This is an exceptional arcade place. The food is exceptional, some can have better food. However, the beverages are better than most. Most staff are pretty nice, I say most as in the servers and bartenders. I feel like the staff in the redemption area for "coupons" need to be more enthusiastic, some of them look like they don't even want to be there. To conclude, the food is decent, the arcade games are great, and, while some staff members can work on their enthusiasm, most are great. read more

Dave & Buster's Hilliard - American Near Me - Hilliard, Ohio

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My husband and I visited this location as part of our weekend getaway birthday celebration in honor of my husband. I had never been to Dave and Busters so I thought this would be great date night fun for us. I ordered the mini bar burgers with boneless wings and tots. I didn't eat half of it because it had next to no flavor, the burgers were frozen patties that were barely warm, the chicken was chewy and the tots were greasy. My husband ordered wings and sweet potato fries and seemed okay with his food. Being this was our first time, we had no idea how everything worked. We explained that to our server and told her we would do the $50 card not realizing it would take us forever to go through those points. She wasn't very helpful in explaining things or offering any advice. Lucky for her that made our bill pretty big and she was tipped accordingly. Onto the gaming! For a Saturday night after 8pm we were disappointed to see so many kids!! It was hard to enjoy ourselves with the little ones (and not so little ones) jumping in front of us to play or in one instance, a little boy took our tickets and then put his card in to play. It was chaotic and honestly I think for what we paid, we could have done the same thing at ChuckECheese with better tasting food. Overall we felt that this place is completely overrated and we have no plans to return. We were under the impression it was for an older crowd and a fun environment with great food. We had fun anyways but it wasn't what we thought it would be. read more

We drive from Polaris to Hilliard just because this is a better DAve and Busters . Emily was our server and did an awesome job! Going above and beyond to provide us the best deals on game cards and chatting with us about comics while still giving fast and efficient table service ! High fives all around read more

Well, I love this place because it's kind of like I'm a kid a chuckie cheese again. I always have soooo much fun here! It is a little pricey sometimes. They have all kinds of fun things. The only bad thing is that they are sometimes extremely busy and it's kind og annoying with people EVERYWHERE!! Love this place, though! If you haven't been to a Dave and Buster's....you're missing out! read more

My brother has been begging for us the past several weeks. He wanted to do the unlimited wings with unlimited game play for certain games . Figured since it would be MNF Let's drag the crew there. 10 of went 6 of us did the wings special ... only buffalo or bbq is your choice with fries... and I'm not sure if it was a tactic but it took an extremely long time for us to get additional wings I only had about 12 wings before I just gave up since it took. Good 20 minutes to get our refill of wings each time. Our Server was pregnant and I'm sure she did the best she could but it was a horrible experience. I don't expect to be waited on hand and foot but the time for our orders was extremely exorbitant.. read more

This is the better of the locations in the area, as far as I'm concerned. The dining area is comfortable and separated from the noise of the game room. The menu offers a wide variety of food items including a number of items that come with a token package. This location seems to cater more to adults as opposed to the Polaris location that was jammed packed with screaming kids that should have been at chuck-e-cheese instead. The idea behind the chain is fun entertainment for adults and older teens. My husband and I and several of our adult children love visiting this location several times a year. read more

We fled the humidity and ended up here. We sat at the bar and had drink and bite to eat. We stuck to the appetizers, ordering the pretzels dogs and edamame to share. The pretzel dogs were disappointing. Either the dogs were too greasy or the pretzel dough wasn't baked enough I couldn't be sure which was the culprit. As we ran off like toddlers to play with shiny toys, we ordered a couple of their snowcone adult beverages. They were neat but just all right. I think I'd stick with the "walk the plank" cocktail that the boyfriend ordered earlier, it was super good. But, really, do you come here for good cocktails and food? Nope! You come here for the games. D&B's delivers on that score. This is a good place to waste a couple hours throwing balls and slapping touch screens trying to slice fruit. We had a blast and already planning our next trip, we even have a strategy to get more tickets. read more

