I haven't had a bad experience here with food. I usually go at lunch if I'm going to eat (as opposed to drink) - not much smoking going on, if any. I've gotta say the burgers are awesome. Fresh meat, cooked to order, a shade of pink in there for tenderness and juiciness. Fresh cut, nicely seasoned fries. $6.95, I think. BOom. Throw a Sierra Nevada Pale in there, and I'm a satisfied customer.
Review Source:Solid happy hour food. I always sit at the bar when I go, sometimes between classes if I have a long break. Good selection of beers on tap and you can buy a year-long membership mug with a discount on beers if you do. My girlfriend J got a membership mug and then got pregnant so she couldn't use it all year (kind of funny). Food is standard bar fare, good size portions. Bartenders are typically very attentive and the place has a nice size so it isn't super crowded. You can play pool or shuffleboard and be comfortable, or sit around and yak at the bar or at a table. Lunches can be hit or miss. I wouldn't go if I had somewhere I absolutely had to be (sometimes things take a while). Overall, friendly place I like to go to with my friends.
Review Source:College crowd aimed, big place with high ceilings. Smoking allowed. I have never seen such a collection of beer available in one place before. Who knew Lubbock would have such? The food is good. Better than some, worse than others, a bit pricey but what do you expect when it sits across from Tech right?
Review Source:First, the bad: smoke. 30 minutes in here and you will inevitably smell like an ashtray. For me, I'm often a few beers in and don't mind.
The beer selection is what everyone says it is: awesome. If there is such thing as too much beer, they are close to it. Not sure how many they have on tap; they have something for everyone.
The food is above average, but nothing to write home about. The burgers are ok, the chips/salsa are ok, and the wings are surprisingly good for a bar. Fried Pickle spears are a great snack/app, as well.
Drink specials just about every night. My favorite: Whiskey Wednesday.
Definitely an iconic Lubbock bar, and for good reason.
They have good live music and numerous bar games (pool, shuffle board, etc). It is one of the places you go to as a college student doing the "Broadway shuffle". From the perspective though of a graduate living in Austin with much better bars...not really that great anymore in memory.
Review Source:My fiancee and I are mug club members and so we like to go to Crickets a LOT. They have a great beer selection! Food is okay. but DO NOT GET A WAITRESS! Every experience I've had with the waitresses has sucked. (So for any girls out there who have not waited before but want to be a cocktail waitress, they'll probably hire you!!)
Review Source:Highlight of the night was the entertainment, specifically, the couple that was shoving tongues down each others throats and the guy playing guitar that looked like a mix of an older Ted Nugent and James Taylor.
Other than that, the food was so-so bar/pub food and the drinks were fine.
spent some time before christmas in the wonderful little town of Lubbock, Tx..if you woulda told me that before, i woulda said *That'll Be the Day i Die*....but....what a fun town....Texas history and some say the birth place of true rock an roll, so after dinner we drove my chevy to the levy and looked over the cemetary where Buddy Holly is buried.....
and on to Cricket's....named after his legendary band....
didn't come here for the food....but the chili fries were outstanding..a huge plate easy serves two....i'll have mine with green chiles thank you :-)
the beer selection was something to see....micro brews from all over the country as well as european ones ..our waitress......i think her name was *Peggy Sue* :-) ...got me to try a Spaten Premium Lager...i told the bartender, Teddy...im *Ready Teddy*..and they hooked me up... Â a very cool German beer always served with a slice of lemon.....im hooked...
a fun time with great service....when we were leaving, Ted asked if i was just gonna *Fade Away*.......i gave him a smile and just said....*Maybe Baby*....
if your ever around West Texas.....stop by and *Rave On*
I really wish I could separate my score into several categories a) beer, b) atmosphere, and c) service. I will average my three scores. I cannot attest to the food because I'm usually there for a) and b). That said, based on my limited knowledge of the commercial beer selection in Lubbock, I would say Cricket's by far has the greatest selection I've seen. Microbrews adorn the taps with Stone, Full Sail, New Belgium, Spaten, Paulander heavily represented. They have great gaming with regulation size shuffle board, bar-quality pool tables, foosball and electronic games. Nights are pretty packed with the college crowds and people watching is awesome. The Service however leaves a lot to be desired. Door crews are unwelcoming tool boxes, security are pompous and rude and bar staff can't multi task to save their life. Sorry guys, perhaps I got you on several bad nights but there seems to be a trend. As a former Portland, OR beer snob, the unparallel diversity and quality of beer saves Crickets; they certainly have cornered that market in Lubbock.
a) Beer - 5 stars
b) Atmosphere - 3 stars
c) Service - 1 star
A few significant things have happened in the last couple of months here at crickets:
a) the menu has changed three times and each time the selection of food and brews gets smaller
b) the prices of the ever decreasing menu have gone up about 50%
c) the service has gone to shit and you'll prob have to help yourself to refills
d) a glass of ice tea at lunch now cost $3
I could probably deal pretty easily with one or two of these conditions, Â but when you see them all happen within a matter of a few days regulars like myself start shopping around to find better places. Maybe once they realize that regulars and there entire entourage's stop coming then things will change for the better?!
