Jack Callaghan’s Ale House

This place surprised me as I was looking for a place to eat one day. Their appetizer sampler is awesome and they make one heck of a mean steak. Not too rare, and not too done. I love the service staff there. My waitress was super bubbly and helpful. I wasn’t going to have dessert as usually I stick to a strict diet, but after looking over their dessert menu and how delicious it all looked I gave in. My dessert came out and it looked as good as it did on the picture. It was rich and delicious and though it’s hard to make a bad peanut butter cup pie, this was one of the best ones I’ve ever had. The wait wasn’t long at all either and it was actually pretty busy in there being a Wednesday afternoon. I guess the in crowd knows that place is good. Well they are right.

Love the food and drinks here, fun place. Only reason it’s a 4 star is because sometimes the staff can be a bit slow. We do really like the place.

Awful. Never again. Loud, full of 21 year olds just having a night out for the first time. We had dinner there. We could hardly each each other talk. Wait staff was nice but slow. We didn’t even have our own waitress– the bartender had to wait on us. Food was bland and mediocre. The price was good, but I will never go back.

I think places have bad days because recent visits have been totally different. This place deserves my updated and higher rating.

Since moving to West End Allentown we’ve been wanting to try some of the neighborhood joints. Wings are often out go to menu item so we had to give it a try. I ordered the sweet and spicy and he ordered the hot and sweaty (i think) Wings. I liked the size of the wings I won’t be surprised if I’m alone here but I don’t like jumbo wings. These wings were a perfect non steroidal looking wing. We got and even share of flats and drumsticks. The sauce was on point. I just felt like they were a bit overcooked and dry. We also paid full price $ 9 for the wings which is unlike us. We normally try to catch a wing night. So that’s probably another reason for this review. They were not worth my $ 9. The mozzarella sticks were battered not breaded which was a plus for my guy. Service was great. Place is tiny. It was empty at 8pm on Saturday, seemed strange. I’m confident I will not return but I’d say definitely worth shot.

We finally have a local! I don’t know why we avoided this place for so long when we live so close. We had a nice time here for someone’s birthday a few years ago. Stopped in for drinks not long after that and did not have a good time (neither one of us remember why) and basically cut them and never returned.
So, tired of our regular spots one Wednesday but not wanting to drop $ 125 on dinner/​drinks, we decided to give them another shot. I’m super glad we did. Really friendly and charming bartenders and very good — surprisingly good — food. I haven’t tried the wings everyone raves about but the corned beef is amazing and so far everything we’ve tried we’ve liked a lot. Everything has been fresh, home made, tasty and very reasonably priced.
Yes it’s a bit of a ‘dive bar’ and run down but that’s really part of it’s charm. Not going to lie though, they could do with a LITTLE bit of rehab (the broken blinds on the window are just sad and the bathroom looks like something out of a 1970’s park rest area from my days at CYO day camp.) They get awfully crowded on some nights, but now we know why!

Old, dated and they don’t take AMEX. Their clam special is not so hot. Bar is dimly lit and reminds me of 1970. What else can I say.

I got say I’m glad I give this place another chance, the food was really good, they must replaced the chef or something; the waitress was nice, the wings was the boom, I got the pull pork sandwich and was very good, the fries to die for.

We like this little place. We definitely go early because it can get very crowded for the space. Good drinks. Good beer selection. Good food: nothing fancy. Comfortable.

Sometimes, when the mood strikes, I desire a delicious, delectable wing. When that mood strikes, I know that it is time to enter THIS ESTABLISHMENT. It is here that I find warm smiles, lovely wings, and LITERALLY the best old bay fries money can buy. I LITERALLY never overuse the word LITERALLY. So, when I say LITERALLY, I LITERALLY mean it. 5 stars, now, and always.

Of all the bars on the West End, this is probably my favorite. Really impressive beer selection, all your standard drinks with some pretty cool specialty cocktails and shots. The food menu is pretty big for a bar and they have lots of wing sauces. They also do a great trivia night on Wednesdays! The cherry on top of this is the free popcorn to keep you thirsty. Always friendly servers, too.

Great local bar with amazing food and good specials (wings and pork sandwhiches are amazing). The night chef is also awesome
Bc he does different specials that aren’t on the menu. Overall a lot of the people there seemed to be regulars, but if you want to go to a low key place and grab a beer and food, this is a great option.

This Irish Pub is right around the corner from my dwelling. Every point on my scale is hit and with authority! Food: Delicious. Bartenders: Friendly and Prompt. Atmosphere: Inviting. Selection of beer: Enormous! The owner Chris is super friendly. All the bartenders and servers are professional and enjoyable to banter with, most of all Brit and Tatum. The chef makes the best fish and chips PERIOD. The UK has nothing on his fish and chips. Its funny how the one Unilocaler gave the place one star based on the fact that she was carded and told to leave… ummmm its a bar for 21 and over! Duh! The server did his job.

You need to get mugged here!

This place SUCKS ASS. I was really excited to get clams. It was clam Tuesday. My boyfriend & I went inside. we sat down and the guy came with the menus and he card us. So they couldn’t serve us. We just wanted to get clams. we had to leave. Unsatisfied and disappointed. Oh and the guy was really sarcastic. So yeah that’s I give them 1 star.

Best wings in the Lehigh Valley, as far as I’m concerned… and lots of sauce options to go with them. Other food is also very good… my favorites are the Classic Rueben sandwich, the Fish and Chips and the Irish Potato soup.
Great selection of draft beers to go with the food make this one of my favorite stops.

This place was okay. They had a decent selection of beers on tap but the food is «meh». I ordered «English Fish & Chips» and what they brought me was actually English Fish & Crisps. Potato chips do not belong on the same plate as fish. I’m not sure if they just don’t know that the English call their french fries «chips» or if they were out of fries and hoped I wouldn’t notice.
To be fair, I should have mentioned it to the bartender when she brought me my food (I’m paranoid no matter where I go that the cook is going to spit in my food). Instead I ate it and the fish was pretty good for fish you can find in Allentown.

Very comfortable. Great for conversations with good friends. No over-​the-​top music and an excellent beer selection.

An Irish pub on the West Side. Parking is on the street, as there is no parking lot. The place is rather small and the décor is quite dated and tired. The food is average bar food. They do have an extensive beer list, as well as a few specialty bar drinks. There are even a couple specialty shots available (one that looked appealing enough to be a possible cocktail). Live entertainment is offered from time to time. As a bar, it more of an A+ neighborhood type place, but as a restaurant it leans towards a C– place. If with friends and you want some place quiet to go for drinks, check it out.

If you’re looking to try some awesome craft beers, this is a good place to go. The bartenders are friendly, and the beer list is extensive.
The food, and ambiance of the place? No thanks, I’ll pass.
It took 15 minutes for a waitress to acknowledge that we were even there the last time my friend and I went, to be told «I’ll be right with you». We would have just gone to the bar, but it was packed. I can see why. At least at the bar you can get served. Another 5 minutes or so later, our beer order was taken and promptly delivered. 15 minutes later, we placed our order with another server (who was sincerely nice). Our waitress came over and rudely stated, «So you placed your order with another server». She tried to strike up conversation, but at this point my friend and I were well past agitated.
I ordered the pretzels with crab on them. I ended up scraping the crap (crab) off and dipping the pretzels in honey mustard that my friend had gotten with her salad (she said that was really good… the crispy chicken salad, maybe?). We tipped (both) our servers– one considerably more than the other, and left. I don’t know if I’ll be back. If I am, I’ll find that male server or go to the bar.