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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.
"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.
Kennedy's is my go-to spot when I have company in town. Not only is the happy hour fantastic ($2 guinness or $5 b1g1 free draft beers) there is one of my favorite Indian restaurants inside. Great chicken/veggie rolls, (for five bucks - in fluffy naan with ranch and curry sauce), fantastic vegetarian curries, and delicious kheer. YUM! It's a place that's comfy enough and roudy enough but can be really laid back and seem like a place where you can bring your whole family. They also deliver which is perfect.
I don't think I've yet professed my love for this place.
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...
Serving 15 of us - This Desi is impressed.
$3.95 for 2 Samosas -- This Desi is not impressed.
Watered down CTM - wtf? I can make this dish better than your cook.
Chana Masala and the Bharta were really good and so was the lamb saag.
The ladies behind the bar were nice. The guy pretending to be a server was not really a waiter/server. Yo! Rice is not equal to Ice.
I think this place is on a path to 2 STARS and perhaps even the coveted 1 STAR rating.
The dishes are averaging $9-11 each and the serving is small. If I wanted that kind of food, I would hit up one of the 3 Power (Oil galore) houses (Pakwan, Naan N Curry, Shalimar).
The food is good but I would recommend going with someone who knows desi food or it is a hit and miss.
I might come back again but it will be because my friends drag my arse over.
Romantic: No (unless you count having curry and playing pool and chugging beer romantic)
Will I go back: No*
Recommend: Sure, worth a visit.
****************** June 7th ************************* **************
It still has good food.
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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 won't lie, the combination of an irish pub and indian food restaurant was hard to get my head around...one might even say a hard sell the first time a friend recommended it to me. We were hitting up a show at Bimbos and decided to drink and eat there before hand. I was totally impressed. Bars with 2 for 1 drink specials always have a special place in my heart; especially bars with remediable drink tokens (similar to columbus cafe, also in North Beach). Combine a great drink special with sizable portions of deliciously spicy Indian food and you can't go wrong. Definitely worth checking out!
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.
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!
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.
Irish pub + curry? WTF?
Well, it works.
On the pub side: CHEAP DRINKS. Happy hour is $2 guinness pints and buy one get one free on their draft beers. They have 33 beers on tap.
They also have pool tables and air hockey and a deck for entertainment.
The food was decent. I had a tikka masala and naan and it's comparable to a Naan n Curry.
The combo of having cheap drinks + food in one location is pretty awesome.
While the food ran me about $10 it was nice that I didn't have to leave the bar.
The bar is also pretty spacious so you can bring a good group.
I'd definitely go back, especially on a sunny day to hang out on the deck.
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..
Great happy hour - $2 Guinness, or other beers - 2 for the price of 1.
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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).
was up in the City last weekend and went to kennedy's on two recomendations, and it didn't dissapoint. spend an entire afternoon nursing a hangover at the bar, watching football, drinking Chimay $6 i think, which is great, and eating curry and chips.
by the time i had left i was once again drunk, full of indian food, and incredibly tired. All in all, was a good place, its very big, so theres room for groups, has a good feel to it, and is unique in being an Irish pub/curry house. only in SF i guess.
i kept thinking how awsome that place would be to duck away into on a rainy day to suck down suds and keep warm. if your in the north beach area, check it out.
I tried this place via recommendation of a local. I was looking for a chill neighborhood bar that had a solid beer selection. This place is definitely unique; a bar/Indian restaurant didn't sound like what I had in mind. Carpeted bars are NEVER a good thing and add to that musty smell a splash of curry and voila, you've got yourself a nasty smelling bar with one hell of a beer selection! I didn't try the indian food but as for the beer selection was phenomenal!
I'd recommend this place as a stop along Columbus St. if you're looking to try some good new beers on tap. Next time I'm visiting San Francisco I'm sure I'll be back in there.
When I had friends going to the Art Institute, I use to come here quite a bit, but that was 6 or 7 years ago. I have very good memories of that time, as well as of the curry fries.
It seems like the quality of the sevice has gone down in the past few years, in favor of unwanted gimickry (hookas, and cowboy hats?). Also not a fan of the change to the buy one get one free token business they have happening at happy hour.
Also, I know people like the internet juke boxes, but I think those things fucking suck. It just lets bros and douche bags make you listen to the horrible popular music they're jammin' to at the moment. I much prefer the juke box that helps define the character of the bar, where the music is really is the soundtrack of the space. For example: the all opera juke at Tosca, the punk jukes at luck 13's or zeitgeist, or the juke at the basque hotel filled with downtempo, 90's trip-hop and D&B. I just feel like as the propriator of a bar you should take ownership the the sonic space as well as the physical one. I mean you wouldn't just let whatever random asshole who came into your business just redecorate your shit at their own whim. Or would you?
