Playoffs Sports Bar And Grille

Awesome service every visit, whether it’s for a drink, or dinner with family.

Nice and new and clean. Pizza is delicious along with the tenders. Been here many times and haven’t been disappointed once. Has outside seating and pool tables. Sure beats the previous establishment that was here

It took some time to get off the ground, but it has and the food is delicious! Most of the help are excellent, but I never expect that all of help in this type of establishment will be perfect. They run great deals on off days like taco Tuesday ($ 1 tacos of all types) and .50 wings on Mondays. I suggest their pizzas especially the specialties, and my personal favorite are the appetizers.

We’ve become quite the regular of Playoffs! Nice outdoor seating with a view of Nutting Lake. Pizza is absolutely delicious. Very chill atmosphere.

The décor is comfortable and clean, personnel is friendly and professional band was FANTASTIC we will be back to see TIME CHILD

They have the BEST pizza in Billerica!!! The staff is awesome. We had a function in the upstairs room and it was great! Good food! Great service!

Bartenders suck… poured beer inch and a half from top and one bar tender ignored me when I was asking for a bud light 6 inches from her face… she seen something interesting on the ceiling instead 4÷11÷16 7pm. No tip not going back… I’m a town person too.

The other reviews here are a little harsh and seem to be from whiney regulars from the old place. The bartender was very personable and friendly and seemed to genuinely care about my opinion in the wings. She was attentive to all the guests while I was there.
I got the wings and have some very mixed reviews.
Pros:
1. Doesn’t taste like just wings dipped in Franks hot sauce.
2. They weren’t overcooked like most wings are
Cons:
1. Very small wings. Seem like the ones you would get at a 50 cent wing night.
2. Sauce could be spicier. Not very hot even for buffalo sauce standards.
Would give another shot though. Could use Keno too

I enjoyed this place on nights when they play top 40 music. Very fun and plenty of space for dancing, sitting, and playing pool. Great prices on drink too!

I did go here to check it out last month on a Saturday afternoon with a buddy as we used to go to McKees once in a while to play pool — even if the tables were tough and the cue sticks tougher.
I was pleasantly surprised to find 3 nice tables and the place was totally different looking — improved from the old McKees — updated with a more modern layout with the usual great view of the lake. Not my style, but we just wanted to play pool.
Midway through our games, we had to get more quarters from the change machine, but the machine ate our dollar and didn’t return any quarters.
Spoke with the bartender on duty and she said she didn’t have the key to the machine. So we’re out a buck.
She also didn’t offer to give us any quarters because she told me she didn’t have any. A bar and the bartender doesn’t have quarters? So we were out of luck.
Dumbfounded, I asked her what can I and customers coming in to play pool do for quarters. Her response was maybe the liquor store across the street will give me some.
Yikes!

Only reason I am giving this place one star is because it’s nicely renovated and has nice scenery. It’s a shame that the service and quality of the food is horrible. We ordered an app platter which included chicken fingers, however when we got the app it had one chicken finger sliced in half… Huh? I was very confused and thought it was a joke. We told the waitress and she went back to the kitchen and came out with two more chicken tenders. I mean are you struggling that bad? Next thing… It took over a half an hour for our entrees and we were basically the only people there besides a few people at the bar. When our food came out… I ordered a grilled cheese and tomato bisque, and it looked awful. The grilled cheese was cold and so was the soup. It looked like whoever made the soup took a can of tomato and then poured cream in it… But the cream was all curdled so there was little chunks floating on top. That is unacceptable not only as a cook but as a server to even give that to someone… Use your judgement people. I was so grossed out I just wanted to leave. The waitress was alright, offered something else but I was all set. I noticed her go over to a few of her co workers that were in a huddle over by the bar and she must have told them what happened. It was very awkward because they all were looking over, but no one seemed to give a shit about it.
Needless to say we will never eat here again. The whole situation was ridiculous and you would think that they would want to keep customers happy seeing as though they don’t even have that many to begin with. I don’t understand the mentality, why wouldn’t you want to be successful and make money? I think this place needs a serious bar rescue and the whole staff needs to be trained or maybe sell it to someone that would appreciate the location and the people that spend their money there.
Awful

