Excellent beer selection. Someone in the Irish Mile organization knows craft beer. Sadly, they have not shared that information with the rest of the staff. The servers are generally clueless and just want you to quickly order a $3 Miller Lite, pound it, and order another by the time they make the next round at your table. The food is average at best. Typical Jersey sports bar fare: mozzarella sticks, jalapeño poppers, wings. Nothing special or particularly good. Place has potential, just doesn't seem to have the desire to achieved it.
Review Source:I'd driven by this place a few times, It seemed an odd space for a pub, but then again, all of Westmont's setup is a little strip mall-ish compared to more quaint Collingswood and Haddonfield, so I decided to stop by. The strength (and quite frankly surprise) is the extensive selection of beers on tap. More than any other South Jersey bar, and even many Philly beer bars, and most were very reasonably priced. That said, the place was understaffed, it takes a long time to get service, and the food is average, and be warned, no vegetarian sandwich options (though if you eat seafood, the crab cake is quite good). Haddon Township's downtown has transformed from dingy bars with little selection to a destination craft beer spot in South Jersey. For selection, the Irish Mile rises to the top, but for overall experience, the Pour House still is the place to beat.
Review Source:Do you like waiting at the bar forever while the bar tenders talk to their friends and ignore you? Â If you do then this is the place for you! Â The service at this place is horrible. Â The bartenders are rude, selective of who they serve, and tend to mess up your bill, charging you more then you owe. Â If you hadn't waited for about an hour to get served you might want to get your bill corrected, but as it was almost impossible to get the bartender to serve you once, your probably better off going down the street to the Pour House or the Taproom. Â The only good things I can say about this place is that they have a nice beer selection and a pretty good pizza place attached to it. Â But the horrible service hardly makes it worth it when all the locals bars in the area are known for having great beer selections.
Review Source:1.5 stars. This is just a typical overcrowded dive bar for the younger crowd.The person who designed the layout of the restaurant must have been very drunk... the upstairs is a bit like a narrow square with the bar smack in the middle of the room. In order to get anywhere in this establishment you have to walk through large crowds of drunk people and hoards of drunk people will be forced to walk through you. Prepare to wait a long time for a watered down mixed drink, since there are only a few bartenders serving tons of people. They have a large selection of beer at cheap prices which accounts for much of their popularity
Irish Mile has zero decor or ambiance, just a dark dirty room. There is no dance floor or any room to dance. There isnt any where to sit besides a couple tables pushed off to one side that wastes limited room. The downstairs is not finished but you are allowed to go down there. It feels as if you are in a dirty frat house or something.I know people who have had their belongings stolen here.They sell pizza near the bathrooms (ew) but I would never dare to try it since the place is filthy.
I usually feel like I need a shower after leaving the Irish mile because it is that dirty. Overall i give the Irish Mile 1.5 stars, I would only return with a large group of friends if everyone insisted on going there. Soo many better bars in the area!!
The beer selection is extensive, but I don't think that the Irish Mile explains their draft list well. Â I look at places that have 60 taps as a place to go and try a new beer. Â The draft list is lacking a lot of information about the brews listed. Â For the number of beers offered, I would have thought that there would be more diversity (although there could have been more diversity than I realized because of the lack of information about the beer). Â However, if you like IPAs then this is the place for you, as there is a large selection.
Staff was inattentive, inexperienced and uninformed about what they were serving. Â When asked about specifics of a beer for a recommendation they often contradicting each other in their descriptions. Â
Cheap slices of pizza are a saving grace, but overall there are other bars in the area that have better service and a more diverse beer selection (even with fewer taps).
Beer selection is OK. Food selection is good, lots options but quality is low. The wings are gross and weak. The sauce selection is small and it is not nay good. They do not carry wet-naps. Wet-naps are essential for the eating of chicken wings. Worst thing about the place is that if you try and split the bill they charge you an extra 5 dollars. There were 4 of us, bill was like 40, we tried to split it two ways, waiter came back and said that the manager is going to charge us 5 dollars extra if we split it. This is absurd. Oh and by the way, if you come in the winter, bring a heavy jacket, the place is freezing inside.
Review Source:Chef Robert Irvine where are you? Stop by the Irish Mile for a Restaurant Impossible makeover at once!
