Jacob L.
Yelp
We visited Dave and Busters for a LA Comic Con event. While we enjoyed the event itself (tournaments and trivia), D&B itself was a bit middling.
The event came with a "buffet" of pizza, boneless wings, fries and bagel dogs as well as unlimited soda.
While this was sort of true, it wasn't what I would have expected.
First off, the buffet was infrequently refilled and much of the time, the food treys were mostly empty or cold and there were no clean plates (so the little food that was left could not be taken as there were no plates available.
Second, the pizza didn't exactly look like the flatbread pizza shown on the website. Not sure if this is intentional to mislead you but the pizza was pretty awful.
Third, the all you can drink soda was served in those tall beer dispensers that you'd normally order for you table. There wasn't a self-serve soda fountain and the sodas were refilled (infrequently) by staff dumping pitchers into the dispensers which all had open tops. Ok if it's at your table for just your small group, kind of gross when you have like a hundred people using it. Moreover, the were only 4 options for sodas and none were really labeled and none were diet. It my bad for assuming an all you can drink soda delay would have a self serve fountain or at the least the option to request a specific drink (cause you know they have more than 4 options, not sure why they didn't make them all available). If there was an option to request a specific drink from a server (as part of the buffet), they purposely did not advertise that. They instead tried to push customers to buy alcoholic drinks and shots.
If there's another event here, we'll probably attend it again but we will eat before hand or at the least not fall for the "good buffet deal" as the regulars $30 meal deal had better food (the smash burger other people had looked pretty good). The buffet food was pretty nasty TBH--the frozen food aisle at the super market has the same or better quality. In short, the buffet just felt like a rip off despite it being advertised as a good deal (it wasn't).
Aside from that, the venue seemed relatively clean and most of the games were in working order. No validation for some of the parking time is also lame. All in all, D&B is not my first choice for arcade and drinks (I prefer Round 1) so I realistically cannot see myself coming back unless i have no other choice.