Caroline S.
Yelp
This place was a lot of fun and made for an inexpensive date night. We arrived on Friday night right about as they opened and found street parking nearby (only had to pay until 6pm). We were surprised to see most of the people made a beeline for the back where they had a Square kiosk set up on a table to take food orders, so we had to check it out.
Food was incredible. We were surprised to find vegan tacos and burritos - they have their own spot "Venganza Foods" and my husband (who loves meat) even said the tacos were incredible. We tried carnitas and pollo. We played games for a couple hours and there were people coming to pick up food orders nonstop, and it's for good reason. I would come back here just for the food. Menu here: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/venganza-foods-downtown-oakland
Next we went to get drinks. It was happy hour so everything was pretty cheap at around $6. I had the best cider of my life "Alvarado Street Hotel Pasteque", as the bartender described, more of a cocktail than a cider. It had a great watermelon flavor, a hint of tartness from cherry, not too sweet, and almost no beer taste (I'm not a beer fan). They also have two boozy slushies. They weren't ready when we arrived but we tried "Yoshi's island" later in the evening. Strong and good flavor. The bartender was very nice and helpful with recommendations, even letting me sample the cider.
Games were a lot of fun. Each game takes tokens (almost all 1 to 2 tokens per game). Tokens cost 25 cents each. They have a machine to exchange paper bills. Two of the games ate one of my tokens, but games were cheap so it wasn't a big deal. They didn't have all the games we saw advertised, but we had fun playing games like Pac-Man, Mario Bros, a sit down racing game and Indiana Jones pinball. As the night went on, music got louder and more people arrived, but it never got too crowded and we didn't have to wait more than a couple minutes for a game.