I was excited to try Danny Boys because I love Frank Sinatra - he is the main theme of the restaurant. I am also constantly in search of a nice restaurant that serves great pizza and high-end wines. Enter Danny Boys...
Years ago I frequented an Italian restaurant in Aurora, Ohio that played nothing but Frank Sinatra music. I cannot stress enough the importance of music while dining or shopping or painting or working. My first visit to Danny Boys sent me to Sinatra heaven music-wise - for about 20 minutes. Suddenly I found myself staring at a Frank and Nancy Sinatra portrait while listening to hip-hop music. Obviously the restaurant manager had gone home and the youngsters had taken over.
Danny Boys shares a kitchen with the Firehouse, however a patron cannot choose a good wine from Danny Boys' list while dining in the Firehouse and a patron cannot choose various flavors of chicken wings from the Firehouse while dining at Danny Boys... huh?? These two locations share restrooms, a kitchen and a narrow hallway. I guess accounting supercedes a diner's ability to enjoy everything these two establishments can offer. The ownership is going to make you choose one or the other.
Although the pizza at Danny Boys is "ok" it is extremely expensive to order something halfway normal - a patron will have to build it themselves. Their specialty pizzas have cutsie names relating to Sinatra's cohorts, however who wants angel hair pasta or peas on their pizza? Why can't one order the specialty pizza toppings on a crust of their choice without paying an arm and a leg? And lastly why can't I play KENO at Danny Boys and watch the draws. I am plum tuckered out from running 20 feet through a hallway to check my numbers.
The restaurant boasts a "Woogie" and a Calzone... what's the dif? Hell, I had to look it up online. That pretty much makes the menu useless.
The wines are well chosen, however the young waitstaff glogs them into the glass - sediment and all - without a second thought. Danny Boys doesn't seem to have a wine-by-the-glass dating system whereby they replace wines that have been uncorked for days. You have a good chance of getting a skunky/sour $8 glass of wine each time you dine here.
The pizza is nothing to brag about, the waitstaff is slow and ill-trained, there never seems to be a greeter at the front on arrival (so expect a wait), and they have never been busy when I've eaten there.
Sad really....