Wayside West

First off, this place is GIANT. Tons of seating both at the main level bar and tables, tons of seating at the upstairs bar and tables, not to mention the 10 or so pool tables, and two u-shaped leather couch "dens" for watching a big game with friends. They also have a large patio, a poker room, and what appears to be a night club.

Good selection, great prices, friendly bartender. Check it out.

Living in Michigan can be tough if you're a blackhawks fan. We were trying to find a sports bar that would play the game, and wayside west would since they have about 5000 T.V.'s. At first a Pistons game was on so it was on the big screens, and the blackhawks game was on a little tiny screen below, and on the other big screen was just ads for their own bar, so we politely asked the waitress if they could put the blackhawks game on the big TV.  She asked her owner who said no, because the pistons had priority. Yea yea yea, we get that, but are the ads for your own bar necessary on the other TV?

So someone at another table also asks for the game to be put on the big TV.  The owner comes over and is ridiculously rude to everyone, saying we're even lucky he's playing a Blackhawks game.  He concedes that after the pistons game he'll put the blackhawks on the big screen.  So the pistons game ends, we wait and wait, and finally the owner goes up and changes the channel.... to a different basketball game.  Jerk.

An owner should never disrespect his customers.  You're a sports bar, there was a demand for a certain game, you promised many customers something to make us happy, then did something completely different.  It's also silly that you need to show commercials for your own bar on a mega TV screen.

Waitresses were lousy, no personality, hardly checked on us and seemed annoyed whenever we asked for something.

This bar is huge, but it has an attitude problem even bigger than that.

Thursday is "$6.50 medium pizza night", and so I took the family there for something different.  We were pleasantly surprised.  They make everything in-house, so that's already ahead of most chain restaurants.  The kid's pepperoni and cheese pie was a tad greasy, but the adult's combo pizza was quite flavorful and the crust was tender.

The service was pretty good - drinks were refilled and we were checked on pretty regularly throughout the meal.

Overall, a good place to hang before the bar scene gets going later in the night.