This is a great place, I wonder why Tracy doesnt make a dave and busters? We came midweek and I was surprised at how busy it was but we were still seated and served promptly. Our server was also the bartender - Heidi. Despite doing double duty as a waitress and bartender, she was super nice and got our drinks almost immediately. Chill Vibe and great ambiance. The kids food came out first while the adult food lagged a little behind. No matter because the food was tasty! Bottom line, the food was good, the service was great, and the games were fun. Definitely coming back! read more

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Going to D&B's is always a blast. I've made it my happy hour spot because the drinks are great, the service is friendly and the price is right. Their manager always comes to the table to greet us. Makes you feel welcomed and valued. The ambiance is relaxed and the foods great. Karaoke every other Friday night is also fun! read more

I love going to Dave & Buster's every chance that I get. I recently came to this location on Wednesday, 1/11/23, in the evening. First, I went to the bar area to order a drink. TC was the bartender for the evening. He was so chill and friendly. He managed to make me a Strawberry Daiquiri, even though it wasn't on the menu. The drink was super delicious. I also ordered a Flatbread pizza, which was tasty. Being that games are always 1/2 off every Wednesday, I spent nearly two hours here. Good thing all of the machines were working! Overall, I had a great time at this location. Great service from the staff and a wonderful time with games. read more

Dave & Buster's Modesto - Strawberry Daiquiri - Arcades Near Me - Modesto, California

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Not the best experience I've had at D&B but meh. Hubby, room mate and I had lunch and bought a meal and $20 ticket deal. The games have changed over the years, since the pandemic. Most of the games are games of chance not skills. The food is also not what it used to be. This D&B is almost becoming another John's pizza and that's saying alot. The last time I came to D&B was before the pandemic and I used to go to D&B every Wednesday at the Great Mall in Milpitas after work, for a stress reliever from work. Now since the quality of game and their food has gone down, I'm better iff just playing my PS5 and my Nintendo Switch. Service: B Food Quality: B Entertainment Quality: C Price: C read more

Dave & Buster's Modesto - Arcades Near Me - Modesto, California

Shoutout to Karta at Dave & Buster's! Easily one of the best servers we've had in a long time. He was attentive, quick with our drinks, and made sure our table was taken care of the whole time. He even helped us with the game cards and made the experience smoother. Great service all around. read more

Had a great time at Dave & Buster's and Kartā was the reason why. He was quick, attentive, and really went the extra mile for our table. It's always nice when a server makes you feel taken care of. Highly recommend asking for him. read more

We had such a great time at Dave & Buster's and a huge part of that was our server Karta. He went above and beyond making sure we had everything we needed and checked in on us at the perfect times without being overbearing. Super friendly, great energy, and you can tell he actually cares about the customers. Definitely ask for Karta if you go! read more

Hello everyone, I'm giving you my honest opinion. I feel that Dave & Buster's tries to lure people by offering discounts and promotions when it comes to their games. For me, unfortunately, last year around November, I believe I spent about almost $300 in gift cards or at least the game cards for my daughters for Christmas. However, they decided to finally use them and they were told by one of the workers at Dave n Busters this Friday that the cards that are on the timer because they are unlimited game cards were no good because you have to use them at time of purchase. I was not told this. I asked all the questions to cover myself. I actually told him it would be a Christmas gift . They said that when you buy one of those cards you have use them right away . So they told her the card was useless and they took the card. That's money out of my pocket. I worked hard to provide a Christmas gift for My Daughters. I tried calling today with no one answering anywhere. I would suggest that you don't trust in what they tell you because I was told that these cards could be used at any time I asked do I have to use them that same day or soon they said no there was no expiration date now they're acting like they don't know what I'm talking about and try to make people feel like a fool. I will be writing corporate a long disappointing letter to let them know how I feel. I don't want nothing for free, but I do want what I paid for. today is May 30, 2026. read more

Modesto, CA-the food? we didnt eat, of what I remember. but when we sat at a table to chat about what games we would do first, a lady kicked us out, saying it was reserved. there were no signs or notes saying it was reserved, so the service was fine. the room was too loud with all the yelling of adults and kids PLUS music. the lines were extremely long. kid friendly but would only visit again if I wanted to. read more

If I could give my Server Kartā 10 stars, I would for outstanding customer service. He checked on us, asked if everything was okay, and it sure was. I love the atmosphere and what a good experience. It was my first time at this location, and man, I'll definitely recommend it to my friends. Thank you so much for the service. read more

Our server Kartā made the whole experience better. He was super polite, fast, and really went above and beyond to make sure our group was having fun. It's rare to find someone who actually seems happy to help, but Kartā definitely did. We'll be back! read more

The men were in charge of planning date night last month and we all loved it! Amazing bartender our group loved the scooby shots. Much more adults than kids which was also a bonus for a date night away from the kids lol. Haven't been here since last Halloween so it was great to pop in and see the high energy is still on a roll. Loved it. read more

Problem with how hot the food is and all the games are rigged to impossible to beat and tables are sticky.

