I don't spend much time on this side of town. Â Fortunately, when I was over there recently I was with some people that knew the area. Â Liam's is a great spot to grab a drink with friends. Â I didn't eat, so I can't comment on the food, but the drink prices were reasonable and the bartender I had was pleasant.
Review Source:Decent food. Â The shepherd's pie is delicious, and the fish and chips are tasty. Â Good beer selection as well. Â The drawback is the price. Â The shepherd's pie is not that big and there were not many fries with the fish. Â We got these 2 dishes and 4 draft beers, and our total was $60.
Review Source:You know it's good when you're on a week-long business trip and you come here three times. (That, or everywhere else around it is just not good...)
The first time, it was Sunday we had a lame dinner at a nearby restaurant and went looking for some dessert and drinks. Came in here and got the bread pudding (huge for the price, and lovely presentation) which is highly recommended.
We found out that they have all you can eat wings for $9.95 on Mondays. So we were back the next night. They had Guinness bbq wings, something fiery hot, some parmesan garlic and regular wings. Everyone was all over those Guinness wings, they were amazing! Really high on the list of wings I've had in life.
Then we found out that Thursdays are prime rib nights. I don't like steak that much, but we'd had such a good experience both times here and the service was fantastic at the bar both times. This compared with some lame experiences elsewhere in the area, so I was down to go back. Didn't have the steak, although it was reportedly good. Instead, I ordered the Journey through Ireland, which was corned beef, shepherd's pie and fish & chips. The fish and chips were yummy and the corned beef was pretty good too. Shepherd's pie would've been, if not for the excessive amount of salt.
In all, we remember this place fondly and would return here (definitely on a Monday!) if we ever take another business trip to the area.
Eh. It's in a strip mall and has that manufactured attempt at an authentic feel.
The happy hour or dueling piano night is probably your best bet for a good experience. The food is like an Applebee's with some Guinness and potatoes thrown in. It's strip mall American style Irish food.
They have an ok selection of beers and spirits, and clearly cater to the wine and cocktail crowd. Usually, my coworkers and I would go for Guinness and whiskey after eating somewhere else. I think they serve the Guinness too cold, I like it to be just cooler than room temperature after it's been pumped up from a cellar.
As others have said it's big, it's loud, and the service is hit or miss. I won't say don't go, but I will say don't expect much and just go for drinks.
I met a friend here last night for dinner and a pint. Â They were really busy for a Weds night. Â I had the corn beef and cabbage and my buddy had a salad. Â My server suggested I get the half order because the portions are large and I am glad I took his suggestion. Â The food was good and I had a perfect pint of Guinness. Â Liam's is a blast , they have live music, sports on TV and dueling piano's on Sat nights. Â The prices are good I and have enjoyed all the food I have tried. Â They have a decent selection of Scotch and a good beer list. I enjoy sitting on the patio when the weather is nice to do a people watching.
Review Source:I hate having to review this pub so low, but it definitely isn't the best Irish pub I've ever been to. Â As I've been to Ireland, I'm more critical of Irish pubs in America. Â I went on a Friday after 10.30pm, and the first thing I immediately noticed was the music...it was club top 40-type music. Â It just really bothered me to be in an Irish place and not hear Irish music. Â The second thing was the Snakebite...I love Snakebites, but this one was the worst I've ever had. Â I ended up getting a budlight after, and only drank mine and a friend's Snakebite (who also hated it) just so it wouldn't go to waste. Â I had a better time hanging out outside then being inside the pub. Â Would I go again? If another friend really really really wanted to, maybe, but this is not going to be my first choice.
Review Source:Bring back the Lobster Mack! Â Been coming here since it opened. Â Used to be worthy of 5 stars, but it has definitely dropped off. I've given them a few tries recently to redeem themselves, but it's official, dropped to 3 stars. Â The food / menu isn't as good and generally the place is not holding up to it's former standard. Â My food was incorrect and it was an overly smallish portion. Now it doesn't feel worth the prices. And where have all the great waitresses gone? To the other Irish kilt bar maybe?
