Grace O’Malley’s

Went on Friday to watch the Canada — U.S. friendly soccer match. They had it on the projector.
Ordered some of their donair egg rolls. I don’t know who thought those up but they’re really good.
Top it off with some Beau’s Lug Tread and you have what was the making of a very fun night.

I have lived in this neighbourhood for close to a decade and this was my first visit to Grace O’Malley’s. This place is awesome! The interior was a pleasant surprise. Comfy booths, wooden beams and lots of Maritime charm. After looking over the menu I was elated to find the Grafton Street Donair. As a transplanted Nova Scotia with a fondness for Halifax donair, this was a find rarer than hen’s teeth. A Halifax donair is very hard to find in Ottawa. The verdict, not the top Halifax donair but the best Ottawa-​made Halifax donair that I didn’t have to cook myself. Sauce could have used a bit more garlic, but it was pretty darn good and homemade. My husband had the club and he said it was great. Both meals came with a heaping helping of spicy fries. We will definitely be back!

Yay! I’m a fan of Grace O’Malley’s. Gotta tell you, it’s so true that you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover because despite it’s outside appearance inside Grace O’Malley’s is a gem. Kinda looks and feels like being in the bottom of a ship galley. It is very cool. Service was really friendly and really good. The food was super delicious. We were told by our server that everything is pretty much made fresh and once we tried our food that sure was true. A+ for a pub! The burger and sandwich we had was absolutely good. They had a good beer selection as well (of course we tried that too :)
I love it when I am pleasantly surprised!
We will go back to this pub and recommend it for sure!

Last time I was there the food was awesome. I love their menu because it’s different. They play great music. The mix of age groups was fun.

For a pub, they have a surprisingly wide variety of dishes available. Since it’s an «east coast» pub, they have a lot of seafood in the menu (outside of your typical fish and chips, which I hear is not bad at this location). I was here for one particular lunch with a big party of colleagues a week ago. I ordered the Halifax Donair, which was massive (actually all portions here are massive). The chicken boxties, taco salads, fish and chips, burgers, etc. that came out with my order (from the rest of my party) looked equally appetizing.
While I can’t speak for the rest of the dishes, the donair itself was decent. I’m used to the meat being more seasoned (theirs was kind of flat) but the sauce (nothing like donair sauce!) and the generosity of toppings made it up, so can’t really complain. There was a bit of a mixup with some of the orders in our table, but with a large group and one waitress, I suppose it was inevitable.
Generally a typical pub experience; neither memorable nor terrible, so there’s a solid three for ya.

Nice surroundings, pub food and live music. What more could you ask for?
Not the most ideal location, out on Ogilvie, just down the road from Silver City Theatre, you really need a car to get here — but it’s a great option for people in Orleans who don’t want to go all the way to Old Ottawa South or downtown (which is really uptown by the way — JS.) It works for us.
On the food situation — I tried the Boxty — good, but *very* salty. Hubby had the fish and chips, and was very happy with it. The best thing was the clam strips — best I’ve ever had. We’ll go back, but avoid the Boxty (unless someone tells me they’ve cut the salt. (To be clear, the taste of the Boxty was great — very flavourful — but overpowered by the salt.)
Decent selection of beers on draft. Comfy seating. Weekly specials (for example, Tuesday is Wing night, Wednesday is Karaōke, etc.) Server was great.
Would I recommend: Yes — it’s perfect for the east enders.
Woudl I return: Yes — we are up that way regularly for movies and this is a place to go back to.

Delicious and typical pub food and bar beers. Service was good and the food is delicious!

