I wish I had an opportunity to eat here. I came with a group of girlfriends over the weekend and experienced the most absolute worst service of my life. It was almost as if I walked into an establishment in the 1800's, treated as if our skin color kept staff from even acknowledging us. As we entered the staff literally looked at us and walked away. It took too long to even be spoken to. It was the worst service in my life. You could not pay me to come here again. absolutely horrible experience. read more

Went here on Father's Day instead of the quick food option at Nomad's. It's has nice ambience and it's a completely different atmosphere from the rest of the Nomad's facility. They have great draft options available and aren't like your typical arcade/bowling alley bars. The menu isn't very large but diverse enough so that you aren't forced to get chicken tenders. They have a bunch of wraps, burgers, sandwiches and also some entree choices too. The most surprising part is the prices aren't jacked up because its located inside of kids place. Food prices are all in-line with any chain or local restaurant out there and what you get is pretty decent. I got a pulled pork sandwich and it tasted pretty great and I didn't know what to expect. The staff was attentive and although it took a little longer for food than I may hoped (not too long to drop any stars). Regardless it doesn't matter and it was well worth the time/money. When we go to Nomad's again we will be going here again. Oh and I guess they got live music too on weekends. That's always a bonus too! read more

Red's Tavern - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - South Windsor, Connecticut

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Ordered a medium rare burger got a charcoal patty. That's all. Not coming back. The guy playing guitar in the corner is destroying country music and not destroying in a good way. Hope I can find something to eat on the way home. On the bright side, the waitress and the owner where aware of the problem and were quite apologetic. If anyone knows a good or even a mediocre cook please send them to Red Tavern. Anyone would be an improvement. read more

Red's Tavern - Does this look medium rare to you??????? Smh - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - South Windsor, Connecticut

Great food and drink! Nice place to get a bite to eat while kids enjoy the arcade. Good for any day, rain or shine.

I'd given zero stars if I could. The service is extremely slow even when the restaurant isn't busy. They had none of the specialty cups and our food took over an hour and a half. When we asked approx how much longer we were told 15 minutes to which it took an additional 30. The drinks for our table were never refilled and our waiter disappeared. Don't recommend taking kids here. read more

The beer selection is pretty good, the place is clean, the bathrooms are huge, and there's a ton of entertainment in the attached arcade/game center. If I had kids, this place would be even more appealing..."Go play skeeball, dad needs a beer." Ha. The food was OK. If it was a normal restaurant/pub I'd probably drop another star, but I feel like the arcade aspect puts it in more of a Chuck E Cheese/Amusement Park expectations category. I certainly wouldn't go here specifically with food in mind, but it's great for a pint after work, and as an all-around venue it certainly has its other perks. read more

Great place for food and drinks, plus kids can have fun in the arcade. I've been here numerous times and have had quite a lot on their menu. The food is well prepared, service is good, and friendly staff. The house-made chips are awesome. Good selection of beer and other drinks. I will return read more

Love my first experience here !! Shocked they served good food !! Also live band playing !! I was starving from playing games outside the bar and didn't want to be around all those kids running around playing so snuck away and found my new spot when I wanna go out on my next date. t The bomb.com cocktails and signature drinks yummmmmmm !!! read more

Red's Tavern - Blackend chicken Alfredo and a grateful nomad !! Soooooo good - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - South Windsor, Connecticut

My party of 5 waited an hour from served drinks with water to the point where we could order. they had a computer problem but our waitress didn't inform us at all she discussed it with plenty other patrons. That felt kinda off, especially not getting more water. Their Apple crisp is mostly sugar at the bottom, kinda yucky, since it should be apple enough. The waitress took personal offense with our complaint to the manager and we couldn't break up our tab since " we received a discount" as if its our fault it took an hour to be asked what we wanted to eat. read more

Kept Secret In SW. Off the beaten path of the route 5 corridor. The happy hour discounts on the apps is great. The quesadilla with chicken upgrade was chocked full of meat and goodies. The draft beer selection is great and the Mayflower New World IPA is stellar. Rebecca is a great server and did the most important follow-up which is lost on most others. read more

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My condolences to the executive chef at this restaurant. The wings are great here I would reckon worth a visit. The rest of the food at this hole in the wall is equivalent to stopping at the doodoo station on the subway and getting off for a meal. The eye candy waitress is not bad along with the wings everything else here is best summarized as a world famous isht hole. read more