Ok, tangent over. the things I do like are: Tandori rolls (yum!), curry fries, big buck hunter, swell back patio, and cheap pitchers of PBR.
This place went from 4 stars to 5, and now down to 3. I don't know if it's the recession or something, but am I just imagining that restaurants are skimping on ingredients and watering sh*t down?
I was going to Kennedy's pretty regularly for a while, but not so much this year. I recently went back with a largish group, and the food was still decent, but not as flavorful and rich as it had been. My curries were watered-down, and the dosa used to be delicious but it was just so-so this time.
Changed from 4 stars to 5.
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The Irish pub with foosball and air hockey is great. 4 stars. But the Indian Curry House portion is 1 star, primarily for the worse customer service outside of Chinatown.
Since I can't give a 2.5 rating, I'd rather round down to 2 (since I was ignored by 3 different cashiers/workers inches from my waiting to order self as if I was a cast from Sixth Sense).
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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5 stars for the food and awesome beer selection, 3 for the food service.
Kennedy's is a pretty interesting place, in case you had a need for a late-night indian food fix. Beers are buy-one-get-one-free during their happy "hour" (5-7pm, and 11-11:30pm). They serve dosas and vadas in addition to a good selection of curries, and I'd say it's better than average for Indian/South Indian food in SF (probably on par with places south bay).
They do need to improve their service attentiveness though -- we had to go fetch the waiter again and again for various things. But the food made up for the "eenh" service.
This place left me feeling bewildered, excited, and stuffed! It is a place that doesn't make sense when you 1st walk in (Irish pub, blaring gangster rap music, and then an Indian restaurant!?) , but it is a cool place. Whether you want to grab a beer and play some pool, or stop by for the indian food, I think you'll be satisfied. Don't come here looking for nice decor, and top notch service-its not that kind of place. But if you want good food and a beer-this is your spot. I ordered the chicken roll, vegetable samosa, gulab jamun and chai. Being Indian, I always have a high standard, but this place was GOOD. Particulary the chai--it so hard to find authentic, Indian chai- but this place was right on the money! And cheap! All that food cost me a total of $13.70! Divey, basic atmosphere, but good food.
Friend and I were craving Indian food and since we were in the city why not hit up happy hour, Kennedy's it is.
Ordered Tandoori mixed grill, all was good expect for the EXTRA DRY tandoori chicken. Follow me here, I had two draft beers and my friend had two draft beers = four beers. Keep in mind it's happy hour and it's buy one get one free, right?
I asked for the check and it's $50+, kinda high. I usually don't closely look over checks, but there is something not right. We were charged for SIX beers when we should have been only charged for two. I let the bartender who was serving us know about being overcharged, she blames the other bartender, who never served us. Check was fixed, paid and we're out of there.
I was there in November 08 with a large group and I'm glad we kept a count of pitchers we ordered because when the bill came we were once again overcharged.
Okay, it happens once it's a mistake, it happens twice makes you say hmmm.
Check, double check your tab!
Local beer bar that has an Indian restaurant squeezed inside the place.
Lots of beers on tap. No booze. Decent prices. Foozball.
This is a grungy, old, dirty beer dive and feels and smells old and beer-soaked. And has the aroma of the Indian spices mixed in with all that funk. Sometimes that's what you're looking for.
Video games too.
Let me start off by saying... I totally dig dive bars! And this one tops my list! I love the fact that at 2 am you can eat some decent (not great) curry and drink cheap 5 dollar pitchers of Pabst's blue ribbon while listening to a jukebox full of sweet tunes and playing pool or air hockey all night long.
A definite must on a long list of dive bars!
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!)
Awesome divey place to go if you are with a group of friends and aren't really concerned about the scene or crowd. Last time we went I don't even remember there being other people there. The decor sort of reminds me of this seed bar we went to in Vegas that was not on the strip. The food is great, they have a wide selection of beer, and there are pool tables. Victory.
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.
this place is awesome. what's better than one beer but two! (get there for happy hour for your free-beer token).
i'm also a huge fan because they open the restaurant up to us magic players on wednesay nights where we're able to draft, drink beer and eat great indian food all at one time. life really doesn't get much better than that.
Let me add some perspective to all the glowing reviews here. This place sucks balls. I'm a south indian, so I think I'm a pretty good judge of how south indian food should taste. The dosa I ordered was more carbon than flour, and it crumbled as soon as i bit into it. The sambar tasted like something put together by someone who has no time for anything, and does not care if the world knows it. There was a fist size lump of something that I thought was a potato, but I wouldn't bet on it. The chai however, was excellent, hence one star.
The service was atrocious. The women who were sitting around looking bored were rather gruff, and there was only one waitress who gave something closely approximating a smile when she took my order. Not that I care too much about this sort of thing, but for a good review, either the food ought to be good, or the service. It's hard to fail at both.
