Stopped in for a bit with a small group of friends, it was a Thursday night and pretty much empty, save for a few guys playing pool. Â Can't really say much about it, we all ordered drinks and they were fine, delivered quickly. Â Our server was nice enough. Â There was old school rock playing in the background, I believe. Â The place seemed pretty big...though that could have been for the lack of people filling it up. Â The kitchen was closed for the night by the time we got there, so none of us ate. Â All in all, it was fine for a weeknight, but nothing super special.
Review Source:I would like to update my review on the Brookside.We had a dart league here for about a year and a half and the bartenders were always fantastic, as well as the owner. I cannot speak to the food, as I typically just had drinks.
We have since moved our league to a different location (no fault on the Brookside's part). The bar seems to be getting into the swing of things and a lot of the earlier issues have improved. Good place to watch a game, have drinks or enjoy the fights. The random switch to night club is not really my thing, but other people seem to enjoy it. To each their own, I suppose.
If your looking for a place to shake your booty on a weekend with super loud hip hop and rap music.. this is the place! Huge tv's displaying crazy music videos, strobe lights rocking the dance floor and a rowdy crowd. I have to be in the right mood for this (because Im more of a country girl) but I do think that alot of people in Surprise need this kind of place to unwind without having to head to clubs in Scottsdale etc..This is probably the closest thing to a "club" you will get in Surprise. Not everyone that lives here is a senior citizen.. lol There never seemed to be any other type of music played though so I got a little bored with the same beats. The drinks were good though and I love playing pool which is located on the other side of the bar somewhat away from the hustle and bustle of the dance floor. They have a patio outside where someone was grilling some smell good food. Ive only been here on the weekends at night and have never eaten here so I cant really give a review on the food. But for good drinks and a great place to dance on the weekends with a "club" type atmosphere this is your place. Thats enough to earn my 4 stars. :)
Review Source:was here this past saturday for ufc 148, place was very nice inside and the projection screens were awesome, we got there early to secure good seats and it did fill up pretty quickly after, my wife had a burger and she said it was good, just a basic cheeseburger and i just had beer. my only complaint is the service was terrible, there was a point where my empty beer bottle sat for 15-20 mins without our server coming anywhere near our table, it was busy so at first i gave her that but then she would come and check EVERY table around us except for us. otehr than that i really liked the place and may return for future ufc fights.
Review Source:Pretty decent sports bar. Several tv's to watch football, typical bar food. We watched a playoff game and ordered wings & nachos. Loved the wings. We did have to move tables because the horse betters kept getting in out way, but other than that, really liked the place. Our server April was very nice and friendly and constantly asked how we were. Hard to find a good sports bar, so I would recommend it.
Review Source:My son was visiting us from San Fran. for Thanksgiving. So we decided to stop here on Thanksgiving night, since I don't have NFL network, and he wanted to watch the 49ers. We had a great time, just had a few drinks. Probably will eat there at a later day. Seating were very comfortable, service was very good. I have no problems here, going to come back!
Review Source:He/she said the rain won't leave
And the pain won't ease
And the sun don't wanna shine
And there's something in the bottom of this drink I just got
And it don't look like a worm to me
I got a bug in my margarita
Seems bad luck won't leave me alone
I got a man/woman I'm tryin' to drink away
And I got a long, long way to go
Yeah, I got a long, long way to go
Lyrics from Alan Jackson's song 'Long Way To Go'
Just stopped in for a drink. Not much in the mood for anything or anyone. Woke up and stopped here on the way to the gas station. Nice staff. Clean establishment. OK for a person like me that simply wants one drink then to move along. Nothing bad to say.
