WILL NEVER GO BACK!! I've ate here several times over the years with no real problem. Today,however was horrible. I ordered both specials(bowl of clam chowder and 8oz sirloin with roasted potato). First the clam chowder was barely warm, I waited for the waitress/bartender to return which wasn't till my steak was done. She took it away and said"sorry hope the steaks better". Well you know how this goes my steak which I asked for medium was in fact well done! At this point I told the waitress I was fed up and was leaving. She said eat the potatoes I know you must be. I told her I'd grab a beef stew to go cause I was in fact starving. The whole time I was neither rude or asking for handouts. But to my surprise the girl comes back and says my managers only gonna charge you for the potatoes and beef stew $13. I paid and left. Let me say one thing I've never been so offended. You charge me for your side of roasted potatoes ! Dude I'm starving waiting for your crap food! No wonder this place is goin under. If you wanna get drunk and BS all night sure stop in, but don't waste your $$ or time here.
P.S. the beef stew was just as bad
I came in for  Geeks Who Drink trivia on a Thursday night.  It was exceptionally crowded as there was a private group just hanging out in the middle of the restaurant.  It was so loud that you couldn't speak to people sitting at your table.  The waitress was clearly frazzled, my friends had ordered appetizers and beer and the waitress came back to take our order.  10-15 minutes later, my food arrived.. but still no drinks.  I also had ordered sweet potato fries instead of french fries - when I told the server this - she snapped  "NO! you didn't"  We were speechless, she then explained that she was one of the only servers and very busy.  I have no issue with that, but the customer is always right and you don't snap at them.  We thought she had redeemed herself by bringing the sweet potato fries over in a basket and checked on our drinks regularly, however when we received the check and she had rung in a full order of fries and charged us an additional $5 her tip was greatly reduced.  Food was typical bar food, OK, lots of TVs, cold beer and OK selection.  It was hard to hear the trivia jockey as well.  I'll play trivia elsewhere, and stick to sitting at the bar at this location if I return.
Review Source:Meh.
Packed with meatheads, staff is alright but everytime I have been lately it just hasn't impressed me. Â Really just a drinking spot. Â More of a townie haunt and certainly not in line with how Moody street has been shifting (see quality restaurants like Tempo, Gaff, Solea, Habaneros Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar) There is a large bar and the inside is no frills. Â There is a kind of empty space over in the corner where people usually stand around with drinks. Â There is a decent amount of seating and it is roomy. Â
I have had the burgers here and they are just standard burgers. Â Nothing special, nothing setting them apart and on the salty side. Â The wings I have had were soggy. Â I do like that they have UFC for the guys who always want to watch the fights out but it isn't my scene so doesn't add much to the review for me.
If you want basic bar grub on Moody then stop in here but don't have high expectations. Â If you want to drink with some college kids and townies, have at it. Â You will be waiting around to get your drink for a while. Â Be forewarned! Â It is spacious for groups but 99% of the time I have been here with groups they have always wanted to leave after a drink or two and head off to Skellig. Â No real draw to go back unless I have to meet someone there.
Went in for the first time based on a friend's recommendation.
They have a standing lunch special of two burgers for the price of one.
The owner came over to attend to us - when we asked about the special - he seemed disgruntled and dis-satisfied that we would order the special.
When the order came - the burgers were really good - but the Sweet potato fries had so much salt on them that my wife and I could not eat it. We told the owner of the huge salt - he responded by highlighting how we were getting such a great deal with the two for one burgers - and how could we complain that the fries were super salty.
The owner's attitude made so disgusted.
This deal was a regular deal highlighted at the back of the menu, available every workday lunch to everyone. How could the owner be disgruntled about us ordering it.
Great place for a quick lunch or late night snack. You'll find a good fun loving crowd in here along with many of the city workers after they're shift ends. Yes, it can get noisy, but compared to some of the other places I've been to, this is not bad at all especially during Boston sports games. My band played here and we brought in a lot of out-of-towners who now come here on a regular basis. The food and service is quite good and there is parking available out front, on the side streets or in the rear.
Review Source:I guess everybody has to eat somewhere, I'm just sorry for the people who have to eat here. Â If i were on death row, and my last meal had to be selected from this menu, i would turn to the toilet for something to eat. Â Perhaps there i could find the remnants of my last decent meal. Â It is a nice place to watch football, though, provided I wanted to watch football with the most recent victims of the zombie apocalypse.
