Fun, historical building...bar was OK (lots of regulars from what I can tell). Â
Went upstairs for dinner....no charm, bright lights and mediocre food (with a price tag...), Â waitress was snippy and seemed harried (although the place was less then half full).
Stick to the pub and their pub fare, and I think you will get a better bang for your buck.
It is not the best happy hour in the area or the worst. Prices for happy hour bites were a bit on the high side. The garlic fries were only ok, but the serving was large. Bottled beer was $3. Same price for wine. Both were fine. Nothing exceptional in cocktails for Happy Hour.
Service is good and it is a comfy place to hang out. My fried said it looked like the bar on the tv show "Cheers". It was nice enough, but nothing special enough to bring me back.
Cool place. I've only been once for happy hour with a friend. Nice HH prices and a nice list of items. I had a couple of martinis (I forget what kind they were) but they were pretty strong and good. We had fries, a bbq pork sandwich (pretty yummy), macaroni (blah), fish tacos (pretty good also) and that thick slice of cheesecake. It was big but I've had, and made, better. So overall a good experience, I'd go back.
Review Source:I've eaten lunch/dinner at the restaurant, and the food is pretty decent but overpriced. Â This was the first time I tried out their happy hour at the bar. Â The drinks were ok, but the happy hour appetizer specials were a rip off. Â The prices were 'reduced' for happy hour, but so were the portions - they were tiny! Â Its not a good deal if they reduce the portion size with the price reduction. Â The "Sliders" turned out to be one single small slider, in spite of the use of the plural in the menu for $3 or 4. Â Same with the happy hour tacos, we got one single smallish taco for $4. Â Not a great value in my opinion. Â I was definitely disappointed. Â Service was very slow, we had to wave down the waitress several times.
Review Source:I've been wanting to trying this place for quite awhile.  I finally tried it out a few days ago with some friends.  I had a very good prime rib, though way over priced for what it was.  The calamari was exceptional, and my friends seemed to like their oysters.  My friends also enjoyed their Dirty Martinis saying they were some of the best around.  I enjoyed my Caipirinha which they made the way they should be, with Cachaça, instead of Rum like alot of local places do.  The ambiance is unique for this area, classic, old feel, I wish we had more of it around here.  The problem is, you pay a ton for it at Hotel Mac.
Review Source:The bar at the Hotel Mac is all kinds of cool with cool to spare. With a bar, restaurant & hotel, the Hotel Mac is a well kept time capsule back to a full century ago. The bar conveys the feel of a Prohibition era speakeasy, something that comes naturally considering the Hotel Mac was actually already around back then.
The girlfriend & I were out treating a friend to a belated birthday dinner & wanted to show off one of our local spots. Walk through the front doors & you enter the bar area. The hotel & dining area for the restaurant are further in & upstairs. Along with stools at the bar & some small tables, there's a lounge seating area to the side with a few more small tables, sofas & lounge chairs. We sat at a small table right next to the front window in the lounge area, great view, great atmosphere.
Though more formal dining seating is upstairs, the entire dinner menu is available in the bar in addition to their bar menu of pub grub. I usually order the shaved prime rib sandwich from the bar menu, which is outstanding, but I wanted to go light so I had the chilaquiles salad. No, it's not authentic, traditional chilaquiles & yes, it is a salad, but it is still really, really good. The girlfriend ordered one of the dinner specials, poached salmon with a mushroom champagne sauce, crispy onion risotto & crispy vegetables. I tried a few bites and it was wondrously sublime. Being a bar, we had a couple old-fashioned's & a margarita with the meal. Mixed just right, of course. Dessert included a Bailey's flan, which was heavenly, & a glass of 12 year Glendronach neat.
The food & drink are the perfect complement to this uniquely cool space. The staff are friendly & personable. For a quick getaway to a place that doesn't look like it's in the Bay Area or from this century but still delivers the goods with style like no other, the bar at the Hotel Mac is sure to please.
I'm reviewing the bar. Not a fan of the restaurant but the mommers thinks it's the living end (they serve prime rib). The Mac has a world-class bar, great ambiance and a regular cast of amusing drunks especially during the day. At all hours It adds up to a hands-down superior old-fashioned watering hole which I loved as a kid because they would let me come in and have my Shirley Temple while my grandfather got plastered at the bar (unlike the grittier Spot, where Grampa would have to bring me my ST outside by the Cadillac while he went in for a quick snort and stoagie chew). My dad's office was across the street, so I am sure a fair amount of his earnings were spent here. Shoot, I'm getting bleary, but if I'm in town and have some time to kill, I can't think of a more welcoming place to kill it in...a great pour, good conversation and knowledgeable bartenders. Tastes like home.
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