Eastlake Zoo Tavern

Decades ago, I used to come here more regularly, and it's still the same ol' Zoo. It warms my heart to see a new generation of young people wasting their time together on a Thursday evening.

I'm white, my girlfriend's black, they wouldn't serve her but I got beers right away. Hate to think it's a thing, but fill in the blanks for yourself

Dive Bar at it's best. Interesting collection of patrons so be warned but go with it. Cash Only Bar and the beer prices for drafts seemed to be all over the place. The décor is classic dive bar with weird and fun showing it. Skip the shuffleboard as it's at the end of it's life. Biggest surprises were the Dart and a true billiard table. Pool tables and Pinball machines are reasonably priced.

Zoo Tavern is like a dive bar meets an old school arcade. All cash. Coin operated pool, ping pong, skeeball, shuffle board, darts, and a couple video games. Grab a Rainier and enjoy the night playing games with friends! Service is more than passable (hey, it's a dive bar after all).

The vibes here were so strange, I felt completely out of place. My friends and I played a round of pool and then left. We didn't even bother to get drinks or food like we had planned to. The music was strange and they had a modern day juke box system so we played some music and I guess the other guest didn't care for our music choices, ha. This is a cool place if you enjoy darts and playing pool and just standing away being very low key. I would not recommended and will not return.

Saw this place passing by a few times and finally gave it a try. Sure wish I hadn't. The bartender was being overly flirty in a very creepy way where it was clear he was just doing it for tips. Somehow, he also managed to be very rude as well and when I asked him for a shot and responded very shortly and with a lot of attitude "we only have beer and wine" (which by the way, was not posted anywhere!!). We ended up getting a pitcher of beer and he was very weird about giving us our change and snapped at us "well we work for tips you know" (our change was $3 and we were going to give him a $5 bill instead of the 3 ones, but that attitude made us not want to tip at all!!). I'm not quick to write poor reviews of a place, but I left the place feeling gross. The atmosphere and service were terrible and I will not be returning.

We were here day ago with our friend. We've liked this place. And actually it's hard to find spots with foosball. But this place has it and also has 3 pool tables and 1 table tennis. Lot of fun games with good and cheap beer. They do not accept any cards, only cash. So minus one star from us.

A classic dive bar at Eastlake. Visiting on a Monday, it had a few pockets of people hanging out, and service at the bar was prompt and friendly. There are arcade games, some skee ball, and shuffleboard available to play. Had a lovely time stopping by for an hour or two.

I came here last night with my boyfriend looking for a chill place to hang and vibe after work around 11pm. When we entered the place, immediately the vibes felt off. There was a crowd of people hanging at the bar talking to the bar tender who also did not bother to acknowledge us when we came in. We walked around a bit and looked at the pool tables and skeeball they had available. Then when we went to go back up to the bar to see if they had food because their website clearly states that they serve food, we were met with being ignored at first and then talked down very rudely by the kid behind the bar serving drinks. Dude was super rude when we asked if they had food when we only asked twice. To be fair we couldn't hear anything over the loud music playing and people yelling. He also appeared to be on something much harder than alcohol. I'm no drug expert but honestly I've seen a lot in my day and I'm willing to bet he was on meth or speed. He had a crazed look in his eye and seemed pissed off and angry about everything. Needless to say we felt really weird and uncomfortable and left very quickly after that without ordering anything. To be fair, I really think they gotta change the owners, management and staff! They clearly need a lesson in customer service because this was not it!!!!!!

If I could give zero stars I absolutely would based off this experience. Came in and got a drink, ended up sitting up above because all the the pool tables were in use so we're waiting turn as soon as we noticed one was opened up for 5+ minutes we went to table set up and everything and immediately was confronted by an employee claiming to be the owner and he flashed his stomach tattoos and said that we couldn't play because he was hosting a tournament and we already paid the $1 fee so we asked for our dollar back and stated that there shouldve been more signage of this tournament. we then went back up to the deck and finished drinks and noticed a unattended table was open and patiently waited for someone in the tournament to come up and no one did so we went down and politely asked if we could play and once again was told that we couldn't have the table. Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous behavior on an "owner"/employee behalf. They should've left one of three tables open for customers and might I add paying customer. So don't waste time going there unless you want to get treated like scum from the staff.