Review Source:I really really really really really really really want to like Shoppers. Â Really. Â They're one of those sports bars that have a million tv's and will always turn one of them to a Tigers game for an out of towner like me. Â It's walkable from my shitty apartment and across the street from the laundromat I'm forced to frequent (see "shitty apartment"). Â But man, is the food nasty. Â I've given Shopper's a pretty fair shot (see "it's walkable and plays the Tigers") and have tried so many items on their menu it's pretty ridiculous based on me knowing how terrible the food will inevitably be. Â How can a restaurant eff up basics like hamburgers, nachos, Â or pizza? Â These are not difficult items to master! Â Go if you want to see a game that's not the Red Sox (though they will still be set to 17 of their 20 tv's), otherwise, steer clear. Â Even on laundry day.
Review Source:I seriously stared at the computer screen for a good five minutes while deciding whether this was 3 or 4 stars...I'm going for 3 at the moment, with a very hopeful upside bias.
First, the food and drink here are absolutely on point. Â The burgers (Oasis is my personal favorite) and steak tips are great from my personal experience, and I've never had a fellow diner complain about their meal here. Â Two for one burger deal is killer and totally a reason to go here for a lunch with co-workers as I've done numerous times.
The reason I give only 3 stars is the service. Â Without fail, the servers are pleasant and knowledgeable, but the pace of service is often inexplicably slow. Â I've been either the only party or one of two parties in the place for an early lunch, and it's still taken me an hour and ten minutes to get in and out of there on average...and I'm by no means a slow eater.
Summary - figure out the service piece, and you got a great little location. Â For now, as long as your boss will let you slide on getting back a few minutes late (or you're unemployed and don't have that problem), definitely worth a stop in.
This is one of my favorite sports bars period. First off the atmosphere is inviting and friendly for lunch, dinner or a game. Secondly for "bar food" this place has a leg up on typical sports bars, the quality just seems to have more pride than other larger places. I recommend the steak tips for sure, very reasonably priced.
One of the reasons I usually watch games at home is because my biggest pet peeves while watching at a bar is missing any play because I can't see or hear but at Shopper's that's not possible, they have TVs everywhere and put up the sound loud enough so you're involved. I usually frequent Shopper's for the UFC fights because there's something about being able to see all the fights and the sound jacked up that's just a good night out. Overall the best bang for your buck for a local sports bar in that area.
Beer of choice: Black and Blue (Guinness and Sea dog blueberry)
I want to update my original review. I still think they need to address the noise level but we went there for lunch yesterday and it was great.
It was quiet and the food was good.....not great but more than acceptable.
Two for one burgers??? You can't beat that deal unless you eat off the dollar menu at your favorite fast food restaurant.
Here is what we ordered. 2 burgers, one with a side salad one with fries, 1 coke, 1 $2 beer special, and 2 coffees. All that was under $16
The waitress/hostess/bartender was very friendly and the service was excellent....especially considering she was doing everything but cook the food.
3 1/2 stars is my rating for now.
Definitely should've been going to Shoppers Cafe to watch UFC PPV events from the get go. Â $3 cover and $2 Narragansetts. Â Place was seriously packed with two parties and the UFC event and absolutely no place to sit and eat (we arrived about 15 before the PPV event started). Â Servers totally overwhelmed but the bar kept up very well. Â This is my go-to place for all UFC events now. Â And now I can pound them down since I can walk home.
Review Source:Visited here for a quick bite to eat on St Paddys Day. I like the location and layout of the bar and I would imagine it would be great for watching a game. Tons of tv's cover the walls and there's adequate seating.
The chicken wings we got (bone-in & boneless) were disappointing. The boneless were really small and not very flavorful. The bone-in wings were also on the small side, a little blubbery and visually not appealing at all. Maybe St Paddy's Day wasn't the greatest time to eat here so I'll give them a chance to redeem themselves in the near future.
The bar itself is pretty cool and they have a decent selection of beers. I like the $2 Gansetts, don't judge me for it! Open window seating available also which is a huge plus.
Grew-up in neighboring Watertown and never knew about this place. Saw an online coupon a few weeks back and bought a couple, as I'm always in the WAT/WAL area to meet a buddy for beers & wings.
We were pleasantly surprised w/ Shopper's Cafe. Big, bright & roomy. Â Lots of TV for games. Pretty good beer selection (Long Trail IPA and Double-Bag Ale on draft!), pretty extensive menu. Â Our wonderful waitress (Alicia) was everything a good waitress should be.
