I love coming here but you can only do so for half the year; being that most of the bar is outside, it's simply too hot enjoy. Â In nice weather, this place is a great place to hang with friends and family and play some games while you're at it. Â The sand volleyball courts are awesome but are usually occupied with very serious players. The food here is pretty underwhelming. Â A while back we opted for the "cook your own burger" option and that was actually pretty neat. Â
Overall wait til the weather is sensational and grab some friends to go play. Â This place almost has it all, but really scores well with it's inviting atmosphere.
This place is the biggest joke ever!!! Went in, it took over 45 minutes to be acknowledge. And once we received our beers, it took another 30 - 45 minutes for them to come over and bring us another one. When we went up to the bar, they wouldn't give us the time of day. Our friends ordered shots of Jim Bean and they were told that they didn't have that in the bar. There was a bottle of Jim Bean sitting with the other liquor behind the bartender. The bar staff was super rude and completely inattentive. This is literally the worse bar I have ever been in. If they are that short staffed on a Friday or Saturday night, maybe they should hire more PEO rather than making the customers suffer. This is the first and last time I will ever step foot in this bar again. We waited for over 30 minutes for our bill and after asking 3 times for it, we walked out and didn't pay our bill. I don't understand how this place could be fun or the IT place to go to. People are rude and super intoxicated and the security does nothing to control the idiots that are there drinking. And the fact you pay $5+ for a burger or hot dog you have to cook yourself is ridiculous. Then you have to tip on top of it. Total waste of money and time. Avoid this place like the plague.
Review Source:Okay, 4 stars is a little generous, but I've been stopping here once in a while for years now and they've made great improvements by adding a kitchen and a full bar. You can still cook your food yourself on the outdoor grills, but at least now you can order off of the menu like at a regular restaurant. The menu needs improvement and the food is inconsistent and overpriced considering the generally low quality of it. Overall, it's a fun place with great volleyball courts, a pool table, fire pits in the winter, occasional live music, and that beanbag game Cornhole or "Cornholio" as I like to call it (think Beavis and Butthead). If anything, go there for the bartender Jill on Fridays... dayum!
Review Source:Three stars says 'A-OK', but it ain't 'A-OK,' so it gets two stars. Food is well, pub food. Salty so you can get thirsty for more beer or ale, or whatever you're drinking. Go play some games with your friends, it works well for that, but get ready for louder than decent atmosphere with below average service and a great feeling of vertigo from the obnoxious music pumping in the air, and you have pretty much a picture. Great place to start your drinking and driving days, seen people do that there...
Review Source:This place is too much fun! I met up with some friends of mine one Saturday night. The place was hoppin' but it wasn't so busy that we couldn't have fun and be social. There was a neat seating area by the front that was perfect for our group.
Now, I'm not a huge beer drinker. In fact, I rarely drink beer but something told me to enjoy a Blue Moon on this particular night and wow...if my beer ALWAYS tasted that awesome, I'm pretty sure I would drink it a lot more. The Blue Moon from the tap was just delicious. I was very impressed.
The bar is really unlike anything I've ever seen. Not only do they have cornhole-ing but they also have volleyball courts, ping pong tables and beer pong happening. They had a live band that was super fun and there are so many places to sit! Kids can come here on weekend nights with their families and enjoy the games out in the huge grass area. There are also nice gazebos that groups can claim for their evening out.
I didn't get to try much of the food but I can say that their fries and buffalo mozzarella sticks are really great if you're just digging some quick bar food! This place is by Falcon Field pretty close to the 202 so if you're out there, check it out!
The Monastery is a great place for kids until 8 PM when they kick out all of the families that brought their kids. Â I sat down on the patio by one of the sand volleyball courts at about 6:20 PM. Â It took five minutes for the waitress to make an appearance (6:25 PM), and another ten minutes for the waters I order to arrive (6:35 PM). Â Apparently, you have to order menus as well. Â Most places just give you menus when you take your seat. Â I order our menus, and five minutes later placed our order for food (6:40 PM). Â At this point, I sent my daughter off to play. Â She tried her hand at volleyball. Â On one of the sand courts, a mixture of adults and kids were having a friendly game. Â Everyone was welcome. Â Then she ventured over to the other court where the kids were just playing in the sand. Â Around 7:20 PM, I couldn't see her from my table and initiated a fruitless search. Â She finally came running out ten minutes later looking for the bathroom. Â There was a hidden play area with sand and sand toys. Â After visiting the bathroom, we placed our raffle tickets at the table with the prizes we wanted to win. Â A charity for animals was going table to table, trying to raise money. Â At 7:30 PM, a waitress came out with food, but wasn't sure what table it belonged to. Â At 7:40 PM we were told that our order was just about to come out, and that we were lucky that we placed it early, otherwise it would have been an hour and a half. Â Somehow, by 7:45 PM, it seemed like it had just been about an hour and a half. Â Maybe we were just starving, but the food seemed good. Â The personal pizza wasn't enough for my daughter. Â I would have order a second one, but I didn't want to wait around till 9:15 PM for a second pizza. Â We were promptly told to leave at 8:00 PM.