This is a great place! We often do double dates here with another couple and we order a bunch of stuff and split it (we can't ever decide on one thing!). The pulled pork mac and cheese is DELICIOUS; An absolute must have. The drinks are really good and the service is pretty consistant. We only had one off night where a waitress wasn't extremely attentive but it didn't really affect our night that much. If you're thinking about trying it out, you definitely should. read more

This review is for the banquet hall and services. Attended a wedding reception here. Extra points are added to this place specifically for working with the bride & groom and their guests when the outdoor ceremony was rained out. They mad accommodations for the ceremony to be held in the hall (though the license was for a different town, so they did indeed get married, alone, in the rain at the park. Kind of romantic, if you ask me.) But that doesn't make up for the terrible food and lackluster wait staff at this venue. Strangely located inside a children's arcade and fun center, though I suppose that could be ideal if you'd like to get your kids out of your hair while you're celebrating. Also attached to a full service (real) bar, which was at points a welcome respite. I do have to say if I were to have a wedding reception there, I'd totally want to include laser tag! read more

Red's is a nice little bar tucked inside of Nomad's Adventure Quest. Nomad's is sort of a mix of Chuck E Cheese's and Dave & Buster's. Red's is a full bar and feels semi out of place in an arcade full of blinking lights, mini golf, and laser tag. It is however a welcome and warm change of pace from the rest of Nomad's. Red's has a nice selection of drinks, has plenty of room at the bar and has a large amount of booths. The wait staff and bartender's were very friendly and accommodating. I would definitely recommend hitting up some skee ball and mini golf and then ending the night off with some Red's. read more

Their burgers are good, but if you order a "chicken tortilla soup" you would only get a cheese and beans paste, it's ironic because there is no chicken or tortilla in the soup. i don't have many options to choose because of a condition i have, so having this "chicken tortilla" soup really brought my mood down read more

Waitress was very nice. Food was suspect (burger ordered medium came out well, nachos only cooked on top middle was cold) but the kicker was my groupon. Groupon states that cannot be used for drinks (ok I don't drink) and cannon combine with other promotions. At the end of it she counted my "eat and play" as a non food item and would only apply $18.95 of my $20 groupon to my $32 bill. Gonna report to groupon as I feel some kinda refund is in order. A manager came over and while my groupon was very specific still refused to apply my full groupon. Essentially arguing with a customer over a buck. We tipped the waitress $8 as it was not her fault but the manager Samantha should really be sent to some kind of customer service and leadership training. I spoke to the General Manager the following day and she was very nice and professional. I will give them another shot. read more

This place is a mess. Terrible food, terrible employees. A pizza that had looked appetizing on the menu came out and was dry, cracked and burned. We also ordered a spinach artichoke dip that was 75% parmesan cheese out of a cheap canister. the bill was a misunderstanding, with no consideration from the server. She failed to notify us that the special we ordered would not be combined with our gift certificate. We ended up paying the full price. We will never come back here, and would advise anyone else to do the same if you want a decent meal. read more

Red's Tavern - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - South Windsor, Connecticut

Everything I've tried on the menu is delicious. I enjoy coming here and catching up with friends. It's a nice little place to go, even though it's in the middle of a game room. The drinks are good, and the joint is always clean, and staff very friendly. read more

Brenda is the best bartender. She always serves w a smile and lots style. She makes me laugh and serves fast. Phat. And no words describes her. I look forward for every Sunday we play volleyball and I get to see her between games. read more

Seriously the worst service ever! We had to flag our waitress down for every single thing. She was rude and inattentive. We received our food and didn't get silverware for 10 minutes even after asking for it twice. We had friends join us and she never took a drink order. They had to go find someone to order food. Still never saw her. She basically abandoned us and stopped waiting on us because we were going to the bar for drinks. She never once came to the table without us flagging her down. No Apologies. Not one smile. We had a party of 8 and she could have made a killing in tips. 2 bad waitresses for an entire restaurant. Sadly this was our second visit and our last as both experiences were awful. The band was really good though!! read more

