Twains Billiards & Tap
Decatur, GA 30030
Phone: (404) 373-0063
- Cross Street:
- Church Street
- Best of Citysearch:
- Pool Table 2007
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 11:30am-2am, Fri-Sat 11:30am-3am
Editorial Review for Twains Billiards & Tap – by Florrie Burch
In Short
It's the Incredible Hulk of pool halls: huge, green and all business. Twain's packs in 20 Brunswick Gold Crown tables, half of them in a separate non-smoking room. A third cavernous room sports a bar, haphazard dining area, dartboards, foosball, shuffleboard tables and a trippy linoleum floor. The joint attracts the lesbian crowd, ex-frat boys with cute dates, plus the requisite handful of pool junkies glowering at the amateurs.
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Insider Tips
Save MoneyPool costs $10 an hour per table. But if you're having lunch there Tue-Fri from 11:30am to 2:30pm, you can play for free.
When to GoThink you've got the goods? Twain's hosts an open 9-ball tournament every Tuesday night.
User Reviews for Twains Billiards & Tap
07/06/2008 Posted by bt08
I was shocked after reading some of the reviews on this site about my favorite bar. I tend to sit at the bar, and I've never had bad service there--sometimes the tables get a little lackadaisical service, though. I don't care about kids being there as long as they're being monitored by THEIR OWN PARENTS, not the bar staff (it's not their job). I honestly think Twain's has the best bar food and the best crafted beer in Decatur--the cask and Belgian selections are always great in particular, and the stout is substantial. I have always had good experiences with Twain's staff too, they're friendly and unpretentious but like all bar industry professionals they prefer when you treat them like people instead of servants. Plus they have pool tables and they show hockey if it's on.
06/26/2008 Posted by britinaredstate
So, take a look at the reviews of this abomination of a bar and you'll find that if you go there for the pool you'll probably quite like it. There's a good reason for that - if you like pool, you only really need a flat table. The table doesn't need to be heated, it doesn't need to be re-filled, it doesn't need to respond to the demands of customers and it sure as heck doesn't need to smile at you. It can just sit there. Unfortunately for Twains, the same cannot be said for food. It is not good enough to put something on a menu and then hope that the fact that it is there is where your responsibility ends. From the time I sat down at my booth (too big for two people, too small for four) and put my hands down, I KNEW it was going to be a rough night. My hands stuck fast. Thinking that I had inadvertently found a Diet Coke spill, I moved to another seat. Same story. We moved to another (larger) table and whaddya know - Twains must have commissioned table tops from the ACME glue company. Then the beer came. Twains prides itself on the fact that they brew their own beer. My pale ale affirmed my belief that there are some things better left to the pros. It was not REALLY bad, it was just not good. The hoppy start to the beer was finished with a slightly bitter ammonia aftertaste that could've been cleaner in the lines , but I suspect was actually the beer. Not an auspicious start. Next came food. The meatloaf sandwich was served cold (intentionally?) and the other sandwiches tasted like they had been freshly unwrapped from the WalMart deli. The wait staff responded to our concerns with no enthusiasm and a tinge of resentment (although they comped the meatloaf sandwich - the savings will go towards a fresh supply of Purell for my wife's purse). I doubt that I will go to Twains again - Suzie Q's is a better for pool - but I'm guessing that if I do, I will find the waitress trying to peel off the credit card receipt we pressed on to the top of the ACME table.
Pros: lots of pool tables
Cons: poor food, poor beer and less than courteous service
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