This visit was not it! We went on a Tuesday early afternoon. No one was there and still we waited 30+minutes for our food. This time they had everything on the menu, so I ordered a Philly french dip. It was so dry, but the horseradish sauce was good. Our server was great! She was patient and polite. My son was crying and she did everything to help the situation. I went to take him to change his diaper and didn't see a changing table. There was one stall that I didn't check but I'm pretty sure they didn't have one. That's annoying! The most annoying thing is we went to the mall after and bought a drink. We parked at the main entrance, which means we would have to walk back through D &B to leave. We were stopped and told we couldn't go in because we had a drink. Wtf?! I was pissed! They wanted me to walk all the eat around in 100 degree weather with a baby (It's actually a far walk around the mall exit). Thank God Dick's was just downstairs and the exit was by our car. I don't think I'm going to return to this location, even if it's closer. read more

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My bartender Heidi was amazing. Seems like they were shorthanded but she was like flying to help her customers

Okay the place was surprising! In a good way. I forgot to take pictures of all of the games because I was so distracted, it's larger than I thought it was going to be! There is a ton of seating for food and bar side and then two sides to the arcade. I think this is great for Modesto and I don't think we had something like that here before. I can't wait to take my kids! The only thing that I would recommend is more bathroom maintenance. Every stall was dirty and the sink as well. I know this is more of the guests and not the establishment but knowing how much the guests frequent the restroom I would make those checks more often! read more

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This was my first time to Dave and Busters and the customer service from the 2 most amazing life saving hostess was top notch. My husband and I walked in and to my luck my shoe broke, like the sole separated from the wedge. Props to Annabella and Destinee they got me glue to try and hold it together and were the absolute sweetest and made what could have been a bad date night into a funny great experience and I can't wait to come back again. Hope to see these great employees again. Thanks again to my life savers Annabella and Destinee. read more

We love coming here to watch games. We also love their appetizers and drinks. Kids always have a good time and so do we . I recommend the pretzel dogs, wings , & garlic Parmesan truffle fries. So delicious! read more

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The good thing about D&B is they have way better games than chuckecheeses. Ordered a tray of chicken tenders for my son and it was one of the worst chicken tenders, it was literally burnt to a crisp! How do u mess up on chicken tenders. We went on a Wednesday and it was not that crowded. There were hardly ppl at the food court waited 15 mins to be seated at a table that I reserved days ahead and confirmed through text and still waited 30 mins to be served and another 20 mins for our burnt chicken tenders. TY D&B for a memorable night. read more

I say no with hesitation. The bar service is slow. We were the only two people at the bar. 1:15 pm in a Friday. We sat for close to 10 minutes, no wait staff came. There were 3 tables with folks and two of us at the empty bar. read more

Games are fun, but i wouldn't recommend eating here. Took 30 minutes just for them to take our order on a Wednesday morning- pathetic service. read more

First time visiting D&B, amazing experience. The service was wonderful, Heidi has an amazing attitude/personality! It being my first visit, I made a mistake ordering, both Heidi amd Tina made it right (even tho it was my mistake). These two ladies made our first experience so great! Food was good! read more

I reserved a table for my daughters Birthday my server Cliff he did an AMAZING job HUGE shout out to him for accommodating us making sure we were okay making sure we had everything we needed being patient with us being so kind to us making my daughters day so special!! I highly recommend him as a server! Dave and busters Modesto has been open for 3 years now out of the years I've been coming Cliff has given me the best service by far he made me want to come and eat with my family again he made me rave about that place again before I would come for games now I feel if Cliff is there I will sit and eat! He made sure we were all happy including kids Side note security guard worker is a POS! Walking in from the mall entrance he wanted my friend to throw away her clothes and he wanted me to throw away a food bag. I told him his manager knows me please go get her he refused to get the manager and refused to let us back in for the party. He told me a member of mine walked out and she won't return. I finally got ahold of his manager and she was able to fix everything however it was simple as hey put the food away thanks. I really hope his upper sees this terrible security guard. Food I understand it's policy but clothes throw away clothes I don't understand it!! There's more to the story read more

They need to step up the food and service game. The food sucks and the service is slow. They need to step up the food and service game. The food sucks and the service is slow. read more

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The service at the bar was terrible. I was standing at bar for over 30 minutes and the bartenders continued to ignore me. They did not even ask if I had been helped so I left. read more

The food was good, drinks were great, playing games with my family was fun. Service was good.