At first glance, I was impressed. Everything inside is brand new, the place looks nice, but that only masked the problems for about 10 minutes. We got there for trivia at 7:30 PM, and were the only people in the entire place which just felt awkward. The service was terrible, which is hard to fathom considering there was a grand total of now 3 people to be served. The bartender reused my pint glass for every beer, and didn’t even try to hide it. My empty glass would sit there for 20 minutes at a time without being approached. The food was laughable, it felt like a joke. My girlfriend got a French dip sandwich, served on a stale roll, with no dip. That’s right, they forgot the the dip, for a French dip sandwich. I tried a bite, if was lukewarm, rubbery, and just flat out disgusting. My burger was strange, it tasted like nothing. I’ve never eaten something at a restaurant that actually tasted like nothing. The only saving grace was the fun trivia, but even that couldn’t cover up the obvious flaws. Sticky floors, horrible food, horrible service, and an uncomfortable awkward environment. It’s safe to say, I will not be returning.

When I walked through the door I was instantly transported to the set of what appeared to be a 1970s porno. There were approximately 6 older gentlemen in leather jackets all with thick mustaches and Brylcream soaked hair standing in a circle formation around one 50 year old woman in jeans and some type of bra style top. Good first impression. I adjusted my pants and pulled a seat up to the bar next to a woman wearing a dirty Bruins sweater. I was struck by how poorly the new bar was designed. Old McKees had a large inviting center bar. Patron attention was directed inward at one another not outward toward the drab décor and depressing surroundings. The new bar is along the interior wall with tvs and a leather couch behind where you sit which causes folks to turn around and stare outward and out the windows. I imagine this makes folks want to leave quicker because the place was empty. They also changed the flooring and got some new pool tables. Lipstick on a pig really. The food was ok, beer was cold, service was really poor, the place was empty and temperature was freezing, clientele gets an A+, beer prices wildly high which was probably the worst part of the visit, this is the type of place that should have cheap beer.

So far. Service is unpleasant, crass and slow. Considering we are the only people here (minus one of her friends at the bar) we would expect better service considering this place is locally owned and not close to anything. You would think that a place like this would ensure the best customer service so that people want to come back and become regulars.

The food was good. But when we got the bill, we’d been charged $ 2 for EACH small glass of soda. We were not informed that they charge for refills, and when I asked about it the waiter said they were told refills weren’t free.
I didn’t ask «were you also told not to tell us that we’d be charged for each one when you asked us if we wanted more?»
Adding insult to injury, they were short glasses…
In 2015, I do not expect to be charged for soda refills at a sit-​down restaurant! We were planning on adding it to the rotation, and trying some of the other interesting food in the menu. But I don’t expect we’ll go back.

McKees on the water used to be here and it was great so many people would come here and enjoy band nights the food and sit outside smoking. The owner couldn’t pay for the building anymore so they shut it down I would give anything to have this place back to McKees. I ordered a burger I got blue cheese on the side I didn’t ask for blue cheese (asked for ranch) my boyfriend got wings that made him throw up all night long and got TARTER SAUCE on the side I’m sorry but how does someone do that? Tarter sauce with wings? Unacceptable. Probably won’t be coming back. I want the old McKees back. I get it that now it’s more open and renovated and nice and everything but easily twice we could have just left a few times without paying. Staff lacks attention to individuals. A lot of things could be fixed about this place if it got a bar rescue.
I write this review in true honesty of my experience here. A lot of improvements could be made. I hope the owner reads these reviews because he needs to fix the menu the person making the food or the health department will be making a visit. No one at all should be getting sick off of the food. And no one at all should be sitting there hear hip hop over game play. It’s a sports bar for a reason.