Review Source:W stopped here late afternoon on a Sunday after buying a car nearby. Â There are lots of eclectic restaurants in this plaza and this looked the most appealing from the outside decor. I had the shepards pie, which was excellent but a bit on the small portion size. My wife had the fish & chips which she also loved. My daughter had the gator bites but didn't like them as they seemed "mushy" to her. We sat on the patio and listened to the live music which was an added treat. Our server was prompt and attentive and the food was served hot. Cocktails are 2-4-1 all day on Sunday. Â Overall, an excellent, very relaxing dinner experience. We will be back when we are in the area again.
Review Source:While in Orlando my wife and I visited Liam Fitzpatrick's Irish Restaurant & Pub for the first time since it was close to the Hyatt. Â Overall a good experience, it happened to be trivia night (on Monday's) so I found it a little loud and goofy, Â but that's just me. Â They had a large birthday party going on for a large group who were all totally wasted and obnoxious to everyone, but it is a pub so I guess that is somewhat expected. Â The food was good, enjoyed the variety of dishes offered, price were a little high for pub type of food I thought. Â Dinner for two with 2 drinks was $60 for two adults.. so.. I guess on the high end of "average"/ Â Probably wont be going back, but it's worth it to someone who is looking for this type of Pub/Restaurant.
Review Source:I love this place. This is my 2nd time here and the dueling-pianos is a welcoming sight. The music and atmosphere is good for groups and just to chill. The outside patio is a good break from the loudness inside.
The beers is mostly Guiness/Harp/Sam Adams, but they come in a reasonable-sized glass and the service is quick as well. The Apple-Crumb dessert is awesome (just tried it this past weekend!)
I like this place a lot, it's a good place to meet with friends due to the live music (dueling pianos!) and they play the old school rock, or pretty much anything you can request.
I came here for a birthday celebration and was pleasantly surprised. There were about 10 guests who arrived (unexpectedly) after the tables had been arranged, and the servers didn't bat an eye. They accommodated the party of about 30 without a sign of irritation.
Food and drink quality was much better than any other pub I've been to. I was happy to have food that didn't seem soggy from being slathered in grease.
Overall, the place was nice, though the live music was so overwhelming that we all moved outside after dinner was over.
I would come back for sure. Enjoy!
First time checking in here but not the first time I've been here!
Never had a bad meal. My husband is hooked on the bangers and mash. The fish and chips is excellent. Both my nephew and my mother in law had the fish and chips and my taste of that was not disappointing.
This evening I had the penne with artichoke, chicken, and sun dried tomatoes. My opinion...the dish was delicious but had waaay too much garlic!
So far, my best dish here has been the veggie wrap. Also...the mashed potatoes are outstanding.
The sangria is extremely tart. Be warned. You might want to send it back.
This happened to be a special occasion (my mother in law's 86th birthday) and the staff came out to sing her happy birthday and served her cheesecake with a candle in it.
Speaking of cheesecake...try theirs. It's delicious, especially if you love Baileys.
Not a place to go if you want to talk and catch up with friends. When we were there, they had no music in the background, but as we were leaving ( around 9pm) they began to pipe in some Irish music. It would have been nice if they had that music going sooner.
Service was excellent.
Dinner for four with no appetizers, 3 cheesecakes, and 2 alcoholic beverages was $89 before tip.
I'll be back.
The bangers and mash were delicious. Â The rib appetizer had a great flavor, but not much meat on the bones. Â The Guinness felt a bit cold but the flavor and smoothness were lovely. Â Prices were reasonable; they offer beverage discounts. Â Service was friendly. Â Atmosphere takes stars away from review. Â It just didn't have a 'pub' feel. Â It is a large place and it is in a touristy-like strip center. Â It kinda felt like the Irish restaurant in Downtown Disney.
Review Source:I had heard from others that this place was pretty good. Â We came here with a group of 8 and were able to make reservations easily. Â I was surprised at the interior of the place. Â It was much much classier than I had anticipated.
I was not all that hungry so a friend and I decided to split our main entree. Â I started out with a cup of the french onion soup which was delicious but messy as it was hard to get under the cheese without spilling the soup all over the place. Â We split the Blackened Chicken Alfredo. Â We were pleasantly surprised when they brought it out in two dishes. Â That was very helpful! Â I still had a bit too much food overall. Â The pasta was just ok in my opinion.
