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Irish pub... with an Indian restaurant on the inside and filled with arcade games? I'm there!
Drinks? This is hands down the best happy hour in SF. From 5-7pm you get $2 guinness and buy one get one pints of anything they have on tap. They have an extensive range of superb imports and microbrews on tap so you can't go wrong with whatever you choose. I have never had some type of sour beer or funny tasting here because they maintain their taps really well.
Food? Chips (frieds) with curry dip, deep fried cheese, and deep fried zucchini all wash down perfectly.
TIP: If you order two beers, they will charge you full price on those beers and give you two tokens. You should mention that you would like to redeem the token for that purchase so it is a real BOGO if you are buying just two beers.
To solidify their place as a SF institution, they even have a pic of Jerry Garcia there (sorry, no LSD beer).
A curry house engulfed by arcade games while sharing the same roof as an Irish pub could easily be a total miss. Except the food is really awesome! We had the pakoras, tikka masala, chicken curry, chicken vindaloo and naan. Note: the pakoras are huge with one can be split by two people!
Kennedy's is like dipping your french fries in your frosty - it seems so wrong but tastes so right!
great place to order Indian Food delivery in the city.
I've never actually eaten inside the restaurant, but from take-out, I can tell you its a pretty ridiculous place.
That aside, the food is pretty damn good.
Recommend in particular:
Cable Car Delight. I know, it sounds like something you'd order at a Tenderloin Thai Massage parlor, but its even better and so much more sanitary. It's similar to the Chicken Tikka Masala but more buttery. The taste is perfect and the chicken is tender.
Samosas: they are gigantic and delicious. nuff said.
Should be noted that sometimes I feel like some of their chicken with other dishes comes out a little dry, but not for the above mentioned cable car delight.
If you go with the naan, curries, rice, and samosas, you can't go wrong.
Also want to make a plug for their honesty and flexibility, which I really appreciate. One night, due to a mixup, they forgot to give me my samosas (I called a 2nd time to add on samosas to the order). I called back and they said "sorry about that, just tell us next time and we'll add it on." I called back like a month later for my next order and told them the situation. They added it on, no questions asked!
There are a lot of great Indian places in the city, but this is up there with the best of them. Also, their cable car delight is something pretty special.
Food taste good, and the portions are large. The beer selection is huge. Also, they have Great White, which is one my favorite beers. The decor is pretty heady, and there are tons of games to keep you entertained. This ia great place for dining with large group that isn't in a rush.
Not a great place to come if you are hungry or in a rush. I get put off by the extremely slow service. You nearly have to shake the servers to get their attention. Also it can get really cold sitting in the big eating area. I don't think they have proper insulation or heat.
Overall, its okay and good food. The atmosphere caters to specific scenarios and needs.
An Irish Pub complete with pool tables, bicycle rentals, random San Francisco tourist paraphernalia (see back parking lot), AND an Indian/Pakistani restaurant, all on the same site. This really shouldn't work, but it somehow it manages.
The tikka masala and chicken tandoori were tasty, garlic naan on par with Shalimar and the like, and veggie samosas good too. And everything went down really well with a cold bottle of apple lambic!
Service: not as bad as expected.
Kennedy's is one of our regular happy hour spots in the city. Irish pub and Indian restaurant in one? how can you go wrong? Especially with a great happy hour. $5 for 2 beers or $2 Guiness. With over 20 beers on tap there's something for everyone. The indian food is pretty good too. It's not the best i've had but in combination with great beer it passes the test. Samosas are pretty good, the tikka masala and naan were also good. I would pass on the curry chips as the fries are a little soggy and the curry sauce is watered down.
The atmosphere is very chill with pool tables/foosball/arcades. Nice place to just lounge and hang out. There's some seating outside on the deck which is really nice if its not too cold or raining.
Street parking is pretty easy to find if you're driving here.
Overall, Kennedy's is a great place to get great happy hour priced beers and some good indian food. Kennedy's is one of my favorite places to chill in the city.
Pretty laid back bar. Decent indian food. Awesome games to play! Can't really go wrong here. It's low key, fun and pretty large.
Definitely enjoying this place! Been there a few times now and my only disappointment last time was that they ran out of Smithwicks...but hey, that happens - I could have had something to do with it the last time I was there.
