The Shannon Tavern

Let me just preface this review by saying that I have never been to this place. The reason I am writing this review is to counter balance a bad review by another user.

To the people who wrote a review of St. Patricks Day at this place: Your haunting 1-star experience is your own fault. Everything said in your review could have been avoided if you had made better decisions. But your scathing review will be here forever, dragging down the aggregate rating of this place and possibly driving away some people who might have actually gone here.

So, I'm sure this place is alright, but the real conclusion is to think about the effect of your actions on others, people. Ok thanks.

Went here on the day of the St. Patrick's Day parade.  Paid a cover to get in and could barely move, since they were so over the legal limit of people.  After 20 minutes there the owner was going wild on everyone since he suspected that someone stole a bottle of booze.  He kicked everyone out whether they had just bought a drink or not and would not let people take their drink with them.  It's his own fault for being way under staffed for the amount of people he let into his bar.  I will never go back here, because of this situation and because it's a crappy little outdated bar that should be closed.

We met the owner at Playwright on our Yelp Red Scare Southie Crawl and he personally walked us over to Shannon's. I've lived in Southie for years but when I moved to the Fort Point side I started driving by this place every day. I really wanted to head in and try it out as I was auditioning for a new "local" since moving too far to stumble home from Whitey's. Somehow, I just never got around to checking it out.
When I met the owner and he offered to show us over, I was psyched to follow him there. Sure the place is little and the bathroom curtain acting as door is a bit questionable... but this place is great.
It's everything I am looking for in a local. Friendly people, a great jukebox, bar games and cheap drinks. Apparently they have food, though we didnt try it out. I havent been back since the crawl but it is on July's Bucket List. If my next experience is anything like my last... this place will be bumped to the top of the local list.

Thanks Shannons! Next year you are a definite stop on our Red Scare 2011 Crawl!