Whoever does the food orders for this place needs to be let go. No steak no ribs no sauce and no quesso. Which makes nachos, and salads out of the question too. Ordered chickens sandwiches and burgers. Good was bad quality. Only co e here to play and eat somewhere near by read more

A recently ate at this location today for a get together and now I'm sicker then a dog with food poisoning

It was so unbelievably loud from game noise. Could not watch tv or talk to the person at your table without full on yelling. Got seated at a table and walked out after 15 minutes due to no sever and ringing in ears. read more

Zero if I could. wow I haven't experienced this kind of food ever! the fish & chips is literally one big piece of tilapia looking fish. I know fish & chips is somewhat greasy because it's fried. I get that. But.. you can make crispy fish and chips that is not saturated. the fish to grease batter ratio is waaaay off. Don't be fooled by the photos. They look good right? I was excited too. open to new ideas I am... but this is just gross. underneath fish... fries were saturated with grease being absorbed from the batter. and super salty. I love salt .. but this was too much. so, thankfully Hailee came to my rescue. She is super sweet and top notch. definitely could work at a higher end restaurant. if it wasn't for her.. I would have walked out. it's super loud in there which I totally expected. She replaced it with a chicken club because I thought how can you go wrong? (sauce on side in case they overdid it) picture looks good right? my mouth was watering. didn't take pic of first sandwich that came to table.. Hailee forgot to tell Phillip I requested no bacon. and the bacon grease went straight into bread & chicken. so.. they had to re-make:( I appreciated Hailee's apology and owning it was her mistake & taking care of it without an attitude. that made a difference for sure. And an hour and 1/2 i waited to get food overall with snafu's. and finally.. the beautiful fresh grilled chicken breast and avocado came and I was excited. I took one bite and almost lost my front teeth! Im not over exaggerating here. I made a video of it as I tapped on counter. it was so hard. I think everyone who served me was embarassed except for: STEPHANIE who threw some attitude my way bobbing her head back and forth somehow trying to make me feel it was my fault they didn't get the order right. Where did she even come from? She was not my server, bartender or manager... but she had to put her 2cents in. idk.. but that was it for me. I told hailee & Philip they were very nice but this was unacceptable for her to come at me like that. The manager finally came after I waited and waited. I needed to go and eat for goodness sake. I started to get up & leave and he finally arrived. He had dread locks. Not that it matters.. but I didn't catch his name. I showed him how hard the bread was. spoke about the snafu's ...but waiting this long? Unacceptable. Especially during a weekday. He apologized. Said he was helping other customers. ya. I get that. You probs have to help a lot with this food and some attitudes flying around:( He said he would comp my food. oh ok. That's the very least and expected thing to do as I wouldnt have any front teeth if I tried eating that sandwich. I told him that because I like to give opportunities first before leaving reviews. I do not like leaving these reviews as you can see by my track record. Im very fair. and it has to be super bad all the way around. I ended up walking away disgusted with the entire experience. I guess if you want to play games and eat grease or rock hard bread and expensive beer.. this is the place for you. I should have known better by the reviews. first and last time here. unfortunately. I tried to upload video of bread but it would not let me. read more

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The drinks were great! But our service was not! We decided beforehand that we were going out for drinks and games and this server continued to ask if we would order food even though we had said 3 times already that we were just here for drinks. He was a bit slow, gone out of sight any time we were looking for him! We ordered our last drinks before 7 and he managed to put them in AFTER 7 when happy hour ended. So we had to find a manager to fix the drinks rung up for $12 instead of the $5 advertised at happy hour! AS WELL AS he charged us $14 for one margarita and $18 for the second one! We had never paid that much for a marg here! The manager gave me and my fiancé a game card since we had already paid for the wrongfully priced drinks. But for my friend's tab, they took $8 off, which definitely did NOT make the difference! The games were fun as always and I'm sure we will be back for the arcades, but if we wanted to pay that much for a few drinks we will go to the bars instead! read more

Dave & Buster's Modesto - Happy hour blueberry lemonade drink - Arcades Near Me - Modesto, California

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My son wanted to go here for his birthday so we took him. Our kids had fun at the arcade. That is about where the positive ends. My daughter liked her crispy chicken kids meal but my three boys all said they were disappointed in their burgers. My wife asked for her burger medium well and it was raw on half. I am not talking about pink in the middle, I am talking looked like the beef just got ground and was slightly seared on the outside. I had a rack of ribs. I was not a fan of the BBQ sauce but everyone's tastes are different so I was going to over look that except it tastes even worse on the way out. That's right I have been sitting on the can with a bucket on my lap for two hours. This is the only thing I have eaten today that at least several other people have not so I am sure this is what caused my food poisoning. To top it off, the service was nearly non existent and slow. I usually do not leave 1 star reviews but needless to say,we will not be eating here again. If we go to the arcade again we will eat somewhere else. read more

