Reviews of Friends Bar & Grill (Restaurant)

simpl man

Overall a decent place it's roomier than you would think good music good waitresses nice atmosphere

Tim Kennedy

They do not welcome strangers. They do not want to be found

Barbie Bray

Friendly!!!

Darla Smith

No stars for Friends bar&grill... very disappointed in the owner of this establishment! Shame on him!

Leroy Johnson

Friendly bar,had a good time there...

Joshua Tinker

Amazing mix of people good music food and drinks

Jennifer Sims

This place sucks no food (there is a grill), no snacks (chips, peanuts etc), their soda pops are over $3. Water out of tap is $1. We were only waited on once during our 5 hour pool match. Service sucks! Ridiculous! Wouldn't go here if I didn't have to, thank god team out of there is moving to another bar!

Zachary Feeney

We love to go here - great atmosphere and people

Reggie Terry

Well arranged for Live Music

Terry Gann

Weather never good time they only had two Coronas killed my night

Mary Johnson

Alright but take a jacket. Band is great.

Chickee Samson

Local landmark with the best local music legends in the house-band. Count On It. Safe & Friendly with the best entrance host, Curt. Known for the huge dance-floor front & center intimacy with Clique.... long-term incredible band. (We MISS you Speedy West Jr!!!) Song requests welcome with the rainbow of knowledge by these artists. Vast repertoire stylewise, executed with grace & ease!! Visit & experience the Joy all around with a "home-town bar & grill" FEEL in the giant space that is Friends. Depending upon where you choose to be seated, alone or with a large group, you can have your favorite aura to either relax, have romantic ambience or rousing party

Kathy O

Best food & music in town!!!

Mike Hicks

Nice friendly bar and dance hall.

Christine Samuels

My fiance and I were passing through Oklahoma City and thought we could find a friendly bar to go to .. This is the place to go if you're looking for great service wonderful band fantastic music and good dancing crowd to watch

Carley Fletcher

Service is great, we love this place. Need to upgrade the bathrooms.

Eric A.

Live music, reasonably priced drinks, good mix of people.

Micah Stover

When we walked in there was absolutely no music playing and it was silent except for the absolutely obnoxious screaming from the cook in the back. One of our party asked for a food menu from the bartender and the same cook who was yelling came over and described the burgers as "so good that you'll *orgasm* so hard that you have to call into work tomorrow." Then we overheard him tell one of the female staff that "he is not her house n****r" because she handed him a couple of glasses. Disgusting and disturbing. Never going back.

Audrey Washington

Really comfortable places. Great staff. Great band. Great food. Had good time. However ran out of preferred beer and liquor. Hopefully will loads when we go back

Samantha Hiines

Great retro vibe!! Lots of room, not too busy friendly poeple. Daily drink speacials.

Bret Weller

It's aiiiiiiiight... Play "Run Around Sue" on the jukebox for free beers!!!!

Nena Matz

Friends bar was fun, they had a good little band playing for Sat nite. Good drinks

Chris Rice

Great food, great people, live music. What's not to love?

Rebecca Poor

Big open place with a lot of room to dance

DeeRay Garcia

I work in the band on Tuesday and love the staff.

Shoalkin TheFox

Not the best bar, but still a bar. Overpriced in my opinion.

Mar Would

Fun & friendly, there were lots of friendly people who are all always ready to dance two-step. Being from Arizona this was different, you are allowed to smoke inside the whole entire building.

Calogero Ognibene

They charged me a cover after I had been there for three hours, music was way too loud from the band, and they wouldn't let us play music from the jukebox since the game was on.

Chris Owens

It's the most awesome club I've ever been to with 30 year olds and above

Darrell Smith

Good place to dance

James Winters

The food is FANTASTIC and the drinks are great

Joseph Williams

Friendly staff, competitive prices and don't forget about the blues jam every 2nd Sunday of every month!

Jason Engelke

Great place to hang out

Chasen Shaw

Old school honky tonk bar at night with a solid band, two stepping galore, down home couples of all ages, a majority of the men as wearing Stetson hats, friendly servers and affordable drinks.

