O’Hare’s Pub and Restaurant

We used to love this place, but every time we go it just gets more disappointing.
They got rid of most of the irish food on the menu (which was really why we used to go, we loved the food.)
I miss the irish pub it used to be.

OMG… This is the place to be. Great food. Large portions. The staff is top notch. Very friendly clean dining experience. Always greated with a smile and a hand shake.

as a restaurant, great food. Chicken boxty was tasty and unique. As was the pretzel appetizer. I tried their new dessert– warm, cinnamon sugary donuts. SOOOO good. The only sauce worth dipping them in though was their homemade custard sauce. Raspberry and caramel not so good. How about CHOCOLATE? Service was too slow for me though. I wanted a quick dinner and was there an hour and a half! I had to work the next morning! I have a love-​hate with this place.

Food was great! Fish and chips are very tasty. My wife had the Ruben sandwich, it was stacked with corned beef! You must try the Guinness cheese cake… its awesome. The waiter Ken is a hard worker who wants you to have a great experience. I wish this place was right by my house… I would eat there often…

We’ve been wanting to try this place for a while and finally decided to have dinner there on a week night. We’re not really fans of bars because of the noise, but this place has good reviews and we really like to support local business. It’s much larger inside than anticipated and wasn’t loud at all. There were plenty of tables away from the bar area. We sat down at a table and our waiter came over just a few minutes later. He was extremely friendly and brought us our iced tea orders right away. We decided to get an appetizer platter to start with so we could try 3 different items. We chose the fried green beans (different & pretty tasty), loaded potato skins (good) and chicken fingers (really good!). We then ordered the Beef & Guiness Stew to share. Our waiter brought our entrée and said the chef had split it for us — two LARGE bowls of stew, very nicely presented. It was really good and I couldn’t even finish my ½ portion. We were too full to have dessert.
We were very happy with the food & ambience, and also the waiter provided the best service we’ve had in a long time. We’ll be back!

Let me say that the burgers here are awesome, very top end. Don’t forget the green bean fries app. The wait staff and bar staff are very attentive. Highly recommend to stop by for a drink or for meal. Great food, good times all in the suburbs.

Probably the best food around. A little pricey for being a bar, in a strip mall, miles from an expressway.
What’s up with the Slots taking up half the entryway?
All said, good food, clean, friendly, and good service.

UPDATE 9÷1÷15 — I also shared the same review on my local Mom’s FB page. Unbeknownst to me, the restaurant owner was a member of this same group. She commented on my post saying how important the customers are to her yet, guess what? I heard NOTHING from her. NO message, no sorry, no please contact me… NOTHING. AND, my post was magically removed. AND the reservation that I had to make when I was there at the restaurant on Sunday was suddenly cancelled. Some shady, shady, crap.

Came here for the 2^nd time and got the corn beef and cabbage and the steak boxty… soooo good! They cut their corn beef hash in a special way wich is a nice alternative. The boxty is awesome, its like steak and mushrooms in a potato pancakes –omelette resembling meal. Gonna keep coming back till I try em all! Keep up the great job!

So we just discovered one more reason to go to O’Hare’s. Believe it or not, you have to try the homemade donuts on their dessert menu. They are made to order and are smoking hot and come with three dipping sauces. Yum!

This is place is close to home for us so we hit it every now and then.
This will be a relatively short review, at least for me, as most of «O’Hares Pub and Restaurant» is pretty self-​explanatory.
So, yeah, it’s an Irish Pub and Eatery. There’s gonna be Harp, Guinness, Jameson’s and the other magic potions that seem to represent the Emerald Isle nearly as well as the Lucky Charms guy. I haven’t asked about aged Jameson’s or other fine whiskies, but I will next time to see if they’ve got that covered.
I like that aged stuff. I’m getting all saliverated just thinking about a couple of finger’s worth in a short glass and a side of ice water. And I know «saliverated» is not a word, but it should be, so it stays.
Anyhow, back to this review. It’s clean, the folks are friendly and there is a lot of Irish fare on the menu. As others have said, the burgers are excellent, but everything else I’ve gotten has been beyond decent. For bar food, it’s excellent. In reality, it’s not bar food. They’ve got the typical bar food also, wings, chips, yada, yada, so don’t worry that those things aren’t there either. It’s just that the entrees consistently rise above that standard.
I guess that’s my only thing with this place and it’s not even really a criticism. I’m not sure if it wants to be a bar or a restaurant, but I think it does the bar/​casual eatery thing pretty well, so I’m not going to mess with their mojo. I haven’t wandered into the video gaming area, as that’s not my thing, but if it’s yours, rock on.
I’m going to say again, the food is excellent for a bar/​pub. You can get a pint anywhere, but this type of really good food at a pub is rare. Get on over there and show these guys some love. It’s a great local place/​small business that deserves a bit of local support.