Overall, we had good, helpful service and decent food. Â I will probably go back and try some of the Irish fare next time.
First experience here tonight with close friends.
There was a celebration for "Halfway to St Paddy's Day" with the Orlando Fife & Drum Corps, Irish Dancers, and other entertainment. They advertise dueling pianos Saturday nights. Looking forward to coming back to enjoy it.
Enjoyed our food very much. I see some mixed reviews here but they have either stepped it up or had a really "on" night. Potato soup was beautiful, creamy, chunky, and does NOT have bacon in the base (yay!) just added as a garnish.
Reasonable prices. Half order of fish and chips was $10. Lobster mac & cheese was $15.
Our server really made the meal. Absolutely outstanding. A+
this place is fun to go with a bunch of friends at night! I do not like their food at all... but thats just me. I like the atmosphere but it tends to smell like dirty dish water.. i don't know.. but every time i walk in it always has this distinct smell... eeh
Saturday nights dueling pianos is fun!!
P.S- DO not go on st pattys day, or another event like that, because they will charge you a different price for each drink.. ridiculous.
Beautiful setting, and they were very accommodating for our large party of 15. Food was okay. Ordered the garlic potato soup (good, spicy with large chunks of potatoes), scotch eggs (okay, dry and not that much flavor surprisingly).
For our main, we ordered the Journey through Ireland: trio of fish and chips, shepherd's pie, and corned beef and cabbage.
Fish and chips were okay, but no malt vinegar served alongside it? Boo.
Shepherd's pie was nice, good flavor.
Corned beef and cabbage was by far the best on the plate. Wished we just ordered the whole dish.
Dessert was Bailey's Cheesecake. Bailey's was hardly pronounced and it tasted a bit heavy.
Liam's is easily one of my favorite places to go for either lunch, dinner, happy hour, or late-night drinks. Â Â The food and decor are awesome. Â Sitting outside at night (even with the heat lamps on in winter) makes for an incredibly easy-going and fun evening. Â Â The area around Liam's is very cosmopolitan and filled with young professionals. Â Not too crazy, but the alcohol certainly flows in the evening. Â I recommend their corned beef and cabbage as well as the lobster mac n cheese as far as main meals go, and the incredibly delicious scotch eggs for just about every other time. Â And of course...there's always the Jameson...
Review Source:Excellent service; the only bartender I can remember shaking my hand when I sat down. The fried Gouda as part of the 1st quarter special was inventive and I would like to see it more from Chicago bars. Chimay white on tap easily earned four stars. My only negative is that the wings, of which the server assured me the medium was very hot, were not as hot as advertised. If I'm back in the neighborhood, it's hard to envision a place I'd rather be.
Review Source:I could not believe how empty Liam Fitzpatrick's was when I walked in. I suppose they don't get a lot of traffic at lunch time, plus it was a large place.
I had very high expectations of the $13 lobster mac and cheese. The lobster was minimal and and the cheese was greasy. We shared the fish and chips, nothing special. And we also shared the potato croquette. I like that it was made with shredded potatoes, but again, nothing special.
Overall I thought the prices were too high for mediocre food. I hear they have a good happy hour though, so if I was in the area I'd probably go for that.
Classy place! Awesome Irish atmosphere. St patties day is so much fun Here just don't expect a drink whenever you want one. I usually drink some where else before I arrive. But on normal days it's just fine. Â They have piano players and singers and it's a jolly time. Very upscale and an upper 20s - 40s crowd
Review Source:Liam Fitzpatrick's is a great place to wind down the week and relax during a Friday happy hour, although happy hour at Liam's is great any day of the week. Great price on Guiness pints and awesome pub chips! Â Located in the Colonial Town Center in Sanford/Lake Mary, the outside seating area is a fun place to people watch and enjoy the beautiful Florida weather. There is live music inside and out on different days of the week and Dueling Pianos on Saturday evenings. The typical Irish fare is very good - Shepherd's Pie, Fish n' Chips, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish Potato Soup - YUM!
