Xox Pub & Restaurant

THIS PLACE SUCKS! We came for a friends birthday and the service was just horrible. I ordered my food and a drink, after 45 min I was like what’s taking so long… So I went to the bar and went to go check the girl LITERALLY told me sorry we couldn’t find you so it was just sitting back there. After I finally got my food it was cold, I told one of the workers and her response was «sorry we are busy, idk» are you F****** kidding, I don’t care if it’s busy it should be a priority for your customers to be satisfied. I will never recommend this place to anyone nor will I ever come back. Btw they don’t card here so I hope they get in a lot of trouble for that!’

Seriously staff was unknowledgeable about anything! My drinks were watered down! The selection was horrible! Who doesn’t have redbull or rum at a bar? Like seriously? The food was super cold not to mention it took me a hour to get a burger! The dj sucked the music kept turning off on us! Overall experience I give it a 2 out of 10 only cause I’m being very generous! I asked for a manager like 7 times and they finally I got my refund!

I’m updating this review bc I came back last night for my birthday. I had a great experience the first time why not come back again right. Wrong! I’ll just say the bartenders really need to get there stuff together. I’m surprised they have workers there that can barely speak English first off bc they can’t understand half the things you tell them. Unless they only want Asian people there. Anyways, I bought a beer tower in the beginning of the night when barely anyone was there. They brought it over I closed my tab everything was fine. That was great. End of night we are about to leave and the «bartender/​server whatever you want to call them» comes over and says you need to pay for that beer tower, I looked at her dumbfounded like what? So I explained to her and said no, we bought this in the beginning of the night were not paying for it again, then she hands me a receipt and it had Corona and some other stuff on there and I stated that’s not ours and she said well it’s from your table. I laughed and said this isn’t «our» table were just standing here anyone can order. Now I’m starting to get annoyed and my patiences with this girl are running low so I said, look you work here that’s your job to keep track of your customers when they order a drink you don’t just leave an open tab running not knowing who it belongs to and then at the end of the night just bring it to anyone hoping someone will pay! She had nothing to say back and we walked out.
It’s so crazy from having a good experience turn bad fast. My friends even had a hard time with getting drinks and cold food. They ran out of glass cups so they used «red solo» cups and also don’t card at the door so I guess underage drinking is aloud. Very unprofessional.

I am at the bar as I type this out. I have asked for Jäger Bomb 3x and the «bartenders» say okay and then they disappear. First off you need real bartenders here. They are all running around with there heads cut off. They gave us our food cold Bc they couldn’t find us. They came and took our order so it’s there job to bring it to us. They are so unorganized. We are here for a friends bday do we are having a good time but service sucks. Who ever owns this bar could probably be making a lot more money if they had real bartenders that new what they were doing. Service overall was bad! But we had fun Bc we had a big group there. Also, they don’t card at the door so anyone can just walk in. I knew people there who were underage and drinking. That shows a lot right there!

Came here for a friends bday and all I gotta say these employees are clueless! The bartenders were so confused, no uniform, running around like crazy with no order! Took me forever just to order, they ignore you!

Great spot for good beer appetizers and sports. Open lounge layout with multiple TVs and a full bar with happy hour specials.
A much needed chill spot for an area saturated with stuffy, crowded uncomfortable beer joints. This establishment is on point.
AND they serve one of my favorite IPA’S, Sculpin!!!
Cheers!

Great customer service
4 $ 24oz beers
IPA, wheat, import
Food is excellent.
Great prices from 5−9PM
Service is great .
Why so many bad reviews?

Smells awful! You walk right in and you want to barf. Please spend some money on fixing this issue!

Walk in for my first time and was created right away by Josh (Chef) and Zoe (bartender). Not even here 3 minutes and served with these amazing garlic fries. Needless to say amazing (strong) quality drinks. I’m a new fan.

Best effing fries!!! GARLIC FRIES!!! Holy Crap, am luvin the happy hour champaigne and wines!!! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooiiii
GARLIC fries, best in LA

What a disaster.
My friends and I went here to hang out with another friend who was visit from Asia. One of the guys suggested this place. I looked it up on Unilocal to get an idea of dress code, because it states that it’s a lounge. No need to do that. This place was practically empty. On top of that, everyone was dressed casually. Thank goodness the other girls and I didn’t care enough to spruce ourselves up.
1. They mixed up our beer tower order. We asked for Blue Moon and got Coors. Gross. I mean, I could tell it was Blue Moon just by looking at the color of the beer… surprised the people who worked there didn’t notice.
2. One of the servers brought over another table’s beer tower mistakenly. Once I notified them that we had not ordered it they realized their mistake and simply moved the beer tower over to the other table. What if I already poured some beer out of it? What it I messed around with it. What they did was unsanitary.
3. After we paid the bill and left our tip the waitress had the decency to walk over and say we didn’t tip enough because they usually get 15% tips. Uhh, at the rate you were going, you’re lucky you even got a tip. I don’t know what made you think you even deserved tip after our experience. I’ve worked in the restaurant industry so I know the importance of tip to servers and I usually tip above average. With that said, I did not think you even deserved the tip you got.
Never again. The only good thing about this place was that the bathroom was clean, but that isn’t saying much since there was barley anyone there.

Although I’ve enjoyed drinking here with friends, for some reason Friday and Saturday barely have people.
What threw me off is Saturday night the waitress that is the tallest girl that works there was making out for a good minute with a customer on the dance floor. That’s unprofessional, getting paid to jess around on the clock. Anyways I like the ambience of the lounge… not really a pub.