Red's Tavern hides behind a facade of pub decor and standard peppy chalkboard speak of Happy Hours and (frozen) finger foods when it's really the devil in disguise. Draped in a generic smattering of slapped-on tavernesque atmosphere and beige tones, creeps an out-of-place restaurant and live music setting adjacent a wall of blaring coin-op arcade games and an otherwise oddball arrangement among a largely vacant, evil-shade crept dining room. As long as you stay away from the food, you might find something to enjoy here on a weekend. Red's is the kind of place that wants to be legit but looks as if it's trapped in a 3rd floor basement of a hotel chain. Think Dave & Busters crossed with a local pub scene, tack on tacky decor, poor fusion of concepts and a mostly limited menu selection of bland wholesale food palatable only for three-beer-in drinkers. No creativity on the menu, bad, loud country musak and a very unhelpful wait staff plagued the scene on a Wednesday night. And there's not much of a welcome mat and less a road attraction to the poser restaurant that feeds on the unfriendliness of a frosty-haired bartender slash waitstaff with a gruff demeanor of being inconvenienced if you don't sit at the bar. Upon entering, the oddball layout consists of a dimly-lit hall leading to a garishly lit room of arcade machines and on the other side, the restaurant apart of a complex called "Nomad's". Somewhat reminiscent of D&B, the copycat operation wasn't even pulling off the fun part from the road view, which was far off, down what appeared to be an industrial/office road. The only salvageable aspect of the building was the billiard room (didn't play), which, if you like a quiet place to play pool on a weekday, come fed and drink up. 7:30 on a Wednesday night and the restaurant was completely vacant. It remained as such for about an hour and some change, as we watched a trickling of bar patrons coming from whoknowswhere. We chose our seats among a sea of emptiness and bad country music which overcast conversation, compensating for a lack of patronage. Roughly eight booths and tables and nobody to fill them at primetime and we still sat down, knowing the fate of our hunger would lead us to certain disappointment. The lone waitress didn't wish for anyone to be seated in the dining area, immediately pushing the bar stools -- at 7:30 mind you. After taking a drink order, the waitress sat back down and talked to a somebody not associated with the joint before disappearing with the bartender falsely reassuring us the place might have hope by taking our orders. Drinks, a beer, water and a Sprite mostly went dry without refill a half hour before the meals came. One of my party never received another soda, the other wasn't asked if he'd like another beer. I rationed my water knowing I wasn't going to be seeing anyone for another half hour. After my buddy ordered a soup, the bartender told us it was going to be another 15 minutes, after waiting 10 on the piping-hot microwave soup. After ordering a soup and a beer (further demonstrating he wasn't ordering cheap things like myself) and the waitress disappearing without explanation, service was taken over by the bartender, who was mainly chatting at the bar, mostly ignoring our drinks, later our check which we waited about 15 more minutes post finishing to collect. We ordered very simplistic items of a likewise menu; a burger which the bartender insisted medium was OK as if the grill cook couldn't handle cooking a burger, a Hormel-grade triple-decker turkey sandwich and a heap of frozen-to-cooked-enough steak fries. The quality and care of food was abysmal, embarrassing. The meat was cooked more well than medium, the sandwich featured a less-than-Subway helping of pre-packed smoke-flavored deli meat instead of (typically sliced) diner fare. Nearing the end of the meal, a family of four were greeted roughly upon walking in to which I wanted to tell them to go back. The overall mood was cold as if the staffer was ticked off he'd have to wait or wondering why or how we found the place. He even sighed as if to burden him when asked to split the bill. Usually I won't let a bad waitstaff experience bog down a culinary experience but the experiences were married at Red Tavern. Disclaimer: Originally written by myself on Urbanspoon on Aug 23, 2012, but nobody knows that site exists anymore. read more

I have been coming here for over a year now after work and find it a very nice experience especially after a long day at work. From the moment I walk in they smile and say hi. I find the bar area can get very busy at times especially on a Thursday night and the bartenders DJ and Rebecca work great as a team. I find they are very well prepared and able to anticipate the rush by stocking the bar and keeping it clean. When the rush of people come they do their best to handle everyone's drink orders in a timely fashion. They are both very friendly to me and always smile and greet me. Many times I don't even have to ask what I would like to drink because they remember what I drink. Looking forward to another fun night at Red's Tavern. read more

The waitress kept forgetting things. The ribs were very salty and far from succulent. The rice pilaf was awful (salty and super soggy). This place needs a new chef. I will not eat there again. read more

Had a 50th birthday party in the billiards room of Red's. Service was good, food was good , hot & fresh. Atmosphere was fun. Live band in the bar area. Room was set up as requested and cleaned up for us after the party. Prices were very reasonable. read more

Waited 30 minutes at our table, no one even acknowledged our presence. I had to ask 3 people, including the bartender, to have someone come take our order. All said they would send someone right over. That never happened. We left. read more

