Irish Eyes Pub on Secor

Just a thought on the orange barrels. The city could perhaps balance its budget by selling ads on them.

I think that place will do great as long as they're providing a great product. It's so close to the 475 entrance, lots of toledoans will support it.

Also QQ kitchen is in the strip mall, and they are busy 24-7

^ You're right about that! QQ Kitchen is so good, it will be helping out their commercial neighbors with the steady traffic!

Visited QQ Kitchen this weekend and it was great. Very limited seating so take away is really the best option. Looks like the new Irish place is going to be really a big space! Wishing the new biz lots of luck!

Hope Irish Eyes works out the kinks. Went there last Friday and grabbed a seat at the bar. Fairly crowded overall between tables and bar patrons and slightly understaffed. Much confusion behind the bar trying to determine tickets and servers requesting drinks without entering them. Manager or Owner wsa not happy. The one poor girl was having a terrible night. She dropped a tray of large drinks next to the bar and made a terrible commotion. A guy comes out with a mop, and falls on his butt, trying to clean up. They repour a tall Guiness for the same girl and knocks it right over back into the bar. This continued for a while, and I left without ordering food. almost felt like there should have been a cover charge for the entertainment.

Hoops - I went on Friday as well and that was my table's drinks that were dropped! Our server was frazzled from the moment she walked up to the table - she was nice but service was horribly slow for the entire meal. It was probably 30 minutes before she actually took our order and then another 45 minutes before the food showed up.

The food was poor to mediocre at best for everyone at the table. I think it might turn into a good place to grab a drink but I don't think I'll be going back for dinner.

I think instead of investing in the stock market I should have invested in orange paint.

Unfortunately, it's a very bad location for several reasons including heavy traffic and not the safest place at night.

have stopped in a couple times...

the food is ok. i had the lamb stew which was fairly good though i think it would do better as a beef stew for most peoples taste. it comes in a bread bowl which was good but fairly bland and should have been cooked more... slightly doughy, not crusted. my daughter got sheperds pie which was nice - hard to screw up, hard to make great. the appetizer of flat bread with toppings was actually a nice change of pace.

the draft beer selection is strictly european which is a nice change from the usual bud-blue moon-stella selection... guiness, newcastle, smidwick, murphys, killkenny and a couple others... but i think a couple US craft beers would help keep interest from beer drinkers going. also, not an overwhelming number of TVs which is good. sitting at the bar and watching hockey will work without having an A.D.D. attack from sensory overload from too many monitors (back room at nick's; any number of other sports bars)

they set up the stage well and i look forward to seeing bands there. there in no seperation of the bar patrons from the dining patron which i think would help... its all one large open space which still feels strip-mall rather than any comfortable cozy type setting other than one large table set off on its own in a niche... they should repeat that gesture a few times.

i am hoping the heavy traffic helps the bar providing they survive the coming secor reconstruction. its not an unsafe area?! and the additional people coming and going should help. the parking lot is an absolute mess and needs to be reconfigured.

I have no great safety concerns in that area at night. As in any parking area, you need to be aware of your surroundings and be alert.

Agree - the parking lot lends itself more towards a demolition derby than orderly parking.

latest word is that they have lost staff already and the remaining staff is dis-spirited. the owner is the cigar shop guy (in the same plaza) but does not seem to know the bar/restaurant business very well... but probably thinks he is smarter than experienced staff.

i have been there 5 or 6 times and hope it works but they do things very strange. week night music starts at 10 and runs past 1 a.m.; i'm looking to go home by then (if the hockey is over). the euro-beers are a nice change but it would still make sense to have a couple US micro available on draft. the staff must be instructioned on how to interact with customers and it is really awkward feeling... kinda creepy.

the realy ought clear off the damn windows (maybe more like nicks) and do something to make it more cozy rather than a bowling alley in a strip mall.

I'm with you on the cozy thing, EES. Been there once, I'm Irish and a Smithwick's man. Felt like I was drinking at a Verizon store and not a bar or someplace that wants to be a "pub". Our bartender was nice enough, darn near personable. However, I would like to slap whoever thought the "Irish accent" used in their radio commercial was acceptable.

Flatbread appetizer was delish - had the garlic sauce w hamburger, tomatoes and onions. The homemade chips were amazing. My husband had the bacon wrapped chicken kabobs - said they were great as well. We will be going back here!

I'm with those who say the atmosphere is ... meh. It does have a weird, fakey-feel to it. Bad, bad lighting. Also agree on beer selections. While a big fan of more varied beer options, I would also like to see some U.S. craft beers. Truth is, I don't much care for most of their draft options -- and I'm one of those people who will never drink a Budweiser or Anything American Lite. Only food I've had was a burger. It was OK, but nothing to write home about. Not anyplace I'd go out of my way for again.

Not sure why so many people are complaining about an Irish place serving Irish beers and not American Craft beers. We have plenty of options in Toledo to drink the "hey lets dump some more hops in this" craft beers. Personally I'm glad to have another option for Imports.

Are you saying Toledo lacks options for the endless less-hoppy craft beers?

HOPS SLAM!

I can't speak for the food, but when we stopped for an after dinner drink a few weeks ago, the bartender was a pleasant surprise. Of course, it could be that I'm comparing it the last time I went to a newly opened place, which was just unpleasant all around--and we gave it two tries.

We'll see how it is on Friday when we go to see The Blue Kazoo play. I'm curious what the acoustics are going to be like for live music.

@researcher. I just found it amusing that people would complain about an Irish place focusing on Irish beers I mean I haven't seen one mention of.......... wait for it.......a "Mexican restaurant " thread on here complaining they only have Corona and Dos Equis

in wine truth - i am the only one who came close to a complaint about the beer... and what i said was i like the euro beer selection but thought they ought to diversify somewhat... probably a good business decision frankly. and if the only american craft beer you are having is the high hopped stuff that is your own fault... there is a wide variety of great micros including in euro styles.

Good German beers are always hard to find on tap it seems in the Toledo area.

dappling... i am not well versed in german beers... i like warsteiner dunkel but dont know many more. i did read that inbev bought and ruined the becks brands. any recommendations. some of the better mexican beers are very similar brown lagers to the germans.

Dappling - The Attic has recently had some Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier on tap. At times the Blarney will have drafts from Paulaner and Weihenstephaner.

Those are both good beers. InBev did buy Becks. It is made in the US now and the quality has dropped off. Wars reined is a great beer. Bitburger is good as well. I do like various Mexican beers such as Pacifico and DoEquis

My recent posts have been poorly typed as I am using my daughters iPad. The flat touch screen is not conducive for accuracy. In the post above, I meant "warsteiner."