I give it one star for the wings which are pretty good, other than that stick to drinks at the bar or wings or pizza to take out. Everything else needs a complete overall and some pride in customer service and food preparation.
The bathroom is filthy, it feels like the heat is turned off, and the service and food were awful the last few times we went here so I am giving up.
First of all, stay away from the $1 sandwiches-- we had the steaks sandwiches and  they aren't worth a dollar.A small severly overcooked dried up piece of meat on half a sandwich came out with nothing else, no chips, zilch.  Â
It seemed like punishment for ordering the lunch special instead of a regular priced sandwich.
    Cheese wiz is the default cheese that comes on most sandwhiches unless you request differently. The Ceasar salad chicken tasted as old as the bowl, and we had to ask for the caesar dressing. The staff seems scared of the manager, but not scared enough to take our orders all at one time, or to bring everything we ordered. For some reason our server took only two orders, came back for another order at the same table, then another and so on. the first order's food was done long before the next order arrived. Our server still forgot some of the items ordered, and we had to keep reminding him. As other posters have said the wait process was excrutiatingly slow and the food chintzy and unsatisfactory. There are too many other decent places just on  Haddon Ave to go here for the food
I have probably driven past this place 80 kajillion times, but I must say I never really had the initiative to go in because the tiny parking lot out front IS ALWAYS PACKED. This is deceptive, Irish Mile, very deceptive.
Anyway, so in typical me fashion, I avoid something and then visit it a lot. I went here thursday and friday night, and, well, things were the same but different?
Thursday: bar was empty and service was entertaining (Andrew, methinks, tends at other fun local spots to remain nameless so that you don't steal them too!) and the music spanned from motown to classic rock to jazz. SWOON! Garden Boli for dinner, it was good, cheesy, very cheesy, but good.
Friday: stopped in with the bf to get his opinion of the place after dinner at Keg N Kitchen. Music selection was the same and service was still pretty banging, despite how much more crowded it was. Boy loved the prices (lager and a cider, 8.00) and the selection (60+ beers listed on the chalkboard and on tap) but he then went on to describe it as a "dude-bro townie bar" the combination was pretty fitting at the moment: there was some yappy suit behind us yammering on about his "PA microbrewery tour" and a townie couple in the booth behind us apparently trying to figure out whether they could make a baby in their 50s or not. Personally, I love the dichotomy but it seemed to slightly weird out the boy, though he did mention it wasn't a deal breaker.
Overall I feel like this could turn into either an amazing gem of a find or I could go back and all the motown stars I had in my eyes for it could be lost in a haze of popped collars and penn state talk. At the very least, it merits 3 stars for now and another investigation.
It has 60 taps. They had flying fish exit 16 on tap when I went. That made me very happy. Plus cheap slices of pizza.
There is the pour house and keg in kitchen down Haddon ave in Haddon township but they get too crowed and pretentious. The Irish mile feels more like a solid local watering hole.
I debated about posting this review in order to keep this secret gem to myself...
I love this bar! I stop in at least once a week. There's always good music on, a decent crowd, and the bartenders treat me like a princess. Â It's a 2 minute walk from the PATCO speedline, which is great for commuters like myself coming from Philly.
Irish Mile has i think 60 beers on tap, which is insane for Haddon Ave! Our waitress, Ashley, was super nice and extremely well-educated on the beer selection........we were very impressed as we're used to the PJ's dummies from down the block....
I can't fathom these bad reviews. (If anything, I'm glad you don't go there because you sound like a buzzkill.)
P.S. $1 slices of pizza late night. Yum :)
This is a great little pub. Â We love the beer selection and food is great. Â My bf LOVES the lunch specials too! Â Overall a nice place to get a great beer with yummy food and relax. Â On a side note the owner's daughter was an Olympic Runner and I believe the father runs in the local 5ks... as a Runner I added that because it's just a fun fact :-) Â The diet coke on the tap is off a little so just know that going there.. but that's def not enough to ruin the night out.
Review Source:I always have a good experience at the Irish Mile. Â My running crew comes here often after certain events. Â They have tons of beers on tap, and the food is decent for bar food. Â I've been getting the veggie stromboli, which is surprisingly fresh and flavorful, and the small is always double what I can eat, so I have leftovers for the next day. Â The owner is a runner, and the father of an olympic runner, so he always treats our group well.