This place is great for both kids and adults. Games for all ages, and some give away a LOT of tickets. Good beer selection, though I have never tried their food I hear it is good. All around ambiance screams HAVE FUN! read more

Always a fun place to go and hang out. First time going there in a while and wasn't too thrilled with how they changed the prize area but liked the new electronic ticket process. read more

I haven't been in D&B since yesterday and I'm still overstimulated. A step up from Chuck E. Cheese, sort of like an adult version with better food. The food was really decent which was a bit of a surprise, but nothing to write home about. Tons of video games, your requisite crappy stuffed animals for 10000 tickets, but more high tech as all of your credits can be purchased via credit card at a machine that gives you a card that is swiped at each game. I had a decent time with some friends, some beers, some food and some games, but if it weren't for the fact that I was at a bachelor party for a good friend of mine, it would be unlikely that you'd find me anywhere near the place. read more

There are positives and negatives here : Perks : fun A lot of games Good family environment Negative: expensive Slow service Hard to get a table But all together it's a great place to go with a group of people , just may spend more than you would want to! read more

This is clearly the better of the two Dave & Buster's locations in Columbus. In fact, I'd say it's the best arcade in town, but there's not a whole lot of competition in the arcade category these days. The difference between this location and the Polaris one is evident the second you walk in the door. The Polaris arcade is about the size of your living room, whereas this one is like a gym. That means there's plenty of room for tons of four-player (and more) head-to-head games and more redemption games than you can shake a joystick at. They've also at least thrown a bone to lovers of classic games, with four cabinets containing nine games (they're not the originals, but at least they're the official re-releases, unlike that bootleg Asteroids machine at Kitchen Den Bar, the former Gameworks). I was disappointed to find out D&B has gotten rid of its formerly substantial collection of pinball machines since the last time I was here. That's a right shame. I was happy, though, to see Police Trainer, one of my all-time favorite games, is still there... and better yet, the guns are supremely accurate! A rare find indeed. The food: Like I said in my review of the other D&B, you'd be best served eating elsewhere and coming here afterwards. The food tends toward the nondescript, overly salty fare that you'll find at TGI Friday's or Applebee's, but more expensive. Although I admit, it can be fun to eat here, with the flashing lights and excitement all around, so you might want to try it for yourself. The decor of the eating area certainly is neat, with lots of brass and a system of ceiling fans all connected by one long belt. read more

The games are fun, we had a blast. Now when it comes to the food, my opinion changes. So if you are a vegetarian, you have very limited options. I would recommend you get dinner elsewhere. We got the dip trio, tater tots which were super oily. Yes fried foods are oily but you shouldn't taste the excess oil while eating it. The quesadillas were ok, a few more veggies in them would have been nice. Our server was really nice, she tried to help us get the best veg options they could provide. So they used to have a portobello mushroom burger, they need to bring that back! Yes they had salads, but I'm not going to pay nearly 10 bucks for it. It really wouldn't hurt Dave and busters to have some more vegetarian options that isn't salad or fries or sides. read more

The food was tasty and the staff was pleasant. I'm injured and am currently using a scooter and was concerned about it getting in the way of people or other tables. We were accommodated easily, another waitress quickly moved around the tables slightly to allow more room and it felt very smooth. Our waitress checked on us regularly making sure everything was perfect. It was a very pleasant experience. read more