Review Source:Have probably been to this place 10 times since it opened. Â Their mac n cheese is really good, the "shepards pie" is very good, our various guests have commented on the fish n chips being very good, love their potatoe nachos, bottom line is everyone we've taken has really liked this place a lot and requested to go back.
Review Source:First night in Lake Mary, first opportunity to meet co-workers, peers and managers....what better venue to throw so many people together than at an Irish pub? Â This place was a lot larger than I expected, compared to other pubs I've been to in my own hometown. Â We ended up in a bar in the very back of the venue - mostly standing room but there were stools at the bar and a couple of 4-tops to accommodate those that wanted to sit a spell.
Bar food - sometimes is horrible, but I actually thought they did a good job with the appetizers we were served. Â I especially liked the Ireland bites - Beer battered grouper fingers, served with Key West lime remoulade sauce. Â They were lightly deep-fried (yes, it can happen) nicely seasoned and really satisfying when dipped in the lime remoulade.
I'm a Guinness girl, so that indeed was my choice for the evening's beverage - there were plenty of Smithwicks, mojitos, martinis and other choices floating around so I'm pretty sure we covered a good amount of what the bartender generally pulls, shakes and mixes on any given evening!
I liked the place - saw the piano bar but even as we were leaving there wasn't anything going on...guess it kicks into action later in the night, or perhaps since it was a Monday it just wasn't going to happen. Â Had a great time and would come back when in the area next time.
I came to Liam Fitzpatrick's on a whim one night with a group of friends. I was confused when I first went in with the piano bar on one side and then just a regular bar on the other side. I'm a big fan of the piano bars, but they didn't really have anything on Howl at the Moon or Pat O'Briens - in fact they were using some of Howl's signature things (which didn't sit too well with me).
The food was a bit pricey and not that great. We did have a great server though. He was very friendly and attentive to our needs. If I ever went there again, I would probably only go to check out the "bar" side or to just grab a couple drinks before going to other places in the Lake Mary area.
Cider!!!!
"Nachos" = bleh
Burger = yummo
Sheppard's Pie = wowweee
French onion soup - YES PLEASE
Service - inconsistent
Outside seating is lovely and is a great opportunity to people watch, especially during a Friday Happy Hour. Â
Irish Pub, you BEST have cider on tap ;o) Â However, now that I have been introduced to some of the lightest cider ever (BJs and WoodChuck) it is so hard to drink a lot of Magners or Strongbow. Â Also, I like food a LOT so at Liam's the food is pretty heavy (in a good irish way) so it's also hard to drink a lot for me while there.
The food is really good! Â The only thing I do not like that I have tried is the "nachos" which are Irish nachos - Potato Chips with all the cheese and salsa toppings, just not for me taste buds...bleh just thinking about it. Â They used to have this appetizer that was fried bowties (yes FRIED PASTA) with a dipping sauce. Â Somehow this was delicious. Â I am sure it was taken off the menu due to it probably being enough caloric intake for a month. Â Maybe you can still request it though, I have not asked.
The burgers are delicious and the french onion soup is classic! Â Both very flavorful and rich. Â My definite go to dishes.
The decor is very old school irish pub and it's very pretty. Â Rich woods and large furniture. Â The bar is pretty small but it very nice. Â The outside seating is very large with easily 15 tables. Â
I don't mind heading here on a Sunday afternoon or a starting place on a Friday night but I would not spend an entire night here. Â Overall, pretty cool and I suggest checking out!
Liam Fitzpatricks makes it Irish by taking typical applebee's fare and coating it with some Guiness-inspired condiment, and of course there's the quesadilla. It's really noisy with all the concrete floors.
It delivers on neither of there two promises, it is neither a traditional irish experience, nor does the hospitality carry over with it.
The service is sort of slow and robotic and the food tastes like it was prepared in mass a thousand times before, but not in a good way.
It's alright enough to take a quick throwaway bite or serve as some other purpose, but certainly not an experience worth remembering.