What I discovered, is that the best way to enjoy The Monastery, especially if you have kids, is to eat somewhere else beforehand. Â Under no circumstances should you ever order food at The Monastery, even if only half the tables are full. Â Enjoy the volleyball, the other games, and the sand toys on a full stomach.
By the way, we won a prize from the raffle.
What the hell is up with the music?!? You can't dance to it, you can't get into it. We went on 7/31 and it just drug the whole night down. I think three people sat and watched the guys playing. Really? You pay for these guys to be here? Even with the bean bag toss and ping pong and all the good things about The Monastery, the music bit big time! Ugh, it makes me not wanna come back anytime soon.
Review Source:It was a fun place to spend an evening. The service was pretty good considering we were a large group.
The food was okay, not bad, not great. I had a steak that they cooked for me, which came out more medium than medium rare. Not horrible, just not what I was hoping for.
You really want to go here for the ambiance more than the food. If you wanted to cook your own meal, you could probably cook it better at home.
But it would be a fun place to take a date! Pool tables, ping pong, horseshoes, volleyball, and live music!
It's a good concept if the owners / mismanagement had bothered to keep a trendy or classy atmosphere. As it is save your money get fast food - McDonald's has less grease. We had to ask for plates for the appetizer platter (it is meant to be shared) so the sever handed my daughter 4 paper plates.
My salad wasn't a salad it was a paper plate of mixed greens - really no tomatoes, nothing on it or in it other than lettuce and she threw a packet of Newmans Dressing on the table just like the ones you get at Burger King or McDonald's. My steak - it was OK - I asked for medium and got medium well and that was the best part of it. The steak is served on a paper plate and when I asked about utensils I was directed to go get my own from around the corner - yup plastic ware for a steak on a paper plate.
My daughter had a burger and it was so greasy the bun turned soggy brown part way through then fell completely apart.
Service? Well let's just pretend this place is 100% do it yourself then it would be OK. The waitress walked away before my daughter finished her order. Never came back and asked how things were, nothing. Really if we were the kind to dine & dash it wouldn't have been a problem because she wouldn't have known we were gone. My daughter actually had to go find the server and ask for the bill!!!!
What kills me is the employees exude an I don't care attitude which is also obvious in their actions (or lack of actions) and the message I got was the owner / mis-management has accepted this lazy unfriendly service because it's obvious by how poorly the place is run that it's OK with them.
It could be great but they would need to make a lot of changes - job 1 fire everyone & start over. If I could have given them 1/2 a star I would have - we won't be going back.
Was there at the Monastery sunday for the 2nd. annual chili cookoff. Â Had a great cook it yourself 1/2 lb. burger, great food. Â They have a huge outdoor play area with 2 sand VB courts and alot of other activities. Â Very nice place to hang out and have a beer and some food and games. Â Oh by the way I took 2nd., should have been 1st. out of 19 entries.in the chili cookoff. And thats t from "The Truth"
Review Source:We came here for my mom's birthday and by "we" I mean a ton of us. Â C'mon, we're Latinos, you know we mob deep and with a bunch of kids in tow. Â We arrived at 7:00 p.m. on a Sunday night. Â I guess kids aren't allowed past 8:00 but the place was DEAD and the couple of people that were there all had kids too. Â
We had a great time! Â The sand volleyball courts were awesome. Â There was a guy on the mic singing everything from the Eagles to Michael Jackson, pretty funny. Â A bonfire was going and kids were roasting marshmallows. Â It was a perfect night. Â Unfortunately, I didn't order any food or drinks but my dad said his burger was the best he's ever had. Â The server was very sweet but kept forgetting things. Â The bathrooms were gross.
