Checkerboard Pizza of Eastside

Cool environment: people, setting etc…
Crazy security! You will sure feel safe in there. Go there during a Martial Law fallout!
They need to beer on TAP!!! only bottles! asian cater beer selection: heniken budlight corona. no craft beer, no other beer,

Drinks are good and cheap. Food is very delicious and large portions. Love how they serve Asian food also. The chicken wings, pizza, & alfredo is my all time fave. :)

I’m traveling from Milwaukee and staying over night in St. Paul and was highly recommended by my family and friend for their food. I will have to give this a one star review for trying to order for delivery. Made 5 calls by myself and family called as well yet still no answer. :-(Moving on, maybe it might be a better experience in person but currently this is pretty frustrating.

Pizza is disgusting. Tastes nothing like a pizza, only like melted cheese all over full of grease. Chicken wings were over cooked, even burnt. Papaya salad was like eating a garlic clove. Asked for medium spicy and I got unbeatable spicy. What happened? Use to be good… for over $ 50, worst food I’ve ever had.

My neighborhood favorite bar and pizza joint. The unique thing is that it serves Hmong food along with standard pizza pub dive bar food. The drinks are cheap and the food is great specifically the burgers and the laab.
One thing to remember is that this isn’t the greatest neighborhood in Saint Paul so there is multiple security guards that work on the premises any night of the week. The clientele is predominantly Asian but is usually friendly! This is not a place to pick up someone for «Netflix and Chill» this is a great place to get good food and cheap drinks.

I come here for the papaya salad.

Plz don’t go here I recently researched this place. The bouncers here killed a man by beating him to death. The man was beaten then rushed to the hospital, but soon died of internal bleeding. If you don’t believe me plz search it up. If you read my past review forget that never go here, and the owner of checker bar received no jail time. Tou mo cha is the owner and was involved in the assaulting. Search up checker board pizza twin cites news. The victim who died had children and a family. Plz NEVER go here.

This place is a flipping joke. New to the area and walked to just buy a pizza. Well come to find out its a frikkin bar only and when I walked in through a small door that wasn’t an actual entrance I asked where the entrance is and I was told around the corner half way to the alley.
I walk in and I make my way to a table to order a pizza. The security guard ask and I quote «where the FU*^ is your ID? I said what? «I just want to order a pizza» He got vulgar in explaining it was a effing bar and you have to have ID and I said dang this is too much work for a pizza and I walked out the door. The security guard followed me outside and even around the corner with mace in his hand threatening to mace me if I did not leave for which I had already walked out the door. Some Asian dork with an attitude who is employed by the owner of this place. I DOUBT he knows that the sidewalks are public domain and he has no say who is on the sidewalk whether he likes it or not EVEN THOUGH HE FOLLOWED ME OUT WHEN I LEFT AND WAS WALKING TO MY CAR PARKED A BLOCK AWAY. DORK!
I guess since I am not Asian or Hmong or gangster this puke decided to take it upon himself to make himself look all bad ass and in fact all he did is bring a formal complaint of harassment and excessive use of duty to the state of MN dept. of public health and safety.
PUT SIGNS UP STATING ITS A BAR AND NO ONE UNDER 21 ALLOWED. I AM WAY OVER 21 AND I HAD MY ID… BUT ASK FOR IT NICELY AND I WILL PRODUCE… TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT AND DIGNITY AND YOU WILL BE TREATED THE SAME. BE A DICK TO ME ABOUT IT AND YOU GET THE OWNER A SCATHING REVIEW. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE ITS PATHETIC AND THE RENTACOPS ARE EVEN MORE PATHETIC.

The owner is an ex-​con original gangsta. He can careless about his customers as long as they keep giving him money (his wife is the big boob job lady). The customer is always wrong according to his rules.
Otherwise, this place serves mediocre Hmong food and mediocre pizzas. The pizzas are huge and will feed an army, but as soon as you take a bite, all the topping comes off and you’re stuck with just the bread.
No one seems to care about karaōke night any more, but they still have it multiple times a week. They have nothing on tap, and serve decent priced domestics and average price mixers and shots.
The flash light cops think they are badass because they carry a flash light. They ain’t tough but always act like they do an important job by picking up my trash.
The dance floor and so called VIP section is always dead. I usually just go there to grab a beer before heading to the real party at Stargate.
One star because the owner is an a-​hole, but his daughter-​in-​law bartender has a nice ass and legs.

wow. thats all i gotta say…
ive never seen this much hmong ppo under one roof!
great place to hang and grub. frm pizza, phở, papaya–
get ur drank on, sing & show ur hmong got talent skills on stage.
then end the night with some bs. whatchu bang foo?!
watch security dudes get serious. go home– what a fuckn’ night ^^

Not a bad pizza, but nothing special. Ordered this for delivery when we first moved here, and have never gone again. Very sparse toppings, lots of cheese, and a thin crust. At the price we expected a lot more than what we got.

This place is hella cool. The food is hella good and super cheap for what u buy. Great prices n friendly services. The bar is hella nice n the dance floor is super sweet. I love it better than moonshine. :) this was my 1^st time n i love it.

Delicious greasy thin-​crust pizza. My third time coming here. We got the tons o meat pizza, something I usually avoid because it just sounds disgusting to me. It was really really good though, along with the cheesy bread. Danced along arcade whilst waiting because there is only a tiny waiting room. There is also a bar open nextdoor which I have yet to try. If you want greasy, wonderful, after-​drinking pizza, this is the place to come.