Wow, wow, wow D&B. Last December the company I work for had a territory meeting at D&B for the Holidays (formerly known as Christmas). Food was as expected, atmosphere good, and a decent beer selection (I had a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale; delicious). After dinner we were split into three teams of 8 people and had a fun challenge comprising of three or four different games with the winners facing off on a game I was unfamiliar with. A 7 foot wall of probably 50-75 lights turn on at random and to turn them off and earn points you simply hit the buttons. All good fun, but that's all of the good...enough to earn one star. The entire, and I mean entire building smelled of sulfur dioxide, aka rotten eggs, aka raw sewage. There were signs as you entered the restroom apologizing for the odor, but it was so bad that I had to hold my breath while in the bathroom and actually gagged and thought I was going to fill a urinal with over-priced deep-fried goodness. Now I understand the occasional odor issue, but after taking my girlfriend there for her first D&B experience last month (February 2015 and a full two months after the first run-in with the odor), the stench remained without the warning signs and almost 50% of the games we wanted to play were out of order. Almost every "push the coins off the ledge" game was out of order, the pacman game's joystick didn't work properly, so we were basically jerking the machine around in an attempt to get our little dot gobbler moving to no avail. It was highly disappointing, especially after raving about how much fun D&B is to a first-timer. They've also brought in a lot of newer games (which should be a good thing), but they seem to be aimed at a much younger crowd and have removed a lot of - what I considered fun - games like Hydro Thunder and many other racing games. We played ski ball on one of the two functional lanes only after swiping our cards on several other lanes, and getting no response other than the confirmation of points remaining after charging us. We played a couple of store-dominated first person shooter games only to find the calibration so far off on one that pointing the "weapon" at the floor earned me a kill, but not when pointing it directly at the objective. I've been to several different D&B locations, so please don't view this as a company-wide issue. This is solely the Hilliard location by my experience. Polaris was nice, but small and Cincinnati's is amazing. A lot bigger, cleaner, better service and a wider variety of games. Maybe we'll make a trip to Cincy the next time the D&B bug hits. read more

Ok. Here we go. I love this part. Planned a small get together with some work peeps to meet here to eat, drink and play games. Something informal. Not enough to rent a party room. Was told they didn't take reservations. Alright I think, I'll get there early and try to get some tables together. Upon arriving was told they could seat us in 2 hours. Come to find out? They couldn't use one section because they had a server out. Really? So let me get this straight. You close an entire section rather than bring in someone to cover that section? Is that what they teach in Business Management classes now? Dang. Why not close the whole place? What a great business model. I mean, who needs that revenue anyway? read more

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Me and my family went there for father's day and we had a great time. I went on the big VR thing with my mom and a really nice employee named Amanda helped us out two times. Amanda also helped me check out my items from the shop. She had blonde hair, good eyeliner and cool earrings. She's really nice and I hope you keep her on for a while or at least till the summer ends. Other than Amanda being awesome, the games were great. The only "bad thing" I would say is to get some better prizes. read more

My boyfriend and I have come here before and had a great time !! We came today and played some games, but the ones we came to play were out of service. When asking for someone to fix them, we were told,"We'll be right on it", yet two hours passed and nobody fixed it. This isn't the main reason I'm writing this though. We sat at a table and waited for someone to serve us for 2 hours, and this isn't an exaggeration at all. A waiter walked past us and made eye contact with us at least five times, and we still sat there. I watched a family sit down after we did, get served, and then leave. I'm usually super easy going but sitting there waiting for food for 2 hours while starving is terrible. The food service here is absolutely horrible. sorry d n' b. read more

We went here Friday night the 18th, we got there at 7:10 pm and left at 9:15 pm. Our waitress was very slow, we order our food 7:30 didn't get our food until close to 8:30, she didn't check for refills, food came out cold and over cooked. Went to check out waited on her for over 15 mins before I had asked for a manager to check us out. When I see the manger I asked if he was checking us out he said no it was the other manager, then I seen the waitress checking us out. Very unhappy with the whole experience. I have been there for Georgie meetings and never any problems I will not be suggesting this place this year. Then when asked for a Gluten free menu the waitress said we only have 2 menus and she wasn't able to find them, then she didn't know nothing that was gluten free. read more