Review Source:They only get 4 stats because of their beer selection. Freakin awesome selection. On slower nights the bartenders are fine but on busier nights their bartenders are very short with you and seem to help out their friends quickly while leaving you there to twiddle your thumbs and wait. Nothing Irish about this place at all. Tall make bartender is a bit 'special'... To say the least... Pizza place next door is cool, juke box is cool.
Review Source:I'm reluctant to give this place 5 stars if only to keep everyone else away! I didn't go right when it first opened but I've always had good experiences here. They must have gotten their act together. Â I'm here at least once per week with my bf as we live in the neighborhood.
GG, the evening bartender, is so sweet and very helpful. They will let you taste any beer you want before ordering. The beer selection doesn't change as frequently as the Pour House, but it is still extensive. Â The prices here can't compare with any other craft beer bar in Philly/Westmont and the servers aren't complete idiots like PH. They remember who you are and what you like, and make recommendations that are accurate.
The clientele is older, which while I'm not, I don't enjoy frat boy bars like PJ's where you can't talk or move. It will be busy in the afternoons but during the week clears out around 7 or so. On weekends there's a second rush later. It's usually a good place to watch a weekday game of any sort but weekend nights it is too loud.
As others have said, the food is basic bar food but the pizza crust is crispy/chewy and the sandwiches are large and delicious. Only complaint is no green peppers for the pizza, only hot or sweet. We also get takeout from here on occasion and they are speedy and accurate. Good hangover food if you tried a few too many of the beers the night before!
This place is just okay. The bonus for me is that they show Union games and there are actually other people at the bar watching the game. They'll even have the game on when other Philly sports are on unlike some other bars in town (ahem, Pourhouse).
The food is cheap and fine. Last visit Chris W. and I shared the large roast beef sandwich and it was plenty for the both of us. We also tried the pizza, which was surprisingly good. We were expecting typical bar pie pizza, but were greeted with a large pizzeria style pizza with a thick crust. Needless to say we didn't finish it all.
The beer list is large and varying. I like that they have a wide selection of Flying Fish drafts all at $3.50. You aren't going to find something completely different or amazing here, but they do have some good options if you want to be a little more adventurous.
Service leaves little to be desired. Bartenders are slow. I sat for at least 15 minutes with an empty glass before someone asked me if I needed another on a pretty low key Saturday afternoon. Ms. Bartender also scoffed when I asked for ketchup for my roast beef sandwich. Leave the judging at the door lady and don't tell me how to eat my food.
I want to review this place poorly so no one else will go here.
I live down the street, I drink beer. I'm over the Pour House and their crowd and their service and their weekends.
The Irish Mile is the perfect neighborhood bar for me. I loved our bartenders and servers every time I've been here, the beer selection is awesome, and guess what? The bartender can actually tell you WHAT it tastes like (not just read the description off the draft list)!
The food is good, and cheap. Not stellar, but satisfying, big portions.
It's true: nothing's very Irish, except one of the owners--I think. I don't care.
It is hard to review this place because I want to give them a good review and they have a lot of potential, but they fail to deliver. Here it goes. They have a very good beer selection (Leffe, Sly Fox, Victory etc...) all of which are $5. There is also a pizza shop right next door that you can walk to from inside the bar. We ordered a pie and 20 wings for $16! If you have read any of my other reviews, you know that I am a sucker for a good jukebox and this place does a nice job with its music selection. Now on the other hand, the service is horrendous. Only one bartender on a very busy night trying to run the entire bar! We had to wait about 15 minutes for a drink and then ask 3 times for the bill. I am a patient person, but it gets to the point of where I want to strangle someone when I just want to pay my tab and leave and I can't. I may pay them another visit and hopefully will be able to award more stars.
Review Source:Have to give a one star review for not having anything with a hint of Irish on the menu. Â They get low marks for being understaffed behind the bar all three times I've been here. Â The only plus is the lack of crowds, no surprise though. Â I might suggest a more realistic name, or better yet become the first real Irish bar in the area!
Review Source:Just FYI, there's nothing notably "Irish" about the Irish Mile.
This is a great place to go to drink beer if you don't have a lot of cash but you do have a lot of time, like some friends of mine. Basic neighborhood bar. Good selection of beers at reasonable prices. Liquor is served in very small glasses.
