Moni’s Place

My friends and I thought that this would be a great place to play pool, we were wrong. A couple seconds after we entered the front door, there was a loud whining which came from a fat man. Apparently there was a problem with our skin color, as he was pointing to us in a indignant fashion. We are assuming that he worked there, but if not, the damage has been done. This occurred as soon as we entered, and there’s no doubt about it, everyone was staring and didn’t say anything to resolve the situation or do the right thing. There’s no way that we would tolerate this behavior from an employee or a patron without a manager stepping out. so we left. And no one wanted to spend $ 10 each to play pool.

I will post as 5 stars for now. I have yet to play pool but it seems like a legit place. Only the future will tell.

I haven’t had a bad experience here and I’ve been a few times. Me and my boyfriend like to go here on chill date nights to grab a couple drinks and play pool. We’re a fan of the mixed crowd of people that come by. Chill atmosphere.

I first heard of Monis from someone that I play pool with, When I found out that they had free pool on Sundays I not only became a regular, but I told multiple people about it and we would meet up there as a group. The menu is nothing to write home about but I still ordered food to support the establishment until I realized the same person that would come out to play pool with me on occasion was the same person that prepared the food and this person never seemed to wash his hands in between the transition. Still, I liked the people that were there so I bought drinks and never wrote a review because I didn’t want to discourage anyone from attending… Until now! What changed? A lot… Since Jack Frost has hit, I haven’t been ordering drinks right away. My routine has become to go into the spot, warm up and figure out what I want to drink and after about40 minutes or so, I order my first drink and usually 1 to 2 more drinks as the night goes on. I usually try to spend between $ 20 — $ 30 including tip. I mention this because it’s a $ 10 limit to play pool for free. This past Sunday I went in there with my same routine… I put a few dollars into the jukebox, called next on the pool table and waited for my turn to play pool. They had a new person preparing food so I wanted to watch and see what the sanitary procedures were for preparing food. After I saw this person using their cell phone, mopping the floor and then preparing food without ever turning on the sink to wash their hands, I decided I was going to stick with the drinks. About 20 minutes into playing pool, about 10 young guys and a couple women walked into the place with pool sticks. I was waiting for them to ask to shoot with us and eventually they did. We decided to play doubles… we were about to rack the balls and the bartender walked up to me and said to me and my friends that we had to leave. Lol… I thought he was joking so I kind of laughed it off but he was serious. I asked him why and he said we had to spend money to play pool. I shrugged it off and said «I always buy drinks when I am here… you know me, I come here almost on a weekly basis and have always spent money in the past. I just got here about 30 minutes ago and was going to buy drinks after I warmed up… You want me to buy something, come on… I will buy something.» His reply was it was too late and we had to leave. One of my friends showed him that he had a drink and even could have showed him a receipt where he bought several beers. That got him off the hook… The guy then went over to another table and pushed all the balls in the pocket and said you have to leave prior to ever accusing the patrons of anything. This table had two elderly people playing. Pops which is about 70 year old man pleaded with the guy and said he bought chicken wings and a coke from the lady bartender… A gentleman that witnessed it agreed that Pops bought food earlier. The bouncer/​bartender said that he has been there for 4 hours and hasn’t seen any of us order anything and we have to leave. Pops and his friend tried to plead their case and the bartender had some very rude responses and ultimately told him to plead his case from outside the place. Again, I walked up to the bartender and told him that what he was doing was bad business. He should come up to us and tell us the protocol for the establishment and tell us that we need to order something in order to continue to play pool. His response was we have been here before and should know that already. The good side of this was we had plenty of patrons that vouched for us and agreed that we spend money there. The bad side is I will never go to this place again.