Anglesea Pub

Very good service, beautiful back-bar ca. 1870. Nice menu with meaty Irish fare, great beer selection, homey-neighborhoody vibe.

We didn't mean to go here, intially. But when the place we intended to go to was little more than a shack and a picnic table, we found ourselves at the Anglesea Pub.

It was Tuesday, so we took advantage of $2 Yuenglings and 49 cent wings. Mark my words: the wings are the undisputed STAR of the show. Wowee... Not only was the Guiness BBQ sauce sweet and abundant, but the wings themselves were HUGE. My favorite wing place back home has wings perhaps half the size of these monsters.

We had two other quite good dishes. The Asian salad was well made, though probably could be replicated at most other restaurants. The Guiness beef stew was very good, but I didn't find it particuarly "Guiness-y," for lack of a better term. Still, it was a solid beef stew served in a bread bowl, very tasty and comforting.

-1 star primarily for the service. Our waitress was friendly but great god almighty was she inattentive. It took forever for her to greet us, to get our drinks and take our orders, and I actually had to get up and hunt her down just to give her my credit card. The only blemish on an otherwise excellent dinner.

Under the new ownership of Irish Sean McMullan, there's a lot to enjoy here. If they make it with Guinness, order it. The Guinness beef stew and honey Guinness BBQ wings were delicious. The wings were enormous. More like eagle wings than chicken wings.

I'll be going back to try the shepherd's pie (and probably another order of those awesome wings).