Dave & Buster's San Diego

Here is a case of great place to be but it seems to not want you there. Had a recent group event here. Getting tables was easy, we had about 20+ people in seperate groups for my daughter's football team binding event. 1 server assigned to 20+ people is bad to start. Server refused to take full orders from each group and insisted to do drunks then appetizers then food orders with each one done only after the previous was delivered and he got alot wrong. 30 minutes in amd he was just delivering waters amd drinks and since its 1 guy most were wrong. Finally after 45 minutes while he was trying to only take appetizer orders I demanded he take my full order of app and dinner order due to the rate that he was going no one would eat for an hour and we can leave the table or kiss our chance to order. By the time everyone's food came most of us were very fed up and would have left if not for the kids. No one i talked to seemed to have any idea about anything about the whole place except the current task they were doing. On the food. Its nearly all prepackaged and precooked food. Little flavor and not worth the price tag associated with it. Better food at chillis for less cost. They did turn beer into a fun idea of an all you can drink card. Get a cool card and fill your cup at any of like 20 draft options. Super cool if your into beer. The games, the real draw of the place. Some really fun games. Some are broken seemingly regularly but most are really fun. They are only worth the price on half price days. They are fun but their price structure will have you burning through $50 in less than 30 minutes. Parking is excellent and ease of access is pretty great. I would go to let kids run around but the bad service, poor food quality, I really wouldn't want to be there myself.

Service here is rough. Second time in a month and both times, hard to get a cleaned table, and to even be acknowledged. Time to receive drinks then food took quite a while. The staff is very nice and maybe those time standards are just fine for a place that can be so busy?? It's fine though. Definitely get the Costco gift cards to help offset the cost per game

I remember this place from many years ago. A combination bar and arcade. Very little has changed. Food is fine. Staff are well trained. Still very noisy and crowded. Big parking lot. Prices are expensive.

Recent remodel project is complete. New carpet, paint, even the bathrooms got some love. Fun bartenders! Good drinks, good food... entertaining games... very loud... if that bothers you, don't go. Thanks for the preview night D&B!

This is truly The Worst time coming to Dave and Buster's. So, we made a reservation for our party of 15, my grandson's 9th Birthday party. We do Dave and Buster's twice a year for birthdays. Well Sunday 2/15/2026 2:30pm we she up to set up the tables and we're told by manager Chelsea that 75% of our party have to be here to be seated. I told Chelsea that we want to order our food and plus the lids are hungry. Well, Chelsea stuck to her story, talking about it's policy ( a straight LIE) We were here last in August. I should've known better from the last incident when we were here ( the waitress just takes it upon herself to add her tip onto some of our guests bill, including mines.) So, I had to get a manager because I was so 😤😠🤬😳. I just did not have words.