I would not recommend this place to my enemies.
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!
After being pleased with the in-restaurant meal last week, decided to take them up on their free delivery service last night for dinner.
The ORDERING: Ordering online was easy and convenient. No chance for misunderstood phone orders ("ah shoot i thought i said i wanted dosas, not samosas"), and they have a 10% off coupon for first time patrons. Pretty good stuff. Was mildly, but not seriously disappointed to discover they don't deliver bottled beer from their hefty restaurant stash. I'm sure there are laws against that kind of thing, but a girl can dream can't she?
The DELIVERY: The food arrived after an hour or so. She peered into the apartment as my sugar mama was signing the check, which I thought was weird at first, but then she asked whether "that guy lived here anymore". I guess my friend's previous roommate used to order from there.
The FOOD: Small portions. Way smaller than the restaurant. Also, about 1/3 as much rice as the restaurant offering! Way lame. We ordered: chicken tikka masala, lamb vindaloo, and rice. Total was $24. The chicken was also wayyyy salty. Lamb was great though, very tender, and also just spicy enough for me (although I am a bit of a pansy when it comes to spicy food). Last time we ordered the Chicken Korma and Lamb Sagwala...Would probably get those next time.
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I'd recommend eating at the restaurant, rather than getting delivery. You get beer, and more food. But if you have to have your vindaloo and don't want to put on jeans (though you could probably eat there in PJs)...and you live within their service range (soma, north beach, financial district)...this is hard to beat. Plus they say they deliver until 1am. Good for rockband parties.
I have to give this place two different ratings because I have different opinions of the pub and the restaurant.
The pub- 3 stars: pretty cool...they have a good beer selection, good hapy hours, the bartenders are friendly, and they have lots of stuff to do (pool and games). I especially like their electronic games where it's actually portable. You can take them off their base, take it and play at your table!
The indian restaurant- 1 star: There's a sign that says "please wait to be seated" and no one comes up to you to seat you, so you have to go to the cashier, and tell them, and after that, they just pointed us in a direction and we just guessed where they were telling us to sit. Then, when you want to order, you have to go back to the cashier. Wierd....
Not only that, but the food was really oily and acidy. Excuse me for the gory details, but when I burped later, it buuuuuurrrnned. Ewwww. I think the only reason why this place still has business is because it's INSIDE the bar, and it makes money off the people who have the drunken munchies.
If this is the case, I would just rather go get some naan-n-curry or roti, and take it to Yancy's cuz it's way closer to my place, they have fun entertainment and you can bring in food from outside.
I ordered for delivery from this place once a few weeks ago. Thought it was decent, arrived in time, so I ordered from here again today. BIG MISTAKE! The delivery was 2 hours late, which resulted in cold food. Management/staff didn't even bother to call and tell me the order would be late - I had to call (3 times). Actually, they didn't even bother answering the third time I called to check on my order. They didn't even apologize for being late!
The cable car chicken was dry and crumbly (real appetizing). It's supposed to come with a creamy sauce - no sauce, just dry tandoori chicken. My co-worker ordered the tikka masala, which was pretty salty. Somehow, cold vegetable pakoras came with the order. If you've ever eaten a pakora, you know it's not good cold (or microwaved). NASTY.
These people have no customer service skills and are basically down right rude! Will NOT be ordering from here again.
One of my favorite night-time haunts in SF. It is certainly quite unique: an Irish pub and an Indian restaurant in one! The place is pretty spacious, and there are 3 foosball tables, an air hockey table, some pool tables, and a few arcade games.
One of the reasons my boyfriend and I go so regularly is because of the foosball. The SF Foos group runs tournaments every other Thursday evening. Registration is at 7:30pm and the tourney starts at 8pm (though to be honest it usually starts later, hehe). Never fear, the tournament is open to all levels, so even if you're not a regular fooser, you're welcome to participate. Buy-in is usually $5. You can also regularly find someone from SF Foos playing there on a Friday or Saturday night. I believe they're going to start a league on Wednesday evenings in the near future too.
The second reason I go so regularly is for the food. The Indian food there is pretty good, and they have both Norhern and Southern Indian dishes. I usually get one of these dishes: chicken biryani, chicken korma, garlic naan, samosas, or paneer paratha. And of course, a mango lassi. Even better, they serve food until 1am. That is a huge plus for me since I work graveyards, and I think their food is better than the 24-hour Naan & Curry in SF (though it's also a little further from work).
They do not serve hard liquor. They do, however, have a large selection of beer. Though I've never been a big fan of beer, I do enjoy their Belgian lambics which are fruit-flavored.
Parking is also usually pretty easy to find nearby if you look a couple of blocks down if all the spots on Columbus are taken.
