Pearl Street Pub

Was just turned away because my male friend was wearing a tank top. Very interesting because the three story building was completely empty on a Saturday night at midnight. Seems like bad business to turn away patrons for such an arbitrary reason, especially when your business is clearly failing. Good luck…

The new psp sucks! No napkins offered until we asked. Waitress sucks, bath room sucks, floor tilted, some sort of alarm always ringing… Food taste so so. And they even can’t get you the right bills. Will never come back.

Visited the new location at the old Jillians tonight before Peter Frampton /​Lynrd Skynrd show at the TU. Had mozzarella sticks and several rounds of drinks. My beers were served in plastic cups. That’s total bush league, sorry. I won’t be back.

If I could give this place 0 stars I totally would. SLOW SLOW SLOW. Even when half of the place was empty it took us over an hour to get our food. There wasn’t even fast bar service to compensate. It was almost as if the wait staff disappeared to help the other understaffed restaurant under the same ownership right next door. Do not waste your time or money.

The place next door (capital american eatery) is apparently owned by the same person. Two worst dining experiences I’ve ever had. Back to back nights. I’m excited to try his other three restaurants in town!

Haven’t had this bad of an experience at a restaurant at a long time. We arrived at about 4:30 on a Saturday. There is one server waiting on the entire restaurant and bar and I’m taking that into account, but she was still incredibly slow. We sat at a dirty table, the white wine tasted like it had been watered down (and still cost $ 7), and the guacamole and salsa that we ordered clearly came straight from the package, definitely not made in house. Don’t have anything good to say and not sure why this place is still in business.

Mediocre beer hostel environment defends the wicked and destroy the good. Don’t recommend coming here as their regulars fight all new comers (literally) and push out the good. Just pass by this place as they only like to keep those violent friends around and are unwelcoming to new travelers.

Visiting from out of town for a conference. Went to the pub thinking it will be fun! Boy was I wrong, we had a waitress who was to preoccupied with her phone. We ordered a salade that was wilted and had old tomatoes on it. Also, we ordered a CHEESE pizza. Apparently after 30 min they told us they burned the pizza which got stuck in the oven then had to wait another 30 min to get another one. Side note: we were the only group who ordered any food. They did not care about us one bit. Trust me when I say, save your time and money and go somewhere else.

To start this off, I have never posted on here. But, it’s so terrible that I must warn the general public!
I’ll start off by saying the waitress was pretty good. My friend and I order bloody Mary’s. Sorry we’re out of tomato juice. Wait aren’t you a bar? Ok I’ll take a Stella. Stella comes. Stella’s flat and tastes weird. Are you ready to order? Yes. Can we have the guacamole appetizer and the meatloaf (two separate plates)? Guacamole/​pico comes. Chips are stale. Guacamole was mediocre at best. Pico was literally tasteless. Almost like scooping water onto our stale chips. So we dump salt on it and make the pico mediocre. Meatloaf is here! I’m starving. First bite, I was confused. Maybe I got it wrong. Take another bite. It was as if they dumped an entire Morton’s salt container on whatever this sad excuse for meatloaf was. But wait. Then there was the mashed potatoes. Lord. Literally as if there was an explosion at the salt packaging plant and it ended up in this kitchen. My tongue is literally burning right now. Our waitress comes back to our completely full plates of food. Can I get you guys boxes? ABSOLUTELY NOT! That was awful and DO NOT recommend that to anyone. She comes back with our check. I comped your drinks (while throwing the bill on the table). Thank you Jessica.
I wouldn’t let my dog eat the food we were served.
And the bathrooms are disgusting.
AVOID AVOID AVOID this place!!!

I will preface this by saying our server was fantastic. She had a great attitude, and really took good care of us.
Now, if you are going here to eat, skip it. The food was awful. The Haddock was the consistency of shoe leather. I literally could not cut it, or even bite through parts of it. The crust was great, but the pizza tasted like someone slapped a thick layer marinara meant for Mozzarella sticks all over it. Honestly an embarrassing excuse for pizza coming from the one state in 50 that is known for great pizza. This Pub has no business serving actual food. Stick with the fries and onion rings, Pearl St. No one can screw those up.

a truly shitty experience. Waited for 5 minutes at the door after two waitresses made eye contact with us a few times with no acknowledgment. We sat at a high top table that was completely unsteady. We tried to fix it with napkins and the waitress came over and put the beers on our table while we were fixing it and it spilled all over. No sorry, no anything. Food took forever and was just fine. One of the orders was wrong. The bathrooms were disgusting and had no paper towels to dry hands. I would like to point out that normally I will not go out of my way to leave a negative review, I will just not go again. But as a unknowing visitor I want to warn others, don’t waste your money.

Very good selection of food for a Pub. Had a Quesadilla with steak, and the steak was one of the best I’ve had. Service good. Excellent Shirley temples! Staff friendly. Dined on the patio it was very nice. Even had vegetarian selections.

This place would be great if there was some AC! Literally dripping in sweat as we sat at the bar for a half an hour waiting for drinks. There’s 3 dance floors each with different types of music. Main room was hip-​hop, upstairs was EDM, and the middle room was ummm… like 90s alternative music or something? It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a taxi home from this place, so you better be ready to stay out all night!

I had a delicious pulled pork. I did have to ask for coleslaw but just a delicious dish. Mac salad was yummy too. Potato chips a little soggy and hard. Waitress Molly was good. Music nice evening.