While I was visiting my Cousin Gwen who lives in El Mirage, my husband sent us out on a Girls Night Out. Yay! Since Gwen is new to the area, this was a first for both of us. We decided to head into Surprise and see what we could find. The Brookside was open, and it was a bar. OK, good so far. We walked in and sat down at the bar. The rest of the place seemed to have that feel of a concert venue after they turned the lights back on and only the stragglers were left. But, they had Guinness on tap, so it couldn't be all bad, right? So, of course, I had a Guinness, and Gwen ordered a Frozen Almond...something yummy looking. The bar tender was quick and efficient, and we had already had dinner, so we weren't interested in food.
As we chatted and caught up, we became aware of something of a spectacle going on to our right. A girl was flapping her arms, waving her hands and shaking her head faster than I though possible. It looked like she was trying to take off and fly. When she started walking to a table full of people we saw her teeeeeeeny tiny feet with blinking light up silver shoes flashing in the moderate dimness of the bar. She talked and flapped for a few more minutes before seemingly storming out of the bar.
Check please! We decided to move on. These guys definitely need to work on their ambiance here. It's Saturday night folks! Not Monday afternoon! Liven the place up a little!
The check was a pleasant surprise, however. $8.50 for both the pint of Guinness and the Pint of Frozen Almond goodness. Thumbs up on the prices, now lets work on the rest of it, folks!
Lame. Â The menu was extremely disappointing (I think we may have been given the bar menu and not the regular menu, or maybe that's the only one they have?) Â No drink menu either. Â The salad was mediocre but nothing I couldn't have created on my own at home for less money. Â The dressing was bland. The place was completely empty except for my table around 4pm...
Review Source:My sister invited my partner and I out to have drinks here last week...
I was pretty disappointed with the whole thing. Â
Maybe cuz it was a Thursday night.
Maybe cuz both me and my partner have shaved heads (a friend has breast cancer people!) and the waitresses kept staring.
Maybe cuz it just sucked.
Not many tvs, and definitely what was on the tvs wasn't interesting. Â The waitress clearly wasn't interested in serving us, but finally eventually asked what we wanted.
The woman looked like she was drunk herself. Â Or needed a line. Â Maybe it was a bad day for her.
So I order my black and blue, my sister orders her Blue Moon with a shot of OJ in it, and my partner orders her black tire. (Guiness and Fat Tire)
Drinks show up fairly quickly, and then it seems the waitress never comes back.
Finally we order our food. Â I order the fish and chips... which was subsequently disappointed in. Â Too greasy... nasty. Â Fries were ok dipped in ranch, but how do you mess up fries when they are cooked all the way thru?
Wings were ok... nothing to scream about.
There is a huge dance floor in there and my sister says they have dancing on friday and saturday nights... I think I need to come back and try this place one of those nights to make a final decision on this place.
For now... no way.
Finally made it back to the brookside after it reopened, met up with the wife and her coworkers there on friday for happy hour and a light dinner. Â I admit I arrived a little later than the rest of the party but it couldn't have been more than 5-10 minutes. Â Upon arrival I found out there was only one waitress for the entire floor which was probably 4000 sq ft and 20+ tables, and it was reasonably busy. Â The rest of my party had already ordered food and had drinks. Wow this awesome GM must not grasp the concept that on friday afternoon's starting around 3-4ish mass amounts of people tend to like to drown away their sorrows. I ordered a fried shrimp basket and after about 5 minutes got my beer, Â then after another 20 or so minutes the rest of my party received their food. Â I proceeded to wait what felt like an additional half hour or more to get my food, and most of my party was finishing up their food. Â (this always bugs me being the last person to get their food, you have the feeling everyone else wants to leave, but you're still hungry) Â I'm not sure of the exact time but I recall checking the time and it had been around an hour. Â to their credit the shrimp was pretty good, and the beer was very cold. Â The menu a shadow of it's former self looks like a Fortune 500 company after it's latest quarterly earnings meeting. all in all a bit of a disappointment, being that the original incarnation of the brookside had it's share of unresolved problems to begin with.
I wouldn't say I wouldn't go back, but I don't think it's something I would suggest when asked.
