Big Room Events

A new favorite spot.
Great menu options. I appreciated the simplicity, because sometimes you don’t need a five star concoction that comes with a five star price. Sometimes you just need 2 – 3 pancakes and some bacon.
Great service during a busy time with the Big Room hosting a show.
We will definitely be coming back for brunch and happy hours.

Big Room Bar. Big fan.
We made an attempt to go a few weeks ago, reading somewhere it opened at 9. Grrrr. They don’t open till 11. Worth the few week wait to arrive when they actually open. I looked everywhere for a menu online to no avail so I had no idea what to expect. Turns out that was part of the charm for me.
The menu didn’t disappoint. Very eclectic choices but also a couple options for the less adventurous. I was torn between about 5 things on the menu so I will certainly be back.
I went with the Hash Pipe which is pot roast served with 2 eggs any style and toast. HUGE amount of Pot Roast. No complaints, I have lunch tomorrow.
My friend had the breakfast sandwich and a pancake. The pancake he so graciously allowed us to taste was awesome. He had no complaints about the sandwich.
Great, relaxed service and a fun, unexpected atmosphere. Hey, it’s a radio station! And they serve FOOD! And DRINKS!

The coolest radio station in Ohio opened up a bar. I mean, that’s all you really need to know right there. The beer selection is great, the staff is super cool. These people are big time music nerds, without being pretentious wieners. The food is solid, but don’t take the five star rating to mean that this is Refectory, or something. It’s pub grub. If you want a fancy dinner, you have three upscale joints in German Village. This is where you go to knock back a few pints, catch a live band, or both.

Stopped by last weekend for a David Bowie Tribute show. The place is easy to find and more importantly, it’s easy to find somewhere to park your car. The staff is friendly, it’s a pretty laid back atmosphere. They have a lot of beer on tap and a full bar and they’ll make you whatever you’d like. As a venue, it’s a great, intimate space and the acoustics were pretty solid. Haven’t tried the food, but will be back to do so.

We had a good, but not great, experience at brunch on Sunday. We have a young daughter and some friends have a young son, and we took them to see the Shazzbots brunch show. The show was a lot of fun for kids and adults alike, and we had a very good time as a result.
The food and service were acceptable, but not particularly good. While everything sounded great on the menu, the food that was brought to us was really just kind of average diner food. I had some pancakes. They were acceptable, but not especially good. Everyone else’s breakfast sandwiches looked kind of mediocre. The potatoes were really greasy, but the sausage was dry. It was fine, nothing too bad, but it wasn’t all that good either.
Our server was very nice, but everything was slow as hell. She apologized that they were short staffed, so that doesn’t help with the speed, and the table of about 20 behind us who all were on separate checks slowed down the works too. Our food took forever to come out. It was fine because we were enjoying the show, but it wasn’t ideal.
The beer list is solid. Lots of choices on draft and in bottles, and many local favorites. I’m told the bloody Marys were very good. But the bar was out of glassware and was refilling people’s pint glasses, which is a no-​no, and they didn’t have enough glasses to give you a glass with bottled beer. That’s pretty bad planning.
I’d go back if there were another good show (certainly for the Shazzbots, who were very good) and I wouldn’t try to dissuade anyone from going, but I don’t think I’d make a special trip back for the food or drink. There are better options out there.

Waltzed on in New Year’s Eve and were the only customers for a bit! There was an event starting at ⁸⁄₈₃₀ with a live band so I will attribute the light traffic to that. The place gradually came alive while we were there but still no huge crowd towards the end of our meal. Hoping they had a successful night because we wish only the best for this place!
Anywho, the service was on point! And it would be sad if it was anything less I suppose since they weren’t busy. Still, very friendly and patient staff! They gladly offered to pour me a beer sample-​which is always nice since I have a tough time deciding. I highly recommend the Rhinegeist they have on tap!
The BF and I split the happy hour app– Panic! At the Disco fries (poutine). I haven’t had a whole lot of experience with poutine yet but it was good! And only $ 5 for HH. My boyfriend’s burger was good-​cooked and seasoned well. He also said that his side salad’s bourbon dressing could get you drunk! But he said it was still quite tasty. My bacon egg and cheese sandwich was good, but maybe nothing to write home about. The bacon could have been more crispy for my taste. Still, decent! The roasted veggies that I got on the side were kinda not so good :(. It seemed the spices on them were a bit scorched, giving it a bitter taste.
Overall, very friendly little place and I will be back to try more/​different food. I would LOVE to come back for brunch and hear some live music as our lack in planning ahead had us missing out on that on this visit.

