If I could describe this pool hall in a few simple words, it's like the annoying little brother of Clicks Billiards. And while reviews remained all over the place amongst fellow Yelpers, I wanted to give PBF the benefit of the doubt since it's so much closer to my house than the aforementioned Clicks. Sadly, they barely hold a candle to their much more superior competition. Walking in, the place looked normal enough....at first. It was 10 seconds later when it occurred to us; with the bar ostensibly flooded with patrons and thereby unapproachable by any feasible angle, this meant obtaining a pool table as if we were in a sit down restaurant like a couple of goobers. As we're literally escorted to a table restaurant style, it ends up being the one furthest toward the back, closest to the ear piercing speakers blaring a Mexican themed marathon of tracks. That's right. Evidently, some patrons must've reserved a library's worth of tracks on the TouchTunes jukebox. Since I was only able to hijack the CLEARLY myopic barrage of songs with only one of my own, I opted for my own tunes via Bluetooth headset that evening (as I usually do whenever the in-house music sucks balls).The payment procedures of this place are really bizarre. Instead of taking your tab via ID and credit card as with most other places, they apparently charge it to whatever table you're at, periodically checking up on you for more refills on their very limited wine selection (more on that later), then closing you out at the very end whenever you say so. My question is: how did they know I wouldn't have made a break for it out the side door that we were playing next to? Not sayin' I would actually DO that...but, I'm just sayin'.One tall tale sign that their wine selection sucks is when I have to request "the red one". Basically, they only had one type of red wine, which also happens to be a sparkling wine evidently. But it was dry, so I stayed long enough to two drinks. Plus, I was less than amused to discover the attending server had ZERO clue what brands of wine they stocked. What a shame.Sometimes I talk about how, when visiting certain places, you can't help but compare them to your "first love". Mine is Clicks on Airway. So, I would hope another pool hall closer to my house would at least have SOME of the features we enjoy there. Alas, PBF is just a mediocre carbon copy of other much better done pool bars. The place feels cramp thanks to their strange arrangement of the pool tables, the servers seem distracted and clueless, and the wine selection is painfully limited. Next time, we'll gladly take the 9 mile hike over to Airway. PBF gets 2 ginormous loudspeakers blasting a Mexican marathon of tunes all night out of 5.
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