If you consider what they offer, some great arcade games and ticket dispensing craziness that you can't barely find anywhere, I'm wiling to lay some slack on some other aspects. Food is pretty good, service varies. Alcohol selection is ok, though some of their mixed drinks are a bit disappointing (but then again, where isn't these days?). Arcade selection pretty good for family and friendly fun. Granted you're not going to find any street fighter (for that you'll have to go to sixteen bit bar), but there IS a Pump it Up machine! Dance like its the late 90s and early aughts! Definitely visit on a Monday -Thursday and get your free play on after 9PM with a power card charge, and always look for good deals by joining their subscription. Had a great time there at new years eve this year... actually sadly? the best new years eve I've had in a while. read more

This service is great and it's nice and clean and roomy and everybody is nice and friendly read more

Terrible service and food. But 1 big star for a nice cold beer. The server didn't know our table was her section (honest mistake, I get it) but 15 mins to get a drink order is a little ridiculous. We ordered buffalo wings and they were served with no plates or dressing. I ordered the fish and chips which was saturated with grease and doesn't come with tartar sauce. My date ordered the Philly which was ok, but came out wrong. Halfway through my meal, I discovered a hair in my food and the server had nothing to say about it but took the food and didn't offer any resolution. A manager never visited the table and the fish and chips remained on the bill. We ordered a game card and played for a little whole but about half the games were out of service. No reason to go back. read more

I've been to quite a few D&B's around the country and this is my favorite. Great food, friendly staff, cozy and fun and exciting games for all ages. Love the new games! Also, clean for as many people that come in during the days, especially the weekend. read more

Dave & Buster's Hilliard - American Near Me - Hilliard, Ohio

This place is going downhill. Half the games didn't work, and the $3 charge to activate a car is an outdated concept. We are there spending our money already, why charge us to do so? Won't be going here again. read more

Ok food, but the appeal of Dave & Buster's is that there are games to play before, during and/or after your meal. We all three got meals that came with game cards for our after dinner entertainment. With most games you can collect tickets to redeem for prizes. The good news is that you have another card that will keep you running total of tickets without having to carry in all 60,000 tickets when you want to redeem then for the video game your future son wants. (Not my future son, but my friend's) They seem to have a lot of birthday parties here, not a surprise it is a fun escape for the afternoon. read more

Food was awesome but had terrible service unfortunately.. we sat down and waited at least 10 minutes before someone came and greeted us. Finally a guy came and took our drink order and said that our server was busy. He also took our food order and said that our server would put it in right away. We then, waited 10 minutes for our waters and one Diet Coke. Food took about 30 minutes. We got the day card and most of the games were unavailable and there were very few that we could even play with the card. Nothing really happened that made me want to rush back. read more

We had a special mom and son day and I thought D&B would be fun. We got there at 11:45 planning to eat lunch and then play. We wandered around for almost ten minutes trying to sit near the bar as the greeter told us. They had only small booth, two tables, and then high tops. I am short and stout so high tops are not appealing. Finally resigning to sit at the bar, we are told kids can't. So I ask where shall we sit and he got us seated in the vast open area seating. Big mistake. It took another 5+ minutes before someone came and then another 5-10 to come back with water and to take our order. We ordered the special cheesesteak slider and chicken tenders to get the discounted card. While the sliders were food, they were mostly bread. Each slider had very little meat and cheese. Then we waited 20 minutes more before finally my son went to get the server. Ridiculous!!! We finally go to have fun and yeh games are all so much that my son barely got about ten players on the 125 chip card. We will likely eat elsewhere next time and just go to play. Very disappointing. read more

I LOVE Dave & Busters, esp. their half off Wednesdays. The games are really fun (esp. the basketball and coin ones!) Their employees are very friendly and helpful. During our last visit, my sisters and I went spent about $150 on 4 hours worth of games, two meals, and a drink. Right before we left, we cashed in our tickets for a nano, a dual blender, 3 stuffed animals, and loads of candy. Good times.... :) read more

