Firewaters

Sad that this place use to be a great hang out spot when i was younger and then it started dying out and service started getting worse. Sad that millers killed there business. At Least they have hooters next door

Good spot to go to on Wednesdays and unwind. They have a DJ who spins good house music the whole night. Bartenders are cool. Not to mention great drink specials. because they have hooters next door you can order food also.

I don’t know what the deal is with this place. When I was younger (before I turned 21) this was a really cool bar — and I remember in college people sneaking in here with fake IDs. Now on a good night this place has maybe 5 people in the bar. It’s always dead. Every time I have gone my friends and I are always the only ones here — and the service is still terrible. It takes forever to get a drink from an empty bar. Which is disappointing because they have a decent drink selection. They do have darts and pool — but unless you want to be alone this place is not worth coming to.

UGH! this place is so sad! It has such potential with full size bar, seating area, mini bar, dance floor, and darts/​pool table… but this place just doesn’t use its potential money makers.
terrible bar service when there is more than one person to serve. i waited over 20mins just to get a drink at a friends bday gathering we had there. i was ready to drive to the liquor store to get what i wanted… i would’ve made it back before she even thought about making my drink.
the beer was flat and so was the soda made with my mixed drink. you can taste the crap in the tap in the beer, awful.
i don’t even know what more to say about this place because its that bad— best thing going for them is hooters is right next door, so you can at least get some good wings.
too bad i don’t have the money i would take over this place with clean taps great service, it would be a gold mine.

Cheap drinks. A LOT of beers on tap. Quiet (unlike Miller’s Ale House which is bombarded). Pretty bartenders. Yup, fan!

Staff was friendly and prompt but the lack of quality beers on tap was a huge disappointment…

Pros:
–50 craft beers on tap.
–Has pool tables and dart boards inside.
–Shares a kitchen with the Hooters next door.
–Conveniently located right off rt 4 in Hackensack.
–Very spacious (they actually have 2 bars).
Cons:
–This place is almost always dead.
–Bartenders don’t really know anything about the beers.
–Dirty bathrooms with broken locks (only two stalls).
I don’t understand why Firewaters isn’t more popular. It has so much potential but like Christine G. said «it’s a waste of a place» because no one is ever here. Also, like Maria W. said «tumbleweeds roll by here» that’s how dead it is. I came here on Halloween once a couple years ago and it was still dead. Forget about Fridays and Saturdays, it makes no difference.
But hey, if you’re looking for a nice quiet place to drink craft beer, play pool and shoot darts then go to Firewaters. If you’re looking for a good crowd to socialize and meet people then go somewhere else.

Don’t hate.
Chill bartender with good music (think old school Bone Thugs and 2Pac, TLC, and even some RHCP)
As advertised, 50 craft beer available.
Good prices on the drinks with lots of promos going on.

A friend wanted to host a going away party and needed a spacious event venue with lots of parking. Given that tumbleweeds roll by here, it was just what we were looking for to bring in our own horde of guests.
If you plan to talk with your friends and actually hear what they are saying and can over look the bizarre musical choices playing in the background, Firewaters is a ghost town quiet place to fit in your crew, grab a few drinks and a meal.

As I have said before. I’m a sucker for hooters wings. That plus the fifty craft beers and a working pool table really made my Sunday enjoyable. Got a few banana bread beers and a flying dog pumpkin. I feel like being able to sit in fire waters element. And eat hitters wings, it’s the best of both worlds. Sunday ticket as expected with berry accessible televisions.