Phyllis Kerran

Great, Fun,

Wendy Richardson

So fun! Dance and play pool

Rob Waits

Great food,good band, good service, older crowd, fun place!

Richard Adams

Great fun place.

Bryce E McCleary

The staff was nice and provided good service, and the live music was pretty good. But the crowd was pretty thin the Saturday night I visited, and those who were there seemed a apprehensive about my boyfriend and me dancing together on the dance floor. I didn't feel super comfortable.

Kevin Valliquette

Many years on, still my favorite bar in OKC. Awesome staff, absolutely top-notch house band, relaxed atmosphere through the week but can get really hoppin' on the weekends. No cares about trying to follow the latest trends, it just is what it is with a personality all its own. We're all Friends here!

Critical Agent

It was magical my life has been forever changed

Shelly Herrera

Nice band and dancing for older adults

Anthony Tuttle

loved it

Cameron Thrash LiL CT

That's my girl Stan staying away to her

Jordan d

Very friendly staff, and amazing drink!

Laura Brasher

Awesome food, drinks, and entertainment. One of my favorite spots to go when I visit Oklahoma City.

Charissa Murphy

With a name like “Friends”, a section for playing pool and shuffle board, a dance floor, and a good band, I was really hoping to love this place. I tried, but there’s just no denying how terrible our experience there was. We were looking for a fun place for our group of 10 to hang out and chat last night (Saturday), so we called the bar around 10pm to see if they had room for a group our size. The girl on the phone was rude and acted offended that we asked “if they were busy”. She said they were, but yes they had a couple tables available for parties our size. We thanked her and said we were headed her way and would arrive in just a few minutes. She responded by hanging up on us mid-sentence... When we arrived, we found out there was a cover charge. Cash only. No ATM in sight. Thankfully (or not, in retrospect), I had enough cash for everyone to get in. We searched for the big table we were told about, but the only table available seated 6 and was positioned right by the bar. So we just dropped our stuff there and all stood around the table so we could mingle as a group. Standing; however, is apparently frowned upon, because we were yelled at by a waitress to “Move! This is a walkway!” at least 5 times. Ordering drinks at the bar was a joke. They still use paper tickets, so don’t try to just have them run your card without opening a tab because they won’t do it until they feel they have the time. They’ll just hold onto the card until they’re ready... what? I was literally shoved out of the way numerous times by servers trying to get their drink trays refilled. (Thankfully, the girl I was knocked into was nice.) The drinks were mediocre at best and the bartenders were curt and downright rude at times. However, if you’re a white male, you probably won’t have any problems. They seemed to treat those customers very differently. #makeamericagreatagain I get that people start to feel the pressure when they are busy, but there’s just no excuse for having such poor attitudes toward customers who paid to be there, are paying for drinks, and tipping generously. It’s completely unacceptable. In short, “Friends” was pretty unfriendly. We won’t be back.

kendon sitton

I don't come here often but when I do it's always great.

marcel pradella

Friendly place with great service and good live music

John Waggoner

Not real Smoky for a dance club. Great band and dance floor.

CJ Martin

Fun, but only has one pool table.

Janette Wright

Fun people, good band, had a great time!

oneof3sisters

Great place. We go to karaoke on Monday nights there. Good service, great bartender. They have karaoke on Mon nights. Love it, great KJ.. he's very friendly and is fair to all singers. We love to karaoke there.

Curtis Gregory

Drinks are high in price and little

Vernon Allred

Great place

Jim Bridge

Best bartenders on the planet, Roderick & Fritz!

Ryan Scamehorn

1970s style hole in the wall that's not trying to be a 1970s style hole in the wall. So I love it.

Victoria Myrick

Loved the company and the environment.

Betty Tran

This place is a huge country-dive bar. If you're here to chill, it's a good spot. I feel like there are too many tables and not so much interaction with other people.

Melissa Martin

They had great live music the night my friends and I were there. Fun atmosphere, friendly service, and strong drinks. Will definitely be back.

annie jackson

It's more than great service,music, drinks, and staff.I've been coming here off and on for greater than 15 years ,I've made true friends at FRIENDS,as a single woman sometimes you just want to relax and have a drink, its a safe comfortable and warm place ,many of us are thankful it has survived when others cannot, xoxo annie

Destini P.

