MVP Sports Grill

I’ve gone here the last few weekends to watch football. I hadn’t been here since January and at that time the service was pretty bad. The last few times I’ve gone the service is quick and the food is good. I’ve only had grilled cheese but it was worth every penny of the $ 5 I payed.
One thing that I’d like to see improved is bringing back the S.N. pale ale on draft. They replaced it with Mirror Pond. Hopefully they bring back the Sierra.

This place is about 2.5 stars. The half star being for the apologetic and friendly bar manager after our order was messed up several times.
Let me back up a bit. When you walk into this place, it’s pretty much like my girlfriend describes it: «like a parking garage.» It’s got about the same ambiance as the parking garage that the bar is caddy corner from.
The TVs were good, and we were able to watch the ballgame.
We ordered some chicken quesadillas. Should be simple, right? After about half an hour, our food hadn’t come yet. When we ask them about it, they bring out a plate of lukewarm quesadillas where the cheese was mostly congealed. I don’t normally send things back, but this was unacceptable.
They were apologetic and brought out a fresh and hot batch within a few minutes. They were about as good as something I could make at home. Pretty unimpressed.
The bar manager comped my girlfriend a second beer and we got out of there for something like $ 12.
Probably won’t go back.

This place is a good spot to watch the ball game with your friends and family. MVP Sports Grill has TV’s…EVERYWHERE! They have an upstairs area with TV’s, tables and chairs, and fireplaces. The location isn’t the best (my opinion) for parking because you’ll need to pay if you get there before 6pm during the week. MVP’s is a pretty big place with tons of seating, a bar, and did I mention the TV’s…EVERYWHERE?
This place gets an extra star because I went in to ask for change to pay for parking (I told you it isn’t the best location for parking) and was told they didn’t have any change. I didn’t have any quarters to pay for parking but as I was walking out the bartender pulled out $.75 and gave it to me. I offered to give him the dollar but he refused to take it. I thought that was really nice of him to do that for me.
FOOD: This review won’t be complete because I didn’t really order an entrée to review. I ordered a basket of fries and they were really good or I was just really hungry. They have the standard food you would find at a sports bar and grill. They have burgers, cheese steaks, appetizers, and alcohol of course.
SERVICE: The waitress who waited on our table wasn’t very good. She seemed to have a little attitude maybe because we just order appetizers and water. Or maybe she was having a bad night. I like to receive service with a smile and let’s just say I didn’t see that with her. I’m pretty sure that the overall service is pretty good.
I will definitely go back soon to watch some ball games with friends. I’ll probably try the Philly Cheese Steal the next time I go. Oh… did I mention that there are TV’s EVERYWHERE!

Bleh. A mediocre sports bar at best. We came here after dinner to have some beers and watch the World Series. We sat upstairs and it was ok. It was actually super cold. They have a ton of tv’s upstairs which was nice but the service sucked. The servers looked and acted drunk. I’m ok with servers having fun with the patrons but our server just acted plain drunk. When asked how much we owed for the beers his response was «oh uhhhh, its like $ 8 and some change. Uhhh yeah haha.» Really? Eight and some change? Um ok. Later he comes out from the back and starts yelling to everyone upstairs and says «hey everyone, we have a $ 5 special sandwich for sale tonight!» when a patron asked what was in it his response was «some really good shit! just buy it!» Very disappointing. We won’t be back.

Meh. I am indifferent towards this place. I am not sports fan nor am I a person that likes to hang out at bars. We actually came here with Appeteasers to try this place out. It’s very much a sports bar. TV’s EVERYWHERE. The full bar is downstairs and plenty of seating upstairs.
The food here is so so, but they have healthier options that I was surprised by. For our sampling we each got a basket of garlic fries, chicken strips and popcorn shrimp. o0o fried food! The garlic fries were the best. Hope you like them greasy!
I wouldn’t come here though because I’m not a sports fan. I only give the 4 stars because as it is supposed to be a sports bar it meets the bill. I think real sports fan would like this place.

MVP has lots of TVs and is supposed to be a good place for watching games. I have not been here for that but as a place to get drinks or have food I would recommend going else where. The food is mediocre bar food at best. Mass produced frozen appetizers and sad burgers. How a restaurant can make a bad hamburger always confuses me but many places seem to manage. The drinks are fine but nothing special. Just the standard domestic beers and mixed drinks that you can get at any bar. The service is fine. The layout is awful. The upstairs is nice but usually closed unless you go when it is busy. The bar downstairs is extremely difficult to get to if there is any crowd at all. If it is busy the bar is usually understaffed and the wait for drinks can be very long.
Bottom line is that MVP is an uninspired sports bar that has been done better elsewhere.

