Been here twice for corporate events. For that purpose, I enjoy this place. Fair choices for alcoholic drinks and $2 bottles on tuesdays. The food seems a bit expensive for the value/ taste and I probably would not get any if company had not already covered the expense. Gaming also feels a bit steep but I haven't worked out the "combos" since include food and gameplay points(?) or any other specials. It is a bit confusing at first glance and I wish the packages were clearer. Service was fast and friendly so happy with that. A few colleagues with children seem to love this place and had many points on their cards for games so I'm sure there's some value for those who frequent Dave and Busters a lot. read more

I love Dave & Busters. Just like their other locations, it's a great spot to have some drinks and play some arcade games. My favorite games here were the Tomb Raider and The Walking Dead. I was also excited to see their Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots game actually worked unlike the location back home, but when I finally played it I thought it was the lamest game I played. Didn't seem to work right. My character got his head knocked up when the other fighter was nowhere near me. Even though my fighter lost, it would give me the win. So the game is still somewhat broken here too! Staff was cool. I didn't try any food (already ate) or drinks (designated driver) while here but had fun playing games with friends. Tip: It can get stuffy in here after a while. If you need to cool down, you can go outside, but I prefer playing the snowmobile game which shoots cold air right at you! :) Pros: + Tomb Raider game + The Walking Dead game Cons: - Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots game read more

If I could leave no stars I would, the manager and host was very rude (at the restaurant area). They separated our party with two different servers which made it hard on us and some of us had to sit at the bar because there was no space for them. There were many other tables available that they could push together but they refused and wouldn't let us sit all together unless we agreed to be put back on the waitlist after already waiting an hour. They told us that a party of 20 was too "overwhelming" for the server which made it more difficult for our party. When we asked if we could at least pull up two chairs for our other guest they told us no and refused to accommodate or help us out in any way . read more

We decided to stop in and have dinner and play some games last Friday. We had dinner before going to play games. The food was good however we waited for 42 min for a boozy milkshake. The sever apologized about the delay and offered a 15$ game card as compensation. It would be nice if they had a deal that would offer a dinner/game card combo for a reduced price. It was a fun but pricey evening. read more

This place is great for a fun day or to kill some time. Prices are very reasonable for the games with a huge selection to choose from! They have many sport based games, racing games, shooting games and games to test your luck and skill to earn tickets that you can redeem for prizes. I have been many times and love testing my competitive and skill level with my friends. If you visit on a Wednesday all of the games are half price so you get more bang for your buck! Two of my favorite games is monopoly and space invaders. If you play 2 people on space invaders I find it fairly easy to hit the high score and earn the 500 bonus tickets each. This past visit me and my buddy managed to hit it 3 times in a row. Everyday during the week I believe they have specials going on for games or drinks. I have tried a couple different signature D&B drinks at this location and are impressed with the size and liquor content. They do use a fair share of alcohol unlike most places I find. I have only had the nachos from the food menu but really enjoyed them and was enough to share with 2-3 people. This location is always kept very clean with very polite and attentive staff always on duty! The prize store that you redeem your tickets is packed with things for all ages. They have drinking games, shot glasses, ray bans, kids toys, blenders and keurigs, to simple little things like candy and basket balls. I definitely plan to visit this play many more times in the near future! read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - High score win on space invaders - American Near Me - Austin, Texas

I by far feel like Dave and busters is the best arcade in the greater Austin area. Have a huge selections of games, as well as I found the prices fairly reasonable. They also offer coupons online, as well as half price game days, where honestly can't go wrong. I've noticed every visit they have a few new games which are always one free play per day which come on, who doesn't love a free game. They also have fairly decent prizes, that are actually fairly easy to claim. One visit I made 6000 tickets on 40 dollars. I've been to plenty of arcades and not to many had that kind of turn outs. They also have a big sports bar area where you can relax and drink and eat, before or after you game, though I haven't tried the food yet. This review is strictly on the amount of fun I have had at Dave and busters. And I'm telling you this I enjoy my visits every time. read more