I stopped by here last Friday evening on my way home from work to finally check out the selection of 50 craft beer lines. I’m a big-​time beer nerd, but the lack of chatter about this place gave me reservations. Well, I get in there around 7:30pm, and there are a total of five people there — three guys at the bar and two women at a table. The place is cavernous, oddly-​decorated, and had loud, pulsing dance music playing. I was there to watch the rest of the Yankee game, but had a hard time paying attention with the crappy music. The bartender was pretty friendly, but clearly wasn’t a beer «insider» and therefore I didn’t have anything to talk about at a place that brought me there for the beer. I got some of the Hooters wings, which was only the second time in my life I’ve had them. After the first time, in Atlanta 10 years ago, my comment was that the best thing about Hooters wings were the boobs on the waitresses serving them. With this serving, half of my wing order was dried-​out, no-​meat crap, and the ones that were servicable barely had any meat on them. I had a pair of draft beers, and while I recognized most of the names, they were all shelf-​stock choices. Out of 50 lines, not one of them was something that any sort of exclusivity or rareness to it. For those, I’d rather just save the money and get a sixer at Stew Leonard’s.
Now, as bad as my review is so far, it still hasn’t gotten to the worst part. I was there for about two hours, and when I got home, I started feeling really, really awful. I went inside and immediately got sick, and it continued into the next morning, puking up bile for several hours. The only other time this happened to me was the last time that I had draft beers at a sketchy place in Key West. The connection that I made was that I probably have a reaction to some sort of bacteria that occurs when tap lines aren’t cleaned. I can’t state this as a fact, but 99% of my draft beers are at places that specialize in catering to beer nerds who are serious about their suds, and I never get drunk or sick at those places. My beer intake for the night would have allowed me to pass a breathalyzer no problem, so it wasn’t over-​consumption that got me. Suffice to say that you couldn’t pay me to go back here. Well, maybe for a million bucks. That would be worth being sick for.

Ok… this place seems to be under new management and has actually gotten a bit better in the past year. The mind-​boggling selection of bottled beers hasn’t returned, but they added a few dirt-​cheap «keg-​kickers», ditched the DJs, and even brought back the sampler. The couch is gone and the place can still have a pretty depressing and lonesome vibe, but it’s not the pit it had been

Such a waste of a place! They have 50 craft beers on tap with an impressive selection. From 5−7pm they offer $ 3 beer samplers. On top of that, you can order from hooters next door. Yummy wings + great beer = awesomeness!
Then why only 3 stars? First, there is no ambiance heck there is never a crowd when I go. The place feels so dark and drabby. Probably what a bar would look like in a ghost town. Second, the bathroom is a disgrace I think gas station restrooms are cleaner. Third, some of the bartenders know nothing about the beers on tap so please take advantage of the sampler to avoid a roundabout of questioning.
So sad to see such great beer go to waste…

Good service, decent price beer, amazing selection. I was really impressed that it was so empty on a Friday night… but my friend and I had a good time.
I must add that it’s attached to hooters. So if food is ordered, it’s cooked by the cooks from Hooters. We didn’t mind that. But… some might.

The place was virtually empty on a recent Friday night. They have big ass TV’s showing sports. A 22 oz. bottle of Bud is $ 5. My kind of place!!!

When I entered the place I felt I was in the Footloose movie. I mean, BEFORE Kevin Bacon teach the folks how to party.
The music was way, very way too loud (not right equalized), nothing hip, just the cliché athems we all know.
Me and my friends left right after have the second round of beers because we wanted hear eachother.
Ok, they have great selection of beers but… I can survive with a Heineken in other place.

What a crock of crap. 100 beers, absolutely stellar selection, WASTED with a staff that knows nothing about beer and acts annoyed when you ask for anything but a miller lite. They don’t even know the names of the beers they carry, and everything (even the delicate beers) is poured into a frosted mug (which is a HUGE offense if you know your stuff about beer). They just want to jump on the bar and pour shots into patrons’ mouths.
Super guido, super garbage. Clearly someone there knows a lot about beer, but they wasted it.
Eff this joint.

The women behind the bar are paid to look good, not to provide knowledge about what is available. The wine available by the glass is very poor. The bartenders do not know how to make cocktails. This is a beer bar. Drink beer if you go. Good place to play darts.

As much as I dislike to Unilocal a «chain,» here goes:
Firewaters is a decent way to waste a Sunday afternoon drinking from the big selection of beers — sometimes they are «out» of a specific brew — and catch a football or baseball game. There is usually a few yah-​dudes, and the bartenders have been consistently hot, but I’ve never had a bad time here — it’s more entertaining to make up stories about the people in here than to actually witness something worthy of telling later.
I have never been here on a Friday or Saturday nite, but you have to remember that it’s attached to Hooters, and Hooters, let’s face it, are pretty much clones whether you are at Hooters in Union, NJ or Las Vegas, NV, and to completely STEAL (that’s my thing, that’s what I do!) from Hunter S. Thompson, «Hooters is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.»
So, is this a review of Firewaters or Hooters? Both are interchangable, and one is the parasitic twin of the other — you can order food at Firewaters off the Hooters menu — and the clientle is pretty much the same, so I guess two birds with one stone, eh?

What a crappy bar and the pricing of drinks… get outta here!
Not even Hooters next door could help this place.