While I was in the area a few days ago, I grabbed my youngest child and went into this pub and sandwich shop for a quick dinner. Notice that this place is not a bar. Bars by nature do not allow children or anyone under 21 after a certain time and since this time that I went in was around 6pm, this shop and pub was allowing children in. Anyways, I went in and while noticing several women working the tables and taking orders, after sitting down, for 15 minutes, I took it upon myself to walk up to the bar and make an order. I know you may be thinking that this is what I was supposed to have been doing the whole time, but after seeing these servers walk up to tables and people with their menus on ipads or a similar tablet, I thought they would do the same to me. While I at first thought that this was a clear discrimination against me because I had a 5 year old with me, seeing a selection of food items separated on their menu as a "kid's menu" would indicate that children are in fact welcome.
After placing my order for food items that should not have taken more than 10 minutes, and since when I looked around the room and everyone else had food plates on their tables, I figured that our food would come out fast. I didn't think that 20 minutes was fast though.
My son ordered the hot dog and it was described as a hot dog on a bun with mini pretzel knots. What is a pretzel knot, you may ask? Pretzel knots are typically described as the actual tied knot parts of pretzels. This can be a physical tied knot or part of a braid in a pretzel. Unfortunately, what Murphy's on 21 means, is that you get a regular store bought hot dog, on a bun, bare, with a handful of Rold Gold pretzels.
So, what did I order? I ordered a specialty called Smackers. The Smackers are described as "baked Italian sausage bites tossed in our sweet buffalo or BBQ sauce and served "wing style". This is what had been delivered:
Now, besides being disgusting, a miserable 1 out of 5 stars, this is what they were. The description sounds better than what they were. Baked sausage bites, makes me think of something more like a sausage with other things and flavors mixed into it. These were clumps of store-bought sausage, heated up and then a mixture of BBQ sauce and hot sauce poured over them. They were spicy, hot and way too tart to even consider eating more than one. I guess that one someone says that something is served "wing style", that means that a single stalk of celery is chopped into three pieces and offered as a side. Where is the ranch sauce? Where are the napkins? Not here. None of them even offered. These had a horrible pepper and vinegar aftertaste that made me eat some of the crappy pretzel knots on my child's dish. Would I eat at this place again? No, it just wasn't for me. If you are into bars that serve food by nice girls with ipads and a large tv playing sports games, then this is for you.
After placing my order for food items that should not have taken more than 10 minutes, and since when I looked around the room and everyone else had food plates on their tables, I figured that our food would come out fast. I didn't think that 20 minutes was fast though.
My son ordered the hot dog and it was described as a hot dog on a bun with mini pretzel knots. What is a pretzel knot, you may ask? Pretzel knots are typically described as the actual tied knot parts of pretzels. This can be a physical tied knot or part of a braid in a pretzel. Unfortunately, what Murphy's on 21 means, is that you get a regular store bought hot dog, on a bun, bare, with a handful of Rold Gold pretzels.
So, what did I order? I ordered a specialty called Smackers. The Smackers are described as "baked Italian sausage bites tossed in our sweet buffalo or BBQ sauce and served "wing style". This is what had been delivered:
Now, besides being disgusting, a miserable 1 out of 5 stars, this is what they were. The description sounds better than what they were. Baked sausage bites, makes me think of something more like a sausage with other things and flavors mixed into it. These were clumps of store-bought sausage, heated up and then a mixture of BBQ sauce and hot sauce poured over them. They were spicy, hot and way too tart to even consider eating more than one. I guess that one someone says that something is served "wing style", that means that a single stalk of celery is chopped into three pieces and offered as a side. Where is the ranch sauce? Where are the napkins? Not here. None of them even offered. These had a horrible pepper and vinegar aftertaste that made me eat some of the crappy pretzel knots on my child's dish. Would I eat at this place again? No, it just wasn't for me. If you are into bars that serve food by nice girls with ipads and a large tv playing sports games, then this is for you.
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