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Mackey's Pub, Washington DC
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"Dav Vandenbroucke" > wrote in message news > Last week my wife and I went to Mackey's Pub, 1823 L St Northwest, Washington > DC, for dinner. The pub is a couple blocks north of the Farragut West Metro > station, just across the street from Border's bookstore. It being a warm day, > the outside tables were packed, although the only vista is the gridlock on L > Street.. We sat inside, in a booth near the bar area. The inside is all dark > wood. I understand that the fittings were all imported from Dublin. > > We found the range of beers disappointing for a pub. We happened to arrive > during happy hour, but the cut price beers were almost all mass-produced > American beers, such as Budweiser, etc. The best was Sam Adams. The rest of > the draft lineup included Guinness, Sierra Nevada, Harp, Bodington's, a house > ale, and a few others that slip my mind at the moment. Curiously, the house ale > was listed as coming from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. > > The food is, of course, pub food. There is an extensive array of sandwiches, > plus fish & chips, shepherd's pie, steak and Guinness pie, chicken tenderloin, > battered shrimp, meatloaf, and so on. I had the steak pie, and my wife had the > fish & chips. She really like the way the fish were cooked. The chips > (shoestring) suffered from being served under the fish, which made them a bit > soggy. The steak pie was good. It was mostly meat, and the crust was worth > finishing on its own. It came with a scoop of mashed potatoes and some kind of > steamed vegetables, which I didn't touch (not a vegetable sort of guy). > > The atmosphere was loud and crowded. There was some kind of rock music playing. > Lots of people still in shirts and ties, evidently just coming off work. The > service was friendly and well paced. I neither felt that the waiter was > hovering over me nor that he had retired to a place in the country. > > I didn't have a bad time, but I've had better dining experiences. If you're > more into the bar experience than I am, you'll probably enjoy Mackey's in the > evening. I have had lunch there a couple of times previously. On those > occasions I was seated deeper into the pub, away from the bar, and the > atmosphere was generally quieter. On the whole, I'd say I've enjoyed the > lunches better than I did this dinner. > > Dav Vandenbroucke > |
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Mackey's Pub, Washington DC
Dav Vandenbroucke > wrote:
>Curiously, the house ale was listed as coming from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Leinenkugel ale?! -- Joel Plutchak "Senza la birra tutto diventa orfano." plutchak@[...] - Italian proverb (slightly revised) |
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