04/27/09

Great Sunday

by joebiz23

I get sent to NYC on business every few weeks but this time I arrived on a sunday rather than midweek. My company put me up in the Tudor Hotel on 42nd so I decided to go across the street to Mcfaddens to watch the Yankees. I've gone by there sometimes and thought it was kinda rowdy and not my scene but they must have changed something because I had a great experience. I sat at the bar, ate my grilled cheese for dinner and had to drink away my sorrows at the yankees getting swept by Boston. I was just going to watch the game but I ended up closing the place down, Mary (the bartender) did a fantastic job and I recommend this place to anyone who wants to roll in for some good bar food and a fun place to watch a game. The only drawback was the yankees losing!!

• Pros: good food, laid-back and great service

11/30/08

Worst Bar in Midtown ???

by Gene11105

WORST BAR EXPERIENCE EVER! So me and my coworkers saw they had this $20 All You Can Drink for 2 hours Special every friday, we work a block away, so why not right? Wrong!! We get there, where the bouncer checks your ID just to step into the place (haha..big joke since this place is more of a pub) and they tell us that the $20 special's been discontinued. What they have now is you pay $5 , they clamp a wristband on you, and you get drinks HALF PRICE for 2 hours. Sounds cool right? Wrong!! Me and my buddies from work start ordering beers. They order pints of Guiness, myself a Stella. One of them is charged $3 for a Guiness, the other $4 for a Guiness, and I'm charged $4 for a Stella. So my $3 buddy says keep it quiet, he's getting beers cheaper than normal. We say..coool. But after 3 beers, I had to ask. I'm like, so Stella's are $8 normally? The bartender (cute but obviously dumber than a doorknob) says no they're $6. I'm like $6..whoa..I've been paying $4 a pop plus $2 tips on each bottle. She's like well, I didnt have change and walks away. Meanwhile the bar is packed! Come on, you were busted! Rather than her say, "oooh my bad, next beer on me!" Or even I'm sorry.. she gives atttitude..so I ask to speak to the bar manager. She whispers in his ear, and vice versa, so it wouldnt surprise me if they were banging each other after shift. Anyway, I'm waiting like 15 minutes..i think he was hoping I would just leave. He comes over and asks if there's a problem. I tell him the whole story, and he's got absolutely no excuse in the world but at the same time still NO apologies. He gives me my $5 back , a business card and tells me I can do whatever I want. It's not the extra $1 I'm paying , but the principle. Charge EVERYONE the same price, this is called discrimination and they were called out on it. We left for another local bar and got a buy back after 1 beer! Bad music, corny crowd and rude bartenders.. be afraid, be very afraid!

• Pros: The bartenders were cute. Good location on 2nd Ave.
• Cons: Rude service... corny crowd... bad music... sketchy pricing for drinks.

04/08/08

(Almost) the worst place I have been to!

by pipster8

This place is awful! All I can say is don't go and waste your money here!

We took some friends who were visiting here on a Saturday night to eat and the service was slow and the waitress couldn't have been more disinterested in serving us. She took our order and then came back 15 minutes later to tell us that there was no more steak left (half the menu is steak) which 3 of us had ordered. She then rushed us into choosing something else. When the food did come out, there was a disgusting hair in one of our meals which had been mashed in. We complained and she did bring out another one but there was barely an apology. The food is ok but nothing brilliant. About 9.30pm, the place starts to fill up with more people and you literally feel like you are being watched eating and they just want you to leave so they can use the space to squeeze more people in. When we did get the check, the waitress had already added on 20% tip. We complained again and said we would only pay 15% - way too generous! She then asked with a pathetic surprised expression whether the service had been bad. Bad is an understatement. I would rather flush all my money down the toilet than ever go to this place again!! You have been warned!!

• Pros: None
• Cons: Everything!