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| - Rosie's is my home away from home. I've spent so much time there I'm on a first name basis with them. Like any locally owned pub, you will experience your share of missteps if you go often enough, but there is one thing I can categorically say about Rosie McCaffrey's: I have had nothing on their menu that was bad. Not one thing. They are friendly, accommodating, clean and very, very Irish. On the weekend, don't be surprised to find a group of Irish guys at the bar tipsy and singing fight songs at 11AM. This isn't just a great local hangout, it's a great AUTHENTIC local hangout and the nationals know it and congregate there.
One thing I would like to mention. For many many years now, I've been going there for one reason and one reason alone: the wings. I'd get a craving for those wings, and I'd go there just to get them. I was not alone, a number of my friends felt the same way. The wings were extremely unique: all drumsticks, and larger than typical. In the past year, they changed their wings, which now resemble the wings that you can pretty much get anywhere - not bad, but not crave-worthy anymore. When I talked to a waitress I was unfamiliar with about this, she proceeded to inform me that I had lost my mind, that the wings have always been like this, in all the three years she had been there. Yeah, no. I have since checked with three of my frequent Rosie's companions and they all agree - the wings are not the same.
Don't let that deter you though. Rosie's is still as satisfying a local pub experience as you're likely to find in Phoenix.
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