Though it may be pricey, Cadence is my favorite cafe to go to on the SCU campus. Located in Lucas…read moreHall (business school building), the workers there are really nice and they put out free fruit-infused water for the students! There are a variety of sandwiches, salads, pastries and sodas you can get from the fridge but I really like the handmade beverages here. My favorite things to get that you can't get anywhere else on campus are the variety of hot chocolates! There's European (rich, thick chocolat chaud), American (classic), Indian (chai), Asian (orange zest), Latin American (chili), and my favorite Alpine Swiss (white chocolate almond)! Perfect wake-me-up for class time. For something lighter or for a hotter day, the lemonade-tea and fruit lemonades are also very good! Sure, there's better places in the area but for SCU, this is the best place for drinks!

Pretty good place for a quick bite. Its like a Starbucks setup where you can get coffee and a quick…read morelunch. While not the best food, they have good coffee and in a convenient location. I usually stop by when I'm in a rush. Grab and go food.

Stopped in for a Sunday (bi weekly) tournament. Well run & FUN…read more Two rooms filled with great machines, solid variety of manufacturers and upgrades like head phone jacks. Nice couple run the joint. You can grab beers next door. Plenty of parking. A very good pinball room for sho

First time there. Pleasantly surprised. I'm a pinball guy…read morewith several machines of my own. This place has spectacular pinball machines that operate perfectly in a safe environment. The people that operate this place are very friendly and personal. There is a micro brewery next door. Nearby every machine is $1 per game, which is very reasonable. For me or an average person, $10 should last you one hour of play. I had a great time. Cool place! Try it out!

My Favorite Card shop in the Bay Area. I play One Piece here alot and the atmosphere and vibes are…read morealways great. Staff are always friendly and tentative with any of your needs. Ac is always on and it's really clean in there also. They have a great selection of cards and a good prices also. Will forever be a customer here.

Magitek is my goat. Sells product at MSRP and customer service is great. They usually only have 1-2…read morestaff members manning the store though, so patience is a must

My friends and I went here for my birthday. The staff are friendly and helpful. I had booked 2…read moreweeks in advance online and even though I showed up past the grace period (couldn't find parking) they were still able to honor our reservation. The room we got was clean and seemed soundproof. There are TONS of music options - Kpop, Jpop/Anime, Mandopop, Cantonese, and of course all the English hits. It seems whatever system they use for the Karaoke is frequently updated because they have brand new songs too. Food was tasty and service was fast and not too disruptive. They have to open the door to deliver the food but do it quickly. Pricing seems fair. Parking here is a pain and can be challenging.

The music room and bathroom were both clean. Audio quality is solid. However, after ruminating on…read morethe experience once we arrived home, several concerns became clear that ultimately deterred me from returning. Pricing was not straightforward or transparent. Upon arriving, we were told that all the rooms were booked and no follow up questions from their end. This remained the same throughout the entirety of the communication. I had to inquire all the questions, thinking I was asking the right ones to know prices and availability. I was wrong. With my questions, the answers I received were: 1) small room would take about 1 hour and 2) medium room would be about 40-45 minutes. Again, no follow up question from them whether which room we want, offering prices for each room, and asking if we wanted to put our name down. I only asked if the medium price would be the same as small, since we only had 2 people. That's something I should have reworded because what I actually wanted to know is how much would it be for 2 people--this was after 9:30 PM, for a medium room. I want to highlight that even though I am responsible for inquiries for clarification, a general rule also uniformly applies for businesses to be upfront with pricing and services for clarification. In short, that was completely absent throughout the interaction. We didn't know better, since we are not usuals at this establishment, which truly did feel that this was intentionally done to upcharge us. At the time, we chose convenience and said we would take whichever room--small or medium, as they stated--became available first. The medium room became available about 15 minutes after we had returned earlier to ask how to get on the "waitlist." Yet again, the process itself was never explained nor openly offered to us. We were informed of the $99/hour charge for the medium room only after being called up to the front desk/food station area, when the staff member was already writing the price on the receipt with a clipboard. This key detail should have been clearly disclosed at the very beginning of the first interaction--way before the signing at the desk to enter the room. My previous paragraphs can be referenced to this. Instead, signing and entering the room was processed as both the very first and final contact/confirmation. Thus, we weren't given any pricing and details prior until our name was called and came to the desk to sign. That is the primary issue: not disclosing the needed information well in advance until signing. Also, to their other review response --if there were management, then it could be with the person overseeing the computer, whom I directed the questions to. Like other reviewers have mentioned (which, in hindsight, we should have read more closely), there was a noticeable lack of transparency. We essentially had to ask every question ourselves in order to get basic information. Even then, the responses were brief and only addressed exactly what we asked--without offering additional context or details that would have helped us fully understand the pricing or process. And that in itself--is dishonest. Deceptive, too. Because of the lack of intent and transparency, we also weren't offered pricing information with the small room at any given point. So for those who wish to visit this establishment, be mindful of the highly, subtle deception. Perhaps you could try and ask directly for the pricing of each room, depending on head count, but who knows if they would provide information in all the extent needed for customers to make an informed decision. The medium room could fit 6-8 people maximum from our perception. The pricing on the website does not provide any room sizing price, or estimation. Just by head count, so essentially, we were being charged for the 9-10 people ($99/hr rate) that is listed on the webpage. Yes, here's the fine print from the website: "RATES & ROOM CAPACITY: The final rate will be based on either room size or total number of people, with the higher rate applied." If the $99/hr charge was purely due to the medium room size, as it did note that a "higher rate may apply," then that would have been understandable--if that information had been deliberately shared to us well in advance before signing. Even then, it becomes much more questionable since it seems that 6-8 people ($79/hr) could be accommodated in a medium size room. If so, then this was an upcharge, given all information had been nebulous. However, the issue I am pointing out here is the extreme lack of transparency and the involuntary manner in how the information was provided before signing. The general answers mentioned above were disclosed only when prompted by our questions, and even then the responses remained consistently evasive and limited. The quote above was already included in this original post. Read the latest response to see how they confirmed their own fradulence. Never was offered a large yet was given one and upcharged.

