The Ref Sports Bar

Missy made experience great. She was attentive and helpful. I will come back with my coworkers to enjoy service

There are plenty of TVs to watch your game or the fights! Special order a pizza with cilantro lime sauce and you’ll be pleasantly amazed! My favorite watering hole in the Valley… and Missy is my favorite bartender here, she’ll make sure you’re taken care of! The boys tend to wait on you only if you’re a young lady…

Thank you Sullivan for the excellent hospitality and delicious beverages. We will definitely sit at the bar again next time. Ed

Burnt appetizer, brought out with food. Beer glasses picked up without an offer of refill. When asked for a manager, bartender said «I got your check, you can go.» First visit here and will never walk through through the door. Don’t waste your time.

Biggest reason I will never eat here again is because of all the obnixious, insufferable Seahawk fans… that alone has warranted my one star rating. Not everyone in WA likes the Seaturds and wants to have the team shoved down their throats as they walk in. Besides that it’s a decent sports bar as far as the set up and the TVs. Food is meh and servers think they are too cool for school. Maybe I’ll come back when it’s not football season smh

I never write reviews but on a Seahawk Sunday, we ordered our food during 2^nd quarter. There’s 2 min left in the game and we still haven’t gotten our food. Worst sports bar EVER!

They are a good place to watch a game (assuming your game is being shown) because they have huge screens and generally other fans to cheer with. The food is only average. As said before, the service is pretty slow. I am not sure why it is so slow, but it seems consistently as such. Also, they are not very good about clearing their lot in the winter. The last time we went, it was a solid sheet of ice to get into the front door. It just seems like a bad business practice. You want your customers to get into the door…

The tv situation is great. We had a visual of our game on a huge projector screen, but the service was terrible. We were ignored for ten minutes. Drinks took forever to get. My friend had to walk to the bar to get his beer that was forgotten. I had to track our waitress down to ask if she was still serving us. All of our glasses were empty. When she did finally get around to refills she rolled her eyes at my wife. It’s not busy here. The seahawks aren’t playing. I’m very dissatisfied with this place. There’s plenty of happy servers who enjoy their job. I doubt we’ll be back. Buffalo Wild wings always delivers great service.

My friend and I came here to watch the first Seahawks game of the season. We sat down in front of the big tv at the front of the bar, ordered food and waited. The game was about to start so we asked the waitress if the Hawks game would be on that tv. She said no so we asked to be moved in front of a tv showing the game. We sit at our new table and guess what… the packers game is being shown on that tv! We asked them to change the channel but they refused. We ended up having to move to a tiny table at the very back of the bar to see the Seahawks game on a tiny screen while all the better seats in the bar were broadcasting random games. None of the Hawks fans in the bar were pleased that they have to watch the game on the smallest screen while the bigger screens are taken up by the two packer fans in the whole bar. In the state of Washington there is no reason why I and a bunch of other Hawks fans should have to move seats 3 times to see the hawks game. Absolutely absurd. The food wasn’t great either, I will watch the game in a more hawks friendly environment from now on!

Good dive bar in the Valley.
Come in on a weekday afternoon, there’s nobody there and you get quick service.
Happy Hour from 2 – 6 weekdays and daily food and drink specials each day
Don’t expect anything special, this is a dive bar with a ton of TVs and a bunch of seating. Some pool tables. Some outdoor seating too

This place is sad. It’s hard to find a place to go late at night on a Monday or Tuesday. However this place was open so we thought we’d give it a go. Poor choice. The bartender didn’t understand the concept of a Malibu cran, and pre-​tasted my friends drink before handing it out. So gross and unprofessional. Needless to say we won’t be back.

Service was good but didn’t make up for the food. It was a slow night and everything came out overdone and burnt. Stop by BK, DQ, or 5Guys if you want a better burger. At least the beer was cold and delivered quickly. Won’t be back though.

Don’t try calling them for anything… they NEVER… EVER pick up the phone. But you can always find the employees on their cell phones when you are there and need something.

The food is delicious, the service is a little slow but we always come back because the wings are really good.

Looks really fun inside but took over 1 hour for our food. Waitress never even asked how we were doing. We dined on a Saturday at 3 pm… typically a slow time for restaurants. My husband and cousin’s food were extremely burnt. It’s hard to complain when they never even come check on you. We should have read the reviews before we dined here. BEWARE!

Terrible food! Burnt cold nachos and bagged salad unless it’s fried don’t eat here!

Went with buddies of mine to watch the fights, took us an hour after ordering to get our food, 30 mins for a beer and the waitress kept continually screwing up our order. I know how it is working restaurant, I’ve done it before, but this was bad.
After she dropped off our tickets she started talking to another table flirting around for ten minutes when we just needed her to swipe our card so we could leave. I finally had to get up and ask her to take our payments. And then she double charged one of us by accident.

Monday night football, they were giving away gifts all night for football and local college basketball game. Sat at the bar service was good and friendly, food was ok nothing special. I was in town for the night and not really impressed with this place.

This place is very much so hit or miss. Used to be my favorite place for wings (much better than Flaming Joes) but I don’t know what happened in the kitchen as now they aren’t nearly as good. They have a few sauces that I think are the best I’ve tried but the way the chicken is cooked and quality is not consistent.
Its a great place to watch football. I’d say best layout of tv’s and seating around. Easily best in the valley, but possibly best in Spokane period. This then creates the other problem with the Ref. Service. I have been there several times and have definitely learned which servers to try and get. Which means its the ones that have been there a while vs new or inexperienced. I’ve also had terrible service at Flaming Joesl, so I think it is normal for NFL Sunday’s to be busy and not have enough servers or help.
All in all, its definitely the best sports bar in Spokane Valley. The food is better than most with lots of different options. Just be warned, if you go on a night or day of a big game of any sorts, the service will probably not be very prompt and you will be waiting to order something. Its worth trying, but I can not highly recommend any one thing that it offers.

Well after giving this place another try, I can say I will never be back. Walked in to watch football games today. Found a great table and say down the the wife. 5 min later, Barbie waitress or hostess who probably barely graduated high school said that the table was reserved. I said where is the sign. She said well we can’t reserve the table but that one is reserved. Seeing who ended up there, it was probably her friends.
Moved to another table. They still don’t get the concept sports bar means keeping the local team on the screens. They had difficulty with TV’s but got it eventually.
Waited 10 min for waitress, ordered a beer, got it 5 min later and then waited 15 min to order food and finally had to flag her down.
Wife had to ask for refill on water and when it came back there was an extra straw in it. Nice touch. Noticed at same time dude at table next to us also got a glass of water refilled, but had 1 straw.
Food is mediocre at best, service is awful, fries have some wired BBQ seasoning on them.
Go to Bolo’s as their good is awesome or anywhere but this place. Owner still doesn’t seem to know how to run a sports bar.