After a weekend away at the fam's, we decided we wanted to spend a bit of our afternoon out on a beer garden. We hadn't eaten lunch, knew Katie O'Connor's was close and decided to head over.
The inside looked nice while we were walking through, but our action was on the outside. We went out to the beer garden and sat. The beer garden  half-full of tables and chairs, and a bar was up against one wall. We went in mid-May and they may have still been setting up -- this could be an outstanding beer garden.
Our waitress was a high point -- she was nice and courteous. She also paid attention when my gentleman companion said he liked olives, by finding him the serving of pasta salad that had the most visible olives.
The food, however, was a bit of a disappointment. I had a bbq chicken wrap and caught some untrimmed chicken that I had to spit out. My lunchmate had a forgettable burger. Fries were pretty solid, but that was offset by the fact that the pasta salad comes in cafeteria-style plastic containers with the tops on.
I would go back for beer and may try their appetizers. I definitely want to see their beer garden in the summer!
One of my general rules of thumb: If there are a lot of things on the menu, you're in for a crappy dining experience.
The menu at Katie O'Connor's has just about everything, from authentic Irish dishes to Fajitas. Really?! Fajitas? You're an IRISH restaurant! There is no possible way that a restaurant could maintain such an inventory and cook everything fresh. I imagined tubs of food just sitting in refrigerators, waiting to be placed into the microwave.
I ordinarily do not like trashing restaurants. I don't. Both times I've been here. I did not have a good experience. I even asked the waitress what she recommended. The general impression that I got from her was that everything was mediocre at best. She didn't seem confident in recommending anything. I wonder why.
I'm almost 100% Irish and nothing about this place screamed Ireland to me. In fact, every Irish restaurant I've been to in Plainfield and Naperville has been awful.
Cut 75% of the items off your menu. Cook everything FRESH. Specialize in something. An attempt to appeal to such a broad audience by having a ton of items on the menu is HURTING your business.
Food was great, I'd give this place 4 stars for just that. But the service was left lacking. Hardly got any attention, had to ask for everything (including silverware and napkins?). In this day and age, making sure my drink gets a refill is, to me, an expectation, but obviously more than I could expect from this place. Another person commented that the service was lousy, I too had to wait an abnormal amount of time for each stage of the dinner. Definitely not an enjoyable dining experience. To make it better, we should have just ordered to go and ate at home--at least the food would have had better service.
Review Source:My husband and I bought a Groupon for the restaurant and went to redeem it the other day.
We were seated right away. Then waited 10 minutes for our server. I'm assuming from her sweatshirt and flip flops, she was not the usual waitress, but rather a bartender who was subbing. We order drinks. Waited. Got drinks and placed our order. Waited. Received our appetizers and entrees at the same time, which is my biggest pet peeve. When we were finished we waited another 20 minutes for our check.
However, the food was delicious. We order the Irish nachos for the appetizer, and it was bomb. Our Reuben and O'Paddyy Melt sandwiches were great and the fries were phenomenal.
Overall it was so-so. A little disappointing, but nothing horrible that we wouldn't give a second chance to.
We had a groupon otherwise i don't think we ever would have gone here, its a bit out of the way for us.
We were excited to try a new place though... and on a search for some good fish and chips.
the waitress could care less... she never filled up our drinks on her own, she stomped around back and forth with hardly an acknowledgment of our table when she would pass by. no bedside manner whatsoever. but i think she was saving that for her patio tables that were drinking up a storm. whatever.
we started with the Irish Nachos. they were good, except that it seemed like the bacon only made it to one side of the plate. it was a good thing that i filled up on these.
The BF had the fish n chips and his only complaint was that it seemed like they tried to piece smaller pieces together into one and fried it. but he said they were good, the batter was good, they tasted good.
i had the bangers and mash. the mash was pretty good, the gravy was pretty good. the green beans were tasteless and the bangers tasted like frozen jimmy deans sausages. not good. not good at all.
i wasn't going to make a big deal out of it, but i just couldn't stomach the sausage at all. the waitress asked, and i said i didn't like them. she barely said sorry and handed us the bill. the BF asked if she could remove my dinner since i had only eaten one sausage and hardly any of the potatoes or greens. she said she'd go ask. she came back and handed us a new bill that only had the groupon taken off and a balance of $2. she didn't include the original bill (listing the entrees)... i knew she was being shady. we did the math, she hadn't had my entree removed and wasn't going to say a thing about it. whatever. it was a groupon, i won't be going back.
i don't think i would go back here at all. i'll have to look into some of the other places nearby. and for bangers and mash, i am sticking with Ballydoyle.
Had dinner on Saturday night with my brother and sister-in-law and my 7mo. old nephew.
Food was delicious, we all liked what we had. We had Irish Nachos for an appetizer and I had the BBQ Chicken Wrap with fries for dinner. All the food was very good and affordably priced. Appetizers to entrees flowed well and there wasn't a long wait time for food or drinks to arrive.
Perfect atmosphere for a family friendly dinner if you go early. We got there at 5:30pm and were there until almost 7pm. There were several kids in the eatery side and it was very nice. They had boosters seats as well which is good when we have my nephew in toe.
Waitress was very nice and accommodating. My cup was never empty and she checked in on us often.
Only drawback was that there weren't many microbrew beer options on the menu.
I would def. recommend this place for dinner any night.
Attentive staff, large menu, excellent selection of drinks, nice patio area, and occasionally live music. A nice place to go for some weekend drinks...the only negative is that it is located amongst the farms of Plainfield and not located in a cultured town like that of Schaumburg or Naperville.
And they sometimes have meatloaf, which is delicious.
Not a bad neighborhood bar...Wings are good, people are nice enough, and prices are ok, but its just not very "Alive". I can't quite put my finger on it. Really, there isn't anything wrong with this place, but it could be better. A good option if your looking to have a few close to home...
Review Source:We went to O'Connor's for lunch. Â This used to be a steakhouse, but has been closed for the longest time. Â I don't have high hopes for this restaurant either. Â For a lunch hour, the service was lousy. Â The place was not really busy but we waited and waited for everything. Â The food wasn't really that great either. Â I had the Philly Cheesesteak Boxty and it seemed that they forgot the cheese part. Â The fries were good, but alas, the damage was done. Â I fear this cannot make my list of good places for lunch around Plainfield, especially with Finnegan's just five minutes away.
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