Wandered into this store while walking around Vietnam town! It has AC!! We were promoted to walk in…read morebecause they had a bubble machine going on. They also have a trinket exchange box, but you'll need to ask a staff member to unlock it to do the exchange. It's a spacious, clean, and bright establishment with cute stuffed animals! I would recommend coming here to get yourself a prize!

Lots of cute plushies here! It's about $1 a token. They also sell a few squishies here if you're…read moreinterested. They also have a trinket exchange box

Our favorite convention every year is CAX! Crowds have grown a lot over the years (my first was in…read more1999) but Mark, Michelle, Jim, and everyone else who puts on this show do an amazing job of keeping it well-run, fun, and friendly! Now that it's at the Hyatt Regency each year, we've often stayed in the hotel or one of the other closeby partner hotels and make a local vacation out of it. There's nothing like waking up in the morning and heading right to the pinball action! Lots of new and classic video games, too! My 6-year old is shaping up to be a li'l pinball wizard and her 2-year old sister is not far behind! It's really awesome and encouraging to see all the young kids picking up on pinball! If you've never been, plan on checking this out next tine it's going on (usually late July every year)!

This event used to be very fun. Last time I was there, I did have some fun playing old games…read moreagainst my sweetie. However, this event has gotten overly crowded. When we went to it this year, we came early so we can get to play the most popular games and avoid the crowds. My sweetie and I got our tickets- $40 each! About 40 minutes before the facilities opened. No one told us where to wait nor anything so we decided to hang out in the lounge but found it strange that there were not crowds of people there waiting as well. Finally, about 10 minutes before the event, a staff person told us where we had to wait in line! Now that was after we acted confused and thought the event already started as we almost walked into the room. NO STAFF PERSON INFORMED US WHERE WE HAD TO WAIT IN LINE AT TIME OF PURCHASING THE TICKETS! So we found out that it was like a ballroom where there was a line that went around the wall. My sweetie told a staff person how upset he was. The guy said that once the event starts, that line will move fast. And yes, he was right but that is not why people come early! People come early to be the first to play the latest games. Once we got in, there were already long lines for the most popular pinball games. Even the games I recall in my teens were already taken up. I played a few rounds of the Skee Ball but once an annoying preteen girl who was so into herself cut in front of me. I found the merchandise that was over priced as well as always. To save money, my sweetie and I took a break for lunch and simply ate our cold deli sandwiches in our car as we watched a young couple construct hammocks from their SUV to lounge in all the while in the garage! It was hilarious to see!! But mostly, I did not like this event as much as I did in the past. Not being properly informed of where to wait before the event started, it being extremely crowded, no great deals on merchandise, ...and that allusive raffle for a pinball machine that only someone who is financially well off and who probably already owns one or more pinball machines should own. Pinball machines are fun but when they break down as I constantly see at events like this, they are costly to repair if you do not know how to repair them. I did not even see the Alameda Pinball Museum represented here which would have made the event more fun for me. I always enjoyed seeing that they were selling and to hear about the progress in getting a larger facility for the large pinball game collection that they have. Come to think of it, I would have rather went to the museum where there is not large groups of people - museum may be small and may only have one or two of the latest pinball computerized games but I would enjoy it more. I just sat around most of the time at the Pinball Extreme feeling tired not from lots of pinball game playing but from the overwhelmed crowds of people there.

It was an off day so I randomly decided to come here after seeing it on Google Maps?…read more Easy parking which led to a relatively small though highly interactive exhibit? I spent 30 minutes browsing around of taking in some knowledge of Intel in the Silicone Valley. The gift shop is okay, they don't really have much and surprisingly no stickers or pins. You can visit here once and that's all you would ever need

For a free museum, this place is pretty cool. Especially if you are interested in microchips. They…read morehave a few interactive displays, which I appreciated. The little gift shop is a cool addition, but I was expecting them to have some fun stickers. Parking is easy, just follow the signs. The employees are also friendly and helpful. Not pet-friendly.

It's a nice sports complex with a bar upstairs and cafeteria type restaurant downstairs. They also…read morehave security at the gate. Everytime I've been here multiple sports are played on different fields.

The complex needs a remodel, but it's a hub for Bay Area sports. For soccer, be aware of the curved…read morefields. Recent map attached.