This is the pub that sits inside Nomad's Adventure. If you're looking for this place independently, be aware you're not going to find it. Head to Nomad's and head to the back. One would assume this is Nomad's attempt to draw the adult crowd and be more like a Dave & Buster's, than a Chuck E. Cheese. Obviously sounds like a plan to me, except it's hard to drink when you setup your establishment so far away from everything. Have a DD with your party or take it light on the alcohol. That said, I was here with my wife and son, so we're not looking to do an adult themed party here for this trip anyway. Food is standard bar and grille fare. Son and I each had a burger and my wife had a sandwich and all came with fries. All very good, but nothing special. Beer selection was surprisingly wide as well. I know it's a tavern and I should expect a good selection, but it's also a tavern in the middle of video games, etc. Kudos for that. Service was slow to say the least. Waitress acknowledged it actually and said they typically don't get the traffic on Saturday early evening that they had for us. By traffic, there were probably 8 - 10 tables going and she was the only waitress on staff. So I can cut her a break, but management should put at least one other waitress on staff for a Saturday I would think. Last note: They do a good job of shielding the noise and craziness of the video games, etc. from the restaurant area. It's still somewhat loud in its own right, but you won't have Dance Dance Revolution noises blaring at you while you try to enjoy your burger. Certainly a good spot to enjoy an adult meal amid all the kid craziness. Not good enough to be a go-to place on its own though... read more

If I could give no stars I would. The worst service ever!! Bartender just stopped talking to someone trying to get a drink in our party. Waitress took forever and had to be called every time someone wanted to order something. Understaffed? Not friendly just awful. read more

Cool low key spot to meet up with friends.

So surprised how good this was. Had low expectations of it being in a kids gaming area (was thinking chuckee cheese) but it was so much better. Quiet, you can't hear all the notice adjoining the arcade area. Cobb salad was great with very fresh avocado. Others in the group had paninis and wraps- no complaints. Kids had pizza and the crust didn't look great (I like new haven style) but the kids of course loved it. Bar has a relatively short wine and beer list but... You are there with your kids so it's more than acceptable since your only having a cocktail or two max. Our server was nice and accommodating. Will be back! read more

Took our daughter for a fun 12th Birthday to Nomads Adventure and decided to go eat at Reds Tavern that is located inside Nomads, 8 of us for a table that states seat yourself. Well you can't because they are reserved or not bused. Waitress says she will clean the table.. 15 minutes, then realizing there is a soda spilt on the ground ask us to stand until she cleans it up.. 20 minutes later she shows up with a swifer,finally takes our order.. 30 minutes for drinks as all the tables around us are being served drinks and their dinner. Finally I approached the waitress and explain we have got nothing.. drink.. food.. she made some excuse they were busy. (3 other tables with 4 other wait staff) we went to the bar and got out drinks. Food finally came a dish at a time with 15 minutes in between each dish. I asked got a manager that also took 20 minutes and we refused any food that was already placed on the table and what we were waiting for. He did pay for our meal that we never received and offered coupons to come back. I refused coupons and paid for the drinks we did have. Wow.. Long story.. Eat before you go to Nomads read more

Came today for drinks, food, and football. The food and drinks were fine. The 1 star is for the rudest most obnoxious bartender I've ever seen. We were at a table so we didn't interact with him but watching the way he treated some of the customers at the bar was disgusting. If we were at the bar we would have walked out without paying. read more

Found the place by accident, bar manager needs to take customer service lessons. My wife thought her drink was watery, asked for a splash more of liquor, the bar manager took a sip said it was fine, if we wanted more alcohol in her drink we would have to buy a shot for $5. Asked for a new drink because the manager drank some and were told we drank half of it and would have to pay for a new drink...my burger came out over cooked, forgot the fries, my wife's meal came on 10 minutes later and was cold. Ordered water never got it. Oh and did I mention they were out of 4 different beers... read more

I came into Reds Tavern on Thursday night with a group of my friends. Heather was our waitress and she was so friendly and accommodating! She was able to get our drinks out fast even though the restaurant was full and very busy. She apologized when we had a problem with our food and had it fixed right away. Once the issue was fixed the food was great and it was a very nice change from the rude waitress we had experienced at the tavern in the past. Will definitley be back again! read more

Went here a week or two back with some friends. Had read some reviews and saw mixed things Alot of negatives from a long time ago so I decided to check it out. Ordered a burger was very delicious, had good variety of other burgers I'd like to try. Friends ordered a Pannini and a sandwich both said they were surprised. Server could use a little more pep in thier step but other than that was very pleased with first experience here and would come back again! read more

Loved the ambiance and the live music. The old hat band played many of my favorite country songs. The food was good but I found the service a bit slow. Loved the arcade. It had lots of games for my little one and me also. read more