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Spent $153 together with me, my mother, and two children. I had the salmon dinner, she had two (weak) margaritas and nachos, we purchased an appetizer, and the boys got pizza and two sodas. Oh. And the tokens were included in the bill $46. I would not have been so bothered by this amount of money I paid if we did not have to wait an hour for our food, repeatedly ask our waiter for napkins, straws, and refills, also I received such low quantities, low qualities of food on my plate, and the fact that 300 tokens only gets you a slinky, small bouncy ball, and 4 hand stickies. I will not be returning and I will make sure to tell others as well, complete waste of money. On a positive note the games were nice and my boys had the time of their lives. Oh and the food does not look like the pictures in the menu, my broccoli and green beans were completely wilted. read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - This is how the waiter brought out my food. Wilted vegetables, weird spinach wrapped around the toothpick. - American Near Me - Austin, Texas

if i could give this place negative stars i would automatically, they have horrible customer service. Me and my husband came here to enjoy some food from a long day at work then have some fun playing games to win some jackpots, we have been waiting for over an hour no one has came to ask us for drinks or nothing we've just been sitting here while a lot of waiters and managers walk by us read more

Big ups to DnB. Took feedback and listened. PA system volume much better! And you can still hear the bingo guy no problem. He had some good banter, too. Was just too piercing to hear before so props to him, too. Bacon burger was :fire emoji:! So was my girl's mushroom burger. And cooked legit med rare too! And great waiters. THE goto Sports spot. read more

I wish you could give this place zero stars it was that bad! Had a reservation for 7pm last Saturday. Was seated in the field area no less than 4 minutes. When we were seated the waitress that was supposed to be down there told the hostess very loudly "No Fuck that I'm not waiting on these tables!" and she never helped us. Walked past our table and a couple of other tables waiting several times and not once said a word. We patiently waited around 25 min before getting up to ask the hostess if someone would be assisting us. She walked down there to get our drink and food order. Again didn't see anything for another 25 min. I finally went to get a manager and told him the situation and said he would be right back. Never heard back from him so I'm assuming he ran away from the situation. After an hour of no help we finally gave up and left. Sucks we went for the games and didn't even get to play. Fair warning if you go on a Saturday night...D&B sucks so much now, save your money and go somewhere else! read more

This place is a joke. Stood at the front and called multiple times to have someone help me. They just kept hanging up and no one every showed up. read more

The game room stinks! I should have listened to a review from 15 days ago about the sour milk smell but I figured they would have fixed it by now. Nope. I haven't been here for a few years and this just may be the last time. read more

We love the games and the atmosphere- the service was absolutely horrible. We waited 30 mins to even be approached while sitting at the bar. The bartender couldn't have been barely old enough to work there and had no idea what was going on.. all while 5 other employees and managers were chit chatting and hanging out in the bar. read more

I go to Dave & Buster's every time there's a UFC fight on. In all the times I've gone, they've only once charged a cover, which was for Conor v Khabib. The food is pretty good for a chain and the bartenders are attentive and friendly. I've been a few other places in fight nights, but D&B is always my favorite atmosphere. Buuuuuuut, I don't know about the three different wait staff I saw eating behind the bar tonight. And I'm guessing the health department wouldn't love it either... read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - Food and personal items belonging to the wait staff just hanging out behind the bar - American Near Me - Austin, Texas

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Burger was tasty but they committed the cardinal sin by putting the condiments on the bottom. The bottom bun didn't stand a chance & fell apart after the first bite. My bartender was also probably the slowest most non attentive bartender I have had in a while. Maybe he was new or poorly trained so can't put all the blame on him. Either way it was a pretty mids first time experience. read more