This place you can dance or hang out with lots of room to move around. Nothing special though.

Charlu BBMes Moore

Had a great time always do

maurice rizzo

Take your girlfriend here if you don't mind having nasty jokes told to her while your sitting right next to her, by the owner.

Jacqui Bergen Gleason

Best live music on a constant level; count on that. Great food, wait/bar staff.... such a huge venue with front & center large dance floor. Depending on where you sit one can have any experience whether pool-room or club setting, etc. Private & dark ambience or in the middle of a rowdy party!!

Jenny Davis

Always a great place. Good drinks, fun time, usually a great band.

Rob Storey

Great place! Good mix of ages. Very good wait staff.

C. L.

OKC’s most valuable hidden gem. The music, the atmosphere, the staff, the drinks... all of it top notch. Whether you’re 21 or 99, everybody is friends at Friends.

Larry Samuels

Good lunch specials. Monday thru Friday. 11 to 2pm Had a burger 2day. Excellent choice.

Shawn Seals

Fun bar with a very diverse crowd! The drinks aren't overpriced and they have a good house band and dancing on the weekend. Not a thug hangout!

Val Terry

Great band on weekends to dance 70 2 90 rock music

Bryan Bos

Great band

Sheila Westphal

Went to this club on 2-9-2019. 5.00 cover but no running water in the bathrooms! Really? You don't tell the ladies before taking their money? That's just bad business. Sad and greedy! The toilets were full of waste and t-paper (at least there was hand sanitizer). Disgusting!!! To top it off, the owner took the mic shortly after we arrived and told everyone "he" was having a bad day because "he" was having plumbing problems. He did remind the men that there was all kinds of bathroom space outside for them. He did not offer the ladies their money back or even apologize. We will be reporting this to the health department and will never go back.

Gloria Wright

I went to a wedding reception there, the DJ was on point played all the right music put us all in the partying mood for a super special wedding!!!!

Mike Brookshier

Good place to play pool or shuffleboard or listen to live music & dance. Really big club & very nice.

Michael JR.

Really loud, it had a great atmosphere, affordable drinks. But why do ladies have to pay a cover on the weekends?

John Ludwig

Great music and dancing what's smokey

Charlyn Stary

The pool team we play are great people, friendly.

James Hickman

Always a good place to hang out.

Robyn Sheehy

Went to see the Cadillac Blues Assembly at this venue. Cool place to see a show with great bar service to tables and a dance floor. A real surprise in NW OKC. Awesome blues performers right here in our city.

marie fishback

Ok

Keith Nelson

I always enjoy myself here. Big dance floor and good music

Vince Kuranz

Too smoky...

Ross Thompson

Cool little spot

Daydra Weldon

Great place to country dance also great friendly people. Mature crowd. Love this place.

James Bryan

Had a very good time with friends and they had nice staff.

Ryan Wade Platner

I'll be back!

Michael Smith

Really nice atmosphere and great service.

Rick Shortt

Smokey, good place for Blues

Richard Drenning

Nothing fancy here, just a great place to hear some live music and party with your friends.

Scott Jarvis

What kind of bar is closed on Saturday? Otherwise its an OK place, the crowd is a bit old and lots of regulars.

roy patton

Wonderful staff

The Video Game Lizard Lord Drazil

Great live house band.

Amy Kelly

$3.50 for soda. $1.00 for water and no free refills. Friends is anything but friendly too. You’ll have to practically beg for service.

Mariah Jane

Great staff, great patrons. We learned how to play shuffleboard properly tonight. :)

Travis White

Awesome food, cold drinks, excellent service. This place has it all!

Debbie Winters

Friendly people and the food is excellent.

Roy Ross

Good karaoke bar

Sabrina North

Cozy Crazy Fun and a Great Dance floor. Best bar staff in town by far! Oh...and don't forget about the LIT!

Sharon Wallgren

Fun

Sinsity Saint LLC

Went there on Tuesday for country line dancing class. They had a great band and the place was packed from 9 pm until 11 pm.