Yankee Doodles

Seems the NEW place shut down too! GEEEZZZE! What bad luck lives there?! Maybe they need a ghost cleanser!

Went here a couple years ago. Decent place but never returned. They’re closed now from what i heard?

HORRID.
I know the Valley Crowd can be a bit rowdy but do the Bouncers really have to act like getting thru the door here is a privelage?!
The Bouncers need to learn manners. Do not pull a patron aside and try to get them to hand you 20 bones because the place is packed and that’s the only way you’ll let them in. You’re working the door of a sports bar in the SFV not some Hollywood Hot Spot. Douche.
New location same bullshit.
DO NOT SPEND YOUR $$$ HERE.

Whenever you encounter a bar in the valley that charges a $ 5 cover charge on the weekend, you must enter.
Every weekend on my way home after dinner the parking lot around Yankee Doodles is packed. One night a few weeks ago we decided to stop in and see what the fuss was all about.
Yes, there is a $ 5 cover. Yes, it is a Yankee Doodles… In West Hills, but it is well worth it. The place has everything you want it a bar: DJ, cheap drinks, lights, music videos on TV screens, food at 2am, etc. There are a lot of gold chains, football jerseys and neck tattoos as well. Considered yourself warned.
So, this might have been the last stop on a night of drinking, but it was an experience nonetheless.

This place… It is what it is. It’s alright for a sports bar as far as looking clean & up to date. Way smaller than the one that use to be in woodland hills. No pool tables or anything like that like the one in simi valley. They got about 6 or 8 big tv sets, the happy hour isn’t all that good the deals are usually on well drinks, coors lite, & those other piss water beers on tap. I heard they show UFC fights here but there’s a cover charge, they also have cover charges on Fridays which is 5 bucks each cause they have some shitty DJ, & they make you enter on the side of the building where the dance floor is so you have to pay even if you just want to have some drinks & be on the bar side.
For the fights I understand the cover price (which is $ 15 I believe) but for random Friday & saturday nights after 9 is pretty weak, but some people that want to go out & dance would rather say in the valley than go out to LA & pay 20 bucks while being on long lines so whatever. The corner bakery is down the block & didn’t have a charge when I went so you do have your choices on this side of the valley but if you want to come here show up before 8, then just sneak onto the dance floor just to save your 5 bucks, stick it to the man.

It’s starting to feel like Ground Hog Day every weekend for me. I want to go try some new place or drive a little out of the way for lunch and my GF DOES NOT!
Why (Why!) would we want to take a nice drive to the coast for some fresh seafood on this beautiful day when we can stay in the great crater of the SF Valley and drive to West Hills and eat at Yankee Doodles? Fine! It’s her day to choose our dinning destination…
I was promised this place had good burgers, tuna melts, and great fish and chips. The Queen of Reseda is usually on her game, but not today I’m afraid.
This place is just strange. It was once some kind of international smörgåsbord restaurant called Stargazer. So some of the décor is still around. Too many fucking mirrors for me. Looks tacky like a strip club or something.
When you first come in, there’s no hostess stand so you pretty much stand there until someone happens to see you. It’s awkward. We took a table near one of the many flat screens. We got a wobbly table which is always nice. I was treated to a great view of a woman’s college basketball game. Woo Hoo!
Our order:
Me:
Fish and Chips (I know, I know, enough with the F & C’s dude).
Well, I’m happy to say I’ve shook my cravings for fish and chips after eating here. Not very good. What really fucked up lunch was the tartar sauce. Sour, tangy, not home made. It just ruined the dish.
Fries were a little under done. Meh!
Q of R:
Club sandwich. She liked her lunch. It’s hard to screw up a club. Fries came on top of sandwich. What’s up with that?
Also, it’s worth mentioning the folks eating here. Not what you would call a classy group of people. I had some guy next to us use the word «Fuck» about ten times in between telling his girlfriend a joke about a dude with a big Shvantz. Nice. I have no desire to return to this TGI McFunster’s.
I think Gordon Ramsay said it best–
«Thank you very much, now fuck off you, you fat useless sack of fucking yankie dankie doodle shite»