The menu and the service is very hit or miss. The Prime Rib is a hit with the guys, especially if the server remembers to bring you the horseradish and au jus. I was happy with their pizza. Order bar food and you won't be disappointed.
The layout is awkward and the service is slow, both at the bar and the tables. The tabletops in the bar area are very small and no good if you're in a group that's ordering food. For that, you want one of the lower tables off to the side.
You can use the PATCO parking lot next door if their small lot gets too crowded.
It has a lot of potential, especially if they keep their prices low, but need work on service and quality.
Well, first off, this is not an Irish Pub as the name may lead you to believe. Sadly, no fish and chips on the menu. Â We sat in a room off the bar that was very cold. I guess we should have sat in the bar area. Â When I went to order a burger, I was told the menu was outdated and they only had a certain burger size available. No prices for the toppings on the menu. Â Who knows what else was outdated... Cheddar cheese was cheese wiz (unless the waitress/cook got it wrong?) Â I'm guessing when I ordered toppings I lost the lettuce and tomato that was supposed to come with it...
Ok, on a bright note, they have a great beer selection and seemed to have a lot on tap.
Personally, would not come back. Nothing really caught my attention to try them again.
We went here twice. The first time was the first Friday night that they were open. I had read about it in one of the local papers and suggested that we try it on the way home from one our Happy Haddon Ave Hour spots. Beer prices were decent but the service was very clumsy and slow. I am guessing that neither of the bartenders had any bartending experience and must have been related to or friends of the new owners.
We decided to give the new place a second chance and went again the following Thursday night. There were quite a few families in there with kids that night. I am not a fan of bars with kids in it. It is fine if it is a bar that has a dining room and you take your family to the dining room but this place is just a bar. I really don't want little ankle biters hitting my bar stool as they run up and down the length of the bar.
The setup of this place is strange. It is a strip mall type building. The bar is in the center of the space and then there is a little takeout place connected to it. I think that part used to be a water ice place. Your food comes from the takeout section. Oh and by the way, as mentioned by another reviewer, you have to walk through here on your way to the ladies room. Strange and inconvenient.
We expressed interest in ordering but got tired of waiting for the solo waitress so I ended up placing the order from the takeout section myself. My easy to please bf enjoyed his roast beef. I am fussy and could barely eat my roast pork because it had so much fat and fat really grosses me out. The fries sucked too.
I don't expect that this place will make it an entire year. If it does, I will give it another try next spring.
I know this is a new place, but that doesnt excuse the awful service my boyfriend and i had to endure on our first visit.
My boyfriend seriously waited over 45 minutes for a drink. First, his glass sat empty for 10 minutes until the barback took it away. Another 15 minutes to actually get the bartenders attention. 20 minutes later he came back with the wrong drink, and instead of just remaking it, offered the next drink on the house.
We were there to watch the union game, otherwise we would have left. Hopefully they can get their act together.
They have some decent beers on tap that are surprisingly cheap, that's the only thing that will bring me back. Also, the bartenders don't know how to properly pour a guiness.
Gave it a second shot. Was treated worse than the first time. The owners and staff are totally unprofessional. I witnessed one of the owners try to start a fight with his own bartender and them fired him on the floor in front of everyone. It's sad when you know a business is going to fail.
Review Source:I think this would be a good place to just come by and get a beer, nothing more, nothing less. There was a good beer list and the price was right, but the food was unfortunately horrible.
I ordered a cheeseburger (which was obviously just a frozen patty on a GIGANTIC bun for some reason) and when I got about halfway through it I found tiny bits of plastic embedded in the tomato. I told the waitress who simply said, "oh that shouldn't happen" and took the burger away and still charged me for it. Hopefully they will get some of these bugaboos ironed out as they go on.
The Irish Mile probably doesn't actually go the Irish mile, but it suits me fine so far.
Prices are good, and so is the fried ravioli. However, for a joint that promotes craft beers, the offerings are a let down. Sure, they had Leffe Blonde around, but that's the best you'll find here.
And, sure, the wait staff is a little shaky. But the bar has a nice set up, and the bartenders are cool. Plus, they have pinball!
My biggest complaint is that women have to go back toward the entrance into crazy bright lights to visit the bathroom. Counterintuitive when the dude's room is toward the back, dontcha think?
