Cool pubs in Glendale/Peoria, Arizona?

[Runs With Scissors]

My brother and I visit my mom in Sun City every October. After putting her to bed at night, we like to go out and have some beers and play pool/darts.

I was born there, but it's like a foreign city to me now. And I feel so...so...old. (Still in my 30s...technically.)

We always end up at McDuffy's, which is near the Peoria Sports Complex. Yuck. I hate that place. The music is so loud that conversation is impossible. The bouncers are...let's just say aggressive. I wasn't allowed in last year with a hooded sweatshirt. In Portland, you can't get in a bar without a hooded sweatshirt. I can't even imagine enjoying that place when I went to ASU...but I guess I did, because I went to the one in Tempe quite a few times. But that one was a sports bar. This McDuffy's claims to be a sports bar, but it's really a night club with wet t-shirt contests. (Ok, ok, I'm old. Get off my lawn!)

Anway...does anyone in AZ have a suggestion for a nice, quite pub with pool tables...somewhere between Bell Road and Thunderbird and near 82nd Ave? A real sports bar would be cool, too.

Thanks!

[dalej42]

Haven't been, but Scorz might be an option even though it is even further west.

Website (http://www.scorzaz.com/index.htm)

[China Guy]

Visit the pub at the American Graduate School of International Business (Thunderbird), if you don't mind hanging out with a bunch of MBA students. Most are not your typical MBA background types. 15249 N. 59th Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85306

Disclaimer: I haven't been there for about 20 years but at least it used to be a cool pub. Had pool tables and about 200 kinds of beer from around the world. (used to have an "around the world in 80 beers" t-shirt you got after trying 80 different kinds). Searching shows that the pub is still around so have at it.