We opted for the large order of bone-in wings and the "Shopper's Fries", which were thin-sliced wafers. The fries were so-so. Â Maybe a bit soggy and not crispy enough. Â The wings were a very generous portion that were nice & crispy w/ a good amount of spice to them.
Beers were moderately priced and ice-cold.
We'll be back and perhaps I can bump-up my rating another star.
I met friends here for a quick lunch. I live locally. Â This was the first meal in 10 years that I tried and declined. Â 10 years ago I was served uncooked eggs in Maine.
On this lucky day I was served a Reuben which wouldn't pass as grade school lunch fare. Â White processed fake bread bun straight out of the wonderbread bag, (untoasted) hard, fatty, greasy meat that tasted like cooked knuckles. Â Absolutely detestable and with no discernible Reuben characteristics. Â
This place isn't a cafe and Moody St isn't a place for shoppers so it's all very confusing. The food tastes better if you mumble about the yuppification of Waltham while chewing.
I'd probably give Shopper's a 3 1/2 if I could, but because of their fantastic pizza, I've bumped it up to a 4.
The pizza really is the star of the menu -- maybe the best pizza in Waltham, as far as I'm concerned. Very crispy crust, good quality cheese and toppings. One pizza is perfect for 2 people and they are really cheap!
I think the rest of the food is just fairly generic bar food.
The service is always super friendly and efficient. They used to have better beer specials (the past few times I've been, it's been $2 Coors where it used to be $3 better beer.) And there are lots of big TVs for watching sports.
But really, just go get the pizza and you'll be happy.
Not worth the trip. One of the few places on Moody St which features a younger clientele, mostly college students, but the wait for service is rediculous. I literally spent 50 minutes at the bar trying to get the bartender's attention whilst my friend was almost sexually molested by some old creeper that walked in and thought it was fun to go and grab girls' butts.
They have a good selection of food at decent prices though even though you can find better quality anywhere else on Moody St and they have a decent selection of booze too, I particularly liked them because once (after trying to get service at the bar for 15 minutes) the bartender was willing to make a snakebite (lager and cider mixed with a little cordial on top, traditional English pub drink) and charged us very cheap for it so they get a star for that. Aside from that, this place is packed, slow service and nothing to write home about.
I love shoppers. We come every Sunday for football. They label all the tv's so you know where to sit. The food is better than you would expect at a local bar.
There chili cheese fries are amazing, they really know how to make a good chicken sandwich and they have fantastic onion rings.
The drinks are reasonable too. They have free wifi. Really they have it all. If you are on Moody street and you want to avoid food poisioning or being annoyed by college kids go to shoppers it is the best place on Moody Street.
This place is super close to me and therefore I like it a lot. But also:
-great friendly staff. willing to do things like move your tab from the bar to the dinner table and make suggestions for food and drinks
-good food. great selection of food, a lot of options. I love their quesadillas.
-they have karaoke
-really mixed crowd of locals and students but not sketchy
I finally had a full meal here... I'm so happy that this place is right around the corner from my apartment. $8 gets you better-than-bar-quality food, and you can get pretty sauced on pitchers. The crowd is very mixed and fun to be around.
The house fries look like buffalo chips, but they're a delicious surprise. The onion rings are homemade. And they know how to fry a chicken sandwich!
Oh Shoppa'z how you complete me.
Giant oak door leading into a paradise of alch and food.
...Though I didn't try any of the food I made a good work of their weekly special, sunset wheat, for 3 dollars. It filled my tummy with a burst of sunshine and kept me going on through cinco de mayo/ karaoke night!
I sang a little Elvis, Can't Help Falling In Love, and wooed the women into being interested at the new guy on the block.
This place is great, nice prices, nice females, and even nicer bartenders who act a lil shy and laugh at your crappy jokes. If heaven were an 'ok' bar, Shoppa'z would be the place, And I would bathe in it's glory.
Shopper's Café is a pub. It stands apart for it's excellent food for the price. In fact, what's on offer is simply a pub menu so, that implies cheap burgers, soups, fish and chips, salads, roll-ups and the like, however, pub food doesn't necessarily mean the cook knows what he's doing. The cook working at lunch time I can recommend without hesitation. Also, the service is attentive, chatty, and with no air of self-importance.
The ambiance as "spacious pub" with twenty or so plasma screens displaying sports, CNN, and Keno. The bar is huge and comfortable enough to eat at.
Waltham is well served with ethnic restaurants but, decent American old school fare is thin on the ground. I can recommend this one with certainty if you need your meal to be cheap. If you want fancy, go to Tempo.