Dave & Buster's is a great place to go for some random overpriced fun. The food isn't great - but it's not horrific. You won't have an entree you go bragging back to your friends about. In fact, you might forgot your order by the time you get home. The games are fun but not cheap. It's a cool place to go with friends - especially for the competitive types. read more

Went here last night and all the games had issues. We had to have the technician come to us several times to work on games. Literally all the games were broke or malfunctioning. The good part is when they do work they have so many awesome games it makes it worth it. A new Mario Cart, Beer Pong, Corn Hole, Jurassic Park, Walking Dead, Transformers, Tons of sports games football, basketball, air hockey, and a new dance game. The food is always good, there are tons of combo deals with food and game cards, and there are pool tables too. Such an awesome place but they really need some maintenance on their games. Fun date night spot! read more

Great food at a great price, and oh so many fun games! Family fun for everyone. If you don't have a good time here your doing it all wrong. (I noticed many games are wheelchair friendly too) All of the employees were very kind and more than helpful when asking for assistance. We arrived a little after or before 4 pm on a Saturday and the occupancy wasn't anything unbearable. Wait time for games was one or two people (if one at all) We left around 7 pm and they were really starting to pack in like sardines. All in all we had a wonderful time and I can't wait to go back! read more

Food was awful, restaurant and game area were filthy! I'm sick about the money we just dropped here. It's rare for me to have almost nothing good to say... but I got nothin' read more

Waited 2 hours never got a table even though some were open. the games are fun but don't expect to eat

Always have a great time with family here! Make sure to sign up on their App and Rewards to receive 20.00 in free per week. Emails sent weekly. read more

This place is OK. Food is not great but the atmosphere is not built around food...its built around gaming. Also, I wish this place a little bit cleaner. I always feel dirty when I walk out. read more

Went in on a busy Saturday night. Gabbed a table in the bar, waited 20 minutes and left. No one looked at us, no menu, no service. Great time. read more

My wife and I drove 1.5 hours from the Lima area and met our friends (another couple) there for dinner tonight, 4.30.22 - I have to say, I was severely disappointed. Although our server, Jacob, was extremely polite, we waited an hour for our meal. There were 3 other tables that were seated after us who received their meals before we did. One of the tables had 6 people in their party. When we received our meal, everything was cold. I ordered the Philly steak. The steak was cold, the bread was hard, and the fries had sat so long they were inedible. My buddy ordered the fish and chips. His fish was cold and his fries were also inedible. He didn't eat even half of the fish. The ladies ordered salad. The croutons were horrible and they had disgusting lettuce. Their meals also went uneaten. The only highlight of our meal was the gigantic pretzel appetizer that we all ate from. I didn't send anything back because I don't trust anyone not to do anything malicious to the food in this day and age. With the tip, the meal came to $108.98 for something so horribly lackluster. We tried to make the most of it and adjourned to the game room. It was unreal how many games were out of order, badly calibrated, or malfunctioning. The men's bathroom was filthy with garbage cans flowing over. Parts of it appeared to be under repair. The ladies bathroom was so bad that they were entirely disgusted. They were closing the location at 9:30 for a private party. I can't imagine that the people coming in for the party could be pleased with anything in this location after having to spend so much for a private party. I can't see myself ever returning to this location ever again. read more

So will start off with the games. They are worth what you have to pay. Not that it is expensive, alittle bit goes a long way and if you don't use it you just save your card for next time. We had quite a wait even though it wasn't very busy. When we did get sat the four of us ordered our drinks and an appetizer. We had to wait about 10 minutes for them but our waitress returned with an apology. The appetizer we ordered was great. We all ordered our food and everyone seemed happy with what they got, I got the Maker's Mark burger. IT WAS AMAZING! One of the best burgers I've had. It wasn't a pre-frozen patty and it was juicy and flavorful. Everything is priced well and tastes great. I will certainly return there another time. read more