MY 19 year old daughter wanted to go here for her Birthday. Since they opened at 10am, we got there then. There was sign that said see bartender to be seated. We waited there for 10 minutes and no one came. Even though we saw a lady walking around, she did not tell us anything. Finally the lady went to the front desk and moved the sign, she never told us she was going to and just left us at the bar. So we went down to see her. This lady, Brooke, was so rude and would not make eye contact. She told us to sit down and a server would be with us. After waiting 20 minutes, I went back and asked her if someone was working, that no one has come to see what we wanted and we had not seen anyone either. She rudely said there should be someone there, but I will call someone to help you. Well, we waited another 15 minutes and no one. The bartender finally showed up. A lady went up and told him the same thing. That several tables were waiting to be helped. Now we have been here for 45 minutes. The bartender said he would go and get someone, but he would help us in the meantime, but he had to get his cash drawer ready first. While he was doing that, the lady and I were talking, she said gosh, the lady up front was extremely rude. I told her she was rude to us as well. I told her that we got there at 10am because we were meeting people at the lake later for my daughters Birthday. Which after all of this, we were late getting to Lake Granger. Was not happy about that!!! The bartender did help us, he was very nice and took good care of us. This is why I did not give it a 1 star. 4 of us got the slider/rib meal. The ribs were so dry that I could not eat them. Sliders were good. My oldest daughter got the chicken tacos and they were delicious. Someone needs to do something about his Brooke lady. I own a business and I would not put up with this, PERIOD! I am really disappointed that we got there at 10am and were not waited on until 10:50. What is the point of opening at 10am if you are not going to have staff to help you. We could not even play games because we were doing the package deal with the food. So we could not kill time waiting for someone. We just sat at a table waiting and waiting....Waiting that long made us late with our friends at the lake. So I was extremely upset about that..... So needless to say, we were VERY unhappy. Not sure if we will go back again. read more

I have been to this location twice now and I am definitely a fan! Yesterday we had our work holiday party here and it was a blast! There were only about 15 of us and there was hardly anyone there at lunch time in the middle of the week. We got there at 11 am right as they opened up. The service was great for the size of our group too. We all made our orders and were provided a game card. The food at Dave and Buster's is usually pretty decent. Yesterday I decided to go with the BBBacon Burger and it was good! I asked for it to be cooked medium, but it was more medium well, but that wasn't a huge issue for me. The Philly cheesesteak and the Cave Man meal seemed to be hits with the group. The Cave Man was burger sliders with ribs in a bucket on top of fries. I heard it was good. I also had a delicious frozen margarita. Now my favorite thing about Dave and Buster's is the games! I noticed a couple of new games this time I had never played before such as the piano game and Mario Kart which were both fun. My ultimate addiction is the stupid coin drop push game. I can play that game for hours! It's a little more expensive to play but the payout is bigger in the end with the tickets I think. I had a game card with $15 on it and then I recharged with $25 of my own money. I ended up with around 1500 tickets on my card. I walked out with a Batman soup/cereal bowl and some candy. I am already loving my Batman bowl! I love the remodel with the new dining areas, sports lounge and bar. I have never been during peak times here so I am not sure what that's like, but during the day in the middle of the week when I should be working - I say YES to this place! read more

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It's like a chuck e cheese for adults. One of those places where it definitely is about having fun with the people you're with cause the food is eh and the games are expensive. read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - American Near Me - Austin, Texas

I enjoy pinballs and Main event, but the dirty, loud, trashy environment of Dave and Busters; rife with psychological manipulation ($25 for x number of "chips" and 7.3141 chips for a brief encounter with a half-functioning arcade game. Worth it? Who knows without an Excel sheet.), bad service, overpriced food and weak sugary drinks, is an unfortunate biennial occurrence when friends, family or corporate outings make the mistake of landing here. A mistake that is usually not repeated by the same group. Let's put it this way: my team of 12 at work voted nearly unanimously to come here in 2018. In 2019, not one person voted for Dave and Busters and it was a running joke how bad the experience was. read more