I do have some complaints about this place, but overall I think it's nice and I'll be back. Frequently. Â I will update every-so-often, as necessary. Â
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THE PROS:
- It's cheap! Â After going to bars and restaurants in this area that are ridiculously overpriced, it's refreshing to pay a VERY reasonable amount of money for what you get. Â Two sandwiches (enough for leftovers) and two beers was $24 with tax.
- It's delicious! Â I got a roast pork sandwich with provolone and roasted red peppers. Â There was plenty of meat and cheese in the sandwich. Â The roll was great! Â There were enough peppers to get a little bit in every bite, but I would have liked to see a few more. Â And the fries were really great.
- 24 beers on tap! Â Sierra Nevada, Ithaca, Unibroue, Great Lake, Ommegang, Brooklyn, Shiner Bock, Flying Fish, Victory, Smithwicks, Guiness, Blue Moon, Sam Adams, Hoegarrden, Stella, Bass, Harp, Yengling, and just Bud Light for those with lighter tastes. Â No Miller, no Coors, not tap after tap of CRAP. Â (You can get the crap in bottles, if you're so inclined.)
- There's free parking! Â Even if you can't get a space in their (very small) lot, there's free PATCO parking right outside, as well as street parking.
THE CONS:
- The staff is still getting adjusted. Â Our waitress was older, and was obviously having problems with the computer system (which she needed reading glasses to see). Â One of the bartenders was really, really slow. Â It probably would have been better to get some staff with TONS of experience, but these guys will get it in time.
- Some of the food isn't quite hammered out yet. Â My boyfriend got a burger and the burger was average-sized, but the bun was GIGANTIC. Â Either have a large burger on a large bun, or an average burger on an average bun.
- Only a bar and high-top tables. Â The bar is much larger than it needed to be (in my opinion, too large for the space). Â This leaves very little space for the 9 high-top tables they've crammed in there as well. Â It's kind of awkward to sit at them. Â It's MUCH more of a bar than a restaurant (think Brewers Towne Tavern, not PJ's). Â Don't come here with a large group to sit and eat. Â The whole place has a bar-rail all the way around it, though, so there's plenty of space to stand around with your friends.
Rule #1 when opening a bar/restaurant: DON'T OPEN IF none of your employees know whats going on. Don't open if you have some crazy high-tech order entry computer that is down/nobody knows how to use. Don't bring in a waitress to learn the computer, but then just shove her onto the floor to serve without learning anything. Don't open if your menu has it's drinks pricing listed so stupid that your employees don't even understand whats going on. (mad props to our waitress, btw, for trying real hard and doing her best even though she has no clue what she was doing (not her fault) and was afraid to tell her boss that we wanted to talk to him.)
Rule #2: DON'T OPEN IF you can't provide the food on your menu. Come on. It was simple stuff. Don't sell me a chicken BBQ pineapple sandwich if you don't have pineapple. (And tell your cooks to not send food out when they know it isn't completed to order. (and by the way, what happened to the lettuce and tomatoe?) Don't sell me a pork cheddar sandwich if you don't have cheddar. And whatever happened a salad? Last time I checked, it was more than just romane lettuce and crutons. What happened to tomatoes? carrots? broccoli? cucumber? peppers? onions? You know... stuff like that...
Rule #3: DON'T send over one of the owners to chitchat and introduce himself and shake hands if he isn't going to do anything except to tell us to come back next week when he promises "it will be better". I want someone to listen to the problems that I have experienced. I want to be compensated for my wasted 2 hours. I don't want to have to wait 20 minutes to get my drinks after we order them. I don't want to have to pay for a tiny piece of chicken smothered in BBQ sauce. I don't want to pay for lettuce in a bowl. (which thank god they finally removed from the bill). And I don't want to see the owner go back over to the bar to get drunk with his buddies while we're still waiting to get our check (20 minutes later). Your own waitress didn't even know you were an owner, and I thought you were just some drunk dude at the bar! (and more props - to the the 2nd owner that was trying to get some work done in the kitchen since they were short staffed) (and 1 more prop to the 3rd owners daughter that was in there trying to take care of more responsibilities than were probably bestoed upon her.)
This place could have some potential. It had a nice ambiance, and I could see it going places, BUT.... it opened prematurely and the service and aggravation that I experienced merits it the lowest rating possible.
Will it be better a couple months from now? Probably. Am I going to want to go check it out again then? We'll see, but as of this minute, no.
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