We came on a Saturday morning. Not busy. One server/​bartender who was definitely distracted with other tasks, service actually got better as more people showed up since she was on the floor more at that point. If I had any complaints it would be that incredibly minor point. The menu is diverse and creative and the kitchen delivers high quality, well portioned grub. Not your typical bar food. Reminded me of The Crest. We had the pierogies which we were concerned were overpriced at $ 10 for 4 but once we tasted, felt were totally worth it. My husband had the archers of loaf. The bacon meatloaf was delicious and the meal itself was huge, he had plenty of leftovers. I had the big room burger made with a veggie patty and roasted carrots and leeks on the side. Again, fantastic quality and delicious. Hubby had a Bloody Mary which he thought was a little spicy but he’s not crazy for spice. Overall we will be back! Good job guys!

This place has the best brunch menu I’ve seen since ’93. The French Toast was piled with great toppings, and the biscuits and gravy had me wanting lots more. Yum.

LOVED this place. Came here bright and early (well, as early as a couple hungover assholes can manage) on a Sunday morning to check out what the fuss was about. Because, duh, it’s called the «Big Room Bar,» it is obviously a very large room set up with chairs, tables, booths, multiple bars, and a set-​up for rock bands. And this Sunday morning was a very nice surprise — a local kiddie rock act that was hilarious and drew in a ton of kids, which made me feel a little guilty about having some more of the hair of the dog that bit me. But they seemed too interested in other things than to mind a couple smelly hipsters. Food was fantastic — just outside of your typical brunch fare to be actually surprising. The brunch menu is chock-​full of rock-​pun-​filled items, like Widespread Pancakes, the Green Day omelet, and the baffling Stranger in the Alps, which is a sweet-​and-​savory omelet filled with one kind of potatoes with a side of a different kind of potatoes. What a great place. If I lived in town there would be a good chance that I would eat here every other day.

This is a fun place to hang out for brunch! Our eggs came with a side of hilarious contemporary live jams from local calypso band Apocalypso and a chill atmosphere. Overall, Big Room Bar offers something a little different from your usual brunch haunts.
Food was good — I wouldn’t put it above more culinary-​focused spots in town, but it was better than I was expecting from a radio station. Most of the dishes seem to be the same elements rearranged in different ways, but you’ll get your standard variety of egg creations or pancake platter. I forget the name of my particular composition, but it included an alpine-​inspired omelette and side of rosti. The rosti was pretty much your standard hash browns, but good. I liked the caramelized apple-​onion in my omelette… all around more creative than one would expect in this setting.
Service was a tad inattentive, though friendly. I wasn’t in a hurry.
Saw quite a few families with kids, sort of seemed like a fun environment for them with the live music.
It’s a good spot to bring out-​of-​towners for something unique to Columbus. I heard a rumor that they also have a late-​night-​bite menu.

Finally, Unilocal!I’ve been raring to get here since they announced the opening. Got seats at the bar during the last quarter of the OSU game, picked from the hefty draft beer list, and settled in. They have make your own Falter’s hot dogs, grilled cheese and French fries, a la Happy Dog or Condado. I loved mine: hot dog with red onions, carrot slaw, and stoneground mustard paired with fries slathered in ketchup and awesome wasabi mayonnaise. Get the wasabi mayo.
The crowd here were not necessarily neighborhood (we hung in with a guy who lives a few blocks from us in Beechwold), but they and the staff were super friendly and of course, the music was choice.
Can’t wait to make this another other bar away from home.

Love this place. We’ve been here 5 times since the opening. Not only is the bar awesome, bartenders super friendly & fun but they also have amazing food ! Brunch, late nite menu etc all in the CD102.5 building. Highly recommend for a fun night (or day) out