Stadium Sports Bar and Grill

Another fun night for beers with friends. This place is not particuarly up scale but a fun place to get together with people and watch e game. There are numerous screens so whatever you want to see you can count on it being broadcast here. Sometimes it is crowded but I can usually go a good table and you don't feel rushed to eat and get out. You can hang out without the wait staff being annoyed. Food is decent for bar grill food. Would probably give a 3.5 for food but a 3 would be too low.

This is kind of a tough review for a couple of reasons..

I was here with some friends this past weekend to catch the Bruins game and we lucky enough to arrive just in time to grab a few seats at the bar.  The place filled up quickly..  So, it is a good place to catch a game, I will give it that, TV'S all around, they do have the volume on during the game, which I love, so many places feel it is necessary to keep music on even though you are a SPORTS bar..  So, an A+ there..  Now on to some other points which were not so great, and enough to make it so I would not be back again, to much competition in this market..

(1) Even though it did not have anything to do with me, a customer came in to pick up his phoned in order.  He waited, and waited and finally someone helped him.  They said they would check on his order.  She came, said, "Are you'? and he said "yes"..  She said; "Will be right out"..  He sat there and waited..  waited some more..  A bartender finally asked if he had been helped, he said, "well a while ago I am waiting on take out".  She took his name, came back, said "Sorry, what did you order we have nothing under that name"..  he says 'WHAT another girl knew my name before I gave it to her and said it would be right out"..  Anyway, about 15 minutes later his food appeared..  Now, on their side they did COMP the food but I think we all see this as a bad experience..

(2)  Took one hour for our food to get to us..  Bartender constantly kept telling us, any minute I promise, any minute..  Then it was..  Our kitchen is so slammed, sorry..  Okay,,  What that tells me?  It is game 2 of the Stanley cup finals, you are a sports bar, and you could not anticipate this coming?  Or, if you could you have an incompetent kitchen staff..  Anyway..

(3) Food came out and was SO bad on SO many levels.  First, my order was completely wrong.  I ordered the steak tip sub with no peppers and no cheese..  An order of steak tips as an entrée came out with veggies?  Eh?  When I told the bartender he said, I am pretty sure you ordered the entrée..  I said.. "Ah, no, you even repeated to me no onions or cheese when I ordered".  He did apologize but back to the kitchen it went and I had to wait..  But not long, they dumped those tips on a half stale bun and sent it out to me..  they were overcooked, luke warm, and gross.  The onion rings were not bad, also somewhat cold but were not to shabby.

(4) My Brother got the steak tips with mashed.  They were DISGUSTING.  Overcooked and COLD.  The mashed seemed to be your garden variety Betty crocker from Stop N Shop and even that was ice cold..

(5) Service was at best a C.  Once it got busy they clearly got somewhat flustered and our bartender was slow, sometimes clumsy and just didn't help the experience at all.

(6)  Finally, as soon as the game ends the place becomes a free for all night club with perhaps the worst music you would ever want to hear.  It becomes overrun by college students, well college aged folks anyway, and you are lucky if you can move from A to B without getting elbowed or a beer dumped on you (which the unfortunate old man next to us had happen)

I would suggest a multitude of other sports bars in the vicinity, this was one fails on way to many levels..

Below based on five stars

SERVICE                   1 1/2
FOOD                        1/2
ATMOSPHERE         *** 1/2
RESTROOMS          1/2 (gross)
DECOR                    ** 1/2
LOCATION              *** 1/2
OVERALL               *

This bar is always noisy with drunk people hanging out the window that opens up the entire breadth of the bar and people hanging out front smoking, which must make a joke of the No Smoking law.  Tonight as I passed on my way to work, one of the fine patrons yelled "Show me your tits!" at me.  I complained to the manager, but lord only knows what he did after I pointed out the offending drunk.