OK, I would like to first start off by saying if a business is going to put fake reviews up for themselves, at least say something different each time. I do not think a GM has been mentioned this much, ever, within the same day by people with stock Microsoft photo gallery images.
Secondly, I gave Brookside II a chance and it made me miss Brookside I- big time. My beer was still cold (a plus) but the menu is severely limited (compared to the novel and diverse menu of the first Brookside) to whatever they can purchase in bulk and deep fry. I could understand this choice if our food was served quickly and it tasted decent, but they failed in both of those areas. For fried mushrooms, chips and salsa, and chicken tenders the members in my party waited probably about 30 minutes. The advertise fresh made tortillas chips but serve it with pace picante. Their nachos were cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, and jalapenos, served almost 30 minutes after ordered) for $6.99. My friend ordered the fried cod (see the fried theme) and took two bites and decided to be done.
I am not saying that the food at a sports bar should be top notch, but at least good enough to satisfy the need/craving for bar food. Also I think if your menu is going to be largely deep fried based then the food should at least be prompt. Our waitress was the only one on the floor and she was spread too thin and it was obvious.
I might go back to grab a beer if I had to meet someone, but as for making an appearance on my own initiative, probably not.
I'm looking for a comfortable environment, close to home (b/c I hate driving the distance to Phx & Scottsdale), where I can have a few drinks with friends, listen to music, & maybe dance. Â I was hopeful that Crookside would be that place but I'm gonna have to go against the grain on my review...
Layout/Amenities--they have a couple pool tables on 1 side, the bar sits in the middle and on the other side is a large area with pub tables. Â A raised platform with additional seating caused my friend & I to debate whether this place was a former strip club. Â All that seemed missing were the poles...Lots of flat screen tvs & projection screens tuned to ESPN and various sporting events. Â A definite plus. Â They even had a flat screen mounted in the ladies room. Â But the best thing they have goin for them is the 'Free WiFi' notice etched in block lettering on the tinted window out front. Â
Food--is so-so. Â I haven't had many meals there but the quesadilla I had was a little on the greasy side, directly correlated to the cheese quality (or lack thereof). Â The Italian wedding soup was decent but they could've scaled down the sodium content. Â Food prices were reasonable despite my assessment of the quality of the food, especially if you're ordering during happy hour. Â And if you stick to beer, there's no way they can screw it up (which has happened to others ordering off the drink menu).
Wait staff--were decent. Â They made sure we had drinks and checked on us several times. Â
Crowd--a mix of older adults on double dates and single males. Â I haven't been there @ night to assess the 'club crowd' so maybe the crowd is a little more balanced but after feeling 'leered at' during my few visits, I'm not convinced I want to check it out.
...And so, the search for the local 'hot spot' continues....
The Brookside is a great place to go to get out of the house and meet up with friends. (Or maybe make some new ones if you are single.) Its a simple little place in a simple little town. Don't be mislead into thinking this is ANYTHING like a Scottsdale nightclub because it isn't. It's just a great local place to enjoy a few cocktails, do a little noshing and get your groove thang on. The seating inside can become nonexistant FAST on the weekends but we always manage to find seating outside on the patio which I prefer. Â
With cool misters when the weather gets hot and cautiously cool cocktails ...its a perfect receipe for unwinding after a long week!
This place was awesome!!! I arrived at about 10:00 and it appeared to be a lively sports bar with some pool tables and good looking security guards. Being that I am from California, and I was in 90 degree weather, the patio with the water misters looked appetizing, so we sat outside, enjoyed a few margaritas, cigs, and water misters. At about 11:00 this place was packed, no more sports either, every tv, which is about 10, some small and some big, were all turned to DJ Lisa, an outlined girl dancing along with music which played outside and inside. From a sports bar to a popping club, this place hit the spot!!! Too bad I was with my mom and older cousin, otherwise it would have been party time!!! They do serve food as well, which looked very yummy, but I was there just for the drinks.
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