McGrath's Pub

The drinks are great, most of the time the service is great. I had a bad experience about a year ago where my friend found a large shard of glass in her drink but the girls upstairs are wonderful and the blarney bread is delicious! (Honestly, most things I've eaten here have been delicious.)

This is a really odd place....we were passing through Harrisburg, and decided to get a drink and something to eat.  We decided to come here, and we were practically the only people in the place.  Mind you, this was at 6 PM on St Patrick's Day.

The bartenders looked like high school girls who had no experience.  They were constantly checking their phones, and it was difficult to get one of them to notice us.  I ordered a Guinness draft, and it was flat and sour.  Thankfully, I wasn't charged for it.  I ordered a White Russian instead, and got a drink made with sour milk.  It was utterly disgusting.

The decor is nice, but there's something off about this place.  Specifically, why there were no locals there on St Patricks Day!  They knew something we didn't...that the drinks are unpalatable!  I wish we had gone to another place for the brief time we were in Harrisburg.

My friend had an interview in Harrisburg and I tagged along to keep him company.  I actually discovered McGrath's Pub on Yelp when I was looking for cool, beer oriented restaurants to try that were not going to be super expensive.  McGrath's was a good find!

We were there during the lunch hour and I was surprised to see the pub was nearly deserted save for one other table.  It's good a really cool stained glass/dark wood Irish pub look to it.  Which is good, bc this is an Irish pub.  You could tell this was an Irish pub and nary a shamrock was anywhere.  That's a good thing.

They have really good drink specials and a good selection of beers on tap.  Troegs is my favorite brewery and they had three of their beers on tap, so I was a happy girl.  The food is GOOD.

Their pub burger was ridiculously messy.  I think the bartender saw me try to lick coleslaw off my own chin, but I think that's ok since he works in a bar and has probably seen everything.  It was one of the best burgers I have had in a long time.  It wasn't healthy and after the chin licking incident I left the bar feeling bloated and uncivilized, but I also left happy.

The thing about burgers is most restaurants focus on crazy, gourmet toppings and sauces.  The key to a good burger is in the meat and theirs was one of the tastiest burgers I've had in awhile.  It has coleslaw on it.  Try eating one nad not making a mess.

My friend had some sandwich of some sort he said was good, but I wasnt paying attention bc my hamburger was exploding all over the table and I was busy.

I would definetly come back here again if I were in town. I'm not sure what the crowd is like after dark, but I think this is a pretty good watering hole.