Sure enough, right after the food arrived someone came up to us and told us we had to leave when we were done eating. Â I think it's asinine to treat your biggest money maker of the evening like that. Â No lie, I'm sure we doubled their revenue for the evening on booze alone. Â Ok, I get that they have rules and all, but really, there was only ONE other table by that time. Â We left no problem. Â Will I be back? Â Yeah... I can't think of anywhere else you can play sand volleyball and booze it up.
This place gets 5 stars for their bacon cheeseburgers. My fellow office mates and I try to come here for lunch once a week. They grill your hamburger to your liking and also add a special seasoning that is totally delish.I choose the pepperjack cheese to add a little kick to it. When they serve my burger to me I can't get to the condiment station fast enough. I pile on the jalapenos, pickles, lettuce, and tomato. I usually can only eat half a burger....but I can't stop eating this one. It is sooo dang good!
Review Source:I came her with friends after our softball game, and I had no idea what I was walking into. First off, lets set some expectations. This place is like going to a backyard BBQ and everyone is invited. It's outside, there's a live band, and I don't believe they have hard liquor beyond pre-made frozen drinks. So, with that being said, if you want to relax with friend, have a few beers and play bags, horseshoes or volleyball then this place is cool. If your wearing stilettos, you've made a mistake so be prepared to aerate the lawn. We had fun, but if I recall they close around midnight.
Review Source:So I went here for the first time last night for the BF's birthday with some friends. It was a lot of fun! I loved all of the activities, we played horseshoes and other people were playing volleyball, pingpong, and some bean bag game. The alcohol was fine, nothing to get too excited about, but I don't think this is the kind of bar to go for specialty drinks or anything.... it's about hanging out with friends and playing games (for free :-)). I did have one of their frozen daiquiri's, and man, it had quite a bit of alcohol in it. There were some interesting characters here last night...They had some cover band of Jimmy Buffett or something, so there were a lot of older people (dressed in too skimpy clothes, but that's their prerogative). We grilled our own cheeseburgers and that was fun. They provide a bunch of different seasonings for the burgers and then also a bunch of toppings. They also offer to grill it for you if you don't feel like grilling it yourself. Overall, it was a really fun place and I would like to go back.
Also, as far as having kids leave after 8, I was surprised there were kids there to begin with.... it is a bar after all. I think all bars have some time limit where kids can't be around anymore, and I think that's for the best.... who wants kids at a bar? And also, it could be an unsafe environment for a child anyway.
I recently visited this location, though I had been to the one that used to be in Peoria before. Â We came out from South Phoenix to join some friends for a birthday celebration. Â I am definitely a fan.
I am not sure what the whole free taxi thing is about but this is a chill place to come hang out with friends. Â They have volleyball, horseshoes, bean bag toss, etc that you can check out the equipment for using your keys as collateral. Â I know that you grill your own food for the most part, though we did not partake of that experience this time. Â
The best part is that this place is pet friendly, though I wish they said so on the website. Â We came later at night and all of us in the group have dogs and wish we had known we could bring them. Â We will definitely be coming back and bringing our crew of dog lovers. Â It is out of the way but definitely a fun time.
Ugh, the moment I walked into this place, I felt really awkward. We came here for our friend's surprise birthday dinner. It was about 6 o'clock on a Friday evening and as we're walking towards the door we see 2 women stumbling out completely wasted. Come on ladies, it's 6 o'clock.. what are you doing with your lives?
We walk in and the lay out is really awkward. If you've never been there and you're there for more than alcohol, it's not exactly clear what to do or how to get a waitress' attention. So we sit down and search the menu for anything without meat since it's a Friday and it is Lent. Sadly, the menu only had cheese pizza and a veggie burger. We ended up getting jalapeno poppers and a veggie burger and both were disgusting.
In addition to the disgusting meal, the patrons and the workers were grimey. Let me just break it down:
(1) There are no designated smoking areas. Patrons and employees were walking around smoking around everybody. It was disgusting.
(2) The crowd is a bit older... there was a lot of mid-life crisis resonating in the air. Let me just use this as an example. One of the guy's in our group paid to have a fire set up outside by our table. This old guy and his old lady dressed in dirt-biking outfits take a couple chairs and sit down right in front of me, blocking the warmth of the fire from me and my 5 month old. Thanks guy! Â So the waitress goes up to the old guy and asks him what he would like to drink, and he says " i'm on a motorcycle, so i'll have a diet coke". Great to know guy... I think she asked what you wanted to drink, not what your mode of transportation was.