I flew in last weekend for the A&M game (what a disapointment that was) and after a nice dinner at Abuelos with my little sister me and the boys headed over to Crickets to start off the night. Â I probably spent 3-4 nights a week here as a senior. Â I'm glad to say it's still the same crowd. Â It only seems fitting this would be the first place I come to get a drink with my friends after being away for almost year (since my last visit 11/08). Â Don't usually post up here all night or close it down, but great place to start with an excelent selection of beer and friendly staff, although I do agree it can be slow and you may just never get a waitress or a table for that manner, but that's part of the appeal I guess. Â It's a must to take friends who have been out of school for a while and need reminding of the good times.
Review Source:Pretty good beer selection is the main draw for Crickets.
However, the food is mediocre at best, the service pretty weak, and at night it is usually overcrowded and has a crappy band blaring.
In the evening its just a college bar, but for lunch or afternoon, the beer selection can be a decent draw.
Cricket's is a local bar that's very convenient to campus with decent pub grub and an above-average beer selection (particularly for Lubbock). Lots of domestics and a few Texas micros on draft. On recent weekends, the servers have been offering lots of samples from the bar-- sangria, a new beer, and flavored margaritas. The drinks tend to be reasonably priced, and there's live music on the weekends. Service can be slow, but this place has a laid-back vibe that's refreshing. Thumbs down for all of the smoke, though-- Â without the blue haze in the air, this would be my favorite Lubbock bar.
Review Source:Really, what's not to like about Crickets? Lubbock has a limited selection of cool places to hang out, and this one is pretty reliable.
Do I frequent the place? Not necessarily.
Is the service always great? Not ALWAYS, but name a place where it is.
Are there sometimes too many irritating college freshmen grating on my nerves? Absolutely, its like a block from campus.
But if you want an awesome selection of beer, great food, and a nice atmosphere to hang out and chat with friends... this is a good place to go.
Plus, how can you not like a place that has quotes about beer on the menu, including one from Homer Simpson?
Make sure and try the french fries w/ cheese, bacon, jalapenos and a side of ranch. Mmmmmmmmm, cholesterol....................
True story: Â before I moved out of town, this place was a regular haunt for me, and when I happened in there with some friends last night, it appeared that little had changed. Â This, I assure you, is a good thing. Â It's your typical litany of draft taps, and whether you're up for a Double Chocolate Stout, a Fireman's #4, or your latest European beer crush, there's a good chance they'll have you covered here.
In an odd way, I'm also responsible for at least one of the musical selections in the jukebox, or, more appropriately, the opposite. Â One of my drinking buddies and I used to saunter in here to turn a few over back in the day, and after a night of bar hopping, nothing quite set you right like a frothy brew and, as the evening wound down, a little Miles Davis Kind of Blue on the Hi-Fi. Â Except that apparently we were regularly making the bar staff sleepy by playing it. Â And when we got to go home, they were still there, and you get the idea.
So in we went one day and it was gone. Â That said, easily one of my favorite places to stop in the Hub City, and I'm hoping to take it in at least once more before I head back out of town.
This was a pretty good bar. The drinks were reasonably priced, and the selection is a step above a lot of the other bars right around there. The service wasn't bad especially for a Friday evening although they needed probably one more waiter/waitress. They had a Wii, billiards table and several other games and assorted stuff to keep you entertained and spending money. You can find better bars in larger cities but in Lubbock, I dare you to find a better one. 4 stars based on the needing some work with regards to service, but other than that no complaints.
Review Source:i have nothing but good memories here. even though it is a bar in lubbock. i may be from this city, but i no longer fit in. walking in, looking like you're from LA, to a bar full of frat guys and their girlfriends - you can hear the record skipping in the jukebox. (no, there isn't a record-playing jukebox here)
i do love some shuffleboard. and quality tables are hard to come by, especially in a bar that sees a few hundred people a night in a college town like this. but crickets' tables are pretty well-kept and stocked with enough sand for you to play all night long.
their draft beer selection is quite massive, so they most likely have something you're more than willing to ingest. and most of the staff is friendly, so they'll probably answer any questions you might have about what beer to get drunk off of that night.
cricket's is across the street from one of the better places in town to get a margarita. in fact, go get some margaritas in your system first and then come to cricket's. and then order one of those table kegs. and then forget who the hell you came with, where are my keys? and, wait, how did i even get this drunk??
OK, maybe the value of this place is lost on people with the privilege of living in Austin, but feel free to visit, anyway. Yes, it is a typical college joint. Yes, the food is unimaginitive. Yes, the service occassionally sucks. But that's not the point. I used to live in Oregon, which is pretty much the microbrew capital of the nation, but even there, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single place that has a selection as badass as Cricket's. You could bar- and tavern-hop for weeks and get the same effect, but here, it's one stop. A whole wall of taps organized by type and place of origin. A HUGE SELECTION. Tons of bar gaming (a whole room of pool tables)!
This place kicks unbelievable amounts of ass. The only thing Oregon bars & taverns have on this place is that they're closer to the source and therefore able to charge more reasonable prices.
But it is Texas, and I feel lucky to have this many awesome beers at my disposal regardless of price. This place is like a holy oasis of hops in the middle of the Great Plains!
This typical college burger joint (aptly named after Buddy Holly's band) is usually a pretty good place to have lunch, but we had a terrible waitress the last time we went. She forgot to inform us that they did not have two of the beers and one of the appetizers my mom ordered twenty minutes after we ordered. I guess she was new.
The good: There are pool tables, shuffle-boards, tastey bar food (you can't really go wrong with hot wings, huh?) and tons of international beers to choose from their extensive beer menu.
The bad: It's usually crowded, smoky, the bathrooms are gross and the waitresses are idiots.
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