For a party or a large table at The Nut House Pub & Grille, 295 S Water St in Kent, call (330) 548-9183 with your numbers and your arrival time. The pub is open 11am to 2:30am on weekdays and 9am to 2:30am at weekends, with pizza, wings and shareables for the table.
A group is not a harder version of a table for two; it is a different job, and it goes better with a phone call in front of it. Tell the pub how many of you there are, roughly when you are arriving and how long you expect to be, and the room can be set up for it rather than reshuffled around you.
There is no minimum, no deposit page and no package to sign up to. There is a phone number and a conversation.
One number does it: (330) 548-9183. There is no form to fill in and no package list on this page, because the specifics — layout, timing, what the kitchen can send out for your numbers — are worked out in the call rather than printed in advance. Say what the occasion is and somebody will tell you honestly whether the room suits it.
The kinds of groups that fit this pub are the obvious ones. A team that wants pizza and wings after a match. A birthday that is going to end late rather than early. A leaving do. A table of people who want a game on and food that keeps arriving.
Weekend nights are the busiest hours in the building, so the more notice you can give for a Friday or Saturday, the better the answer will be. Midweek is easier and often the smarter booking if your group is flexible.
One word on numbers: be honest about them when you ring. Twelve people who arrive as twenty is a much harder problem at seven on a Saturday than twenty booked as twenty on a Wednesday. Nobody here minds a big party. They mind a surprise one.
Food for a group is easiest as shareables and pizzas. Jumbo wings, traditional or boneless, scale better than anything else on the menu. Game Time Nachos, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Candied Bacon & Onion Dip, Wisconsin Cheese Curds and a Bavarian Pretzel or two cover a table without anybody having to negotiate.
Craft pizzas do the rest: Hot Honey Pepperoni Pizza, Deluxe Pizza, BBQ Chicken Pizza, or One Topping BYO Pizza if the group has strong views. Work out roughly what you want before you call so the kitchen can plan the timing.
If the party is collecting food rather than sitting down, the Toast storefront handles pickup orders online.
Order in waves rather than all at once if the group is staying a while — shareables as people arrive, wings in the middle, pizza late. It keeps the food hot and stops the table turning into a buffet nobody is eating.
The pub's hours give a party a long runway: 11am to 2:30am Monday through Friday, 9am to 2:30am on Saturday and Sunday. Nothing has to finish early because the room is closing.
An early-evening start on a weeknight is the easiest booking to get right. A late weekend group is very doable, but call sooner rather than later.
The Nut House Pub & Grille, 295 S Water St, Kent, OH 44240. Phone (330) 548-9183. Mon–Fri 11am–2:30am, Sat–Sun 9am–2:30am.
South Water Street is a short walk from the middle of downtown Kent, which matters when a group is arriving from three different directions. The Google directions link on this site puts everyone at the same door.
