the spunky monkey bar & grill

post-restaurantimpossible remake. quirky exterior of building-liked it. enjoyed the contemporary design on the inside. fun graphics of chimps.restaurantimpossible crew did a decent job giving the place a makeover.

ordered a beef burger with jo jo's. and the wife had the screamin' pasta.
the burger was extremely dry, but well seasoned, but only came with one piece of lettuce and one slice of tomato - no cheese...but did have a lovely remoulade, however, bun the was just a dry piece of brioche - very ho-hum.

the jojo's were about 5 baked potato wedges with rosemary/sea salt and were delicious but too few, especially as the wife pinched 2 of them! the homemade ranch was freshly made and yummy.

the wife thought the 'screamin' pasta' was misleading as a title - as it implied it had kick with strong garlic and zesty lemon flavor which made her look forward to eating it, but although the pasta were fun shapes and a plentiful helping - she was disappointed by it being pretty bland and very oily.

she was also annoyed that when asked "would you like chicken with that?" to which she replied "yes" was charged an extra $4 for a few pieces of chicken breast! it was served with a very small piece of french bread, which could have been larger and toasted.

the waitress was friendly enough but put words into our mouths when she passed by and said, "is it amazing?"
we just politely smiled.

overall nice...but a juicier burger with cheese and more to it than what was given and more jojo's would have made the evening way better.

there are pool tables and coin operated dart boards.

bad meal. thursday 2/27/14
took 2 friends to the spunky monkeyrestaurantin auburn, wa, wow was that a big mistake. if there were a negative number i would post it. therestaurantwas featured as a “restaurant makeover onrestaurantimpossible”, so i thought it was going to be inviting “not”.
we walked in and there was no one to greet you, headed to the dining area, where a man in dirty clothes said “it’s closed, go up to the bar” this was at 6:20pm). we went up stairs to the bar, waited to be seated, took a few minutes, (only 5 people in the bar 4 staff members); we were seated in a booth which had a broken table.
after we ordered, it took the kitchen staff 45 minutes to deliver our meal; i have to give the wait staff credit, a couple of staff members, kept apologizing about the wait.
i ordered, beef & blue burger (salsa was slimy – scrapped it off) burger was cook per order, but the 5 wedges on the plate 2 cooked 3 raw (gross).
my friends order the fish sandwich, fish was dry, roll seemed to be day old, the other ordered steak, and it was as tough as shoe leather, veggies over cooked.
thisrestaurantis not inviting, very poor quality of food preparation and extremely long period of time between order and delivery.
i paid the bill, because i was so embarrassed about the place i chose for guest.
i would not recommend this place ever!
i will also be sending the showrestaurantimpossible a cc of this post.

avoid this place.. there's nothing spunky, or even remotely charming about thisrestaurantsince the remodel. you're better off hitting the burger king around the corner before you drive somewhere fun.