming off the walls.
  
  This is a place I would recommend probably getting takeout from if you live in the area. Other than the food the atmosphere isn't one that beckons you to stay unless you are up to date on your immunizations.

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  Posted on 04.01.12 Jon O.

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  Decent Food and decent price.  Overall the service needs improvement and I think they should remodel the place.  It is not very family friendly.

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  Posted on 02.08.12 Gary B.

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  How can you not like a place with a name like that?  Well, it's actually easy for two reasons.  One is because the menu is so littered with the word "Al"  that it's almost impossible to read in some places.  A few places might be cute, but as many as this has is a bit over the top.
  
  Two is that this place is best regarded as a sports bar, not a place to eat.  If you do that, it's probably okay.  But if you want service where you sit down and actually receive service, you're likely to be disappointed.
  
  If you don't mind either of those things, it's not bad.  The food is actually decent and the portions are pretty good.  You can almost always take something home, even if you just get a sandwich.  The prices aren't bad either.

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  Posted on 08.11.06 Chad E.

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