November 2017 has had the most disappointing service. There are 2 or 3 waitresses and we have been coming once a week for almost 4 years. We have waited about 20-30 minutes just for someone to come over and ask for our drink order. Forget it if you want to order food. What a disaster. The folks in the kitchen get the food out fast, but there is no hope in terms of ordering. You literally have to flag a waitress down, otherwise they stand at the cash register or walk around aimlessly like a chicken with their head cut off. We love coming for weekly dinners before our sports games, and now it has gotten drastically worse. I could go to the grocery store, make dinner, and eat quicker than I could even place my order at this place. Alternatively, you can try and order from the bar. HAHA. We have known the SAME TWO bartenders, and they will spitefully avoid eye contact (especially DJ) while you stand at the bar holding a 20 in your hand. It's horrible. And then once you DO manage to order, they give you the WRONG KIND OF BEER. There are only TWO options, so it's a 50/50 shot. Pretty sad. I wouldn't be surprised if, based on their service, the dodgeball, and corn hole leagues stopped providing their business here. The manager honestly needs to do something, because at this point no one that works there cares about the business, profit, or even making a tip. Very, very upsetting because this is how restaurants go under. If you can't serve the people sitting here and they can write a Yelp review this long before you get someones order, there is a clear issue. Hope it changes. PS: I would give this 0 stars but the food is okay and yelp would not let me leave zero... read more

No one ever visit here the last serve I had here was horrible !!!!! A waitress literally followed me out to ask me bout a tip I was in shock tht a worker would follow me out n asking something like this n even question a person to me u get ur tip base on ur serve ! Still in shock nothing will ever get me to give them or nomads money again n believe me this is true if u go here please make sure u tip according don't go off there serve or they will follow u out ! Only go when Jeff the bar tending is working he's a great person n really knows how to service people the right way read more

Laser tag was fun although parties have priority and after starting a game with two dozen people we were forced to leave only two minutes into the game so that the party could play their game and we would have to wait another 45 minutes to play after having waited an hour to play already. After games and laser tag we went to reds tavern for dinner. There was six of us. After being seated nicely we waited over 15 minutes to get our food order in, mind you there was nobody else in the restaurant. After ordering food and some beer it took five minutes to get the beer alone. There was no refill service on waters until about 20 minutes of waiting. After an hour we finally got our food. Four out of six of us got our food at the same time. We never received our salad and had to wait ten more minutes for a panini after the four entrees came out. Half the food was cold and half the food was warm. One order was a completely wrong order and not what we ordered at all. Waitress never checked on us to see how everything was until the panini came out and we had to remind her about a salad that never showed. She said it would be right out and it never came. We refused to pay for anything at all as everything was all over the place. Between service and food I'd have to give it less than 1 star. Games and activities are fun. I'd stay away from the restaurant unless planning on just getting a drink at the bar. It was a shame that such a nice looking place couldn't provide a perfect ending to our perfectly fun day. The only plus side was that they comped our entire bill and the manager apologized for everything and said that they were short staffed. No excuse considering we were 1 of 3 tables in the whole restaurant. PLEASE WORK ON YOUR SERVICE! read more

I came in Sunday 10-25 about 3:30/4 ish. My husband and I were waiting for my children to finish laser tag so we got a drink. While we were seated at a high top this one waitress had a group of guys in the corner. She was rude to them and was very snotty towards them. She seemed to have that attitude towards customers and staff alike. Over heard her being very rude to the other waitress, who I later learned was named Sam. I was tempted not to go back and eat after laser tag but my kids were hungry so we did. The rude waitress was gone and Sam waited on us. She was very nice, bubbly and made me glad I came to eat. But once we left we saw a group of guys that were in the tavern outside blaring music and drinking what I can only assume their own cans of beer. It was highly inappropriate. I will only return if Sam is my waitress and there are no displays of such in the parking lot. Giving a 2 because the food was ok. read more

Walked in 2/8/16, SuperBowl Sunday, First time there, thought the place was beautiful. Was really very thirsty and the place was far from busy and pretty sure 4 or 5 waitresses acknowledged us walking in, after about 15 minutes of sitting there while one waitress played at the cash register the whole time, don't know what the other waitresses were doing. I walked up to the bar and asked if we could order drink, she said oh, are you sitting at a table. REALLY???? We were sitting at a table in front of the bar. She said she would send someone over. So after waiting another 5 or 10 minutes we walked out! All kinds of waitresses, very little customers, now I see why, I guess it was for the best because we were going to eat, sounds like the food sucks too, the waitresses did us a favor, we went and ate somewhere else, it is really too bad because the place was very nice, however I will never go back! read more