I visited the restaurant and the concept seems a bit confused. They have a section on the menu called "Traditional Food" or something like that with Shephard's Pie and Bangers all that stuff. Then on other portions of the menu there are shrimp scampi, linguini, and very NON-Irish foods. When you're outside, you think you're looking at someplace in Dublin or Boston. It looks like a true pub. However whn you go inside the restaurat it has a pretty non Irish decor with only hints of Irish influence (Celtic font writing here and there on signs). Â The walls are painted burgundy.
I decided to order the burger and I have to say it's the best burger I have had in a long time. It was just enough chuck to have a flavorful juicy burger. The wedge fries were pretty good too. It was really impressive.
The restaurant had  concrete floors and an open floor design which made it very noisy. I went on a Tuesday night and at times it was hard to hear myself think let alone talk. It would be a great place for a happy hour with friends or something, but not a casual dinner w friends. Just way too noisy.
Having been to Great Britain, this place would never pass the "Irish Pub" sniff test. However, it is a nice restaurant in and of itself. They have a patio and a cool "party" atmosphere. If that's not your scene, this may not be the place to go. I would definitely go back for the burger (It was really good!) or if I wanted drinks with the crew.
Bad- very bad!
We went before a movie, and got seated in the corner- Our waiter came over and told us his name and told us about happy hour- 2x!! we weren't interested in happy hour. I ordered a stoli and soda- and were told that wasn't on the happy hour menu. Fine- we don't care, we already told the waiter we didn't care what was on the happy hour menu.
I asked about the corned beef and cabbage, and our waiter said that the cabbage was "not very good- I eat cabbage all the time, and it isn't good here". OK... well... I guess i should try to be safe then- so I ordered the cheeseburger- our waiter said he stands behind the burger- not the cabbage!
The burger was bad. It wasn't very good at all.
My husband had the bangers and mash- which had a horrible presentation- and wasn't very good either.
We had been looking at the potato pancake meals, and they weren't on the menu at this time. Our waiter said there were so many mixed reviews of people not liking them, that they are off the menu right now.
Maybe they should revise the entire menu, have 20 items on there and perfect them!!- just an idea!!!!
I am sure this place will be out of business in a year with servers being as negative as ours was, and the food not being very good either.
The pub side is pretty cool- they should probably put up a wall and keep the pub going, and rent the other side out.
4/29/08
Liam's....I have to take away a star. Â
I went back for a second time and experienced a few of the things mentioned in other reviews. Â The service was a little slow. Â Also, still no soccer. Â I know it is your first few weeks, so I am hoping it will get better.
On a positive note the bangers and mash was pretty good.
4/14/08
Ok so I'm going to give five stars off the bat, just from attending their grand opening on April 10th.
First of all, to warn you it is an upscale Irish pub, but don't be deterred if you prefer the dive feeling, because the prices are reasonable. Â In fact, the owners couldn't have picked a better location and filled a gap with better precision. Â
The place itself is decorated very much like an Irish pub (I especially like the outside facade), not just posters, jerseys, and a few Irish mementos, but the wood, the trim, and music all add to the feel. Â
The food itself is pretty good. Â Have tried the Scotch eggs so far. Â Although not the best in town, I will give their other items a try. Â What is impressive is the size and selection on their menu. Â Seeing how Irish/English food can be tricky in terms of appeal, offering more is bound to help find something to enjoy. Â Most of all, I wanted to compliment the owners on offering Chicken Curry. Â I haven't tried it but one of the people I was with said it was good. Â A fact that is becoming more well known these days is that curry dishes have been very common in the pubs in the British Isles for years now. Â So to have Liam's offer this adds to their authenticity. Â Well done!
Anyway, the only comment so far that I would make for improvements is to get Setanta and other soccer channels on those "tellys" as fast as possible. Â The owners were gracious enough to come and chat with me for a few minutes and discuss this. Â It would make so many people happy to come to such an establishment and enjoy the atmosphere, food, and drink while watching Liverpool kick some.....balls into the ....goal....against other teams...yeah? Â Big games coming up even though the season is almost over. Â Other pubs open early but are rewarded by the turnout.
Did I mention the it was a great place to mingle, just based on the way it is laid out?
Cheers
Dafe
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