There happy hours from 11-11:30p at night - are fantastic! Foosball, hunting games, Indian food, serious air hockey...this place is fantastic!
Really enjoy this place =) Fun place to hang out, shoot pool, the food taste great! I like the fish masala, tandoori chicken was a little dry but that's not unusual. like the mix of pub and restaurant,
cons. you still walk out smelling like indian food =(
In search of a place in town that had a foosball table, I found Kennedy's. I had no idea it was so much more than just a place to play. (Foosball, pool, air hockey and a sweet deer hunting arcade game) So many beers on tap. 2 for one deals during happy hour are great. I'm pretty sure they still do that.
The Indian food they serve is delish too. The samosas are as big as your face and the garlic naan goes good with the tikka masala. I have yet to venture too much further on the menu, besides that and the bar food. But I'm sure its all pretty tasty as well.
There was one time we went and the wait staff in the restaurant forgot to bring out our meal. They brought the samosas...then the bill, completely skipping the main course. We let them know and they apologized, then brought our food out. I think the lady that forgot our food no longer works there. But oh well. I still love it.
Favorite place to meet up before going out - One of the only bars that stocks Shiner Bock, among probably 100 other bottled beers. Kennedy's wins.
Very good indian food and a pub with a very healthy beer selection. What more could you want? How about a funky decor and some bar games and pinball machines? Still not satisfied? Southern and Northern Indian food, a sexy waitress and tvs to watch the game. It was a strange and yet wonderful mix all around.
Kennedy's is an Indian restaurant inside an Irish bar. The concept is bizarre and so are the decorations but this place is awesome. Its a huge building, all wood complete with high ceilings, tapestries and bright colors. You could go just for the decor, but the food is also really good.
I'm no Indian food expert and neither was anyone I was with so we kinda picked some dishes at random, but everything we ordered was very tasty. The lamb curry was amazing and a little spicy. Writing about it makes me want some. The samosas were huge and the 2 sauces that went with them were so good. We got two types of naan, and a #50. I'd order them all again.
I'm at the Irish pub! im at the Curry house! I'M AT THE COMBINATION IRISH PUB AND CURRY HOUSE!!!
Kennedy's has all the requirements for the optimal pub/bar experience. There is patio, great beer selection, tasty Indian food on the premises (i've only ordered their delicious), and almost always enough space to hang out, and hear what people have to say, in other words - not a clusterfuck. Also there's foosball (amongst other bar games) if you're into that sort of thing. Draw backs? I cant think of any except that its not close to my house - so Kennedys - its time to open a 2nd location in the sunset.
One more thing, they got hookahs and a hookah room.
I first visited this restaurant in 2002 and had a great meal there. I recently visited again and it was just as good as I remembered it to be. The meat is of good quality and the sauce is not greasy and just the right amount of spicy. I hope it's not another seven years before I can visit again! =)
Awesome service/ bartenders. Indian cuisine with your beer, yes please. Pool tables, foosball, a few video games and the best air hockey table in the city, sign me up. Sound system could be better if I'm paying per song. Deck for puffing too.
If you're seeing a show at the Bimbo across the street, leave during an intermission / act change, grab a beer, play game of choice, loser buys shots, return to the Bimbo, boogie on.
As you walk through the door of Kennedy's Irish Pub & Curry House, one eyebrow is probably, most definitely, raised. Why yes. It is a huge Guinness sign next to a huge Ganesh statue. Can't say I don't like a dancing elephant who knows his beer. You may be dubious, but the food is amazingly good. Ten times better than Naan and Curry, and with a http://restaurant.com coupon, better than affordable. Two friends and I split an order of lamb sag, chicken tikka masala, chicken korma, plain naan, garlic naan, and plain rice. It was more than enough. The curries came out in pretty deep dishes, and the meat were in hefty chunks. We each took home plenty of leftovers for lunch tomorrow. So if you can stop staring at the environment around you and ignore their disgusting bathroom, you will not be disappointed.
3.25 stars
You would never think of a restaurant that serves Indian food AND have bar and pool table in there, too. Very, very interesting. BUT, the food was pretty good. Our waiter seemed out of place at the restaurant, since it was a bar hang out kind of joint, and he seemed lost when taking our orders. He was this traditional old Indian man. Should I call that authentic or just weird?