Good bar with std bar chow. Had the Caeser turkey tip salad for lunch today and the turk was tender and well cooked but slathered in bbq sauce which really doesn't go with Caeser dressing. Service was friendly, blue collar hiya doin chief? and efficient. Reasonable and clean, nice atmophere (upscale sports bah). Would return as I work down the street.
Review Source:Hmmm..... I thought I had written a review on Shopper's - apparently I hadn't.
Well it goes like this. Ever since my local hang out closed, I started coming to Shoppers more and more. And well I'm glad I did!
Shopper's offers excellent food, friendly staff, and a large amount of space so that if you do decide to come in with a large group, there's plenty of room and none of that sardines in a can feel.
Just be careful of nights with bands or game nights because it can fill up rather quickly, but still the staff manages to deal with the crowd well.
I also love the fact that they have Photo Hunt and Keno. And for those into Buck Hunter, they have Safari there I believe and some bowling video game.
I only wish that they had more Keno screens at better angles for those days I'm near the back window to find out if I've won or not.
Shoutouts to Melissa B, Jamie and Joey L for always keeping our drinks full and offering such amazing service.
Also be sure to try their steak tips, home-made hand cut fries (w. cheese - the cheese really makes 'em great!), fish & chips, sweet potato fries, pork chops... alright all their food is good!
I'll tell ya whaaaaaaaat........... Shopper's is solid for its location in Waltham. That area around it is a bit sketchy and a local hangout for some unsavory people. Once you get past the motorcycle thugs and butt-smokers out front its a pleasant surprise inside. Its a pretty big size, tons of tvs, clean, decent bathrooms, $2 drafts, plenty of seating. I haven't had the food there yet but will be back to try some.
I have found it to be more fun for the happy hour, after work time. Later in the night its hard to get near the bar to order drinks just due to the layout of the place. There is a masthead presence there so watch out whose toes you step on. We & the boys went there one Sat night a little while back during the Celts playoff and a Sox game was on too. Plenty of TVs on and a good night scene but the other half of the bar had country line dancing.........WTF. Drunken fun youth on one side of the bar and country-square-dancing-steppin folks on the other. It was very strange. Once that was done there was karaoke BUT it was country songs only. sigh.......
You know what? I'm a big fan of Shopper's. It's spacious, clean, their food is pretty damn good (being "bar" food), and their service has never made me complain. Which is... saying a lot. :)
Their burgers are huge and meaty - and I LOVE their new fries - it's a cross of a potato chip and french fries - perfectly crispy, and heaven in a bite once dunked into an appropriate amount of ketchup. BF and I usually get an order of their wings - we agree that it's pretty much one of the best places to get wings in the Waltham area! Get it just regular buffalo style - it's not too spicy (even though I looooooove spicy), with a touch of honey sweetness, and the wings are meaty and not covered in breading. It's just... perfectly good. The large order is sufficient to fill us both up, so we tend to get the small order and end the meal with burgers. :)
$2 Drafts, and Big Buck Hunter, Safari style in the corner. Huge plasma screens, and a mixed crowd of college kids, people after work, and neighborhood regulars. Always fun to people watch while cramming wings down your gullet!
I really enjoy going to Shopper's to eat and/or drink. They have some of the best chili around, decent app's and salads too. The beer is always cold, pretty good mixed crowd with all sorts of people; the 20 something crowd, blue-collar workers and bikers too. My friend and I usually throw our laundry in across the street and come over here for a few $2 drafts in between the wash and dry, Shopper's makes laundry fun!
Review Source:I have been to Shoppers a few times, always with big groups after work. This place is perfect for groups, lots of tables, nice big bar area, and a menu with something on it for everyone!
I think this place a good venue to watch sporting events, they TVs at all locations, not matter where you are seated. I have had many of their appetizers and have also had their pizza. I have been happy with everything I have been served.
The service is good, especially with larger parties - I have been impressed with how good they were with all of us!!
This is a reasonably priced place too - for both drinks and food.
They do traditional bar food here, and they do it very well. Â Steak Tips are top 5 that I have tasted, and I consider myself a Tip connoisseur. Â Quality meat that is tender and perfectly marinated.
The nachos are different, but I am a big fan of them. Â Instead of a traditional plate of nachos, where only the top layer is covered with toppings, they give you a plateful of meat, salsa, jalapenos, chili, sour cream, and cheese, and let you dip/scoop away so you never taste a dry chip.
