I stopped in to watch a game one Saturday afternoon. It was almost empty. The waitress was extremely nice. Â The food was good for bar food though it was kind of pricey for bar food. The portion sizes were decent but not large.
One thing that bothered me is they changed our TV with only a few seconds left in the game. Â With only a few people in the bar and that many TVs, you think they would have asked us before changing anything.
I've only been here one time since I'm not a huge fan of "sports bars". I came here around 10pm on a Friday night to get a quick drink and app. My friend and I had the some sort of girly concoction with strawberries and vodka. Not your normal drink at a sports bar, but it was good! We also shared the hot pretzels with cheese for an app. It was recommended by the waitress and it didn't take much to convince us that it would be worth it. It hit the spot and was exaclty what I needed after a stressful plane ride during the holiday rush. The crowd was the typical groups of men out drinking beer and watching sports. Nothing too exciting.
Review Source:Good place to watch the game. I had a friend from Virginia in town so we went to watch the Redskins game on Sunday afternoon. It gets crowded on gameday. About 40% of the place was Steelers fans and another 40% Packers fans, but we were able to get a TV switched to the Washington game (first come, first serve on TVs). I got the Ranch Hand (burger) and it was delicious. A few of the other customers were rude to us about the game. That put a damper on the overall experience, but I know it's not the restaurant's fault.
Review Source:This place is way overrated. As a group of four, we ordered an appetizer that had mozzarella sticks, tater skins, pretzels, and wings. I will say, the pretzels were really yummy! That was the only good thing about the visit. The rest of the appetizer was average. I ordered the chicken Capri sandwich and found it very bland (what basil pesto?). In fact, I didn't even eat half of the sandwich. And the cheese on sweet potato fries was just weird. The service was AWFUL. We waited 15 minutes before the waitress took our drink order and that was pretty consistent throughout the meal. Even paying the bill was a hassle...she never asked us how we wanted to do the bill, so she spent 20 minutes fixing it. Then after we paid, she took another 20 minutes to come back with receipts or change. Also, I know it's a sports bar type restaurant, however, you don't need to turn up the volume so incredibly loud that I can't hear the person sitting directly beside me. I would definitely not go back.
Review Source:Was there on a Saturday. Â Waitress was Leann - she started great, then faded. Â Wife ordered a burger (no problems). Â I ordered a cup of chili & 10 med wings, lightly sauced. Â Chili not delivered first. Â Wings had no sauce! Â I don't like them dripping in sauce, but I do want sauce. Â Leann was terrible refilling drinks. Â Temperature was extremely cold for August. Â Would probably not return.
Review Source:This really isn't a bad place for for the price. Â Their menu has a nice variety of items at reasonable prices. Â My personal favorites are the pretzel bites (appetizer) the bavarian sandwich, and the black and bleu burger. Â Nothing extravagant, but all of them have great flavor, and a good sized portion to them. Â
The wait staff is hit or miss lately... It's ranged from phenomenal service to very sub-par performance. Â But the food is always top notch, and there is normally a manager floating around to ask if everything is going good with the meal.
I guess this is your new typical giant suburban sports bar. There is nothing about this place which is particularly interesting including the beer choices and the food choices. The service was good once we got past the ineptitude and confusion at the front door. They were trying to charge us a ten dollar cover charge because there was some kind of fight on the TV. As if i care.
Review Source:Fox and the Hound has a great, standard beer selection. Â You're not going to find any crazy/cool beer on draft, but they do have a very wide selection.
Food is standard bar selection, but generally good. Â Try the pretzels - they are best thing on the menu. Â I prefer the food for lunch, but happy hour works too. Â
Tuesday night is trivia night, which is very fun and pretty challenging.
I'd say more like 3 1/2 stars would be accurate.
I wanted to watch my NY Football Giants on Monday at a bar, so I convinced my brother-in-law to meet me here as I thought it was 1/2 way between our respective homes. Â It was not, 25 min trip for me, 15 for him. Â No big deal, my sisters ended up joining us too for a little while, and us girls split 20 wings since they were $.45 each on Monday nights. Â You can order them in any denominaton, the server said you could get 2 if you wanted, that's weird I would never order 2 wings. Â They were decent, but they were fried and I haven't had wings that were deep fried in a while and I prefer them to be grilled or smoked now.
Our server was pretty good for the majority of the night, but for the end of the 3rd quarter and most of the 4th she was no where to be seen. Â And all I wanted as I nervously watched the game start to change, was one more delicious Guiness!! Â She finally came around and I got my drink, but still, nobody likes to be kept waiting so long for beer.
A while after my sisters had left and my BIL devoured his own order of wings, we got some more food. Â He went with nachos, I went with the Black Forest sandwich, with no bacon or ham. Â But I think they left off the cheese too, no big deal. Â The pretzel roll was soooo good, it was soft and warm. Â I could have ate it on its own, but the turkey, lettuce, tomato and honey mustard were all great on it. Â I opted for no side as I wasn't really that hungry, so the sandwich alone hit the spot.
Overall, besides the Cowboys fans that I was ready to jump after the beginning of the game, it was a solid option for a sports bar. Â Plenty of TVs, good bar food, reasonable prices and plenty of drink specials daily. Â I've been to the University and Uptown locations as well, and they seem to be pretty standard all around.
I usually visit this location for lunch or grab couple of drinks (after work of course) since it's very near to where I work in Ballantyne. So far, they have always welcomed us with big smile (real one). I am big fan of big smile if you don't know me by now :)
I was here just last week with a good company for couple of drinks and they were great. We were just talking through out our time here and we ONLY ordered drinks but they didn't mind at all, most places wants you to order since servers get tip based on how much you spend. Server was friendly and she kept checking with us every few minutes.
I didn't gave it five star is because our server didn't close the deal right. She didn't thank us for visiting them when she left the bill.