Anyway...I ordered the chicken sagwala dish, which was a chicken and spinach dish made with a rich, curry spicy sauce. It tasted excellent with an amazing amount of flavor. I also ordered some garlic naan bread, which was fantastic.
The funny thing was I had asked the waiter that the order was for a single serve (me) and if I could get a single order of everything else. However, he brought out enough food to feed a family! Either there was some miscommunication there or he was trying to make a bigger meal ticket for me. Who knows, but it was kind of uncool.
I also got to try some jalapeno poppers, zucchini sticks and fries with curry sauce. Great appetizers.
Kennedy's gets a 3.25 stars for a mistake in my order and slow service.
This is by far my favorite bar in the city to bring groups of friends to. The bartenders are rad, the food is scrumptious, and they have 3 foosball tables! Oh, and they have a jukebox.
LOVE
this place is totally random, but i love it. i came here w/ a bunch of friends last night, and it was fun. i got there early and started off w/ some beer. they have a ton of beer here, and i got a framboise lambic ale, and wakako got a blue moon...two beers for $10.
We then sat down and ordered food. i tried the veggie roll, shrimp vindaloo, roti, and sambar vada. everything was really good. the shrimp vindaloo was not as spicy as i would have liked, but they were generous w/ the large prawns. i would definitely come back again for the mixed crowd, good times, and good food and beer.
Food good. Ordered chicken vindaloo (okay), chicken tikka masala (good) and samosas (large, good). Service was okay - self serve. Would be a good place to go for games - couple of tvs around. Some pool tables around too. Can get pitchers of beer.
We've had our scrabble group here for a couple of weeks now and the owner offered to buy us scrabble boards and move us to a larger space. Thank you for helping us fee welcome! I think good owners help build community and he took a big step towards doing this with us.
Irish pub + curry? WTF?
Well, it works.
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Chicken tikka roll, tofu roll... kheer... I don't care much of the rest of the menu.
happy hour is fantastic. Between 10 and 10:30 you get $2 guiness of $5 drafts, the latter being by one get a token - good for redemption anytime on a draft beer.
PS. this place delivers all day and late into the night; they will even deliver bottled beer right to your doorstep!
The food was great, and cheap. We ordered 1 appetizer, 2 entrees and a dessert and had enough food for 4 people. We didn't even begin to eat everything that was put in front of us. And everything tasted great! The beer is very reasonably priced as well. Cheaper than a lot of bars in that area of town. The only downside is the service is slow. The 2 guys serving we very nice, but they need more people working. Don't go there is you are in a hurry or have plans in an hour. But if you have two hours to sit and chat with friends it is great.
There is also pool, foosball and air hockey and lots of bar food for snacking. We will definitely be going back!
Holy Moly Guacamole and CURRY! An Irish pub with over 200 selections of beers AND an Indian restaurant???
After a long night spent at Alcatraz and being turned down by Fog City Diner because they could not accommodate a group of 20, we walked all the way from the Pier to Kennedy's for a late night dinner. May I suggest, if you ever decide go to Kennedy's, make sure you take Guri and Theron with you. Why? Guri knows his Indian food and will order the best dishes spiced to the perfect heat for the entire group. And Theron, well, he's tried over 100 beers and counting so he belongs to their elite club and gets 15% discounted automatically. For $12 each, we all went home with bellies full of curry. I was so stuffed, I wanted someone had to roll me into the cab.
My 2 favorite dishes were the Curry French Fries and Cable Car Delight. The french fries were perfectly crispy and stayed that way throughout the entire dinner--a good measure of french fry perfection. The Cable Car Delight, which is basically tandoori chicken in a creamier curry sauce was absolutely delectable...
All in all...a perfect meal after an escape from Alcatraz...
"What's a guy like you doing in a place like this?" was the line I wanted to give the perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect (quadruple distilled) Three Philsopher's beer.
Expect life-altering and thoughtfully selected beer in the most unapologetically kitschy, ungainly, homely, sad-faced bar this side of North Beach(/the Mississippi). No one's putting on any airs with that wedding rental plastic furniture or the homemade seashell sink in the ladies' room with the corner store hardware. I have no desire to spend any length of time here, but I'll savor a fancy beer on the falling down porch again soon, perhaps before a Bimbo's show.
