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| - My friends and I came in for an early dinner at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday. We put in our names and hung around for 50 minutes, enjoying drinks and appetizers at the bar before being seated. Even with a few tables opening up in the patio with the nice weather, this place is cramped and claustrophobic. By the end of the meal, we had people's butts bumping into our faces as there was only standing room and we were seated at a table of normal height.
Probably one of the loudest bars I've visited in Champaign. It's not that they blast music at obnoxious volumes, but the acoustics of the room amplify people's voices into a deafening jargon. I was screaming in my friends' faces for most of our meal. I guess I would recommend this place if you have hopes of getting cozy and face-to-face with a date.
Food was hit-or-miss for me. The menu claims that their meat products are sourced from local farms (though I didn't inquire further). My friends and I shared an appetizer of sweet potato chips, which had a nice dusting of curry powder on top. For dinner, I had the fisherman's stew: the seafood was nicely cooked, but I didn't bother finishing the tomato broth, which was overpowering and somewhat jarring with the delicate seafood. Since 50% of the bowl is filled with shells of various sea creatures (as you'd expect from ordering anything with mixed seafood), it makes a pretty light meal. My friend absolutely loved the corned beef and cabbage, which was hearty and robust (I saw many plates of this popular dish being passed around the restaurant). The dish is a little more refined than traditional corned beef; Dublin O'Neil's uses red cabbage and kale mashed potatoes in place of the usual boiled veggies. Another friend said he always comes on Friday for the lunch special: meatloaf with some kind of spicy sauce concocted in the restaurant next door (301 Mongolia).
Drinks are very much on the affordable side, with every 20-oz. draught around $5. There's also quite an extensive list of bottles and spirits, though given the competition between bars in town, it probably doesn't have the most absurdly obscure things. I felt like the Irish theme here was kind of forced and contrived, but I appreciated that the bartender knew how to make and serve a snakebite (snakebite = 1/2 Harp Lager + 1/2 Magner's Cider). This is the perfect summer beverage, and I'll be stopping by Dublin O'Neil's over the next few months solely for this drink.
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