So let's say it's lunch, and you're in Tempe, and you're craving a cheeseburger and a beer for around $6... good luck finding that anywhere else but here. Â Is it a dive? Â Sure it is. Â Do they have random folk betting on horse races at 11 am? Â Yep. Â Do dudes rocking hydraulic billiards triangles frequent a place like this? Â You betcha. Â Can you buy condoms in the bathroom? Â Absolutely. Â Seriously though, the food is good, the beer is nice & cold and the people watching, as you can tell, is top notch. Â Far from gourmet, but an excellent choice in my book - and I suppose if you are looking for a place to play some pool or bet on horses you could do that too.
Review Source:I met up with a few ladies here for drinks a few weeks back at the suggestion of someone else. We didn't end up playing pool, just enjoyed our drinks at the bar before moving over to a table. We were definitely over dressed and probably out of place, but it was a chill place to let loose. Drinks were okay, food was nothing outstanding, prices were to be expected.
Review Source:We had living social deals. Out server took awhile to check on us then grab our bill. We got wings and beer and were there for 90 minutes! It was dead! We will go back because the wings were awesome and they offered local beer but we will sit at the bar or request a different server because we want to try out the billiards tables!
Review Source:I got dragged back here by persistent coworkers, and the knowledge that they have "Thirsty Thursdays". For Thirsty Thursday you can get a huge stein full of absolutely any drink you want for only 5 bucks. Hellooooooo vodka! The puke smell is pretty much gone (They removed the carpet). I still don't like the food... but if you get drunk enough, I suppose it doesn't matter.
Review Source:Great tables there, 7 Diamond 9 footers, 12 Diamond bar tables and 5 Gold Crown 9 footers that all play very well. Good food and drinks there, service is pretty good too with some friendly waitresses.
I live fairly close and go often for practice and a bite to eat. I would say the only draw back for me is certain nights it is a league night and all the big tables are taken up but that is not really a problem as the place is packed so its a good thing but if you want to play pool on league nights then join a league I guess which I might.
The $50 monthly pool player pass gets you pool all month long whenever you want to play. I would recommend this pool room as a person who plays pool very often, wants a bite to eat or drink. They also have OTB if your into gambling also.
Nestled between the bright lights of the once famous Graham Central Station and a no-name BBQ place is a lovely gem I like to refer to as "Skips".
The bar side of this place is nothing too special. Don't get me wrong, its BIG for a bar, but the ambiance and furniture are pretty dated. So, unless you enjoy playing pool, I don't know why you would want to come here.
That being said, the pool here is great! Â They just got around 15 brand new Diamond 7' tables which play AWESOME. Â Their 9' tables also play well, but they have some PRETTY unforgiving pockets. Â So if you are a beginner, I wouldn't play on the big tables unless you like to be frustrated.
They have no house cues on the floor. Â you have to rent them up at the bar for $1.00. Â This is great because they can maintain a better quality cue for you (if you use house cues).
Their food is actually REALLY good! I've had their Turkey Burger which was moist and delicious. Â It comes with a nicely sized basket of fries. Â Also, their Nachos are ridiculous good (That's saying a lot coming from me)! The only bad thing about their nachos is that they use that liquid fake cheese... I prefer shredded blends on my nachos.
The waitresses there are uber friendly. Yes, UBER! They always make a point to remember your name and they are always SOOO busy! Make sure to tip them well. They will remember you!
Wednesday night is league night there, so unless you want to watch, avoid Wednesday from 7-10pm. Oh, and HH is from 2-7 and lots of the food (including the nachos and Turkey Burger) are priced to sell!
Go shoot some pool!
I really love playing pool here. Â Some of the other reviewers seem to think it's in a bad neighborhood or something, Â but I have never seen anything really sketchy happen there. Just seems like your run of the mill strip mall to me. Â There is kind of a rowdy parking lot crowd on the weekends since Graham Central Station is in the parking lot , but nothing too crazy. Â The staff there are very friendly and helpful and always check on you to make sure you are doing a okay.
They have a very large number of pool tables to play on hourly and per game. Â Are they shiny and new? No not at all, but I like the "Color of Money" neighborhood pool hall feel. Â The few times I have encountered a loose pocket or something off with a table it's been fixed the next time I go in.
The hourly pool rates and food prices are very reasonable and the service is great. Â Try the Onion Rings and the Sundae :) you won't regret it. Â The other bar food they have is nothing new or different, but very good by bar standards. Â
I would have given this place 5 stars, but they have 3 nights a week they do pool leagues so you can't play during those times. Â Which is cool I should probably join a pool league anyway.
If you play pool you should go in and have some fun.
I ate here for lunch because they are on my eScrip rewards list. Â I wasn't expecting a dark bar... I ordered some chili and it was OK. Â It didn't compare to the chili I ate a week earlier at Gallagher's. Â The waitress helped me lightly - I asked for some crackers that were not provided automatically. Â
I may come back here - if I'm in a dark bar mood at lunch. Â If so, I'll order something other than the chili.
Their food  has it's good days, bad days & really bad days... You mainly get what you pay for, as the prices are pretty cheap.
Drink specials and waitstaff are average.
, the co-owner is on the boorish side, to say the least.
What is VERY disappointing is when they have live entertainment... They get great bands in there, but my gosh, 80% of the time when a band is playing, suddenly, the band loses power! The staff just shrugs it off as no big deal, jimmy-rigs a few things, the power goes back on for them, until next time! You would think after this happening to so many bands, for such a long time, the owners would have this corrected? Nope, not a chance. Several musicians I know refuse to book there again just for that reason.
