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    Dave & Buster's Madison

    2.1 (174 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 12:00 AM (Next day)
    Updated 3 weeks ago

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    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups
    Happy hour specials

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    had a great experience and Came last saturday, played a bunch of games for $31 total for two people and we got a pretty solid tripod from the prizes, staff was nice and ambiance was good really nice and clean bathroom, not super cold and had a sturdy table

    Strawberry shortcake
    Dynae S.

    The food was subpar but we anticipated it being that way. You go to these kind of establishments for the kids and the experience, I'm not anticipating culinary expertise in a Dave N busters. They can make some decent drinks and their dessert was decent. The food was forgettable but the experience and the buzz of excitement that rings through the place makes all of that irrelevant.

    Watermelon Margarita and Long Island iced tea
    Aurora A.

    We got a play card with our Bucky book coupon $20 free with purchase of $20 then headed to the bar for a drink. Drinks took a little time to make but were extremely delicious!! Pleasantly surprised. We went to use our play card and it was not loaded correctly so had to go back to the bar and had them re-add the funds. Easy process as they were not that busy. Games were super fun and that amount lasted for quite a while! Will be back to try some food and more drinks!

    Putrid carrot. Replacements looked better but shouldn't have been diverted from the dumpster.
    Stephen V.

    20 min seated before someone finally approached me. Hardly Not a busy night at 5:30 on a Thursday. 6 people at the bar and 4 tables with 3 at one, 6 behind me (packing up the kids) and what appears to be 2 4tops. This is Chuck E. Cheese with booze. Thought from one long ago visit the menu was larger. Covid might've made that necessary. Ordered the bone in wings, dry with Korean bbq sauce for dipping, but the plate arrived already drowned in the bbq. When a neighboring table had Korean ribs delivered they were dressed with sesame seeds and green onions, I'd hoped this would at least have been my wings presentation since they opted to send them out already drowned. Wings were good at least. The celery was acceptable, but each of the carrot sticks were clearly prepped and soaked in water long enough that they made me think of bathtime as a child and my fingers became raisins! Gross, they were nearly paste, the requested replacements weren't any better. Because I'm starving and have to stay here to keep my daughter entertained at least an hour, I decided I'd try the IPA fish n chips out. Hoping this is up to my expectations. As an establishment this place is pretty on the ball, everything in my quick tour of what was going on was clean and orderly. Mens restroom spotless. Lots of visual stimuli. Very nice in a carnival sort of way. The fish order showed up exceedingly fast as did the wings. Salt and pepper when requested did as well, though I confess the fries were only warm on arrival, but still crisp. Fish was too hot to touch. Final thoughts. If I was drinking this would be entirely different. This is a place to get drunk and have fun greasy decent food. Fish was tasty, but being deep fried, it's greasy. Fries sucked. If the tarter sauce wasn't watered down to a very soupy consistency and actually tasted good, I might've enjoyed the fries, and certainly the fish. As an American, we're supposed to eat fries with ketchup, I can do that, but I have long preferred tarter sauce. I have some killer tarter (brand was something from or at least having Britain on the label. I can't recall, but plan to buy it moving forward!) If I decide to start drinking again, I'll likely return, sober? Not. Except to have a fun place for Nicole to have fun being the exception.

    Roasted cauliflower
    Paul L.

    I've wanted to Try D&B for quite some time. I was excited when the came to town and just never got the chance to go. This weekend presented itself with a chance to try them out. We were greeted promptly and seated quickly, and honestly that's where it seemed to go down hill for me. Apparently they only use contactless menus (QR codes direct you to online ordering). Which on on one hand I appreciate, in the situation we are in with COVID. HOWEVER, the system was.... Clumsy IMO, there was very little explanation given to us by the waitstaff. I was purchasing my meal, my drinks, my apps, all on my own. Paid for before I even got my drinks. And expected to apply a Tip to the total before even having ANY basic services from the waitstaff. I have NO issues TIPPING, but I have to know WHAT I'm tipping for. What a horrible system!!!!!!!! The food: My burger, was solid, the bacon jam was actually quite tasty. The roasted cauliflower.... Not so much, it was more like slightly toasted. The fried Pickles were quite tasty and crispy. On the the gaming........... -$3 for a card to use ONLY at your establishment???? Come on!!! If you want to put a deposit on it, fine, but charging me, for something I'll probably NEVER use again, NOT cool. -The whole time I was in the gaming area, not ONCE did I see any kind of wipe down of the machines. Maybe it's just me but aren't they high touch areas???? All in all, I had a decent burger, my niece had fun playing some games, but HIGHLY unlikely to return.

    At least the fries were edible, these burgers were charred and horrible.
    Craig A.

    Where to begin, so it took perhaps 10 minutes to get in the door with a line of 4 groups ahead of us, not a big deal we may have arrived when a cluster of folks did and I understand that can happen. We bought 2 $100 gameplay cards and it was a Wednesday which is half price game day. Now with Covid protocols in place I fully anticipated some games to not be working to limit people from being too close to one another. However we (2 adults and 3 children) were shocked when perhaps nearly half of the games were in operational. Some totally shut off and others half functional. For example the entire row of kids basketball hoops game was inoperable, that had nothing to do with Covid. Many of the booth style shooter games only had one working gun/weapon out of the two of them. Others the mechanism that allows the gun to reload during play were inoperable. Again I understand things break and stuff happens. The breaking point however for this failed visit was the burnt charred burgers we received. 2 out of 3 of them (see pictures) were charred and after forcing my son to eat some of his I noticed mine was also the same. The third burger was more than pink in the middle (also see pictures). We spent enough in gameplay cards to ensure we will return to finish off those card, likely more than once. But I can honestly we would've had a better time with more games to play at Chuck E Cheese down the road. Oh and the Brunette long haired woman behind the bar (3/31 in the early evening) was beyond rude when we tried to get refills on our water. She didn't have the gold shirt but appeared to be beyond just a normal server or waitress too. The fact she's likely in a managerial position of some form sums up the total failure that is occurring at this location. The store manager however who helped us upon entry was nice gentleman. They really need better standards and practices in place in the kitchen though, the food was horrid. My 6 year old could quite literally make better burgers than we were served there. This place has such potential but in its current condition I'd give it a another year maybe before it's shut down. Side Note - The Nachos we had were amazing, but the Burgers and inoperable games (again not just closed ones because of Covid) left us not looking forward to returning. If you're going to charge the kind of prices they do for gameplay, at least employ folks to do regular maintenance and upkeep on the games.

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