It’s football season and you want to get your beer and wings on with your bros. Don’t come here.
This place is a total sh*thole. As if it being in the parking lot of a Wal-​Mart wasn’t enough, the inside is a dump. It was obviously converted from some other kind of restaurant in the way that crappy mexican spots take over the old Burger King and just repaint the inside and only slightly change the signage to say BURrito KING.
The tables are too small to have a group bigger than 3. There is obviously no organization when it comes to which games are on which TV’s other than the early morning games. When my cousin and I got there for the afternoon games, there were TV’s showing the same game side by side and one of the TV’s was showing COPS. I mean, really?
The cherry on the Sunday (see what I did there?) is the horrific service. There was some confusion as to who our server was so we ended up giving our order to two different people then had to wait about half an hour for our food. The food in the beer was cheap, but it isn’t worth coming back.

This place is amazing. going there to watch any sporting event is awesome. tv’s all over the place.
One problem. if you happen to have Sunny as your bartender. or server. run. she’s rude. cussed at us. now if I had employees like these. they would be fired in a heart beat. you need a better training program. for that you will be getting poor review…

Okay I came here yesterday for a friends bday, I like the yankee doodles on topanga wayyy more. Here are some cons cuz I couldn’t find any pros.
1. no outdoor patio to drink
2.the crowd looks like the cast members of the show roseanne and sarah palins ugly show. ewwl gross
3. the waitresses are the worst oh gawd, there so rude, my sis was trying to get this waitresses attention she didn’t even look over just put her finger up and said hold on. she’s one of those bitches that hates girls that are pretty and better looking than her. lol
anyways I feel like this place is managed by the owner of the «little rock» on reseda, if you hate the place you’ll deff hate this place. lol
they apparently don’t card anymore cause they know they need more patrons and the management sucks, this place is deff going out of business soon.

Food’s OK; it’s standard bar fare, very predictable in quality – and I’ve never been absolutely amazed OR totally disappointed in that. I do like their happy hour 32-​ounce beers. Always served good & ice cold.
However, the service is awful. Awful. Awful awful awful. Even when the place is relatively empty.
The servers seem to be pretty consistently apologetic about the slow service. But still… Awful.

Note to all Unilocalers and all who use Unilocal as a helpful guide to where to take your hard earned money: DO NOT GO TO YANKEE DOODLES.
THE MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CARE IF YOU GIVE THEM BUSINESS OR NOT.
I cannot believe I was so generous as to give this place 3 stars. After going back and forth with PMs from the manager/​owner or whoever is trying to defend the business, I have learned that they have absolutely no grasp of any English either reading or writing. They do not care about what customers think AT ALL. I got nothing but lame ass excuses why they did things with no solid logical reasoning behind the logistics and no evidence to back up their claims why they do not have pool tables. Forget about this place ever changing for the better.
I will do what they ask and never come back.

Ugh, did you know Yankee Doodles closed? What?!?
A friend of mine forced me into going to this place. She said Yankee Doodles and I thought, pool tables, big screens and games. Still didn’t want to go though, this place always had the weirdest people showing up, including myself. ha!
I guess they are not closed, You mean I still have to go?
5 dollar cover charge, are you serious? for what? strike one. The atmosphere was a little rugged. For a moment there, I thought that big ass was going to swallow me whole. Whoa!!!
Love the Video DJ, especially when he played ABC Moesha! what you know about that!
Had a blast but it was majorly due to the company I was with, don’t think I will be coming back. Great VJ though.

I guess to each their own right?
This is Unilocal so in giving MY hunble opinion =)
I like this place ALOT. great food, great drinks, great music, great prices, great environment, AMAZING STAFF AND MANAGEMENT!

