Tobacco Road Sports Cafe

280 S Mangum St #100, Durham
(919) 804-0764

Recent Reviews

Dana Vickers

We really enjoyed ourselves here. The buffalo chicken egg rolls were amazing! We also got the strawberry salad, the chicken taquitos, chicken sliders, and the pretzel bites. Everything was delicious! The service was very good. The place is a little noisy, so don’t go expecting to have long quiet conversations. Make use of the call ahead seating as the waitlist can be long. Definitely going back!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Salad, Buffalo Chicken, Sliders

Idia Enogieru

Came to watch a basketball game on a Saturday. Had to wait 20 minutes (was told 20-25 when we checked in) for a table even though it wasn’t super busy and there were many available tables.We got the K-Ville chicken club sandwich and the Wolfpack-hot chicken sandwich. Both were pretty terrible. The chicken was over fried and very dry, and under sauced for both. We asked for extra of the sauce the sandwiches came with, and it took a WHILE to get to our table.. and then ended up getting charged for them. For the sides, we got fried okra, which were surprisingly fresh, and tater tots that tasted like they had been sitting for a while.It would’ve also been nice if they switched the sound of the TV screens to a particular game when asked, but it seems they keep the sound to an ambiguous “dominant” game.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

Bryan Perlmutter

Gone way down hill. This place used to be good but much better sports bars in Durham. Won’t be back.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Daija Midgette

Me and my friend were having a great time on the patio watching the Bulls game until we saw several servers and two managers go over to a table and start petting and playing with another guests' dog. One server even picked the dog up! Certainly don't have anything against dogs but just very disturbing to see people who are handling food playing with animals. Makes me wonder if they even thought to wash their hands after...

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Tracsaun Jones

Great family fun food was excellent. Find an upbeat atmosphere. We sat on the patio. Wow. One of the games was going on. Laughed when the server cat caught a ball. Prices were exceptional. Bring your family out to have fun.Parking: Paid parking garage across the street.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sandwich, Salad, Potato, BBQ Beef Ribs, Wings

Dani Blackwell, '22, MPA

Walked in. Walked out. They obviously don’t want or need my money or patronage.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

S P

Ordered a salad and the bottom of bowl was full of watered down dressing.Bartender(s) have busting a$$ since 3:00pm and no one else for that matter, they’ve been holding up counters and walls.Music is blaring…is this a nightclub or sports bar? Have to raise voices to hear. New mgmt should be posted on their FB page too. Smh

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 4

Michael Stephens

Very good food and good service. This is the best set up sports bar I've encountered inside and out, especially set right on the Bulls stadium field. Will definitely return.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Burger, Ultimate Nachos

Aidene

I went with my husband on Saturday, April 13, 2024 and the food was EXTREMELY salty. We could not eat the rice and beans. The salmon was so salty I had to scrap the top and bottom of the fish, the garlic mashed potatoes were very salty as well. I use salt in my food, I happen to like it so for me to complain it was bad.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

Christine Carol

Next to the Durham Bulls Stadium, great staff and service, bar food is good, solid drinks and every sport imaginable on screens.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Dolores Chandler

The food came out all over the place. My friend's food came out way before mine. The Chicken wings; very overdone. Old tomato on tomato avocado sandwich. The Moscow mule was good. Service was glacial in speed how to drink my drink it's at the very bottom and that's fine

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 1

Chris M.

hope was the best bartender / waitress I have ever had. she rocked the house and did a fantastic job. Food was great too! Go to the outside bar. highly recommend!! By the Durham bulls park!

Blake A.

5 stars because of the atmosphere and service by our bartender. However the bartender with the dead car battery looking hair (red and green ponytail) was so rude and acted like we did not exist. She upset me and I don't like her. However the rest of the staff was great

Chris L.

We did the pre check in because we were at the bulls game. We pulled up (said the table was ready) and they told us to wait 10-15 minutes. The couple behind us were walk ups and were also told 10-15 minutes. We were both set at the same time and ordered our food at the same time; different servers. The other couple finished their food and left before we even got our food. Then when we got our food, the server disappeared for 20 minutes. We had to get another server to go get him. The service was the slowest I've had in years. Waited 20 minutes for a check. The food wasn't any better either. The buffalo chicken sandwich fell short. The bun fell apart immediately after picking up. The "fried" chicken was not really breaded and extremely soggy. When you bit into it, the chicken broke off into pieces like they pounded out the chicken thigh or something. Very strange texture. Extremely dry, and served with ?cucumbers? and a slice of tomato with the core in it. No ranch or blue cheese, and a half filled ketchup for the tots. The only good experience was the food came out piping hot. Don't think we would return, very unfortunate.

Richard Foard

This visit was during March Madness. I ordered wings with sweet chili sauce. These were the worst wings ever. I ordered crispy. They were dry. The sweet chili sauce tasted like it had gone off. It had a fishy flavor. I tried tasting without the sauce. The flavor of the wing itself was fine. But the dryness made them inedible. A sports bar can't deliver decent wings during March Madness?? I just don't know.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 5

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