Dave & Buster’s Santa Rosa

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Description

Family-friendly chain offering a sports-bar-style setting for American food & arcade games.

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600 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa, CA 95401, USA
3.9
128 reviews
  • North Bay

    Cool games and Tasty food. The drinks here are good. Stayed for a few hours. Lost track of time due to FUN

  • Barbara Pagan (MONICH)

    Service was excellent very please with server Spencer and in training staff. I would recommend to order the chicken and burger on the kids menus since will also include an $10 game card. The drink where really good , for adults plates are big so we select this place as a birthday stop for a kid and it was a great experience over all for a kids birthday

  • My28Emails at Gmail dot com

    Really good overall experience. The restaurant check-in being at the front door was my initial impression. It took about 10 minutes of standing there to get a table, no biggie!!!! However the plethora of cigarette and weed smoke coming in from outside made it kinda awful. We got the $40 eat and play combo. Great deal. While eating, the bus boy cleaning the tables behind us was spraying what smelled like windex on the tables which was nauseating. Oops! Service excellent! Truffle fries cold and soggy, shrimp crispy, fried cheese delicious. I forgive them, they’re new. Games were fun. Dinner for 2 and 200 “chips” for playing games was $97 so it wasn’t too bad at all.

  • Chloe Todd

    In short: This is a great place to have a date night or bring your family, but don’t hang your hat on prizes (which was the biggest bummer for me!). The games are varied and cost between 7-12 credits, so anticipate spending at least $20 per person for a card. There are a variety of games and I can confidently say you can find a game for anyone, even younger kids. It is a lot of fun and a great way to spend a few hours (more if you eat before you play).

    * Parking:
    Super easy and convenient since you can use the free mall parking garage. Utilize the structure by beer barrel (aka not the one facing Macy’s). The entrance is outside and faces the parking garage, you do not need to go through the mall to enter.

    * Arrival/credits:
    When we arrived it was expectedly crowded for 8pm on a Friday night. The biggest pain was the bottleneck at the door to purchase credits. They only have 3 kiosks and while you can purchase multiple cards for a group at once, the wait was still about 10 minutes to buy our cards. I hope they add either more kiosks or create a way to buy them online and use your phone like tap-to-play with a play card. If they already have something like that, it wasn’t well advertised.

    We spent about $150 for 750 credits split between two cards, which are required to play any games — the kiosks dispense them at purchase if you are arriving, but there are stations around the arcade section to check credits, add more, and check ticket balances.

    * Gameplay:
    ~375/person was a nice amount because we stayed for about two hours and I played almost every game I wanted to, while not being bummed that I ran out or spent too quickly.

    There is a great mix of multi player game that dispense no tickets, competitive multiplayer games that reward all players with tickets, and single player games with a potential large jackpot. Most of the multiplayer games that dispense no tickets are shooter games, and they have two car racing games that were functioning when I was there. The ticket-dispensing multiplayer games were mostly sports related.

    Quite a few cool games like bowling were broken, and other popular competitive games were very crowded, which we expected for opening weekend. We had no problems finding other fun games while those were occupied, and after one or two laps around to other games those opened up for us to play. Broken games were easy to identify because they had a red ring outline on the electronic payment screen.

    We have about 300 credits left over that we plan to use later when hopefully the other games are ready.

    * Prize review:
    I would expect not to be able to get any cool prizes, as even candy is minimum 150 tickets for little candies, and 500 tickets for a baby bottle pop or nerds rope. Of course the more affordable prizes (aka more reasonable for the type of prize) are the Dave & Busters themed prizes.

    I won a jackpot of about 1000 tickets and played a mix of ticket-winning and co-op games, and I only had about 1600 tickets by the end of the night. All of the cute kitschy items were 5000+. Even mini-brands surprise balls were 4,000!

    Photos of some popular games with their credit prices attached, as well as one prize wall and the grand prizes with ticket costs.

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