Was just in Gracies for the first time. Not sure why it took me this long to get there, but heck it’s such a sweet place I’ll be back more often for sure!
Staff were fantastic, just as you were thinking «Hmm, I’ll have to grab the server when she comes back» one of them would ninja up behind you and ask if you needed anything else! This happened to me at least four times, and my pals all had the same thing happen to them that night.
The food filled me like nothing else has in a long while of pubs and eateries. The tomato turkey soup was em effing good.
Cozy spot too, and the bathrooms were in decent order. Can’t have asked for a better introduction to Grace O’Malley’s

I’ve been to many Irish pubs and this was one of the better ones I’ve been to in a while. I’ve been to Gracies a bunch of times over the years, but never actually sat down and had a meal.
The servers were friendly, helpful and the place was very clean. I always judge a new restaurants food on something that should be simple, but can easily turn out disastrous.
That was not the case in this instance. I ordered the Bourbon Burger and it tasted good, and I must say my wife’s Fish and Chips couldn’t have been any better either.
All in all, definitely a place we’ll be coming back to when in the area.

Oh may gawd… the burgers kick ace!!!

Never disappoints! Food is consistently good, great east coast favorites (deep fried pepperoni, Halifax Donair, fish and chips), beer selection is my favorite part featuring some local and not so local brews. Friendly staff, great live music, ample Parking.
Always great times, never disappointed, can’t give Gracie’s East any less than 5 stars!

This week it was Grace’s for breakfast. As we are not regular Pub folk, this was our first visit to Grace O’Malley’s and we weren’t sure what to expect. As you might expect with an Irish Pub, the interior is rather dark with the typical relaxed Pub atmosphere. The wait staff were initially a bit reserved but pleasant and eventually warmed up once we got into some conversation. Our choice from the breakfast menu was the classic two egg breakfast. At first glance the price seemed a little high but not outrageous. As it turned out, the breakfast we got was huge and everything was done perfectly. Well worth the little extra cost. I should probably note here that, for those with a smaller appetite, they do offer a one egg breakfast with portions cut in half. All in all, an exceptionally good breakfast experience. Unfortunately, Grace O’Malley’s only does breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 AM to 3 PM, but it’s a great way to start your weekend.

My friends and I were searching for a quality pub in the east end that we could relax, people watch and have a pint. As a wild and crazy college student, I used to go to the west end location, but it just got old. Gracie’s East is a much more relaxed/​mature environment… well, still a party on a Saturday night, but not full of drunk college kids, haha. Seriously, the west end location is set up like a meat market.
We arrived around 7 and were able to be seated in a booth. The 80’s hair band that was playing that night was setting up around people finishing dinner. The server was a nice girl who looked really young… actually, they all did, but nonetheless, was very polite. You could tell she was new, but still did pretty well with our orders before the place filled up, but we did have to wait a bit when it got busy… Saturday night, understandable. The décor is more interesting that the west location… exposed «rocks and trees» with wooden and warm tones… kind of like if you were in a bar at the bottom of a tree house. haha strange, I know. My boyfriend and I ordered drinks as did our friend. We stayed about 3 hours with drinks/​shots and a finger food platter thrown in. The menu is regular pub fare, but they do have a deal where you can pick 3, 4, or 5 finger foods for a reduced combined price. We got chicken fingers/​onion rings/​zucchini for $ 15. I almost thought I was watching Hot Tub Time Machine since most of the people were dressed like they were stuck in the 80’s… Pretty entertaining, and the band? AWESOME! The female lead singer rocked it, and it was a nice change from celtic music they tend to lean to, but I’ve never been disappointed by the live music at Gracies.
Cant wait to check out the patio in the summer… it looks nice!

I was out and about in the south-​west of Ottawa. I had time to kill before picking my wife up from her book club. Now, Ottawa — in case you have never been here — has more pubs than Dublin. Okay, maybe I am stretching the truth a bit there. But, I am not far off. There are a hell of a lot of pubs in this town. I am becoming quite choosey when it comes to deciding who gets my business. When I stumbled across Grace O’Malley’s, I couldn’t help but notice that the parking lot was JAMMED with cars. And, inside was quite crowded too. What was particularly interesting was that it was a MONDAY evening, and not a weekend. The food is typical pub fare (burgers, fish & chips, chilli, quesadillas). They also serve a wide variety of beers on tap (Keiths, Stella, Hoegarden). There is a huge patio (for when the weather gets better), they also have pool tables and video games — but please, don’t go to a pub to play video games!