The Glass Turtle - Bar in Roseville - 901 Sunrise Ave, USA

Went here for my friend’s birthday and we sat outside to enjoy our drinks. Brought about total 5 people and one of the friends had hand made a glass cup for the guy with the birthday. Bartender comes out and tells us to tip more than 2 cents if we are going to “bring our own cups” (we obviously tipped about 15% for our 1-2 drinks each). We apologize anyway since we’re confused. Bartender proceeds to turn off all lights on us and tells us to never come back and we’re left in confusion as we never were rude and left a tip for our couple drinks we ordered. Truly made me wish we actually did tip 2 cents.

This is a great place to eat and enjoy some drinks. No kids. Service is wonderful. The food is great portioned and they make their own potato chips! They also make a nacho plate of French fries! Their burgers are awesome and the Philly is too. On Sundays the Bears game is on and it's a great atmosphere!!

It's what you would expect from any dive bar. Poorly lit, poorly kept, and a three day old basketball game rerun on the television, but we chose to sat on the porch because of the funny smell inside. The only patrons other than our group were regulars and the employees attitude felt like disdain. While the female bar tender was simply impersonal and short, the middle aged bus boy seemed to have a chip on his shoulder and pitched what can only be described as a small tantrum in response to us having brought a glass as a birthday gift, which itself was never used.

Amazing service with delicious potato dishes in a basic sports bar.

Solid local sports bar, very relaxed. Great lighting, strong drinks.

I saw the "lights off" review and had to post that this seems to be a running move the employees pull. Seems they run a cult here and if you're not in it you're better off not going to the turtle.

Went here to celebrate a birthday, the glass turtle was recommended through a friend. We came in with a small group of 6, we proceeded to all order drinks at the bar. Each group member walked up to the bar separately to order a drink. Due to the fact of being a larger group we stepped outside to have our drinks and not disturb other patrons. We sat outside and one of our group members gifted the person with the birthday a pair of handmade glasses. A thoughtful gift. As we sat outside the bartender checked in on us to make sure our tabs were closed, all of our tabs were closed. The bartender came out for the second time to pick up shot glass, as the bartender was picking up the small shot glasses he proceeded to collect the large handmade glasses. We informed the bartender those were in fact our glasses that were a gift. The bartender hastily responded that we were not allowed to bring glasses. We were confused as to why this was an issue as they were a gift. We continued on our night on the patio, the bartender came back out to the patio to smoke and watched us through the time he smoked his cigarette. Once the bartender finished his cigarette he began to berate our group saying that if we were going to bring our own glasses we need to leave a 2 cent tip, we chuckled thinking the bartender was joking with us. But he then continued to tell us that he was not joking and we are not allowed back. Not only did the bartender continue to walk by the patio window but he proceeded to turn off all the lights in the patio in order to get us to leave.. I was very disappointed in the way we were treated, I understand we were a larger group but we all entered the establishment well mannered, we never at one point treated the staff poorly. I wish this review ended with a resolution but I will never recommend the glass turtle to a single person.

We tried having a nice birthday party for a friend, bartender freaked out over a handmade glass we made for her. They even turned the lights off on us. Then asked if we were gonna at least tip before we leave. I don’t understand what happened for them to get so hostile towards our group. Ruined what was supposed to be a good birthday party