Decent Pool Rooms in Minneapolis Area

mikemosconi

mikemosconi

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One of my sons and I will be in Minneapolis soon. Looking for a decent room ( clean, OK area, 9 footers, decent food perhaps,) I saw a reference to CR lounge in Coon Rapids recently here- looks like only 7 foot tables- OK if no other good options, I guess. This is just for one son and I to shoot together, while the women do their thing elsewhere for the day, not caring about action, tournaments at this visit.

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Shooters, in Burnsville, fits your criteria. There are other options, depending on where you are.
 
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Two stooges in Fridley, Jimmy's in Columbia Heights, and Bloomington billiards club also have some 9 foots.
Tournaments are mostly played on the bar table look at their Facebook pages for dates.
Monday and Wednesday at shooters is on 9 ft. Wednesday is handicapped.

As for food their are so many great restaurants in the metro area and pool rooms are not where I would go for food.
 
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mikemosconi said:
One of my sons and I will be in Minneapolis soon. Looking for a decent room ( clean, OK area, 9 footers, decent food perhaps,) I saw a reference to CR lounge in Coon Rapids recently here- looks like only 7 foot tables- OK if no other good options, I guess. This is just for one son and I to shoot together, while the women do their thing elsewhere for the day, not caring about action, tournaments at this visit.

Thanks
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If you want food while shooting on 9' tables, Jimmy's and Shooter's are your best bet. Both have multiple 9' tables and good menus. Jimmy's food is great. Twin City Billiards in Little Canada has 2 9' tables, only food available is pizza and air-fried items. I don't think they open until later in the day.
There is a new private room that recently opened up in St. Paul, Slate Billiard Club. 8 9' Diamonds with 4 1/4" pockets. No food available but a really nice room. I believe you can pay a non-member daily fee. Look them up on Facebook and reach out if you're interested. Great group of guys run it. TinMan from AZ Billiards is one of them
 
Jimmorrison said:
Shooters, in Burnsville, fits your criteria. There are other options, depending on where you are.
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In May I asked this very question traveling with my son. I got good suggestions but with limited time and the location of our hotel we went to Shooters. My son isn’t a player but we had a good time. If my son ends up in school in the area I will check out other places, but I will definitely go back to Shooters.
 
We went to Shooters today- thanks ! It was perfect - a great experience - pool, food, and the staff - met Craig / an owner. We also went to Peters Billiard supply - best selection of antique pool tables that I have seen 👍👍
 
mikemosconi said:
We went to Shooters today- thanks ! It was perfect - a great experience - pool, food, and the staff - met Craig / an owner. We also went to Peters Billiard supply - best selection of antique pool tables that I have seen 👍👍
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Glad you liked it too. I will have to check out that Peters Billiard supply if I get back there. That place looks amazing.
 
Hands-down, Shooters in Burnsville, Jimmy's in Columbia Heights, Two Stooges off University Ave and CR's in Minneapolis. Avoid Al's.
 
Jimmorrison said:
Shooters, in Burnsville, fits your criteria. There are other options, depending on where you are.
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I could not disagree more about Shooters. Shooters is an okay pool hall at best (if you're desperate and in Dakota County). As far as the best pool halls in Minnesota you could argue CR's is the best maintained tables and tightest pockets. There is also Twin City Billiards (formerly TNT) in Little Canada that also has nice tables and tight pockets. A very slight step down is Two Stooges and Jimmy's Pro Billiards and both are well run pool halls. All of those pool halls I mentioned have the owners on site usually daily and owners that are pool players that still play and properly maintain their tables, cues, and clean balls several times a day. Now a GIANT step down from that is Shooters. It is owned by an investor that is rarely there and the lack of owner being on sight shows. The carpet is falling apart, the food is very hit or miss, the carpet should of been replaced five years ago, most of the workers would fail a surprise drug test, and overall he's in the business to make money and prices are higher for everything and quality is lower in every regard. At the bottom of the list would be Al's Billiards, Bowlero locations, or any AMF location that has pool tables. All of those are just run down and haven't been upgraded or properly maintained for years.
mikemosconi said:
Thank you!
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couldnthinkof01 said:
Two stooges in Fridley, Jimmy's in Columbia Heights, and Bloomington billiards club also have some 9 foots.
Tournaments are mostly played on the bar table look at their Facebook pages for dates.
Monday and Wednesday at shooters is on 9 ft. Wednesday is handicapped.

As for food their are so many great restaurants in the metro area and pool rooms are not where I would go for food.
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Bloomington Billiards is now closed. I agree with everything else you said and Two Stooges would be at top of my list for pool halls to shoot at too if I was recommending somewhere to play to a visitor from out of town.
 