Went to Dave and Busters on a Sunday afternoon. Walked in and was told it was open seating, so we grabbed a booth by the arcade to keep an eye on our kids. We waited for about 15 minutes without any server contact, and confused, I went back up to the front to ask if we were supposed to order at the bar. The hostess told us she'd send a server over. Server eventually came and took drink order, drinks came quick, but then server disappeared for over 30 minutes. I eventually found him standing at the bar talking with the other server, I brought my now crying hungry baby over to him and ordered there. Very frustrating. Food came, and order was wrong, cheese pizza had pepperoni. We sent it back and this was quickly corrected. Overall, very disappointing experience, kids had fun, but even they were let down with the limited arcade store choices. Seems very poorly managed, if service is this bad on a slow day, I'd hate to see it crowded. Will not be back. read more

if I could give a 0 I would. No menu.... Everything is done over their app. Essentially no customer service except for the food runner. Even McDonald's has menus you can see. Not worth the $$. Overpriced drinks and games. Save your $$. Go to Top Golf... Putt Putt or McDonald's read more

The games were fun. The service for food was non existent. My family of 9 came for a MEMORIAL. and the servers told us to sit wherever we wanted in the dining room. Then she told us we couldn't sit there. Then another waitress told us we could. Then the manager sat us at a different table. We were sitting there with our menus the General Manager brought, and no waitress. No drinks. I would give less than 1 star because Dave and Busters was not busy at all read more

Brought my kids here early in the day to beat the crowd. However I was extremely disappointed in the lack of disinfecting. I spent about 2.5 hours here and I didn't see anyone wipe down or disinfect the game machines. Also there were no temp checks and as it got later in the evening and more people showed up, the staff allowed customers to walk around the arcade floor with no mask. They did provide hand sanitizer outside of the bathroom, but they should at least spray the machines with some sort of disinfectant especially since they aren't checking temps at the door. So i would suggest that you bring your own disinfectant wipes for your kiddos if you are going to this location. Sadly I probably won't go back. read more

Austin has a water crisis, what does Dave & Buster's do? Charge $2.99 for a bottle of water.... After, I already spent $50 on games. Trash. read more

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Had a horrible experience yesterday at D&B. We have been coming to this establishment for years now..I don't know what the recent change was but it's horrible now. A took a long time to place or food order, a long time to get it...once I get my, the ribs tastes like crap. My son said his burger tasted bad and my fiancé didn't even get her order. Once we told the waitress, she had forgotten to put the order in. When she finally brought out the salad, everyone was already done eating. The manager did comp the salad but even with that, the bill was outrageous. We paid for it and left the arcade. The men's restroom was dirty and I could tell the floor hadn't been mopped that day, piss everywhere. Some of the best games were out of service. We just decided to leave. We won't be going back to D&B for a loooong while. 10-20-18. Came back a year later...nothing has changed. We had a large party and i was not aware we couldn't make reservations. So we show up and the two hostess tell us we are the 5th group in line. When it came to be our turn, the same two hostess tell us there isn't any tables and servers available for us. What?!? There are clearly two large tables that were made from multiple small tables available. We point those tables out and they stated their tab was still open...even though the tables appeared to be cleaned up and ready to seat others. She tells me these tables only have 6 chairs and asks me if I wanted elbow room or not? I informed them there was not 6 chairs but more like 16 chairs. Still. They became rude and told us to wait. Okay...we stand by and they finally see the tables we are talking about. After waiting some more, they clearly see me standing there. They know what group I'm with because they keep talking with each other and looking over at me. Instead of telling the tables were ready, the text my sisters phone to inform us there ready. Fine. We go up to them and they don't even all us to the tables. Later we noticed that they walked everyone else to their tables. So we are getting seated and a waitress by the name of ROSE comes over and tells us that their are short handed and there is nobody available to take any of our orders, including our drink order...and then walks away. ARE YOU SERIOUS? We decided to stay at DnB because we had a lot of teenagers that were looking forward to playing the arcades. We looked for a manager and located a female manager and informed her of the incident. This manager was the sweetest person ever. The manager was very surprised and apologetic. She stated there was no shortage of staff and would locate someone for us or she would take the order herself. A nice male waiter came and started to take our order. Then Rose comes back and asks the waiter why he's serving us. Yes! Loud enough so we could I hear her. He tells her he was told to and she makes an angry face and walks away only to return a few minutes later. Rose tells the waiter that she would take our order and made him leave. Here is where I messed up I should've asked for her to leave and the new waiter to stay but I didn't. Rose gave us some attitude throughout the night and she was very unhappy when she told us we were getting complimentary churros for the inconvenience. This girl Rose and the hostesses need to find another job that they don't have to talk with customers. I can only describe the hostesses and a black female and a white female that looked like she woke up late, threw on her work clothes, and went to work. So maybe we will give this place another shot in a year...or just go to Main Event next time. read more