   So 8 o'clock comes and the employees are letting us know of this ridiculous rule to have all children out by this time. So as were getting the kids ready, the guy in our group who paid for the fire, tons of drinks, and food says to us how he thinks it's a bad idea for business to kick people out by 8 o'clock and how he thinks they're losing money. Out of nowhere, the old guy on the cool motorcycle starts arguing with us about how he knows they're not losing money and he knows because he's been going there for 20 years. WTH? WAS ANYONE TALKING TO YOU? First of all old man, business is being lost because the man who paid for the fire you are sitting by is a millionaire and now he's never going back to this place and he's going to let all his rich friends know. Second, 8 o'clock is super early, and people don't start going out to the bars until at least 10 o'clock. Maybe people went out earlier 20 years ago, but times have changed grandpa.
(3) This was a main complaint from other people in our party, but this place does not have a full bar. You'll have to settle for a beer, margarita, or sneaking in your own flask to get a good buzz.
-Sorry for my rant, but this place sucked. I'm usually not picky about my food, I usually enjoy the outdoors, and I'm usually a nice person. BUT if you like second hand smoke, crappy food, rude old men, inappropriately dressed sabertooths, and a lack of good alcohol then BY ALL MEANS, check this place out.
Well... I guess this place has been around since dirt... in different locations...Or so I'm told.
I have to agree with a lot of the previous reviews like Melissa F, Kituria G.(and I have heard about the 'Free Taxi' story from other bars too) and  Michael C. overall this place has style and uniqueness seldomly seen in other bars. It defiantly not a stuffy, upscale Scottsdale bar- but sometimes that is just what we need!
It's just a beer and Wine joint, with 2 frozen drink machines- didn't check on the flavors. The Beer selection was healthy! Good imports and seasonal are available.
Wines were OK.. I didn't see a huge selection..BUT i wasn't really looking... service is below average... both bar and wait service was slow on a slow Friday night; or so it seemed.
Not a place to go if you wanted a "sit-down and be waited on dinner", meat is given to you with buns at cook yourself! A novelty idea, and it is fun to do once.. or maybe for lunch after golf or a hike- Personally it was a great end to an afternoon of Frisbee Golf!
NUTSHELL- a great place to meet some folks for some afternoon beers, always weekend music. I'd given it 5 stars but it's no 'Minder Binders'!!!
(GOD how I miss Minder Binders!!)
I wish this bar wasn't in the middle of nowhere.
I like The Monastery. The crowd is chill although there isn't much socializing at the bars. I have not (nor do I plan to) played volley ball during the weekend tournaments but there are always tons of people on or around the courts.
There is a live band on Saturday nights and they are pretty consistent. You know the usual: 40 something rhythm section with a Female lead rocking a tambourine.  Of  course not everyone loves all the music being performed. I listen to everything so I had no complaints about any of the songs being sung,. But I did hear some murmurs in the crowd and requests for more JIMI HENDRIX!
Big downer. They only serve beer, wine and premixed margaritas.
Big Ups: Cheapo  pitchers . YAY
Something Weird: They have a menu but you have to prepare your own food on the outdoor grill. 5 dollars for a cheeseburger and I have grill my own stuff. grrr. They could at least spring for higher quality beef.
Plus Side of cooking at the outdoor grill is yucking it up with my fellow bar patrons.
Nothing about the bar made me feel ill at ease. I have enjoyed my visits thus far.
Oh and one more thing- If you drive to the bar and your Designated Driver drinks to much you can get a free cab ride home. Now you HAVE to have driven to the bar, not cabbed it. Some people complain about the false advertisement. You ask what the stipulations are before you decide to get ripped.
The bartender's rock!! Thanks Will!! Their website SUCKS!!! Can you say, "FALSE ADVERTISING"? I thought you could. Their website states, "Ask your server for a free taxi." What they REALLY mean to say is..."if you drive your own vehicle to the bar, they will give you a ride back to your car in the morning for "FREE"....which is standard policy with Discount Cab at ALL bars.....you still have to pay for the taxi cab ride home. If you're going to abide by their policy, you should just use The Drunk Driver's. Their service is much more cost effect than The Monastery's "free taxi" service. DO NOT GO TO THE MONASTERY WITH THE INTENT OF BEING RESPONSIBLE AND USING THEIR "FREE" TAXI SERVICE. Â What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review Source:Enjoy coming here with a group, cooking our own grub and playing in the sand. Evenings in April and May are great, as are September and October. Winters are a bit chilly after sunset, and the summer... well I don't need to explain that one.
No great deals on food or drinks. Service is hit or miss but I come for the company and don't really mind. Order a few pitchers and your grub to cook, then pretend you're at home having a BBQ. No service required!
