This is the most overpriced and overrated place I have ever been to. Ever. Anywhere, in the USA or Ireland. I am baffled at how they can pass them selves off as ""charming,"" when the place is just shabby and old. The restrooms are rude. And almost $200 for a meal? My chateaubriand was unrecognizable, and drowned in a gelatinous, tasteless sauce. Why did she ask me how I wanted it prepared (I said medium rare) only to bring thin strips of well done meat--I couldn't even recognize it as the right cut. The vegetables were overcooked, and the potato was undercooked. The salad was about what you get at Chili's, and the potato soup was a lifeless puree. The so-called ""Irish whiskey cake"" was a soggy mess. I am still wondering how the glass of Bass ale, the same stuff you get at any HEB in Texas for a few bucks, was worth over $8. Yes, the sisters who run the place and serve as wait staff are sweet an charming and pretty, but totally ineffective. The meal was not leisurely, it was painfully slow. As a person of Irish heritage, I am appalled that Austinites are being told that this is an Irish experience. This was about as Irish as Olive Garden is Italian.
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