QShark said:
Hands-down, Shooters in Burnsville, Jimmy's in Columbia Heights, Two Stooges off University Ave and CR's in Minneapolis. Avoid Al's.
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Hands down Shooters????? Are you kidding?? Shooters is a large pool hall but can't hold a candle to Two Stooges, Jimmy's or Cr's (you also forgot Twin City Billiards). Shooters is poorly maintained and the ONLY reason Shooters is still in business is no competition that far out of Minneapolis area. If Shooters was in Anoka or Fridley or Minneapolis area shooters would have been bankrupt years ago. Shooters is in an area with no competition that is the ONLY reason Shooters hasn't gone out of business.
 
kallencurtin said:
Hands down Shooters????? Are you kidding?? Shooters is a large pool hall but can't hold a candle to Two Stooges, Jimmy's or Cr's (you also forgot Twin City Billiards). Shooters is poorly maintained and the ONLY reason Shooters is still in business is no competition that far out of Minneapolis area. If Shooters was in Anoka or Fridley or Minneapolis area shooters would have been bankrupt years ago. Shooters is in an area with no competition that is the ONLY reason Shooters hasn't gone out of business.
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I did not go to CRs because they only have 7 foot tables- that is NOT a pool room in my opinion- it is a "sports bar" - totally different concept to me. My son and I thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon of pool at Shooters- the food was not bad either. The service was excellent, the owner was present and we had a nice discussion. I had no issues at all with Shooters.
Come down here to SW Florida and visit so called pool rooms in Ft. Myers and Cape Coral if you want to see what pool dumps really look like today- shooters was Paradise compared to what I see in SW Florida. The rooms in SW Florida are full of smokers, drunks, trailer trash waitresses, filthy pool equipment - and I am talking about DAYTIME! ----- you have it good in MN. compared to here!
 
Sounds like its time to venture just "slightly" northward --

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kallencurtin said:
I could not disagree more about Shooters. Shooters is an okay pool hall at best (if you're desperate and in Dakota County). As far as the best pool halls in Minnesota you could argue CR's is the best maintained tables and tightest pockets. There is also Twin City Billiards (formerly TNT) in Little Canada that also has nice tables and tight pockets. A very slight step down is Two Stooges and Jimmy's Pro Billiards and both are well run pool halls. All of those pool halls I mentioned have the owners on site usually daily and owners that are pool players that still play and properly maintain their tables, cues, and clean balls several times a day. Now a GIANT step down from that is Shooters. It is owned by an investor that is rarely there and the lack of owner being on sight shows. The carpet is falling apart, the food is very hit or miss, the carpet should of been replaced five years ago, most of the workers would fail a surprise drug test, and overall he's in the business to make money and prices are higher for everything and quality is lower in every regard. At the bottom of the list would be Al's Billiards, Bowlero locations, or any AMF location that has pool tables. All of those are just run down and haven't been upgraded or properly maintained for years.
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I agree with you that CR's and Twin City Billiards are both great locations, I don't agree with a few of your other statements. The majority of the 7' tables at Shooter's have pro-cut pockets, so are just as tight as CR's and Twin City Billiards. Shooter's does have an owner, who plays pool, and is there almost any time I have been there. And a number of years ago, a pool hall did open up less than 5 miles away from Shooter's so they did have competition. Shooter's is still there, the other one is not. Shooter's must be doing something right if on Friday nights they have all 63 tables in use with a waiting list. Also, the original post said they preferred 9' tables, it's hard to get on the 1 9' at CR's or the 2 9' tables at Twin City Billiards. Shooter's has over 30 9' tables.
 
I like this debate. In the next 4 years I expect to get to MN a bunch with most of the time close or reasonably close to Minneapolis since it turns out my kid will be heading to school in the area. I hope to test out all these opinions. I watched a little bit of a stream from CR’s the other day. Have watched some from Slate as well. I may be asking about some of the tournaments and such.
 
kallencurtin said:
I could not disagree more about Shooters. Shooters is an okay pool hall at best (if you're desperate and in Dakota County). As far as the best pool halls in Minnesota you could argue CR's is the best maintained tables and tightest pockets. There is also Twin City Billiards (formerly TNT) in Little Canada that also has nice tables and tight pockets. A very slight step down is Two Stooges and Jimmy's Pro Billiards and both are well run pool halls. All of those pool halls I mentioned have the owners on site usually daily and owners that are pool players that still play and properly maintain their tables, cues, and clean balls several times a day. Now a GIANT step down from that is Shooters. It is owned by an investor that is rarely there and the lack of owner being on sight shows. The carpet is falling apart, the food is very hit or miss, the carpet should of been replaced five years ago, most of the workers would fail a surprise drug test, and overall he's in the business to make money and prices are higher for everything and quality is lower in every regard. At the bottom of the list would be Al's Billiards, Bowlero locations, or any AMF location that has pool tables. All of those are just run down and haven't been upgraded or properly maintained for years.
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I’m sorry the waitress turned you down, maybe she just doesn’t like drunks. If you keep grinding that axe, you’ll have nothing left to chop with.
 
It is my opinion that for a pool hall to be considered a pool hall it must have at least a few 9' tables. I am not a barbox hater, in fact I don't mind playing on barboxes at all, I probably spend more hours on barboxes than 9' tables and I have a very nice 9' Gold Crown in my basement, its just that real pool halls have 9' tables, if not its a bar.
 
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