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My reviews come with a caveat when warranted. The Hooley House is a place you'd go to get Irish food. So if you order non-Irish menu items, you might not be getting "the full experience". That said, if a restaurant only excels in their particularly themed items, they shouldn't have a four page, widely varied menu.
That out of the way, it was advertised Build Your Own 1.2 pound "hooley burger" as a happy hour special. So yeah, burgers are a good litmus test for any restaurant, so okay. I order a burger with bacon, mushrooms and onions. Pretty simple. Waitress comes back and says they're out of mushrooms. That soured me because I love mushrooms to an obsessive extent. Okay fine, slap an egg on it. Well, burger comes and egg is overcooked as in no runny yolk. The gooey yolk is the entire reason for putting egg on a burger. The meat had relatively no taste to it as if it were completely unseasoned before cooking and it was medium, not "still mooing" medium rare as I requested.
My companion had wings, the firecracker sauce. He said they were okay but as I've mentioned in other reviews, he pretty much eats anything so his reviews aren't quite as discerning.
As I initially wrote, maybe if I'd went here with a bunch of people to drink Irish beer and eat Irish food, I'd have had a better experience so Yelp readers, if that's what you're after, your mileage may vary.
Service was okay, though one waitress was in tight NIKE yoga pants which last I checked weren't really for work.
Also something funny that happened here - I flipped open the lid to the ketchup and without my even squeezing it, holding it upright, it starts squirting out and goes into my palm and all down my arm. I'm not sure if it was filled too fully or what, but I've never that that happen before, lol.
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