Came here with my mom before seeing a show. Thought we could grab some food — we both ended up trying the Dave’s Southwest Grill (which was supposed to be quite popular). It was turkey, bacon, cheddar cheese, with chipotle chili mayo on grilled sourdough bread. My mom liked hers; I thought it tasted bland. I also ordered sweet potato fries — they were dry, tough and cold – my fork couldn’t even puncture through them, and they were shriveled (big mistake). The server, however, was such a doll — she was friendly, attentive and really the reason I am giving a 4-​star rating. Otherwise, the food would’ve received a 2.
Nightlife, on the other hand — is basically 20-​somethings mixed with college kids and the occasional dancing older person, drinks are a little pricey & it’s pretty crowded. If you like that type of crowd, the DJs they have are usually pretty good.

I had high hopes for the Pearl Street Pub.
Unfortunately my hopes were dashed when my Fish and Chips entrée was delivered to my table as a sandwich. I pointed it out to the waitress/​bartender and she apologized for the error. She returned shortly and pointed out a clause in the menu that entrees served prior to 4pm are served as sandwiches. She said that the menu had just changed the previous day. No problem, I just won’t eat the bread.
Little would I have guessed that I wouldn’t be able to eat the fish either!!! The haddock fillet was grossly over cooked. It was so over cooked that my fork rang like a bell when I tapped it! My waitress was nice but she was preoccupied by someone at the bar, perhaps another employee but I’m not sure.
It was impossible to get her attention.
My bottom line is that after complaining about the poor condition of my entrée and noting that I had eaten only a portion of it, I was only offered a different entrée instead of removing the price of the Fish and Chips.
I would not recommend the Pearl Street Pub unless you simply want to drink alcoholic beverages.
The Irish would be ashamed of this place, and so should the staff!

2^nd Try to get some grub in this town. Ok so they let me have a table for one out here on the patio. First waitress says sit wherever so I did, second waitress comes out with a startled look and says with a surprised lilt, can I help you? As if saying why are you sitting here? So I replied, can I see a menu? Ooh, sure, I proceed to order beer, soup, crab cakes, haddock sandwich. That’ll show her. What’s with this town? Never see a single Asian woman diner? Let’s see how this food tastes in this honky town…,
Ok, red pepper bisque is heavy with chipotle flavor. It’s meh. Crab cakes tasted like imitation crab, no flavor. When I mention to waitress who noticed my uneaten cakes, she’s says it’s real crab from a can. Lol.
Fried haddock entrée is okay. Kinda dry but passable. Fried potatoe slices can’t go wrong. Mac salad kinda taste old. I’m giving two stars cause they served me promptly but I wouldn’t come back for the food.
Addendum: so 4 white peeps sits down next table and my waitress greets them w. convo, offers them draft beer menu. Etc. wow what a diff. Asks them if they’re going to some show. Now I know I’m not imagining. :(. I’m gonna give her a 25% tip so she can feel bad. … Omg she just offered my neighbor diner a free taste of some kinda beer. Don’t u wish u were white? Not really. Ok now I’m taking away my extra star I was gonna be generous with.

Pearl Street Pub is full of college kids and if you’re no longer under the age of 23 you will feel ancient here.
So obviously the weekend that my brother graduated college, my 27 year old self and my mom decided to party at this place with my little bro.
The pros: The bartenders are attentive, they have a TV up with their twitter account so that if you tweet something at them it’ll show up on the screen, and they have three different floors with different styles of music so that if you get sick of EDM you can just change floors for a whole new vibe,
The cons: The drinks are pretty pricey for being a college bar. Also, you know how there’s always those one or two people at any given bar who are just way too drunk? Times that by like 30 since you’re at the mecca of Albany’s college nightlife. On my way out a drunk kid tried to rush the line and run into PSP, and the bouncer had to throw him back. His shoulder landed IN my cheek, which was unpleasant.
Basically if you’re a college kid this place is awesome and also your options are limited so. Just go and drink and rave and try not to slip on the spilled drinks on the third floor.

Grabbed lunch here with a few co-​workers. The Waitress (Alice I believe) was very nice. The service did seem to take a little while. Perhaps it was the size of our group (7 of us)?
I got a pint of Angry Orchard (on tap) and it seemed off. Like it was slightly flat or something. I also ordered french onion soup with the gravy fries. The french onion soup tasted like a bouillon cube with onions and cheese. The fries tasted great but the gravy had a slightly sour flavor. Its hard to explain.

If there was a 1.5 star, I’d do that… but there isn’t. So I’m going with one, because I’m still irritated almost a week later about wasting my Friday Happy Hour Date (it’s a thing) on yuck food and lackluster service.
Should have known better… should have opened up the old smartphone and checked Unilocal,first, as I see this is not well-​reviewed… But, alas, I did not.
The food was mediocore at best: nachos with green olives (what?) when they should have been black olives, stale chips, little amounts of lukewarm cheese… falafel sandwich I couldn’t choke down, and lackluster sweet potato fries that cost $ 3 additional, for some reason.
Not only that, beers weren’t a great price for happy hour. Also, we asked for the nachos first and our food came out together… not a big deal. The server was nice and all, but then she offered to put it back in the window. Oh? So it can get cold somewhere else? Good idea. (She took a while with the check and checking whether we wanted more drinks, too.)
Very disappointed b/​c the outside patio is pretty inviting and I imagined drinks and apps during warmer weather.