Dave & Buster's Modesto - The food that put me on the can with a bucket on my lap for two hours... - Arcades Near Me - Modesto, California

We said we were not coming again yet we came to join friends to watch a football game. We get the wait for a table during a big game but when there's seats at the bar and we don't even get acknowledged for 20 minutes and when are finally acknowledged it takes another 15 minutes to bring us 3 beers it's ridiculous. We had to flag down a server/bartender to get service and then they told us they would be right with us 10 minutes later we still weren't served. We finally got a server and placed an order for food and some more drinks. The drinks were served immediately the food however took almost an hour to come out. Once the next shift came on we had better service. But this just solidified our decision not to return! The worse part was that there was a group of employees chit chatting and having a great time with what appeared to be the manager in the back of the restaurant. The manager did not really leave that spot almost the entire time we were there. Not once did the manager check in on the bartenders, servers, or customers. This establishment is so poorly ran that the only reason why it is thriving is it's because it's a place parents and go drink, watch sports and their kids will be out of their hair. read more

Good hang out for young teens, but at the same time overpriced for that age group. We waited an hour after ordering to get our food, my $29.95 ribeye was dry and over charred, my sons smokehouse bbq ribs 18.75 (half rack) were cold and the meat was unseasoned. It felt like they intentionally took forever to serve our dinner so that we would be too hungry to turn it away. Not the experience I am used to from when I used to go to D&B in Milpitas. read more

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I came for my birthday with my family , something simple something fun. Our waitress Becky , such a sweetheart, loved her. but we had a girl name Faith, who served our food, rude asf. Literally dropped my food in front of me, didn't say sorry or anything, rolled her eyes and walked away. Like if it was an accident, she could of still said sorry and no need for the eye roll. The Food was OKAY too. read more

Dave & Buster's Modesto - Voodoo Pasta - Arcades Near Me - Modesto, California

Extremely overpriced. Subpar food in quality and taste. Would only return to enjoy the bar on game days. read more

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Not cool how they add the play card amount on your meal ticket and then expect a tip for the play cards amount. 18% of three $25 game cards is $13.50 I'm paying as a "tip". read more

We were a party of 8 which ordered 6 dishes. Two of them came out pretty quickly. Our server Heidi was surprised to see the rest hadn't come out. Upon checking with the kitchen, we learned that the ordering tablet had messed up and part of the order disappeared. Heidi spoke to the kitchen and the manager and made sure our remaining meals were prioritized and they came out very quickly. Heidi was incredibly responsive and ensured that we got everything we ordered. She was apologetic but I didn't feel that necessary as it was just a glitch. We were ultimately fed and the food was good! We were all incredibly impressed by Heidi's dedication and problem solving. We'll definitely be back again to see her! read more

Would like to start off first by saying my grandkids. Have a wonderful time here. Or experience was very very pleasant first expression when I seen the stairs to go upstairs I was just like oh brother here we go again, but it was actually not that bad spend a few hours. everybody have fun the atmosphere is very kid friendly kind of took me back to when I was a kid at a arcade at Marriotts great America, and nickel city or my teenage Years at Golfland In Milpitas bay area when I lived in that area next time I believe going to grab a seat and have something to eat but the grandkids Wanted Del taco so that's what we did will definitely be heading back when I go to visit my grandkids read more

Due to having grandchildren it was really hard to take pictures lol...BUT we have never experienced such bad etiquette by the whole staff...from the time we came up to the hostess to let them know we wanted to eat (one of the gals was literally just looking at her phone) took them a few minutes to acknowledge us and from there the hostess that took us to our table, usually you get a "how is your day going" etc. to the worse waiter ever. He was okay, but his attitude was like we were bothering him, he took a while to come to our table in between giving us the menus to our drinks. When the food came out, the people bringing it, put it at the end of the table and left it to us to distribute them, this isn't really a big deal but when it continued to happen with ALL of the people bringing the food etc makes a person wonder what type of training if any, they had. My husbands Fish and chips came out late, we were almost finished with our food by the time he got his. Very disappointed and trying NOT to compare to the Milpitas location in regards to the food and service there was NONE. We will not becoming back here. The food was mediocre, I ordered the Cajun spicy pasta and there seemed to be no cream in the sauce, very bland but being hungraaay I ate it, the burgers looked good that my family ordered but the service was TERRIBLE. Retrain your staff. read more