Skybox Restaurant & Bar

«Another one Bites the Dust» … unfortunately. This establishment and home to many single 50-​something bar flies, looks to have closed their doors. Too bad too, as they were the last bastion of live music that isn’t country.

I can’t comment on the food, as we were never served! We apparently found ourselves in the middle of a feud between the server and the cooks. We waited an hour before being told our food was not being cooked. Our server informed us that she was quitting and gave us our drink bill. The manager never even came over to explain the situation or to try to make it right. So now I guess we’ll finish watching the Wildcats win and go get dinner somewhere else. Don’t think I’ll be back here any time soon. This would have been a different review if the manager on duty would have taken a second to care about his customers!

Came for lunch on a Monday service was very slow and food was not great. The Burger over cooked and fish tacos had no flavor at all.
Overall very disappointed.

Not a good experience
The menu is outdated service was awful.
they waited to tell me when I went to pay that one of my to go orders was no longer on the menu. Why would I take one and not the other. Then the girl blamed everyone else, no sense of responsibility.

READ THIS IF YOU HAVE ENTERTAINMENT BOOK!!!
If you intend to use the coupon out of the entertainment book, you cannot use the app because they do not accept the coupon, you MUST BRING IN PRINTED COUPON. While I am frustrated and want to be mad about this breach of the terms on the coupon, they were nice enough to remove one of our items off our bill so I can’t really hold it against them.
Good food. Nothing amazing but good. Good deal on ribs that are pretty good. Overall good atmosphere but nothing to write home about.

This is a nice restaurant/​lounge. I was here for a friend’s birthday party and the 80s tribute band was great. The food service was horrible. I think our waiter was either having a bad day or really hated his job. The restaurant knew we had a large group coming but they were ill prepared to handle the group.
The waiter did a decent enough job of getting our drink orders. When it came time to order our food he made a comment of trying to coordinate «so he wasn’t running around like crazy» Excuse me, if you were more skilled in your job you would know how to handle a large group from the onset. After he took our orders (it took forever) he came out to serve our plates. There was no silverware or napkins. He threw a bunch of utensils on the middle of the table (how’s that for class?) then came back and gave us some napkins. Getting a drink refill was more of a joke. A girl helping the waiter was doing her best to help with refills but we were waiting 10 – 15 minutes just to get our drinks,
This venue doesn’t know how to adequately handle capacity when the bar/​restaurant is full — the people are the bar were blocking the pathway for servers to get their food and drink orders. I am sure the bar loves having capacity — they just need to learn better to manage the crowd or consider moving the band to the front corner of the venue so traffic would allow servers pathway in and out of the kitchen — how’s that for a thought?
Probably a decent place to go when it’s not busy. If you are getting dinner — go early on Friday/​Saturday nights.

A good time sports bar. Friday nights serves up live music by 80’s & Gentlemen, a performance band that the patrons love. Dance floor is always packed with a diverse respectful crowd. A great way to spend Friday nights
Just read some bizarre reviews for Skybox. I always see a diverse age group there on Friday nights. Afternoons draw the golfers to the sports bar. I thoroughly enjoy the ambience and city twinkling lights, but usually we are engrossed in good conversation and lively dancing. The bands on Saturdays vary. Look for Grind and Tesoro, great music.

Awful food. Tastes like they make no effort except to open cans and take food out of the freezer. The service was awful and the octogenarian owner creeps on his female staff constantly. I went here with some friends to watch a game and was not impressed at all. Great location otherwise everything else falls flat.

Great views of Tucson! Reasonable prices for good food. They serve sophisticated dishes so don’t be fooled by the sport bar theme! I had crab stuffed prawns with grilled vegetables which was amazing. The vegetables were big and beautiful… I did not miss the carbs with this plate! I sat at the bar because I prefer that atmosphere and the service was absolutely fine. I had no disappointments here!

Can I give a place negative stars for terrible service? Because that would be awesome right now.
Ignored 3 times at the bar and forgotten by a cocktail waitress. Enough. Don’t waste your time, go somewhere with good service! I’ve written enough good reviews about other places that there’s no reason to bother with this place.
Music? Meh.
Drinks? Average.
Setting? lovely view off the balcony-​of a parking lot. (ooh, very fancy!)
Patrons were very fun loving and kind, I’ll give the place that. But only because I have no reason to insult a group of strangers.
Value? You can find better drinks at a more pleasant and accommodating venue, that’s for sure, and if you can’t, it’s time to leave Tucson!
Snobby wait staff who made it quite miserable for me-​so much so that I actually complained to the manager who offered to get me my water that I had been waiting on (and being ignored for). What a relief! He offered me a water!

Our alumni group meets here for football and basketball watch parties and they take great care of us. Great food and drinks! Great service!

We went in tonight. The tv’s were on very loud. 4 channels all competing with each other, and the manager changing channels with the volume getting louder. It was so hard to even think in there. We ordered our food. I had about enough of the noise when I told my husband lets go. He said we should stay, we ordered food. Shortly there after our food showed up. My meal was just what I ordered. My husband started eating his and notice there was no bacon on his sandwich. Opened up the sandwich the meat and bread were right the rest of the sandwich was completely wrong. We called over the waitress we asked her for the correct sandwich. She apologized. While waiting my husband ate his French fries. The waitress came back and said we are out of bacon. unhappy with them not saying anything looked at the menu for something else. We didn’t see anything. We asked for the check. Told them we’d pay for the French fries. Waitress said or I could just take his meal off all together. We said that would be great. Then she said, you did eat part of the sandwich I need to ask my manager. (manager never came by to say anything to us the whole time) of course we were charged for the fries.
I let the waitress know that was not cool just to makeup any sort of sandwich serve it without saying anything.
I was not happy.