Visited for the first time Sunday afternoon to attend their "Chili Cookoff". It was only $2 each to participate and try 20 different recipies. Great outdoor space with volleyball, bags, and other games, live music, grill your own food, plus the chili we voted for won the contest!
I think this might end up being a regular hangout even though it is 30-min from Scottsdale.
I met "the best thing that's ever happened to me" (inside joke) here. Â Luckily, our friends frequent this place often when it's a little warmer out. Â
We go for the beer and volleyball, but the boy and I are a bit of competitors at the ping pong tables. Â It's always so much fun. Â Even when we compete against teams of people that we don't know..(and we win!)
Our dog comes with us occasionally, and someone even brings a duck from time to time. Â There is live music for most of the summer, but once it get's too hot, they stop coming out :( Â
You do not need to have your own volley ball, they will loan you once, as well as horshoes or bags, in exchange for your keys. Â They have good pitcher specials, I think 6 or 7 dollars. Â A few servers will make their way around the grounds and bring your beer out for you. Â You can rinse the sand off of you before heading home. Â Keep in mind this place closes at 11 and I personally think they have fun kicking people out. Â
They serve food here as well. Â You can order off of the menu, or you can buy burgers to cook yourself. Â They have all the fixing set up inside. Â I have made my own burger once, and have had taco's once, but really, I don't go there for the food, so don't get too excited about that part.
The service here is terrible. I hate how people can smoke here (doesn't make sense to have physical activities and smokers in the same spot). My mother had her 50th birthday party here. I had a lot of fun playing the bean bag toss, horse shoes, ping pong, and sand volleyball. On a November night, it is freezing! The band was terrible and could only play 1 genre- undanceable rock music. Plus there were like these floozy 40 year olds trying to dance sexy and it just made the place look trashy. So a waitress takes orders on our food and she brought it out 30 minutes later and still uncooked. She only brought out the chicken tacos cooked. I would have cooked my food sooner had I known that she was just bringing it out and going to take half an hour. Never came to check out on us and didn't really let us know what we could order. The bartender was great, but the service is not. The food is ok. NOT vegetarian friendly in terms of cooking your food on a meat cooked grill. They have a veggie burger and foil, but no veggie thongs to turn over the veggie burger and no clear definitions of what sauces have meat products in them. I'd never come back here unless my mom paid for me again.
Review Source:I don't get it.
What's the point of going OUT TO EAT if you have to cook your own food? I thought $5 was pricey for a bun, slice of cheese and unseasoned beef patty you have to cook yourself. For just a few more dollars, I could get a delicious cooked burger from Four Peaks with beer-battered fries.
The crowd is older here. The patrons could have been my parents' age, if not my grandparents.
I went for a friend's birthday. I adore my friend, but not her restaurant choice.
i dont get this place ....now mind you ihave not been there for a few years so take this review as you want but why would i go to a bar with a weak beer selection and have to cook my own burger????????????? as i rermember the staff was not overly friendly and the building had a wierd lay out sort of choppy lots of seperated rooms  .......
Review Source:The Monastery is fun, creative and most of all laid back. All bars should take notes.
Volleyball and tons of space to spread out, listen to music, cook your own BBQ (food provided raw), games etc. Cool place for a wedding reception or party! Has kind of a tropical feel even for Mesa!!! Lots of little area's to get lost in and do your own thing.
NO drama at this place which is a huge plus. Â Bartenders could be a tad bit more friendly as they seem to not really care as much as they could.
Overall a wonderful place to visit especially if you are tired of sportin' your man blouse and $500 shoes in the Scottsdale bars.....
Being as my friends and I frequent this spot on a weekly basis, I'd say it's one of my favorite places to be in Arizona. Â With the outdoor sand volleyball courts, ping pong tables, horseshoes, bags, live music, and grill where you can cook your own food, it's a great place for friends to gather and have a great time. Â Plus the beer is cheep and they have a good selection. Â ;)
Review Source:It's a great place to hang out and have a beer outside in this large patio area. Â The best part is that I can bring my dogs. Â As long as you have them leashed the place is the most dog friendly place I have ever been to in the East Valley.
It really feels like you are hanging out in somebody's back yard. Â It's really laid back. Â Part of the charm is you cook your own food. Â Yeah it could be a pain for some people but not that big of a deal. Â This is the perfect spring and summer hang out.