I do not recommend the restaurant here. They will only talk to you once they serve the order. Then disappear. No person to ask about the food on the menu. My husband has to walk around to look for a server. Then my daughter left a birthday gift at our table. We remember it right after we left and went back to ask at the lost and found but we never get it back. Sad because we were really excited to go back here. read more

I was hesitant to have our daughter's 4 year birthday celebration here, feeling that it's actually more a tween through adult aged place and wondering if she'd need constant coddling and coaxing to have a good time. But... we were only planning to have one other kid attend due to a series of unfortunate events; Thus I was pretty much planning a 4 year old birthday party which needed to entertain two little girls and the rest were all adults. Dave & Busters fit the bill. First, their kids' birthday packages are very affordable. We bought a package for 10 kids, and I did explain that the majority of my guests would be adults. They were fine, it's a family style meal served with the birthday packages with a set amount in the portions. So we were able to feed the kids and adult guests all the kiddy food, birthday girl was happy, then we just tacked on the alcohol and special orders. The total bill came out to just over $200.00 with six adults each having bar drinks. The games - eh, that's not my cup of tea, but I can say that the arcade is huge and the kid had a blast. The bathrooms are spacious and clean. Our service was great, both from our waiter and from the manager who personally checked on our party multiple times, answered all our questions, gave us complimentary gaming cards for our next visit - which will be tonight - and personally delivered the tab to make sure everything was satisfactory. I like the atmosphere and think it's a great family friendly spot when you have wide age gaps - this can accommodate the beer drinkers, the sports fans, the kids young and old, and they have fancy cocktails and even Proseco for the ladies. Honestly, it's a pretty good time and we left all smiles. And... I'm not gonna lie... I don't care if they come in a box and were just nuked right out of the freezer... but their mini cheese pizzas were actually really good. Don't judge me. read more

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Last time I went I ordered the $25 play and eat combo. My cheesesteak came out and after eating half of it I noticed a CockRoach crawling around on the food. (my friend actually uploaded it, you can see it if you click on pictures) I alerted the waitress who went to the back room. after 5 min she came back and said she would deduct 7 bucks off my combo bill. so I paid 18 bucks for a meal where i didnt really eat or get full, the beer now tasted like piss and I got 30 dollars worth of gaming i didnt want to play. to top it all off the manager didnt even come out to apologize. WTF i cant beleive i was served a roach and noone at the place even cared. any decent manager would of comped the meal or at least let me play their shitty video games for free. pretty weak, at least they are not Applebees read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - Here is the food they served me, pretty weak. Go for the beer and games - American Near Me - Austin, Texas

Do you know how to get free drinks at Dave and Buster's? Nope, no secret handshake, VIP card, or secret meeting with the management. You don't win it with a magical golden token or a perfect score at ski ball. Here is the secret. The wife and I were sitting at the bar minding our own business; chatting occasionally with our bartender. He walks around the corner for a few minutes, then Jenny notices drunky Mcdrunk sorority girl looking a little pale. She grabs on to a couple of chairs stumbling away from us and finally starts to look really ill. The bartender was making his way back around when Jenny screamed shes gonna loose it! The bartender in what I can describe as the perfect Sam Malone trash can slide pushed it out from behind the bar under the girl just in time for the "spillage" Not one drop on the floor! Thankful that he did not have to clean up that mess, we didn't pay a dime for drinks the rest of the night! D&B is OK in our book, food is OK, drinks were great! You can spend your paycheck in here so we don't venture in very often. A cool place to go for a little R$R, three stars. read more