I’ve been coming here ever since they’ve open. The employees are always attentive and kind. The drinks are reasonably priced and the food is pretty bomb. At times the music can be overwhelmingly loud, like you’re at a club and have to yell to the person next to you just so they can her what you have to say but they always seem to play just the right type of music whenever I visit. Overall, I like the atmosphere, dimmed and laid back.

I’ve come quite often since I originally reviewed this place. I still love the food and the prices for drinks are almost unmatched. I personally recommend the garlic fries but I am intrigued about the duck fat fries, I love trying the in different places. All the crew are great and fun to talk to, they are very welcoming and go out of their way to make sure you’re enjoying yourself. It is vape friendly and there is an outside patio for the smokers.
There are TV’s all over the place with a good variety of channels for those who do not necessarily want to be stuck watching sports or movies or something. The music for the most part is mostly EDM but I don’t complain, I personally love the «Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat» lifestyle. But they do play other genres of music for those of you who prefer other forms of music.
I don’t know, there are a lot of mixed reviews on this place, but I’ve been coming here for quite some time and keep coming back. It’s just a fun local place for me and the boys to gear up and ride to. You’ll never know until you try it!

If I could, this would be a –1 star review!
Personally, I would never come back after my first time here, but my gf wanted to come to continue our ratchet drinking for the night. So I drunkenly obliged.
As my check-​in from last night says, it smelled like poop. As soon as I walked in, it was as if I walked into a nasty public bathroom on a hot summer day where everyone decided to take a shit with no courtesy flush. Orrrr actually as my previous review says about XOX’s bathroom, that’s how it smelled in the main lounge area.
It was so bad that within a second of being there, I ran outside and threw up a little on the grass. Noooo what a waste of my Benihana dinner!!! Afterwards I refused to go back in there until the group promised to stay in the outdoor patio area.
$ 5 shots of Hennessy. Watered down like crazy, so no, you’re not getting a good deal. Idk why people come here, they cheat you on alcohol, the bathrooms and general facility literally smells like hot shit, and employees are worse than teenage workers at Guppies –they’re teenagers so yea their service might be pretty crappy, what’s XOX’s excuse? Idk, I guess to each his own, agree to disagree. But, I really hope people don’t come here to spend their hard earned money. I also hope the proper authorities come to investigate their sanitation as well as their liquor, testing each bottle to ensure customers are getting what they’re paying for. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck this place.

Went to this place on a couple of occasions, both times the place wasn’t packed at all. Ample seating and funky layout. Ordered the steak and the duck confit fries which were pretty tasty, though the fries were a bit on the salty side but good nonetheless. Service could be a little bit better, as our waitress wasn’t too attentive especially for the place not being very busy. The reason for only giving a three star review is because I wish they had more tap selection. Call me a beer snob, but I think they could up the game if they served more than your typical lagers and just Stone and Lagunitas IPAs. I’ll definitely be back though, good to know a little place like this exists so close to home. :)

I did not know this place existed ! I came here for a friends birthday and it’s a decently sized place where you listen to music, eat, and drink.
The lounge area they had were pretty comfy and great for large parties. They have a full bar and the food was asp decently portioned. There is also an outside area for fresh air which was quite pleasant. This is a nice place to come to for celebrations. It reminds me of the bars in Ktown.

Ok, this place is pretty legit price-​wise for booze.
It was empty when I came in as they had just opened that night, so I decide to grab a beer on tap. Regular choices, regular choices, and what do you know? They got Sculpin IPA! Well, hell yeah! They offered me a HUGE mug of it and I’m like WHOA. Hang on here, I got to eat after this!
I decided to go for a small, which was still a pretty big mug and found out that their beer was half off 5−9pm every day, and 9pm till close is half off shots! Woot! I got to talking with Whitney and Liz, who were cool and friendly. They have one rotating tap so far and I’m so glad I walked in when I did! Call it fate, I dunno.
The best part was the price– $ 4 for the beer at half off. I’m head over heels so far. It looks like a more cooler equivalent of the dive bars around my area.
I will have to come by and check it out later at night to try all the specials! Yay!

October 11, 2014
Came here for my sister’s birthday. Located across from LUXY 101, I never would think this place is a pub at all. I’ve driven past this place multiple times before, but never have I imagined this place to be loud and… well…a late night lounge spot.
We ordered drinks, played games, drank, laughed, chatted… it was a great night of fun and smiles. Much needed after a month of frowns.
I’m not sure if I will come back, to be honest, I’m not a drinker, I am not the person who enjoys loud places… I guess I am just getting older.
Nevertheless, had a great time!

Awesome happy hour menu, buy 2 entrees get a free appetizers what? If ur full and just wanna sit by the bar n watch the game with a buddy, 2 drinks and one appetizers half off what?
Reasonable priced drinks by the bar, bartenders are quick and knowledgable and will adjust the drinks to however u prefer them, also a great selection of alcohol.
Bottle service available at unbeatable prices, with bottle service u and ur party can sit on the fancy looking sofas by the dance floor/​dj booth area, the downside is it can get super packed during weekends so always book the tables in advance
Live dj on Friday and Saturdays spinning the hottest EDM, hip hop and club music
French American cruisine during lunch and dinner hours 12−3pm, then from 6 – 9, the lamb rack and steak is a MUST try
Bottom line If u live around Rowland heights area and want to party but don’t want the hassle to drive all the way to Hollywood, this is the best spot to hit up :)