Went to doodles for ufc fight!
What a shithole!
The middle eastern décor looks like a sportsbar in falloujah. White tiled floors in some random and checkerboarded pattern. Tiled floors? You gotta be joking. Food a recipe for dissentary.
Lighting and sound system terrible, I think I saw an 8 track tape machine behind the DJ booth.
Owner was some third world troll walking around the place constantly in the way and checking the air conditioning???
Drinks average, only bright spot was blonde waitress who works pt as mgr
Accomodating, flirtatious, and excellent!
Other than that, awful!

The Good
They do have alot of T. Vs for watching Sports.
I believe fridays and Saturday nights they have a DJ and dancing on their dancefloor. It use to be good.
They have really tall beers as well which was nice.
The Bad
Can be expensive.
They charge a cover to go dancing or entry even on fridays and saturday nights.
Not alot of games like most Yankee Doodles so I don’t think they should be given the title since it will just ruin the idea.
I definitely remembr the food tasting bad couldn’t finish it.
Everybody had high hopes for this place since the last Yankee Doodles in the valley was alot of fun before they demolished it. What the old one had compared to this one was fun pool tables, arcades, darts and a large dancefloor. Too bad.

Went there once and I had NOOOOOO incentive to go back. The music was whack, the dance floor was empty, everyone there was either old, mentally not all there, or both. I have heard that this place used to be great and, obviously, those days are LONG gone. Lol! Not good at all.

Finally, a good sports bar in the west valley, and it’s déjà vu all over again! Yankee Doodles in West Hills is a fine place to get your sports and something to eat (oh, and something to drink too! lol) all around easy going place, kind of a dive but somewhat clean. but better get here early for Laker games since it fills up fast and then standing room only.
I work close so I even come here for lunch (2 for 1 lunches are a great price).
lots of good tv’s, food and good beer. who could ask for anything more? not me!

I came here on St. Patrick’s Day with a group of 6 and this place was pretty boring. We had to result to the corner to play darts and basketball. Although the many flatscreen tvs are definitely nice to have, 3 or 4 of them were used up for spanish informercials. Seriously? It was around 12 on St. Patricks. Definitely a huge downgrade from the old one.

OK. So I go into this joint with with my wife, a another couple. First we were greeted by a Douche Bag Rent a Cop with a mean look. I let it go. Usually, he woulda got pepper sprayed. But, I’m in a transitional period in my life and I didnt want to hurt him… LOL. Any How. They were also charging $ 15 a person to watch the UFC fight. With another angry maddogging DOUCHE BAG RENT A COP at the «velvet ropes». LOL What a joke this place is? I didnt see a dress code but can imagine there’d be one. This place is a Joke. If you wear Ed Hardy and smell all musky, got a orange looking tan and you wanna fist pump like a champion. Go here! and beat that beat up. Cuz this is the palce for you.
P. s. This place is for the over 40 crowd, looking to «Club»
Mid Life Crisis written all over this place.
On a good note.
All the waitresses and staff were very nice. We tipped well. Because they were on top of everything. But unfortunatley We will never go back because of the DOUCHE BAG RENT A COPS.
Thanks for listening. Peace and I’m out.

I’ve been to Yankee Doodle’s Santa Monica many times and made a few visits to the old Woodland Hills location formerly on Victory. (R.I.P. to that place.) I went here and while they were still working out the kinks of newly opening, the place filled quickly for an NFL playoff game and the food was decent. Beer selection wasn’t bad. There were TONS of TVs everywhere and the staff seemed pretty nice even though they were somewhat overwhelmed by few people working.
The location could use a makeover. It’s pretty obvious they took another restaurant and gave it a quick change to open quickly. The outside says Sports Lounge in big letters and then the name on the sign out front.
I’ll be back here. I can’t imagine another place to see a game other than BJ’s but this is purely a sports bar and I’m eager to give it more chances.