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    Bearded Monkey Sports Bar& Grill

    3.6 (38 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 12:00 AM (Next day)

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    Stopped by to check out the new Monkey in Lavon. Nice setup, has all the new place smells to it and a wide selection of beverages with multiple TV screens. Should be great for watching televised sporting events. There's 3 pool tables but no one was using them at the time. I didn't get a chance to try the food, but they do seem to have wide variety of comfort food to choose from. Few cons: 1) Parking is going to be a problem. I went by around 2pm and took my laptop to get some work done. I got the last parking space available. When I went inside it was not crowded at all, so the other businesses in the strip mall were also needing parking space. Hopefully better when the other businesses close for the day. 2) They do have Wifi, but the music is pretty loud, so not a great place to try to get any work done, and way too much country music for my taste. Some dude was sitting next to me practically yelling at his friend and belly laughing constantly. I finally had to leave and go to Starbucks so I could hear myself think. 3) They only serve draft beer in these tiny little glasses and they are EXPENSIVE. They are the smallest glasses I have ever seen. 10oz maybe? It looked like a kid's sippy cup to me. My normal spot serves beer in small, pint and pitcher. I won't be going here if I intend to do any drinking beyond a couple of beers. It's good Lavon finally has a place to sit down and catch a cold one, so hoping this place works out okay. If they could fix the beer situation I would probably set up camp, but as it stands I will most probably be visiting intermittently.

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    Dale I.

    If you like to play pool then you will most likely love this place. They have a good amount of pretty nice looking pool tables. Beer is a decent price and they do have a meager selection of local craft beer; very meager. If you're hungry belly is looking for some good food like my hungry belly was, this is probably not the place for you. My hungry belly did like the Frito pie but it would have been a lot better had they put enough chili to cover all the Fritos. I probably had three or four mouthfuls of nothing but Fritos. The monkey balls we're supposed to be a mix of steak and rice and the steak was unidentifiable visually and in taste as well. The monkey balls were one of the worst things I've ever eaten at any restaurant in my life. The pizza was just okay, we had the barbecue chicken pizza and there was a generous amount of chicken but all I could taste was the barbecue sauce which wasn't exceptional by any means. The highlight had to be the exceptionally large screens and the fact that they actually play the broadcast during big games rather than the exceptionally loud music that was playing when we walked in. The service seemed to be a little chaotic and we were visited by multiple people before we were actually assigned a server and none of them had any knowledge about what beers they had on tap other than the core domestic crap. Once one of the servers settled for us we did have attentive and friendly service. When my belly is hungry for a Community Mosaic or a Deep Ellum IPA close to the house to watch some sports I can see myself coming back here, other than that there is no reason to come back. 86 those monkey balls forever!

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    Bill F.

    Its 5 minutes from my house, perfect place to watch a game or just unwind. Yesterday I had the Frito Pie appetizer ($8) and it really hit the spot !! Classic junk food here folks - frito's with chili, fries, onions, queso, and a nice dousing of hot sauce. Wasn't hungry enough for a burger or pizza, have eaten and bar-hopped here plenty, never had a bad serving of anything. Will be back to watch NFL very soon (tons of screens, tons !!)

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    Brandon L.

    Place is honestly pretty good. Quite a bit of beers, not not a lot of craft beers. They have a little patio for people to sit on, which is nice. They were pretty quick with ordering and getting the food out. I wanted to try out the burgers here because they looked really good and they are. Burgers were really good and sides exceeded my expectations. Appetizers were very good as well. They have some homemade sauces too, such as spicy bbq sauce and ranch. They were all good and tasty. I'm sure they have more, but didn't ask. Not sure why people are knocking this place, but I'll be back for another burger.

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    Went there last night service was amazing and drinks and food were good. Will definitely come here again.

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    Food was good atmosphere was good service service was a little slow seems like maybe they felt like talking to the regulars to much

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    Great service by our waitress Crystal food tasty and nice atmosphere! The restaurant was very clean and the beer was cold.

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    Wonderful place to hang out and have drinks. Fast & friendly servers & bartenders! Food is delicious as well. You gotta go check it out!

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    This place is amazing. Food, Fun, and Pool! I highly recommend this for Sports, Dinner, or just hanging out.

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    Great atmosphere. Great food. Great bartenders. Great owners. Highly recommend you stop by and enjoy a night out at the Monkey.

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    Terrible experience. Cops had to be called... they even told us to never go there bc it's so trashy especially at night.

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