My wife and I visited one snowy Friday evening. They do not have a parking lot and there is very little street parking so we had to park 3 blocks away.
Atmosphere is typical Irish-American bar/pub. Reasonably friendly staff but there appeared to only 2...servers for the entire dining room. That resulted in slow, unattentive service. Lacking was the typical Irish music and dancing.
Drinks. I love Guinness beer.. IN IRELAND. Never found it good here in the States. But, this IS promoted as an "Authentic" Irish pub, so I asked the server how they pull the Guinness. She promised that they "do it right. The owner insists on it." Okay, I'll try it. (I was encouraged by the fact that she understood what I meant by "pull"!) And, when it arrived an appropriate 5 minutes later, it did appear that they pulled it properly. That was the good news. The bad news is that it tasted like Guinness that had crossed a wide ocean. The flavor and texture wasn't quite right. Not horrible but not good either. My son's rule has proven true again: Never drink a Guinness outside of Ireland! My second beer order was Smithwicks (pronounced "Smit'-icks")
The food. I ordered the Rueben sandwich. It was very good. On the small side but the small portion of corned beef was very tender and tasty. The French fries were good.
My wife ordered the roast beef sandwich. She asked the server if the beef was tender and she said it was. I guess it's a matter of taste but my wife said it was not at all tender. She would not order it again.
If the roast beef were better Sweeney's would have earned 4 stars rather than 3.
I would probably return and try some other meals... But not the Guinness.More