The Boulevard Bar And Grille

My 9 year old son wanted pizza and to watch the Predators game, which was playing that night, so I decided to take him to the Boulevard. When we walked in, a sign said "Seat yourself". There was no other sign or person directing us to sit anywhere specific. We found a table in view of a TV showing the Predators game, and sat. And we continued sitting as we watched other people come in after us and get helped, while no one even came by to ask if we wanted a drink or maybe a menu. After 15 minutes of sitting, someone finally came to our table, but only to tell us we can't sit there because kids can't sit at the high tops after 3:00 pm. She said we can sit at a low top and then walked away. I tried to ask her if I missed a sign stating that policy, but it was too late. She was already giving hugs to the two guys who came in after us. She was now the second server to stop at the other table while we had yet to get any help, unless being told you can't sit here counts as help. At that point, I made the best decision I had made all day, and we left. We went to Jonathan's and had two for one pizza and watched the Predators game, and had a hostess seat us, and got helped at our table right away, despite Jonathan's being much busier than the Boulevard. If you're going to have a policy that you plan on enforcing upon your guests, it may be a good idea to have a way for that policy to be made clear to your guests before they find a table and sit for 15 minutes with no help. A sign that says seat yourself only works if there aren't additional caveats that your servers enforce after you've "seated yourself".

We don't recommend this place. This was our first visit as we are fairly new to Murfreesboro, coming from Nashville. We were a bit disappointed and probably won't be back. We ordered the spinach and artichoke dip and it came out literally cold and very bland. Our waitress was very apologetic and kind and sent it back and it came back lukewarm. Not hot at all. We didn't finish it, even drowned in Salt. Waitress saw and offered to comp it for us, which we didn't expect, but thanked her for it. Husband got an appetizer wing order and they had fried the wings then just sprinkled seasoning on top, so it all fell off when you ate it. So they ended up being plain wings and were overpriced at $8 for 5 wings. I ordered a summer cocktail which was wonderful as well as my custom pizza. My husband got a burger which was decent, but the fries were cold and limp. Not crisp. Staff was wonderful. But food was just ok. They are a typical southern restaurant where they have a huge menu with far too many options and nationalities of food. They aren't American food, or Italian food, or Mexican food.. But they serve all that. Which usually means none of them are done super well. We weren't impressed even though it had good reviews.