The Half Moon Bar and Grill in Gresham has launched a pretty extensive radio advertising campaign lately – I’m sure some of you have heard one of the radio ads boasting about their menu or the one focusing on their huge deck… I had heard both and was excited to go see what all the fuss was about (the fuss over the FOOD, that is – not the deck).
We decided to try it out one Thursday night at around 8 pm. I don’t even know why we bothered to go inside, because when we pulled up the parking lot was PACKED. This would have been a great thing if I was looking for a big crowd, but I was intent on trying the wonderful food they have gone to such great lengths to advertise – not the crowd. The advertisements left me under the impression that this was just as much a restaurant as a bar. Based on my experience this is not the case.
We walked in and were greeted by the doorman who scanned our IDs. The music was very loud which was ok because the band was pretty good. As far as I could see it was standing room only, so my hopes of enjoying a meal here were diminishing. We walked room to room past pool tables and gatherings of people and finally made our way to the door that leads out to the huge deck. I was CERTAIN there would be room for us to sit and eat on the deck (since it is so enormous of course), and there was! There was plenty of room on the deck, but NO CHAIRS. Still hopefull, we walked back inside and asked the bartender if there were any chairs we could pull up to the tables outside. Sadly, we were told that there were not any chairs. Since the band that was playing that night was pretty good we decided to stay for a beer then head on down the road to an actual restaurant.
I really wanted to like this place and was expecting an awesome time, but unfortunately the Half Moon didn’t deliver that night. The food that I saw looked good, so my advice would be to anyone who wants to eat here to go early. I don’t have plans to go back anytime soon, mainly because we could never get of the house early enough to get a table. So, good luck to any of you who venture that way!
Half Moon Grill & Saloon
16884 FM 2493
Tyler, TX 75703-7378
(903) 534-1884
The food rocks here! The “California” burger is really good. Reminds me of the Guacamole burger at Carls Jr. The pizza is also good.
If you dont want to fight the bigger crowds, dont go on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday! Tuesday evening is when I usually go… no live music and not a huge crowd. Tuesday’s are also $2.50 you call it nights on PREMIUM drinks, beer, and wine.
If you go, sit in Colby’s section. She is an awesome waitress!
I rarely get all the way out to Flint/Gresham where Half Moon is located therefore have not been there yet. I’m typically not into bars like this, but may give it a shot some day just to see how their food tastes. It looks (to me anyways) like a wanna be biker bar on the outside, but I know you can’t always judge a book by its cover.
I went to the Half moon Biker bar wanna be to eat because we had heard the food is GREAT, and we were very disappointed, you cant even go in the front door, its all rotten, first bad sign, we had to go a to the back door to get in and were told that its really the front door….HUH? Well anyway some big gorilla descended on us to check our DLs. I told him we were there to eat not drink and because I didn’t have a DL they wouldn’t let us in..I even showed him a old DL that showed im 49 but still no go….WTF Plus it was only about 3 pm and they weren’t busy at all, We tried to explain that we are diabetic and don’t drink but the moron still wouldn’t let us in so after looking around I’m glad we didn’t eat there, might have came down with something.
What a tool the gorilla at the door is! Give me a break. I’m scared to eat there because the cleanliness of the kitchen is totally suspect in my mind. You can have a really good time in there, however, and I almost always do. Cliqueish? Totally. Bring your own friends. You can party in this place, and that’swhat it’s for. Go eat somewhere else, bring some brass knuckles and some rubbers and you’ll be fine.
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Nice dinner – live entertainment. “Fragglerock”- seriously?