You think when you go to a sports bar you can get great bar food for a good price, not at MVP’s. The food is no better then the corner gas station at prices you would expect to see at a decent restaurant.
Up side they do have a lot of t. v’s. Unfortunately the place is so loud because the acoustics are so bad you can’t hear whats going on in the game.
I would think with a new sports bar opening soon in downtown that the owners and management would get there act together and get this place back on track.

Upstairs is pretty decent if you want to catch a game. There are TVs everywhere. It’s almost to the point of overload, but that’s not really a terrible thing.
Their beer selection is horrible. I asked for a high life and the waitress looked at me like I asked for the blood of Zeus or something. She then pointed to the VERY limited choices listed on the menu.
And the food? Well it’s bad, bad, bad. Last night, my girlfriend ordered a chicken cesar salad. She moved the chicken to the side and had members of our party smell the strange odor it was emitting. I thought she was overreacting, until I took a bite of the chicken. Holy crap! How do you screw up a chicken cesar salad that bad?! The chicken was so dry it was like eating wood chips! Not only that, another member of our party ordered fries and it took excrutiatingly long for those fries to arrive at the table. The server told us that the bartender «forgot about us.» *sigh* It wasn’t even that busy in there…
So, if you want to catch a game and if one of the few beers they offer is a favorite of yours, stop by. I guess. Just don’t eat the food.

So the outside is nice but the inside is ghetto. The food is terrible but what you pay is what you get. Everything is SO VERY inexpensive here. People complain about the food and I agree it’s bad but that’s because you’re paying 6 dollars for a burger with fries.
I’m not looking to spend a fortune when I really just want to watch the game and have a couple beers. I would definitely go back there again. I wouldn’t eat their food but I’ll definitely have a beer.
Another complaint is that the ladies room is nasty. There’s a ring of shit around every toilet in the toilet bowl. It makes me wonder about their kitchen if they can’t even clean their restrooms once a day week. EWWWW!

Having been here a few more times, I am lowering my rating from four stars to two. Yes, you can still watch all the games here, but unfortunately, I would no longer choose to do so.
Every time I’ve been here, I’ve found that service is consistently slow, the food is really nothing special and the space is rather limited with a poor layout. I’ve come to realize that the only thing MVP has going for it is the fact that for a long time now it has been the only option for sports fans in midtown/​downtown Sacramento.
However, in comparison with new locations like BarWest that has a better layout, tastier food and more attentive staff, it is apparent how much MVP is lacking.
I’d even predict that new sports bar being opened in the old California Pizza Kitchen location by the DeVere/​Wong partnership could very well be the final nail in the coffin if MVP doesn’t step up its game in a big way.

Helllooooooo, does anyone work here? I mean aside from telling me which room to go to for my game needs I can’t get a beer or food order in for nearly 30 minutes.
Let’s face it, I knew it would be unsatisfactory. I can watch T.V. at home and actually get a beer.
By the way — that is not a philly cheese steak. It resembled those dried beef shreds you see at the super market and wonder who would ever by them. I wasn’t expecting great but I wasn’t expecting horrible either. My husband’s burger wasn’t as obnoxious but hey he did warn me about my choice.
Lesson learned: if you go someplace crappy my husband can tell you what won’t be the worst thing on the menu.

Wowzers. If you’re wanting to watch the game (s) on Sunday and have no desire to eat or drink alcoholic beverages — come here!
PRO:
* Oodles of TV screens
* Bar
* Clean bathrooms
CON:
* Lack of servers and competency
* 20+ minute wait for a pitcher of beer and one margarita
* 45+ minute wait for food (hamburgers and fries)
* Mediocre food and customer service

Nice location, great waitresses, good high-​def TV set ups.
HORRID HORRID food – flavored with refrigeration. Had fries which were soggy, fried zucchini with an off flavor, chicken taquitos that seemed stale and chicken sandwich that was bland and rubbery.
And were you there for the great ketchup bottle explosion extravaganza? My table, the table behind us and the table across the room – victims of projectile ketchup vomit. Thanks to the awesome waitress who comped us a pitcher for the ruined clothing.

Disappointing… over and over again.
I am part of a group that frequents MVPs after Sac Footy League games every Wednesday. The league reserves the upstairs area for the players and their family/​friends. I don’t know what the service is like elsewhere in the establishment, but the service upstairs sucks!
The waitresses are usually short with customers and slightly rude, the service (if you’re lucky to get any) is very slow, food and drink orders take FOREVER to receive, and you have to chase down the bill once you are ready to leave.
Three weeks in a row our table ordered before most other people, but we did not receive our food until after everyone else had been served theirs. We sat and we waited… and waited… and waited…
Today topped them all!
My friend and I shared a sandwich that we are pretty sure was made with a spoiled ingredient. We both looked at eachother midway through the sandwich and we both agreed that the sandwich didn’t taste right.
I will continue to join my friends at MVPs after games, but I will stick to liquid snacks instead.

