for what it is...a local joint...the food is fresh and delicious! Â had beef bourguignon special tonite and it was amazingly good! Â the beef was tender and the gravy fabulous! Â pearl onions, carrots, and potatoes, too, over thick toast. husband had shepherds pie and loved it! Â beer was delicious!
Review Source:A fine place for post-work drinks and dinner. Not especially cheap but not a rip off. Good beer list, but not enormous. Service is usually very good. The interior is kind of depressing and the lighting sucks but that all just really keeps your table focused on each other, and not distracted by the sights and sounds.
They have added several new menu items recently. The new fish tacos were OK but just like the establishment overall, they could easily be so much better. First of all, swap out the undressed lettuce and tomato (blah--wrong) for shredded white cabbage dressed with cumin-lime sour cream. Second of all, for the love of beer, do something to the flour tortilla, don't serve it raw. How about 30 seconds on a dry griddle? Let's go, Firkin Kitch-in! Step it up a bit!
This is a go to place for my co-workers to go to for any celebration. They have great beer and food specials during happy hour and plenty of space. Half price on select appetizers.
Lately it has been rather hot in the building as they seem to expect a few wall/window air conditioning units to keep it cool. It does not!
The staff is friendly and service is good. Happy hour items we enjoy are their chicken tenders tossed buffalo sauce, mozz sticks, and quesadillas. I wouldn't say there is any great food item, but if I had to pick a unique eat, it would be their irish nachos.
Local watering hole with a nice sized game room in the back (pool tables and air hockey cost money, whereas darts and shuffleboard are free). Â Surprisingly enjoyed their restaurant more than the bar fare I have tried. Â For an Irish place, they serve a great Kobe beef burrito and taco salad. Â The bar nachos reminded me of something you would've made in college after a nigh of drinking- a few chips on a plate with some cheese sprinkled on time and microwaved for too long. Â Tuesday and Thursday nights this place is filled with the college crowd, 5-7pm you'll find the crowds from the local office complexes, other than that it's all locals all the time.
Review Source:A great place to hang out after work. The standard finger foods are better than most other places that I have been... plump Buffalo wings, fluffy fries with beacon and cheddar, and crunchy nachos. They also have a big game room at the back with shuffle board, dart boards, game machines, and empty pool tables... until the local serious pool tournament folks showed up with their personal poles and big jug beers.
Review Source:The food is good. (Especially the cheesesteak spring rolls and the seafood bruschetta...not sure the exact names) They also make a decent burger.
Now bar wise, it is mediocre at best. I only come here from time to time out of convenience, or because there's not much else in the deadbeat town of Ewing. And if you come here a few times you start to see the same lame people that are always in here...doing the same lame things. I guess that's a bar for you...It's better than "Slocums" because at least there's a good mix of ages, not all older people. So I guess in that respect you won't feel out of your element.
It's also a bit of a "sausagefest". Not that I care, but if you're a guy looking to talk to some girls...look elsewhere because the ratio is about 100 to 1. Another thing is most of my black friends don't go here because it's not the most "diverse" of places...
Their drinks are OK priced, not anything excitining. Bartenders are pretty slow which is actually good because it prevents me from getting too loaded. They have specials on certain days, and if I was a beer drinker I'd probably like it a lot. It's pretty much you're typical, average bar, with above average food. If you want to get wasted and don't want to wander too far, this is the place.
What is this place? Â Is it a dive bar with cheap beer, cheep food, and cheap decorations populated mostly by a bunch of itinerant regulars (who, BTW, are almost entirely male)? Â Or is it nice sports bar where you can sit and watch a game on multiple flat-screen TV's? Â Or, is it a pretty darn good pub with a wide variety of quality draft beers featuring good service and good food?
Yes.
I visited here on a rare night featuring two Monday Night Football games. Â Firkin was also hosting a large poker game in the back. Â This heavily influenced the patron mix, and really packed the house.
I was leery at first, but I had driven 30 miles just to try the place, so I was not to be deterred, not even by the 60-to-2 male-to-female ratio. Â Thankfully, I saw the dazzling array of beers, and promptly ordered a Victory Hop-devil (other options included Boddingtons, Guinness, Hoegaarden, Flying Fish, Magners, Victory, etc. -- very nice). Â
Instead of the bartender just slamming down my delicious IPA (which, given how busy they were, would not have surprised me), he warmly greeted me, quickly went over the menu and specials, and gave me the option of ordering or thinking. Â I thought.
The great specials first caught my eye ($1 burger and hot dog sliders, 50 cent wings, $5 flat bread pizzas), but the menu had several savory alternatives. Â I opted for the $8 chicken florentine spinach bacon cheese boxty (they have that here? Â Yes!). Â I expected to follow that up with one of the specials, or perhaps an appetizer, but the plate-sized delicious boxty changed my mind.
The bartender attentively kept tabs on me as I worked my way through their draft selections.  I asked which was their most popular, and he replied, apologetically, that it was Miller Lite, quickly interjecting that that was due to their daytime crowd, and continuing on to say that  Smithwick's was the most popular among "real beers".
Firkin's (which, by the way, is not part of the Firkin Pubs, USA, chain) is a really nice quality sports dive bar pub, and clearly one of the best places to go in these categories in the area.
This is probably the kind of place stiffs want to unwind into alcohol after work. Â However, it was afternoon, and we needed lunner (that's lunch-dinner).
Menu clearly had some thought put into it, and there were some interesting fusion bar food ideas. Â I ordered the shepherd's pie, which was pretty and had an interesting spice in it, though it could have done with more vegetables. Â My Caesar salad was uninspired, with its powdered Parmesan, but the croutons were actually fresh and so were most of the lettuce leaves. Â Better food than I expected to score in Ewing.
The place itself could use some elbow grease. Â It's a dark, cavernous sort of place. Â The few windows it has are drawn with black shades. Â No doubt to obscure the measurably thick dust on the sills. Â The place is hung with whiteboards written in variegated colors in a poor hand. Â And every booth seat is torn.
Food 6 + ambiance 3 + value 5 + service 4 = overall 5.1 / 10 (decent/forgettable)
The first thing that made me become a fan of Firkin was that the pictures of beer and relatively cheap. You can never go wrong with cheap beer!
The second thing that had me wanting to go back ... the game room. A very large room filled with all sorts of games, from air hockey and foosball to life size jenga.
Firkin is soooo much fun!
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