Terrible service. When I first walked in I was not greeted by anyone. There was a bartender and waitress at the bar. I proceeded to sit down at the bar and was still ignored while the bartender turned around and started to surf the channels on the flat screen. Shortly after there was a younger guy who came from behind the bar and said hi to me, but didn't ask if I had been helped. He then proceeded to pick up a menu, (which I thought was going to be for me) and he started looking through it like he was bored and just needed something to read. Needless to say I left after about waiting another minute or so. It was like they were not trying to serve me on purpose. Also, to make matters worse there was no one else sitting at the bar. It was the most awkward moment I have ever had trying to get something to eat in a restaurant before, and for my work travels I eat out every night. Do not go here!
Review Source:This could be a really good place, and I would normally give it more stars EXCEPT for their prices on iced tea. Â A glass of iced tea is about $2-$2.50 with free refills. Â Sounds great, however when you order a pitcher of iced tea, the price jumps to $9.50. Â And if you get another pitcher, like I did, it's ANOTHER $9.50. Â
I figured that ordering pitchers would make it more convenient for the waitstaff. Â I could have ordered 1 glass and kept bugging the server to bring me free refills, but didn't and I paid the price for it.
When I went and complained (after all, for $19 I could get 2 premium alcoholic drinks) they told me that's just what the price is. Â I thought this was really excessive.
Hard to believe that our group felt the need to go out for drinks after dinner, but yes, we went slumming, and we found an appropriate dive for our late-night rowdiness.
Maxie's is not the type of bar that I'd suggest actively seeking out as part of your nightly pilgrimage along Wolf Road, but it does the trick if you want to stop in for a night-cap. It's a sports bar that caters to an older, professional crowd, as well as those business travelers staying along "hotel row" on Wolf Road.
The food was your basic pub grub -- nothing special, and thankfully we weren't looking for something to eat.
Not a place that I plan to frequent.
This place has it's good points and it's bad points. More good than bad. Let me lay it out for you.
First thing you have to understand, is that Maxie's is at the end of a long row of hotels and a mile from Albany International. There are few regulars. Mostly business travelers and people who have an hour to kill because their friend's flight is arriving late.
I'm one of those people. I've worked up here in Albany for the last three years and Maxie's is within walking distance so it has become my hangout a couple of times a week.
The good points about Maxie's:
1) The bartenders there are great. Both Tina and Mary are attentive, friendly, and give you a good pour on your cocktail. Can't say enough nice things about those two. Even in the busiest times, they always are very sweet and courteous.
2) Except for a few items, the food is very, very good. The burgers are delicious. I recommend the Bleu Cheese and the A1 burger.. The steak and chicken quesadillas are outstanding. Wings are good. I love their mozz sticks. Honestly, nobody that I've ever eaten their with as ever been disappointed in the food.
The bad points about Maxie's:
1) Â If you're not sitting at the bar, your chance of getting a decent server is 50-50. I've had some horrible service out on the deck. Wrong orders. Waiting 20 minutes for a drink, etc.
2) The place is way overpriced. I guess since they figure they have a mobile clientele who most of the time are there on business, they can charge what they want. The drink prices are particularly egregious, if you ask me.
3) The cover charge from Wed-Sat. Get there before 9 p.m. if you don't want to get banged for a $2 cover to watch and listen to a bunch of drunken insurance agents on their one business trip a year sing horrible versions of Carrie Underwood songs while making drunken passes at one another.
Like I said, overall it's a good place with some minor annoyances from time to time
I have an enormous pet peeve about bars in the United States that do not properly pull a pint of Guinness. Â Don't serve it if you are not going to give it the proper attention. Â This inability earns an establishment 2 stars (Meh, I've had better....better fecking poured Guinness) unless they have something incredibly awesome going on with the atmosphere or service the bad pull is insurmountable...service and atmosphere were unremarkable, but not bad, at Maxie's.
Two for two my Guinness arrived in front of me still surging from he bottom of the glass which says to me that the bar tender poured it with the same masturbatory care that she poured a Budweiser. Â According to the Guinness Brewery it should take 119.53 seconds to properly pull a pint of Guinness. Â People who like Guinness are willing to wait this long for their beer, I assure you. Â A still surging pint? Unacceptable. Â
Stop serving badly poured Guinness! Â Please. Â
I'd go back, but won't order Guinness unless the bartender is willing to take instructions. Â Maybe whiskey neat is more her speed and skill level?
On a positive note someone sitting behind us got something fried from the kitchen and it smelled awesomely bad for you. Â I would have had two.
An out of towner. Â In fact, three out of towners. Â In a strange and foreign land, Albany, hungry and brain dead after day 1 of the bar exam.
Outdoor dining seemed perfect after being stuck in white walls that close in on you. Â But, but, but...you realize as soon as you take your seat...there's a "band" playing music very loudly. Â So loudly that the headache that you've had since June 14 grows with each nano second that the "music" plays on.
We move inside.
The music isn't much lower, but at least it's in-tune. Â It's the radio, but it's an improvement. Â Everyone orders food that we know we shouldn't be eating -- food that will make us fat. Â I look around. Â Everyone is fat. Â Maybe they eat here often. Â The garden philly was to die for, even though I could barely get through it and hardly touched my fries. Â If you're going to be a fatty, at least share the meal with a friend.