SITREP
I actually watched the last game of the 2010 World Series here before moving on to do some dancing at Club 21 just across in the next block.
SETUP
This place has all the makings for a great time: drinks, munchies, large screen TVs, gathered friends — it is a pretty awesome establishment bringing the right elements together, especially if you don’t have the room, and the time to bring out all the munchies for «the gang» at your own place.
And when you add in the celebratory nature of the World Series, then you have the grand-​daddy of all sporting events bringing it’s magic.
The only problem is you always seem to deal with loud, obnoxious a-​holes at another table (or possibly more) constantly harassing the girls in our group and trying to «out-​man» the guys in our group with jock-​boy antics and locker-​room joke mentalities. I’m not talking now about usual boisterous behavior. I’m talking about misogynistic behavior that warrants a diversion-​conviction throwing said «a-​hole» into anger-​management class. THOSE kind of a-​holes.
So minus 1-​star for the staff letting the a-​holes run rampant.
Otherwise a good time.
THE LOWDOWN
Great place to get a beer and share some fun moments. Just watch out for the Neanderthals.
P. S. I like how Unilocal asks for «additional tips» on this establishment. When it comes to noise level I am checking «Very Loud».

MVP was not our destination after eating a late lunch at Paesanos, but as we were walking by to go to Mix for happy hour we looked in, saw all the games that were on and said, what the heck, lets go and continue the fun, have a few drinks and watch some NBA!
We THOUGHT we walked into a sports BAR. Being that there was a bar area, with glasses for serving booze were hanging above a bartenders head.
We sat down at a table and ordered a vodka-​cran, only to be told that, they do not serve vodka?
I was confused. «Isn’t this a sports bar?»
The sweet girl said «yes, but we do not have any liquor. We only have a wine and beer license.»
My face was still twisted and furrowed. I felt DUPED for some reason. Seemed like false advertising to me.
She then told me there was a «vodka-​like» wine that they serve. Hmm, being the vodka girl I am, I said «what the heck, I’ll try it.»
Meh. I mean it was dirt cheap, and yes I got a slight buzz, but eh, it wasn’t the real thing, and you can taste it. So totally disappointed with the faux vodka
I wasn’t inspired to order any food, after smelling shenanigans with the vodka, I could not trust the menu. Faux chicken or faux fries are not my thing. Neither are faux sports bars.
More than likely won’t be back, plenty of other places to go with liquor and no worry about getting parking tickets.
Faux Sports Bar.

Pretty good Happy Hour (½ price apps are ALWAYS appreciated) and they had quite a few apps to choose from. $ 5 margaritas Tuesdays, along with Taco Tuesday deal. I like it!
Oh, and our server was very nice, cute, funny, and efficient.

Good food; great staff; lots of space on the first and second floor. I like this location a LOT better than the old location.
In terms of staff, I love May Ann… she’s a great bartender and when I order food from her… she’s always super quick and friendly! I LOVE YOU MVP!

Nice place. Plenty of tables. Plenty of televisions. Courteous staff. Decent prices. Decent food. Could use a few more items on the menu, but then it would probably take longer to get your food.
Parking isn’t easy, but not impossible. It’s got a juke box. Cool little spot without being «divey» or «snotty». Nice spot.

I heard some bad things about the place before I came here so I really wanted to make my own opinion so I came here with a pretty open mind. I should have kept it closed. I will never go to MVP’s again. Even if its free.
I heard the place was great for TV’s (true), bad bartenders (true) bad servers (not true) and bad food (VERY TRUE).
Our server was great and honest. I asked her what she eats there and she said she doesnt because she doesnt get an employee discount. So if they treat their employees badly why would you like the place you work? But the place was packed and she took care of us.
Moving slowly today, I wanted a good bloody mary and a burger. The bloody mary was no better than Mrs T’s mix from safeway. I never ordered the burger. I got the chicken wings instead (or should I stay Pigeon wings?) There was alot of them but they were smaller than my pinkie and they were overcooked. The buffalo sauce was non-​existent and the blue cheese was runny.
My friends had the pizza which was bad. Others had the mozz stix, onion rings and they were tasteless.
I dont care that they have the sunday package or good TV’s or, my friends root on for their college football team and they want to go there, I will not go there ever again.