This is one of the quirkiest and most delightful places that I have been in SF... and that's saying a lot in this city. I honestly wasn't expecting much from the food, but it was very good indeed. We got great service and I loved the college bar atmosphere. If you play foosball, this is your spot. And they serve food late. This is a huge bonus in this sleepy city.
What a funny yet awesome place! An Irish pub with an Indian restaurant on the inside? My head exploded at the thought.
This was the second stop on my happy hour tour of North Beach, and I'll admit: the sign advertising $2 pints of Guinness is what brought us in. High five on the super-cheap pints! And if Guinness isn't your choice of poison, during HH all pints are basically BOGO. Woooo! The bartenders are pretty cool too. My brothers and I even got hooked up with a pitcher as our freebie because they didn't feel like pouring us individual glasses.
We were compelled to buy some bar snacks, because deep fried food is essential eats on such a venture. We went for the fried onion thingamabobber. Its kinda like a blooming onion, only the slices are all separate (which means more batter!) It is served with several chutneys, of which I liked the tamarind flavored one the most. Warning though: you should eat those quickly, because once they get cold, the onion becomes a little gross.
So decent food, very cheap beer, and good service. Yeah, I'll come back.
What a great spot for a cheap Indian snack or mini-meal. We stopped by here late on a Sunday night. While most other places are already closed, this place serves their Indian food until 1am.
I ordered Curry Chips (fries with a side of very good curry), Keema Naan (naan bread containing minced lamb meat), and Mango Lassi (a drink made of mango and yogurt). Everything was very good and all of it for under $10.
Great food, highly recommend this place. I ordered the Chicken Tikka Masala and was really surprised. I ordered take out so can't speak much to the inside dining environment. If you order online for take out or delivery you can save 10% on your order.
I think that this place can be exactly what you are looking for or leave you wanting a little more in the service department.
My best experience with this place is late night, drinking lots of tasty beers and realizing that while yes, bar food is always tasty a friend SAMOSA sounds even better. Not having to leave the establishment? Even better!
My okay expierience with this place is I'm super hungry and can't wait to eat my tasty meal. Oh wait, I am waiting. And waiting. And analyzing the window artwork because I have been waiting so long oh look here comes all of our food at once. Great! Appetizers and main course together as god intended.
Anyway, if I were less hungry I wouldn't mind. In fact one of my favorite Indian places is renown for its leisurely service. The food is okay but I have not had the chance to try enough to make a solid claim one way or another.
Worth checking out just remember extra patience needed when dealing with the drunk clientele and the leisurely service.
I had great hopes this would be a curry place like we have in the North of England. The pub is not half bad, but the Indian food is of dubious quality. Far better curries can be had at so many other Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi places throughout town.
Also, the crowd can get a bit rough at times.
It does not take 1 hour and 10 minutes for an ordered of frozen pre-made fries/poppers/ and cheesesticks to fry. After 40 minutes of waiting I sauntered over to ask the waitress to check on my order (and I didn't interrupt her or anything while she was serving other people), but she just shooed me away saying 'not yet'. The least she could do was help me check since she was headed back toward the kitchen. I mean I figured they were busy, but not too busy for one basket of fried shit.
I'm relatively patient, but this proved to be too much.. I went back to sit down and waited another 10 minutes.. and then I noticed the girl who ordered while I was up checking on my order, and they gave her a fucking basket of those fries/poppers/cheesesticks. OH HELL NO. She waited 10 minutes for her order, and they SHOOED me away when I came by 40 minutes later to CHECK on my one order. FUCK you very much bitchass waitress. Finally after staring them down, they had 3 people checking to see what the fuck was up with my order. When I finally get my damn order, I don't even get an apology for their fuck-up. You screwed up. Admit it.
2 stars for the rest of the bar.
3.5 stars really..
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What a complete and utter crap-hole. If this is Indian, then all I can say is "Pakistan Zindabad."
The interior looks like the leftovers of yesterday's garage sale.
The waitress didn't know what a "non-alcoholic" beverage was.
And the food, the food. The chicken was PINK inside.
And the prices! How did each of us end up spending TWENTY DOLLARS for such slop.
Please, please go anywhere else but this horrible Indian restaurant (which we suspect is not even owned by Indians).