It is what it is...it's a bar. Inside is actually smaller than I imagined, but it was clean and there plenty of chairs at the bar, some chairs inside, and lots of tables and chairs outside. Outside patio was actually quite nice. Inside staff was helpful and attentive. Cover charge was only $2 which isn't bad for a bar, even if it's not a great one. Just watch out for karaoke night...at 2 am people are just getting weird, lol.
Review Source:I think this bar gets a bad rap as a meat factory and frat house, both of which there may be some truth to. But let's be honest. You're stuck across the street at the hotel and you just got in at midnight and is there anywhere else that serves food until 3:30 am? Hell no! Is there anywhere else on this block of airport hotels to get a reasonably priced beer and watch some sports? Hell no!
For where it is and what it does J.T. Maxies is the toast of the town, I do believe. I've had good bartenders and mediocre bartenders, but they tend to err on the side of being quite good and friendly.
My only reason for not giving them the full 5 stars (again, weighted for location and type of establishment) is because they charge a cover like 4 nights a week. Which is complete bull-shit, knock that shit off guys! I don't wanna pay a cover to hear someone screaming Jon Bon Jovi on a Wednesday night.
Ordered hot wings and a few beers with a co-worker. The menu displayed pricing that was $2 less than we were charged. When the waitress was confronted about it she said "well that's the new price, it must have increased". I replied "well, then the difference is coming out of your tip!" We left without tipping her at all. She could have acted appropriately about it, but no! She had to bait and switch us on the wings.
The second time I went there they wanted to charge me $2 cover for their karaoke - all I wanted to do was order takeout. I refused and walked out for good.
This was stop #2 on my last happy hour excursion. Of course by then happy hour was over, but I guess the night wasn't.
After Firkin, it was suggested we come here because "there's more patio room" and the "foods better.
So we arrive, the outdoor seating is filled up with some sort of high school 10yr reunion. Oh well.
The place? Typical bar with food. The menu? Not better then Firkin. They(Firkin) at least had actual entrees and food, food. Maxies is definitely bar fare and I'm guessing they do not have an oven on premises. It's deep fryer, microwave or cold. Them's the choices., take it 'er leave it :)
I thought I'd be funny and ask if they had mojito's. They did! What arrived was some sort of mint green looking drink with no actual mint in it. I'm guessing they use that smirnoff pre mixed stuff I've been seeing commercials for lately. I'm also guessing it's pre-mixed or bust on Wolf Road. Was it good? No worse then the cheesy Barcardi 6pk mojito's and it kind of had a Scope mouthwash aftertaste. I'll let you be the judge and say I didn't order another. But that may have just been my beaten down spirits wishing to call an end to the outing.
My friend wants food and wants me to order food, so he can base his order on it. I didn't want fried taco's or chicken wings so I figured I'd be safe and go with tortilla's and salsa.. I had first ordered qaucamole, which the waitress said they had but apparently they didn't. Let me say, the menu is pages long and it really doesn't need to be. Sandwiches, finger foods, the token steak option and salads. My dish came out last.. after about 15 other people got their stuff first. I was kinda excited.. I figured maybe I was going to get some spankin' fresh chips. Nope, I got the same kind I probably have at home and the salsa I never bothered to finish and that I should throw out, that's been in my fridge for months. I had a handful of my tortilla rounds and decided I'd order another drink.. which I got a third of the way through. If I wanted pink grapefruit juice, I'd have ordered it. I think I now know why everyone was sticking to beer or shots.
The place does get packed. It definitely has a following or at least draws a crowd. Maybe it's slim pickings for bars on Wolf Road, maybe it's the crowd, maybe it's because it's cheap, I dunno. They have kareoke(however you spell it) on Fridays and I saw only two people get up for it but everyone seemed to be having fun with it. The crowd? We were the youngest people there and I'd say most of the place was late 20's and up.. I definitely saw plenty of people old enough to be my parents.Would I go back? Maybe sometime in the next decade.
I know the one-star is harsh, but my experience from soon after arriving just had me wanting to leave. It's just not my type of spot. If you like a laid back bar with an older crowd and just the basics, then you may really like it here. Like I said this place seems to pack people in.
Yelp needs a "good for" option for "food to drink with" or "drunken munchies" so I'm not filling that out for this place.
We were looking for a late dinner, and options were slim. We decided to go over to Maxie's...and they wanted to charge us a cover to get dinner because they were going to start karaoke in a half hour. Pay a cover for dinner? No thanks.
The clientel that night were almost more annoying than the $5 cover, so we  dined at the wolf rd diner across the street.
Surprisingly okay bar right smack on Wolf Road, where locals go to relax over some pints and occasionally watch brosephs humiliate themselves over karaoke. It has a nice patio to eat and drink during the summer months with a great view.......well.......of Wolf Road?
I'd hit this place up after lounging around the Colonie Town Library down the road and to the right, or just for hanging out with friends. The crowd is surprisingly amiable, your typical locals (Loudonville nearby tends to produce better patrons than say, Arbor Hill). Its cheap, its suburbia, and there's a patio. and ample seating at the bar. You really can't ask for much more from the area.
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