Houlihan's

Local favorite, close to Interstate and hotels, Happy Hour Specials, clean inside, friendly staff, food good, price fair.

Went there for din last night and thought the service was kinda slow. . .

Also got the fish tacos and have to say I wasn't overly impressed - and the chips that they come w/ were pretty stale as well.

The apps were good - some green beans and small slider burgers were all pretty nice - but maybe order something besides the fish tacos - not awesome at all.

Well.  I have to say I've lived in Eagan almost 5 years now and I've until today resisted going to this joint because, well...I really don't like chain restaurants all that much.  I tried Jakes next door a couple years ago and was completely turned off by poor food and service that I just assumed Houlihan's was also guilty by association (they are right next to each other).  

So my GF came here once on a girls nite out and reported it was decent.  She's been trying to get me to come here ever since.  I was craving a burger today so I finally caved.  Glad I did!

First, the burger.  I just got their basic build your own burger with cheddar cheese.  I ordered it cooked medium.  IT CAME MEDIUM!  good god that never happens in MN!!  Burger was good.  Kinda expensive but this is something I could definitely partake in a few times a year.    
Fries were good too.  

GF got a 62 burger, i think.  It had a fried mushroom (which is also on their app menu) on it and spinach.  She liked it.  

We got spinach dip from the app menu.  It was spectacular.  Top 2 spinach dips I've had in a restaurant, ever.  Serious.   We both gobbled that stuff up so fast the waitress probably thought we were starved for a week.  You gotta try it.  It comes with some triangular shaped cracker things with cilantro and sour cream...omg so good.  

To quote a famous philandering ex-governor/actor/bodybuilder/terminator:  I'LL BE BACK!