Top 5 Reasons Why Kennedy's Rocks:
1. Strictly a Local's bar
2. It's an Irish Pub but they boast a highly rated Indian Restaurant in the middle (the Kabuli Naan is like a pop tart on bread)
3. A Game Room with:
* Two pool tables
* Three Tornado Foosball (table soccer) tables (weekly foosball tournaments on Thursday's @ 8pm)
* Internet Juke Box
* Pelican Puck Off video game
* Megatouch Aurora Ion 2008 game console
* Big Buck Hunter video game
(no clue what those last 3 are, but at least you have options!!)
4. A large assortment of flavored tobacco for those hookah lovers out there
5. Happy Hour: 5pm - 7pm and 11pm - 11:30pm 7 Days a week
* Guinness: $2.00 - All other drafts: Buy One get one free!
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I came here only because I heard they had 3 foosball tables in great condition. The rumors are true! 3 Tornados!
I had a pretty great time here. I don't know what Kennedy's is trying to be but it's interesting! Bar? Sports bar? Indian restaurant? Irish pub? It did have that great dive bar atmosphere and a variety of people though. Bar flies, hipsters, college bros, lesbians, etc. The foosballers here are a bit intense and take their games quite seriously. That didn't stop me from kicking some ass and winning a pitcher of beer ;)
The only, ONLY, downside to Kennedy's is that they only serve beer. Although I like my beer, it'd be nice to have some cocktails as well. Especially since I keep betting drinks and winning in foosball buhahaha
It's also got a nice little patio area. I didn't try any of their Indian food though. I wasn't drunk enough.
I LOVE this place and plan to go back, but it will be hard for me to ever give this place more than 3 stars due to the God awful restaurant service and the mediocre food.
If you are simply looking for fairly inexpensive Indian food, $10.95 for Chicken Dosa, THIS IS YOUR place. This IS what we were looking for otherwise I would have graded them even worse.
Servers are emotionless, take forever to take orders, take forever to bring food, forget items, and generally bring no value add. I think the clientele would be happier if they just waited in line upon arrival to get their order and then seated themselves.
The brilliance of this place is of course the combined Irish Pub with its insane 200? number of beers selection. Add that to foosball tables, an air hockey table, and a couple other random games and you find yourself in an environment to chill or get crazy whatever your desire.
I was really disappointed that a supposed Irish Pub doesn't serve liqour...only beer and wine. But they were nice enough about it and told me where I could buy it or another bar nearby where I could get it served. Coolio!
After reading a bunch of the other reviews I really think that yelp should break this into 2 seperate places. In all honesty I view the indian food as a completely different establishment (that suffers from our incessant noise and drinking). That being said, I'm keeping my review strictly to the bar aspect of this place.
Picture yourself poor, destitute, tired, and sober. With only 10 dollars in your pocket, you desperately need to drink and you just can't drink anymore liquor. Where to go? Kennedy's!!! STick with PBR and you'll get so damn drunk it's not even funny... actually I take that back. It's hilarious! I always feel bad about the people in the adjoining indian resteraunt... specially the ones who aren't drunk and wandering over there from the bar; but hey! don't go to a bar for a quiet curry meal... they deliver for a reason. Anyway.. grab a pitcher or 3 and have a seat! the place is big enough to not get over crowded.
Every bar has a pool table so I won't comment (about how AWESOME pool is!) but I gotta give some props for the foosball and airhockey they got goin on. I consider myself a foosball extrordinaire; if you see me around please challenge me to a game!
All in all an AWESOME dive bar. Cheap ass drinks, awesome atmospheere, and enough games to keep you entertained on the off chance you can't do so on your own (for all you boring people!)
Service was ridiculous; the staff were like zombies. Only good thing about this place is they have a great beer selection for great prices.
Keema Naan - Way too salty
Kabuli Naan - Just the right amount of sweetness
Dal - Pretty bland
Lamb Vindaloo - Is it even vindaloo if it's not spicy? Lamb was tender though.
Tandoori Chicken - Good flavor but the chicken was very very dry.
How can you NOT love a place where you pay $5 for a pint of draft beer....and you get a token for a free beer in return!? Buy one get one free on a Saturday night??
$2.50 beers? Seriously? I don't care if hookers were giving BJ's to homeless guys in the corner while Gavin Newsom was falling off the wagon and doing a line off a stripper's stomach on the pool table. I EFFING LOVE THIS PLACE.
On second thought - if that sh*t actually went on, I'd probably give this joint 5 stars.
Cheers!
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