I went on a date at this place a few months back and while it's not my typical cup of tea, it's a fun and ridiculous way to spend a rainy Saturday night, especially if you're looking for an alternative from the bar scene. Surprisingly, the Hilliard location actually has a great beer selection! read more

Before going here the other night I sat up for hours thinking what to do for my birthday. I have only fond memories of D&B back east and I figured wtf... I'll go out for the night & play some fun games and drink some yummy drinks! My husband was here the week before for a business meeting (ik right, best meeting ever!) and said it was the coolest one he's ever been to! That sounded so promising to me, thinking I would have a great time and enjoy new games in this enormous D&B! I had visions of 6ft tall beer tubes, a huge rap around bar, and lots of lots of games to chose from w/ really tasty snacks. Skip to my bday and I pull up and there's literally only 3 cars in the parking lot and it's 9:30pm on labor day weekend......... I could hear crickets..... talk about dead silence at a D&B which is never a good sign! So I figured ''whatever, I have the place to myself!'' We really were the only one's there besides the host and the bar tender, and the one guy in the kitchen. I'm not your typical party girl, I tend to take a back seat to these kinds of adventures so being that I came already tispy was most likely a good start cuz the beer prices here are outrageous! Nothing, and I mean nothing, was under $5.50 apart from the fact that today happened to be $2 corona's and I'm a dark beer person. A tipsy person doesnt care what color their beer is and since our bartender was clearly bored out of his mind we sat at the bar for a good half hour talking to him and sipping on corona's and nomming on some yummy $1 tacos. This guy was awesome! My husband asked for limes and he got his limes. The cool part though is that when he asked for more limes the bartender gave him a whole bottle of sour pucker to use as he wished! We dented that bottle pretty good and he just kept on talking to us like we were old friends of his. LOVE the service here!!! Now that I cant move anymore it was time for games! Have to admit, I was stalling pretty hard here waiting for people to show up. I felt lonely in this big 'ole D&B by ourselves 'sides the bar keep. I'm used to these places being so packed that you had to wait your turn to play the cool games. At this point though I stopped caring about all that crap and just wanted to have some fun! The games here were fun but, in my opinion, they could have used more bigger games. I mean a 4 way air hockey table is pretty cool but w/ only 2 people it's just the same as a regular one. The huge connect 4 was pretty fun but it ended really fast for 9 credits. We got the $40 credit opinion and it was more then enough for us w/ 3 hours to play. Eventually we got bored w/ the games and realized we were starving & headed back to the bar for something to eat. We had 5 mins left to order the $2 corona's & so we ordered 6 more and being that the bartender was so nice he kept the other ones in the fridge for us while we drank them & had some food. We settled on the philly & the mark's burger w/ pulled pork. The philly was meh, not really a philly at all. The burger was over cooked so it got sent back. 2nd time it was still over cooked but we were too hungry to care. The mark's burger, or whatever it's called was the most delicious thing I think I've ever had! What really made it amazing was the sauce & pulled pork. I would come back here just for that burger! We fought over the last bite and decided to play more games. Bar keep handed us cold beer & we were on our way! He told us he'd keep the last 2 cold until we came back for them; love that guy!! After a long night of games & corona's and yummy nums the place was closing and we had a bunch of tickets to cash in. Prizes here are slim pickings w/ not much else but candy to pick from; unless of course you're good at getting tons of tickets. We had like 2,600 or something like that; I can't remember lol. Overall the night was fun but since it was so empty I didnt have nearly as much fun as I hoped for. I can tell this place isn't as cool as I thought, or as large for that matter. The huge rap around bar... rumors. The giant beer tubes...wasn't worth it so we didnt get one. The food was good, the games were average arcade games, and the service was nice but kitchen staff sucked. Overall it was an enjoyable evening but a bust in my opinion. If that bartender wasnt there it would have sucked. Koodo's to him! read more