Lookin' for "cheap seats"? Skip & Jan's is the place to be.
This place has the best lunch specials in the east valley, For only 3.99 you have a choice of over 10 items. I have had the gyros, turkey burger, wings and chicken burrito. It also come with your choice of soda or draft domestic beer. Wow !! All for $3.99 and add a side for a $1.00. Don't expect anything special for the service. It's just ok. Watch your favorite game, play some billiards or bet on the ponies. Come as you are and have some fun !! The owners, Natalie and Todd are very cool !
Review Source:I have been chilling at the spot for years now... Betting on horses, dogs and shooting pool it can be a really fun place... Plus if you're looking for a really cheap lunch so you can gamble the rest of your money away this is a must stop for some lunch time fun. I rate the food as followed.
Wings - C
Turkey Burger - C
Double Cheeseburger - C
But for all of these under $3.99 lunches what can you expect... I will be back again just to gamble and have a drink and eat some cheap food.
Wonderfully cheap happy hour and lunch specials. We're talking four dollars for a half-pound burger and drink. The full-price appetizer menu was tasty, but a little expensive for the amount of food. I definitely recommend Skip and Jan's if you're looking to watch a weekend sporting event and want to enjoy some inexpensive food. The service is 5 stars.
Review Source:I play squash racquet's, a sport favored by the east coast "elites" from them Ivy League schools, those snooty Britishers and the Pakistani leisure class:)
Why they let me play, I'll never know:)
Last evening, we had a little tourney in which a group of us from the Village traveled to the outer reaches of Tempe to play a group from Lifetime Fitness:)
It was a jolly good, show, ever so much fun and our Village group gave the Lifetime group a bit of a "Rodgering":)
So it was with happy hearts and high spirits that we headed down the street to the post tourney repast at Skip & Jan's...let me start by saying that the Lifetime group picked this place, and it's almost like they knew they were going to lose and wanted to select a venue that would be the grimiest, greasiest, grubbiest, grossest spot to try to eat...they succeeded:)
Where to start...I know...the parking lot:)
When we arrived, the total Kelly Blue Book value of the 50-60 cars in the parking lot was about $832...we raised that by several orders of magnitude, just by driving in...this parking lot hasn't seen a lot of traffic from the Mercedes/BMW/Lexus/Jaguar crowd (and may never again:)
After I safely parked a block or 2 away, I went inside and took in the look and feel of S&J...crappy old wood paneling...tables and chairs from a circa 1955 high school cafeteria...an intriguing mix of flat panel TV's, regular TV's and OTB results screens (yeah, you can bet the ponies here...the sport of Kings, in a slightly less than "regal" atmosphere:)
They must have 20-25 pool tables...faded felt...and a whole bunch of people playing pool (and frankly looking like they weren't enjoying themselves...extremely tight and serious expressions on the faces of the people playing and watching...aren't games supposed to be fun? :-)...I suspect there was gambling going on:)
The smell in S&J can only be described as "extreme humanity"...the place smelled like it has seen a century's worth of spilled beer, cigarette smoke, BO, vomit, urine, spoiled food and every other aroma that humans create for themselves...remarkable, given the fact that this place can't have been here for more than a few years...how did they do that so quickly? :-)
S&J has menus, they have some sort of kitchen, they have Jagermeister on "tap", they have a bunch of beers on tap and they had a buffet (or "boofay" for my friend Ryan C) set up for our group.
It was supposed to be a Taco Bar:)
S&J provided a table full of taco "fixin's"...the centerpiece of which was the taco meat hot tray...Holy Crap, was that disgusting! :-(
They told us it was ground beef, but I know my beef, and I don't think this was it...this was ground "creature"...possibly some sort of unfortunate non-distinct animal which happened to be near the kitchen when duty called.
I kid, of course...as far as I know, this was indeed, "beef"...just not very good "beef":(
The hot tray holding the "meat" looked like a relief map of the Hawaiian Islands...small mountains of "meat" rising out of the ocean of brown/orange grease that was the real body of the dish:(
But, I was starving (a banana for breakfast and nothing else) so I tried to make a taco.
I decided to forgo the slotted spoon that everyone was trying to use to fish some meat out of the soupy brine, and use some tongs instead...my idea was to try to squeeze as much grease out of the concoction as possible...I was sort of successful, but in doing so, I probably squeezed any flavor out as well:(
I got back to the table and tried a bite...not good...I added several shakes of Cholla and tried another bite...and that was that:(
One of my buddies had decided to forgo the mystery meat tacos and ordered wings from the menu and offered me one...I'm not sure what the deal with the wings was, but the wing I tried seemed to be boiled (no, not "broiled"...boiled) and then dipped in buffalo sauce...not crispy, just wet...all the way through:)
Then they announced that Karaoke was going to start soon...and that was enough for me:(
Adding amateur singing to this tableau would have just been too much:)
Still, it's not all bad news...the tires and wheels were still on my car when I was ready to leave...I didn't become immediately ill (although I had kind of a rough morning, this morning).
They say shared adversity can make teams grow together, so I think I should thank S&J for making the Village Squash group nearly invincible:)
We've been here a hand full of times. Always nice people working the bar/register. Plenty of tables to get your game on. They've got a couple video games and a couple dart boards as well. In the bar, they've got karaoke, which is fun to watch. Â Its right across from Graham Central Station (never been there but always crowded parking lot). Â Good place to play some pool and have a beer.
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