Try the margaritas and the jello shots. Â I have had great times with friends here and hanging out near a fire pit just makes it better. Â Reminds me of times I used to hang out on the beach in Cali with friends near the lit bon fires.
One of my favorite places to go with the kids for lunch. Â Bring a small amount of $ - grab yourself a table under the trees and enjoy the afternoon away while your kids play within eyesight. Â The entire "patio" is really a large, fenced grassy, tree filled area with 2 volleyball courts, multiple gathering areas, ping pong, horse shoes, jumbo checkers and even another fenced in area full of sand and toys for the kids.
Review Source:Caveat: I don't drink or smoke.
I've been to the Monastery about 3 times now. Â It's a fun place but really only makes sense to go about this time of year (Feb-May). Â Most of it being outside, other times might be completely unbearable. Â We only go with a large group of friends-enough to field two volleyball teams. Â There are 2 full size volleyball courts there as well as horse shoes and some other field games.
Physically the place is open and nice for an extremely casual hang out (wear your t-shirt and flip flops). Â They have live music occaisionally which is great (but can be loud if you're trying to have a conversation...even at the furthest volleyball court).
Food -- meh, nothing to write home about. Â You cook your own, so be prepared for that. Â It's part of the experience. Â It's your basic burger, a small piece of steak, or some chicken. Â Again, nothing special here. Â If you are coming for the food, you're at the wrong place.
We always have a good time there with friends. Â The crowd starts to get a little smokey/rowdy as the night progresses. Â If you aren't bothered by that, then no sweat. Â
Bring your ID. Â They are kind of jerks about this even though you don't drink (and they allow kids as well...odd policies conflicting). Â It's quite lame, but I suppose I understand. Â They just aren't considerate about it...perhaps the 19 year old manager-of-the-evening could be more polite.
This place is by far the most ambitious bar idea I have seen in... well, forever. Â Somehow they can pull it off! Â I first went to the location out in the west valley and I was blown away. Â Then when I moved to Gilbert, I was saddened because I couldn't see myself driving all the way to Glendale to frequent my favorite hangout!
But then (dramatic sounds)... I was invited to play volleyball at the Monastery (YES! they have an east valley location!)
Anyway, enough of the over dramatics. Â This place is cool. Â Mostly outdoors with firepits, grills, pool, sand volleyball courts, ping pong tables, and horseshoe pits. Would I lie? Check it out! Â There is NOTHING like grilling burgers on a humongous community grill when you are two sheets. Everyone is joking and hurling the garlic powder across the fire at each other while listening to a pretty decent cover band.
I honestly can't tell you how good the prices were on beer, but the food isn't bad. Â I think it was like $8.00 for a slab of hamburger meat. Â Good Freakin' Times!
The Monastery is unlike anywhere you've probably been before. Â Natalie's description gives a great idea...
Almost the whole thing is outside, with large sand volleyball courts, outdoor grills where you cook your own food (purchase it seasoned and ready to go there), swings, fire pits, etc. Â I like it in the winter when its nice enough during the day to play volleyball then cool enough at night to bundle up in a hoodie and pretend youre at a bonfire.
I also like it when the near-professional near-naked volleyball boys come to play on Friday nights. Â I just appreciate good sports. Â
The only thing I dont like about the Monastery is how many people bring their kids. Â Thats really just because I'm not a fan of them at all right now, so dont take it personally. Â The place is actually pretty well set-up for kids and I guess if they werent so annoying in general, it would be a decent scene for them. Â There is a sectioned off sand area for them with toys and stuff yet of course they run amock...grrrrr.... Â Whatever.
Dont expect a Scottsdale crowd at all, this Mesa bar is just that--a place to kick back and relax with friends. Â Change is good my friends.
It's hard to describe The Monastery without it sounding really weird. Well, it is, but in a good way.
The Monastery is in a sprawling southwest-style house, way out east at Falcon Field. There are big open spaces, as well as plenty of private spaces with tables tucked into corners. There's a two-story stucco fireplace in the middle of the front room and a wrap-around bar in the "kitchen".
The atmosphere is very eclectic, sort of a beach bar meets the desert.
Outside they have a horseshoe pit, sand volleyball, darts and a pool table (among other goodies). For when the weather gets fickle, they have portable fire pits (winter) and misters (all the other times).
Oh, and the bartenders and "bouncers" dress like friars. Really.
Maybe the most interesting thing about an already interesting place is the grub: you cook your own! Order hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, or steak, and cook it yourself on one of the many barbecue grills. Prices are very reasonable. They have lots of cool events, so check the calendar on their website.
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