Q Billiards

Please realize this is q Billards, not q bar. I see some reviews about bands. We don’t have bands, the lady below is referring to q bar. Just wanted to clear that up, because q Billards is an awesome local bar.

The management here is AWFUL!!! I booked a charity event here a while back. I had bands and everything. There was a deal where I had to get a minimum amount of money to pay for the event. I thought, sure no problem, its a charity and I’ll have a lot of proceeds plus payment for the event. Well, it didn’t go as planned. It was a Sunday and not a lot of people showed up. I made JUST enough and even had to take out of my OWN bank account to break even to pay the manager the minimum requirement to even put the event on. It was over $ 600 that I could have given to the charity but instead, the manager made me pay him all of it. Greedy bastards. I swear I will NEVER support this place again and I will NEVER consider doing any kind of show or charity here because they are GREEDY and could care less about anyone but themselves.

Great bartenders!!! Horrible servers… Should have stayed at the bar… Server hardly ever checked back. Our drinks stayed empty until we tracked her down to close out our tab… to go back to the bar.

This place has the best french fries and wings, especially when you are drunk. Besides billiards, this place also have a foosball table and an air hockey table. There was also a beer pong tourney, 10 bucks per team and their beer were cheap. I believe it was $ 1.50 per beer. I recommend getting the bucket of beer. Their music consisted of house music, EDM and hip-​hop.

My friends and I took a break from school and checked out this place on a Thursday. For a Thursday, this place was PACKED!
We started the night with a round of shots and a bucket of beer. The bartender was really bad at listening to what we wanted. We were wondering what kind of beer they had for the bucket of beer but she thought we were ordering a bucket of beer and started grabbing Miller Lite and popping off the caps before we could stop her. Then, we ordered a round of Jameson but we wanted one of the shot to be vodka but she didn’t hear and thought we wanted another shot of vodka…
We avoided that bartender for the rest of the night and there was no wrong orders with the other bartenders…
One of my friends wanted a sugary shot and the bartender suggested a shot that tasted like peanut butter, she made it wrong and gave us a free round of shots.
This place held a beer pong tourney ($ 5/​person) when we were there and that was pretty fun.
Since it was my friends and my first time, we didn’t really know how the pool table system worked so when we saw an open table, we just started playing. then this guy came over and was like. this is my table and demanded us to give it back. we talked to the guy running the place to sort out the money but the owner was like «just finish the game! no big deal!» LOL…
There was a DJ there that night and the music was a mix of EDM, top 40, and old school hip-​hop. Another cool thing was that they had a kitchen so you can order food. Their fries were yummy!

We visit this place on various nights of the week. Thursday night seems to be the busiest night but they are understaffed that night. I gave them 5 stars cuz it’s a fun place although the service on Thursday night is kind of slow. We usually have Katy & Chrissy as our server on other nights of the week and they do a great job. Chrissy works Thursday & Katy would definitely be a great addition to a Thursday night. Other than that it’s a great place for all ages to play pool and hang out with your friends. Plus they have great deals during football & hockey season and food is also pretty good.

Very lively/​rowdy place to be on a Friday night in the burbs, especially when there’s 1) a Blackhawks game on, and, 2) a pool association gathering. We were told the wait for a table might be about a half an hour but it ended up being one and a half hours. Its probably not this bad on a normal night though and they do have a lot of tables. In the meantime, we sat at table drinking and chilling. At times, the music was cranked up obnoxiously loud to the point where we were all shouting to one another despite being about 1.5ft apart. Drink specials were a good deal compared to the city of course. There are TVs everywhere you look so if you’re looking to watch a game, I would check out this billiards hall. If pool isn’t your thing, there’s also a foosball table, dart boards, photo hunt, and a few arcade games.
I was satisfied with the space and business; my pool game that night, not so much…

When this place used to be ‘63^rd St. Billiards’, it was a dump. Since they’ve gone under new management, it’s gotten a lot nicer and at least a dozen new pool tables have been added. The booze is cheap, the food is decent (had a buffalo chicken sandwich, was unimpressed), and on the night I went, billiards was free! There’s also indoor bags, which works due to the elevated ceiling, and the music is better than most places of this genre.
Kudos for having short tables (7′ instead of the typical 9′); I’m normally not a billiards ace, but I played some excellent games on the nice new blue felt top.
On non league nights, this place is a townie haven. Likelihood of randomly seeing one or more high school classmates: strong. Still, not a bad dive bar.

I went to this hole in the wall spot with my girlfriends, and had a great time for the most part. The drinks are SUPER cheap here. $ 1.50 domestic beers, $ 3 apple pie shots, $ 5 bombs, and $ 7 domestic beer buckets. The music here is great. The bartenders and wait staff are also very friendly. One of the best things about this place is that they have a few arcade games and two different rooms full of pool tables and a spot to play bags.
The only negatives about that is that people get super drunk off of the cheap alcohol and get a bit rowdy, and there is a $ 15 credit card minimum. I suggest bringing cash.

Favorite local spot!

The Good:
— Cheap drinks
— some days they have free pool if you buy 2 drinks
— cheap pool on days you need to pay
— great weekday hang out with a chilled crowd
— jukebox with plenty of selections
— free game of bags
— decent food for the price
The Bad:
— have to spend at least 15 bucks with card (harder than you think)
— if busy it may take a while to get a drink at times
— during sporting events it can get loud with tvs and hard to talk at times

I am inside Q Billiards now. I like dive bars and it’s a dive bar. But it’s not nice. The lady was quick to tell our group $ 15.00 Minimum for credit cards. No problem. But there’s also a B.S. 4% credit card surcharge surprise. The only place I’ve seen doing that are car dealerships eating big bucks. What B.S. There must be no hood over the grill — my clothes smell like grilled food as the smoke is blown it seems into the bar area. Oh I see, you can look into the kitchen, and the giant spatula is just stupid hanging on the wall. They just renamed this sub-​par place, kept the beanbag toss game and bad parts about the place and made it worse on the billing side. The HVAC system is still garbage. If they’d eliminate the stupid billing rules and get a kitchen vent it would be a start. So we’re all leaving now.