jeremy cobert

Review of Quarter Barrel

We stopped in at noon on Saturday. I had been want...

We stopped in at noon on Saturday. I had been wanting to go here since it opened with a lot of hype. I thought it might be fun to take my children as they have never really seen an arcade. When we arrive there was another family with 5 kids, so I thought it would be all right. My first clue was that things were not going to go as expected ,soon showed up on the TV's they had. The TV was playing "Jason goes to hell" I hate to be "that guy" but I asked the bar tender if we could change it to anything that did not have mass murderers lopping off the heads of naked co-ed's. step one all good. Except one TV near the bar, apparently they really needed to watch this "film", perhaps taking notes for a film study class ?

So on to the menu. I asked if they had any kids menu items that I had missed. nope they do not. Well, we can make the best of it. How about a simple burger, nope, no burgers on the menu. hmmm, well o.k.,

Pressing on, we ordered sliders. You cant go wrong with sliders right ? Turns out you can. The "sliders" that showed up at our table, looked like something you would find in European mall trying to give you a "real american" type meal.

It almost feels like the kitchen is disconnected from the rest of the theme. They were going for a fancy food to appeal to hipsters perhaps ? Also strange was a kids party was getting setup for a dozen children as we were eating (And Jason still in hell, killing coed's on the back TV), so they apparently do want family's to come in ? They also served children size plastic cups to our kids, but no kids menu. I am just not sure who this place is targeting as their customers. I was hoping that during the day, it would be a place to take the kids for a quick burger and some old school arcade games and perhaps after at night a more bar driven scene.

So keep your kids at home , your hipster micro brew friends with flannel and beards however will love this place for its unusual food.for example there was some type of cucumber cut into a star pattern on the plate. Who goes for that ? "Boy I like this cucumber, but it would be much better if they would have made a star shape out of it". Nobody , that's who.

All in all we got 3 "slider meals" and a appetizer of cheese bread and 4 drinks for close to $50.

It's a little bit of a let down. Perhaps I am just no longer the target audience even though I grew up in Arcades as a kid.