Burgers are fresh and made in-house, and the buffalo wings have a nice tangy bite to them. Â The beer is cheap, and you can't turn your ahead without seeing another flat screen tv. Â You really can't ask for much more from a neighborhood bar.
The only reason Shopper's got 2 stars instead of 1 is because of their beer selection. Â They do have a food, but it is pretty bad. Â Its edible, but you are better off walking down the street to any of the other places on moody and getting some food. Â
The atmosphere of the bar is pretty crappy too. Â The bar is usually filled with typical Waltham townies. Â I have been there twice on a Saturday night, and the place was pretty much empty. Â Won't go back!
I love this bar for the following reasons -
1) They have 20 oz drafts for a good price.
2) Their fries are crinkle-fries, crunchy and delicious.
3) The wings are in a sweet, tangy buffalo sauce.
4) They have Buck Hunter Safari and Baggo. Â
Nothing like getting some great wings and beating the guys at the games.
Since we just bought a condo in the area, we were psyched to find Shopper's. The food was good, the beers were reasonably priced, it's large, there's lots of seating and you can pretty much see the game from anywhere. Within minutes we had decided that this would  be our place for the football season. It's only June, but we're already excited to have a great place to go within walking distance.
The boy loved the steak tips, I enjoyed the grilled chicken sandwich with honey mustard, and overall we were very happy. Also, the service was wonderful. The waiter was friendly, remembered our names and really enhanced the experience. He was lovely.
I had but one gripe!!! One big enough for me to remove a star!!!
The nachos? They are not nachos.
They are a bowl of chips and a bowl of stuff. At best, they are deconstructed nachos. At worst, it's just lazy. Really guys. Step it up.
Put the stuff ON the nachos, serve it on a big plate (add some more cheese, but that's getting nit-picky) and call it a day. Don't serve me a bowl of chips that I then have to stick into the huge pile of mush. TASTY mush, great meat, great beans, good veggies, but mush nonetheless. It's difficult and slightly gross to share with a group and I don't like it.
Yes. The "nachos" bothered me that much. Seriously.
Final word: We're going back, probably a lot, but I really want to see some improvement on the nachos front. It's not a big jump from here to 5 stars!!!
I never knew this place before it burned down in 2006, but I've been coming here for 8 months now and it feels like home. It's been run by the LaCava family since 1937, and you can definitely sense the family-vibe whether you're talking to the owner (Paul) or his 2 bartending sons (Joey and Michael). There's live music several times a week (acoustic on Wednesdays, cover bands on Fridays, and occasionally a band on Saturdays) and there's always a good Beer of the Month deal (February was $2.00 Killian drafts!).
During the day it's the usual townie crowd...middle aged dudes having some beers, playing Keno and cursing loudly....but on weekend nights, the Brandeis/Bentley/Lasell college crowd comes in, they crank up the music, and it becomes a pretty good pickup bar. I think if they had a dance floor, it'd be a pretty hoppin' nightclub spot.
Parking can be a little frustrating at times, since customers often park in the "TENANT PARKING ONLY" spots behind the building which occasionally leads to double parking and aggravated bar-goers.
The food is standard bar fare....burgers, wings, pizza, a couple salads, etc., but they do it well. Â I highly recommend the steak tip sub with cheese.
2 stars is more then fair for this institution. Â why?
1. their food tastes so horrendous, you kind of wonder if they are serving food to hide behind "restaurant" for some sort of tax shelter
2. the clientele is 99% townie, so watch out around 5pm when they are all congregating outside smoking and parking their vehicles where ever they want, hey thanks dumb ass, i wanted to serve over that double yellow in order to make it down moody street today!
3. the prices for domestic beer is still quite high, if you are serving the town (see point 2) why not lower the price to increase the volume?
OK, now why you got 2 stars.
one star for being within walking distance to prevent a DUI on those very rare occasions where company comes over and you want to booze.
and the second star is for all the sports updates you can get without having to turn on the news....i.e you want to know how the sox game is going, wait to hear the boos or cheers coming out from here, you can  absolutely hear them coming from here if you live within 4 square blocks of this place
The location burned in a fire about a year and a half ago and reopened on August 9th. Â
I had never been in the restaurant prior to the fire, but the new place has a large bar, plenty of tables and room to move around. Â
The food was good and the prices were reasonable. Â Pub food. Â
The menu is still temporary but worth adding to the local lunch rotation. Â It will be great to watch this place improve.
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