Our waitress was super nice but our experience as a whole was less than stellar. We sat in the bar with the intention of watching a football game but we missed 20 minutes of it because the owner, managers and bartenders couldn’t agree on which TVs to change. The food was average. It was good but there was nothing special about it. I had high hopes for it because it is close by. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll go back.

Walked in and walked right OUT tonight! Smelled like an old smelly mop! Shame as we normally really liked the steaks here.
Went to beautiful patio setting downstairs at Caffe Torino instead. Lovely jazz trio playing on a Thursday evening.
You lost us for good Skybox.

An overpriced Famous Sams. The band Evolution was great. The Lack Of Service Is not. The management must be to blame. Waitstaff stand around the entrance while the bar is slammed, slammed because the tables are ignored. I had to order food from the bar, tipped well thinking that would trigger good service. My food took an hour and when I asked about it, clearly had been sitting under a heat lamp the whole time. If you bring your own drinks, you’ll have fun. You might as well go in the kitchen and make yourself something to eat. No one would pay attention.

Came back again, same horrible service. No change in the horrible service. Again the only good thing about this place is 80’s and gentlemen the Friday night band. DO NOT EAT HERE FOR DINNER! !!!

This place has great potential. In a new area, nice shopping center, very nice interior — lots of TVs and a dance floor.
The food was just not good. We got pretty simple meals, pasta and a sandwich.
The crowd here was honestly all 50+. I’m guessing that’s because of the senior living center next door. I wish this place was good because it’s location is so close and like I said I think it has a lot of potential!
Honestly I think they need to give Robert Irvine a call from Restaurant Impossible. Until then, I don’t think I’ll be back.

If you like the 80’s you’ll have to stop by for their Friday night 80’s band! If you’re nice to the host, find out their no-​cover secret word for the month. I tip generously so I learned that’s their rule. I love the music and it’s so much fun, yet their dance floor is VERY small. They should move the tables back so there is a larger dance floor. The drinks are a decent price and not too strong, just right. I ate here too and it was decent bar food. I like it a lot and hope you will like it too!

My husband and I decided to try to this place out after we got a buy one get one entrée coupon. Which unfortunately was finally honored after a long rigamarole…
Upon entering the place, we were greeted nicely and found it to be mostly empty for dinner time at 5:30. We opted to sit outside because my husband mentioned a «retirement home» smell to be unbearable. I didn’t smell anything.
The patio is nice and open, great view of the city and overlooking the terrace. They have cute rope lights around the rails and some heaters available for winter time.
We expected to be served slowly because we were the only people outside but to our surprise, we were served in a timely manner and checked upon often.
The food I would actually rate 2 stars. My husband on the other hand rates his entrée a 5.
For appetizers we got the soup of the day, Clam Chowder and Spinach and Artichoke dip. The clam chowder was extremely watery and lacked any flavor, the only plus was huge pieces of clam. The spinach arti dip was also watery and was found to be on the salty side. Both were a let down since we love these two things in particular.
I had the Californication for my entrée which is a cheeseburger with grilled onions and avocado on sourdough bread. I was hoping for a replica like the one at Ruby’s Diner in SoCal, but unfortunately was let down. The onions gave a weird taste to the burger but the bread was phenomenal. Very tasty sour dough. I chose the tator tots for my side and was let down by those too. They’re supposedly house made, hand mashed and all. I found the flavor and texture too weird for my taste. Plus they were extremely salty.
My husband had the French Dip with tator tots. He raved about his sandwich, but especially the fact that it came on a hoagie roll. I had a bite and found nothing spectacular. He also extremely loved the tator tots.
I think what really irked me about this visit was the fact how they almost pulled a fast one on us. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved our server, she was very attentive and nice. What happened was, they didn’t honor our coupon simply because they couldn’t find the button in the computer. Instead they gave us half off one of our entrees and acted like that was extremely generous already. Then they tried to explain that if I read further down the paper it would have said only half off an entrée. I knew I did not misread the coupon, for that was the whole reason we came here. So I made them pull out the coupon and I physically read out loud buy one get one free. Then they tried to cover themselves again by how they couldn’t find the coupon in their computer. So I asked if they weren’t going to honor the coupon at all and by this time the manager had this fed up look on her face and said, «Sure we can do that.» So now I’m left with being charged twice and having to wait till I get refunded. I’m glad that they honored it but the situation could have been handled a lot better and they could have told us what was going on instead of making it seem like they honored it. I honestly believe they didn’t look at the coupon at all.
All in all this is a high end sports bar, filled with the older generation. You may like it, you may not. But don’t fall into my shoes and not check your bill before you pay. Yes, it was partially my fault. Unfortunately, we won’t be coming back.

Went with a friend after a recommendation that this was a top sports bar in town.
The interior was nice and about half filled with the Final Four on the tv. I should have known right there something wasn’t quite right.
The menu was very small and not a sports bar type menu.
I would like to tell you how the drinks or the food were but after fifteen minutes of not even being acknowledged, we got up and left.