This was my first dave and busters I had been to in the early 2000s. I had a chance to check it out just this weekend. After being to many other Dave and busters nationwide I can say a few things about this location. First it is smaller or so it seems. There is no video games in the winner circle. There is plenty of other things you can win and just depends on your cup of tea and or how many tickets you win. This location wasn't busy for a Saturday. I think that actually Austinites go out and enjoy the weather unlike the northeast people that I am use to. I learned that you can watch the UFC fights for free here. Not a lot of places do that so definitely a score in my book. I didn't here this time so I can't comment on the food. The beer was decent as they had my favorite: Stella. read more

It's a great place to go about every three months and blow off steam. It's just about time again. My reasons for going here are: - Smoke-free shuffleboard area - Smoke-free pool table area - Arcade! - Bar burgers, bar burgers, bar burgers - Huge, clean restrooms - Decent (or at least useful) prizes from arcade coupons Things that I don't always appreciate: - Bar service - Bar drinks - Ability to find someone when there's a problem in the arcade read more

I got the ribeye nachos and sliders/ribs. The nachos tasted pretty good but were a little cold and some chips were soggy. The sliders were terrible. I had to dunk them in ranch because they were so dry. The ribs were the worst I've ever had. The games saved the night and we had a blast, but next time I'll eat somewhere else before hand. read more

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We decided last minute to get out of the house so we kept it simple. From the outside this D&B looks huge. Once you we walked in it was your normal D&B. When going straight to the game area, this place was small. The smallest I've ever been. Miami D&B is way bigger than this and it's in a mall. I was a little shocked. We didn't eat there. Had some drinks and played some games. They try to keep it clean but it wasn't. It was a Sunday evening so not sure what was going on. Not too much to review on your typical D&B. I mean it was fun and maybe we'll be back. I don't know... It didn't have the bowling area or many options for adults to be kids. read more

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5 reasons i love dave and busters - - skee ball!! - getting tickets and trading them in for cheap crap is strangely addicting -their ridiculously cheap happy hour where you can order all those drinks you'd never pay $8 for and pay only $4 -the drinks are always strong -if you register your power card online, they'll send you coupons for half price recharges every few months avoid the weekend - too many kids and no cheap happy hour :) read more

We had a wonderful Birthday Day Party for our daughter last night! 6 hours of fun, food, cocktails, cake and games! Everyone that joined us enjoyed the party & night out! Great place for a party!!! Staff members Ray & Krystina gave us the best service and made our event amazing!! Their customer service was impeccable!!! Thank you D&B for a great event!!! read more

My husband, daughter and I used to go out there but he is gone now and my daughter and I don't go out that far anymore! We have not been in a really long time. The food was good and so were the drinks! The games were great! So have fun!! read more

On Wednesday half prices games and Happy hour 4pm to 7pm 5 dollar cocktails cant beat that :)

We came here as a group of 4 to watch the UT basketball game. The setup is great but more importantly our server, Eric, is by far the best server I've ever had. I hope he makes a killing here because he was honest about certain menu items, gave his recommendations, and was easy to talk to. 5 star service and think he deserves a raise if he hasn't gotten one already! read more

The games are really cool, just expensive. I'd come here again for the games and beer but not food. Dining: I would not eat here again. For the price, I would expect food with more flavor or bigger portions, but that wasn't the case. In addition our service was so awful. We came on the night of the NBA draft and there was a separate section for a watch party nearby. Even still (knowing it's a big night in sports and they had a large party booked) the manager eventually told us that the kitchen was understaffed and food wait times are doubled. This was AFTER we had been waiting 60+ minutes for our food. The waiter took 10-15 min just to bring us water, another 15 min for beers. The waiter never apologized or explained why the wait was so long. We could never even find him to ask. The whole dining experience was just so disappointing. Just communicate with customers! read more

Spend about $20 for an hour of gameplay. Pretty typical price. Good deal on drinks and appetizers on Sunday. Busy place with quite a few running children (I know it's a sports bar) but overall a good time. Something to do every once in awhile but not every week. read more

Dave & Buster's Austin - American Near Me - Austin, Texas