Mcbride's - Bellmore
Mcbride's
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Monday night 50 cent wing 2drink minimumsBest wings on Ling IslandNich placeClean Great bar food
This local bar in Bellmore Merrick has a friendly staff, and the food is really good, making it a perfect complement to a few drinks.
A friend and I came here on St Patrick's day. Every other local Irish place was busy and this place was too, but the guy on the phone when we called ahead said he'd get us in. He did! We sat right down at a table for 2 when we walked in. The environment was just what we were looking for a bit loud and lots of people. The food was delicious. We both got the special for st pats day corn beef and cabbage and potatoes.
Just what you'd expect from a local place.
So this review WOULD be 1 star if it wasn't for the second portion of the night. My fiancé and I are frequent McBride attendees and wanted to spend NYE having some beer and wings before the NYE crowd came through. We walked in around 6:45pm to no greeting or acknowledgement and sat down at a high top table. Typically, the bartender would walk over to the table to take our order, but after a few minutes of sitting there, we realized that was not the case tonight. So I took my fiancés debit card and walked up to the bar and waited for the Older blonde haired bartender with glasses to finish taking her shot with another customer before she made her way to me. I proceeded to order 2 shots and 2 beers and she stops me and asked for our ID's, which is of course not a problem, so I walked the 5 feet back to our table to grab both of our ID's and went back up to the bar. She ended up walking away to the other end of the bar doing everything and anything to not help me or acknowledge me. If the bar was crowded I would understand and would not complain a single second, but this bar had only 3 older customers sitting at the bar. She then takes another shot, still ignoring me. She finally makes her way back to me and says and WHERE is this other girl (referring to my fiancés ID) and I go the girl I'm sitting with right there (5 feet away-clear view). She goes who's debit card is this?? (With crazy attitude) and I tell her it's the girl sitting at the table. She then replies, again with unwarranted attitude, that she needs to be at the bar if it's her card. No problem, I walk back to the table and sit down and have my fiancé go up to the bar now (again a 5 second time frame). My fiancé is now standing at bar and the bartender once again goes to the other end of the bar doing everything and anything to ignore my fiancé standing in the same spot I was. She proceeds to take another shot. I'm pretty sure she took 6-8 shots within this whole ordeal. She was taking her time, doing any little task to preoccupy herself before 2 men at separate times got her attention to let her know my fiancé has been waiting. The bartender finally acknowledges my fiancé by asking her how can she help her. She was clearly there because you asked for her to be there before putting in our order of drinks. But my fiancé just repeats our order for 2 shots and 2 beers and she only brings out 1 shot and 1 beer and my fiancé corrects her letting her know she said 2. The bartender then asks her who the second drinks are for.................. at this point it's as clear as day that the bartender is wasted. She finally gives us our drink order after being there for 20 minutes at a almost dead bar. We were really excited for food and drinks at McBrides, but this interaction really turned us off and we agreed to leave after we finished our beer and not even order food (even though we LOVE their wings). But, a shift swap happened and there was a new bartender! So we decided to stay since we no longer had to deal with that drunk bartender. We didn't let anyone know about our experience, so I don't know if he knew this, but he completely turned our experience around. He was so attentive and nice! He carried our shots out to the table for us and checked on how we were doing multiple times throughout the night. It was literally night and day and it was back to being McBrides like I typically experience. I want to say thank you to the bartender that saved our NYE!