The service here is so bad, it is comical! I would highly recommend going once just to experience how bad it is. If you go with a good attitude you can have a great time sharing laughs wile you experience this fubar. I have eaten here twice and both times our food came out in random order within a 45 min. time frame. The waiting staff didn't come close to getting the order correct. And the bill was wrong both times. However, you get what you pay for. It is the cheapest Indian food in the city and you can play a few bar games while you wait for your food.
I love this bar. I bring my friends here weekly (a group of about 10 people)- we do a Saturday night Kennedy's thing, we buy pitcher after pitcher of beer and spend hours on the air hockey and pool tables. I don't even live in the neighborhood but I will make a trip for the fun and communal atmosphere and delicious Indian food. I've never had a
problem here, although it's located directly in North Beach.
What's ruined one of my favorite bars in San Francisco is that the pretentious, obnoxious and insecure barback and the bartender Sally have "86'd" me (as they throw the phrase around like fairy dust) for a snippity comment I made on a Saturday night. Last call came and as everyone cleared out, the big boned bar back whom I have always assumed works in exchange for beer, had a delicious power trip kicking people out. I understand the function of needing to make people get out at 2am, but on my way to the door I made a comment to the aggressive guy like "You don't even work here" and he flipped his shit and said I could never come back.
Well I didn't take him seriously - I made one comment that got under his skin, I wasn't fighting or acting belligerent in any way - but upon returning on a chill Thursday night with a small group of friends I was told to apologize for the comment I made, and never show my face again, that if I ever came back I would get my ass kicked (that is a direct bulgy-barback quote). This after we had all bought drinks and been hanging out for a couple of hours, how two-faced of them.
What a tragedy that a great bar I've told many people about will from now on get a negative review.
But I'll be back for the Indian food! HAHA!
I love this place! First of all, I love Indian food. Second, I love beer! The restaurant and beer are connected, and you can enjoy drinks/food at tables or in these booths. They have so many different beers on tap to choose from, as well as some by the bottle. The food is absolutely delicious and very reasonably priced. I always get the Chicken Curry, Garlic Naan (sometimes just regluar Naan) and steamed rice. When I'm feeling really hungry, I'll also get the popcorn shrimp! So far, this is my favorite Indian restaurant in the city! Thank you Tommy for introducing this place to us!
Having spent almost a full week in Dublin, Ireland - I have two memories that will last forever.
1. A pint of Guinness in Dublin is simply AMAZING. Creamy, filling, less calories than you would think based on taste, and always so, so good.
2. I had the best damn Indian food on the planet in Dublin, Ireland. I don't think it will ever be beat except by homemade cooking.
So, after a night at Cobb's Comedy Club watching the hilarious Kims of Comedy, we strolled up the street to Kennedy's Irish Pub. As I approached, I noticed a sign that at first looked completely out of place: "Indian Food - Dinner served until 1 AM".
Indian food?
Irish Pub?
What the....
And then.....
OF COURSE, this makes perfect sense based on #2 above.
So, we ordered a pint of Arrogant Bastard (good stuff, strong) and a pint of the delicious Hawaiian Coffee Stout they had on tap (I do drink something other than Guinness, really) from the friendly and pleasant female bartender. I should note that they had a REALLY large selection of beers on tap and bottle - - - rivaling Monk's Kettle and Zeitgeist as my "beer joint" of choice.
It's an odd place - - strange layout combined with a bar-side, restaurant-side, and a playland-side to the place with poole tables, and other play things.
Seated at the restaurant part with our beers in hand, we ordered the lamb vindaloo, homemade cheese curry dish, and a lamb kebab dish. The cashier who took our order was nice enough but all other servers left a lot to be desired as far as friendliness, but that's okay - I'm here for the food! As usual, I requested "SUPER SPICY" as I do (and fail to accomplish) at all Indian restaurants, except the one in Dublin. (Indian Aroma in San Francisco HAS hit the mark once or twice.)
As I'm sipping on my beer, the food arrived.
It looked good.
It smelled right.
And the spiciness BLEW MY MIND.
Envision me, as a cartoon character. You'd have seen my flip-top head fly open and black smoke fly out of it, and flames coming out of my mouth.
Rob has NEVER seen me squirm due to spice, it's happened so rarely in my entire lifespan, but he witnessed it last night as I chowed down on the cheese curry and lamb vindaloo. He never even took a bite, and stuck to his Lamb Kebabs.
Right now, some 12 hours later, my ulcer has been revived with a vengeance, my stomach is rather uncomfortable, and I feel like I'm still burning up inside, but this makes me happy, in a sickeningly perverse kind of way. As usual, eating something truly spicy takes off about 7 lbs of stress out of my system.
Some of you work out to sweat and relieve stress - I eat spicy food (and sweat to relieve stress).
What of it?
I noticed a banner on their wall declaring that the deliver until 1 AM. (To which I only had one thing to say: "GET OUT!")
I might as well put myself on a stomach transplant list now.
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