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| - Last night was my first time here. I heard it was good Irish food so I decided to give it a try along with six other friends. We arrived at 8:30 and there were a couple of occupied tables but it was mostly empty.
Our server seemed completely overwhelmed by our party of seven. She was very nice, but I don't think she was having a very good night. Her memory was pretty bad last night as well. We were there for the food though so let's talk about that...
We tried starting with a few appetizers. I say we tried starting off with the appetizers, but everything came out at the same time. I HATE that! Lamb skewers, chicken tenders and pretzels with cheese. All were very good, but the homemade pretzel was probably the best one. The flavor was just right. I hate nothing more than an overpowering pretzel flavor that takes away from anything else, this one was perfect and the cheese sauce was fantastic. The chicken tenders were very good as well with what I think was a delicious beer batter coating. Lamb skewers had good flavor and were served with a mint yogurt sauce and a small salad...they could lose the salad, kind of pointless.
Moving on to dinner...I just ordered another appetizer, the pasty. You can choose from beef, chicken, shepards pie or veggie. I chose the shepards. They really didn't do much for me, in fact they would have been pretty disappointing if it wasn't for the gravy they are served with.
Two people in my group ordered corned beef and cabbage and loved it, two people ordered the fish and chips and said it was pretty good and one person ordered the black bean burger and said it was very good. So all in all, not bad, but it sounds like the corned beef was the winner.
As for cocktails, stick with something simple or drink beer. They make a pretty horrible martini!
In the end, they have decent Irish food but if you want to enjoy an appetizer first, you might want to hold off on ordering your entree because the server might not understand the concept!
Enjoy!
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