Found on Unilocal very happy with our decision. Good food, steak sandwich was tender and delicious. The best part was the home made donuts with dipping a sauce for dessert

This place is in a quiet strip mall. The inside is small, slightly cramped. There are slot machines that just look like they don’t belong and take up floor space.
However the place is clean. The bar is nice as well, lots of space.
Now the reason I’m giving it three stars.
The beer was pricey and there were no specials. Which is odd since the bar takes up most of this place! For an Irish place I’d suspect them to welcome you in with good deals on booze and sit your ass down! Instead for the type of dining room you’re sitting in you should NOT be paying that much for a pint!
The only reason it gets three stars.
Our food was amazing!!!
The burger was incredible. Honestly probably one of the best in the burbs. No joke. Try it. You’re welcome.

I bought a deal for O’Hare’s off of Amazon Local, am I glad I did!
We enjoyed everything about this place!
Very friendly local spot, our server was very nice and offered suggestions on the menu since we’ve never been. I had the chicken boxty, let me tell you… delicious! I ate about half of it and my boyfriend just about finished it after having his bbq pork burger. The burger he said was delicious as well. Oh! We had the cheesy spinich dip as an appetizer, so good!
We will for sure be back to try some of the other menu items!
Stop in for a beer and I’m sure you are bound to find something you’ll like to go along with it!

Never coming back. They charge cover fees for their bands that play in the bar without advising their customers of the cost. The manager/​owner fought with us over this fee explaining we «should’ve» known there was a fee since a band was playing. I guess a new bar will be taking their place soon. Go to mc maes down the street at 59 and Stearns… its a much better bar and they treat their customers great!

We entered as Grouponers and left customers.
I can’t remember the exact deal we snagged on Groupon, but it was around a 50% discount. I’ve lived nearby for years and never noticed the place, and this was the perfect opportunity to give it a shot.
First off, pretzel buns. That made the decision for me. I couldn’t decide which burger I wanted but I’m always up for the unconventional and went for the Brie & Pear. I didn’t regret that for a second, it was delicious! Timothy M. went crazy for his Pub Burger and the ultimate Jameson sauce. I can’t deny that I stole some for my fries, it was outstanding!
We made sure to get our money’s worth with the salted caramel brownie dessert. Between salted caramel and pretzel buns, I was in heaven! Our server was excellent and very attentive. I can’t wait to come back!

This place is sooooooooooo good. I went with my girlfriend and we both got burgers. They have this Jameson Whiskey sauce that is like crack so drug addicts stay away (more for me). The sauce was great on the burger and perfect for dipping your fries in. I had to get extra, extra sauce. The service was great. Our waitress did an excellent job following up with us to see if we needed anything. I would definitely recommend and will be coming back to this place. For dessert we got the salted caramel brownie and that was on point. Overall this place was better than what I was expecting. If your looking for pub to drink and get some good food than you need to come here.

We were sad to see Sheep & Fiddle close so it was nice to have O’Hare’s Pub open in the same location with pretty much the exact same menu, which is a mouth-​watering mix of «elevated» pub food (Brie & Drunken Pear Burger anyone? It’s delicious!) & Irish favorites. We paid them an inaugural visit for the Hawks season opener. And just like the previous establishment the interior is also pretty much the same — they have plenty of flat-​screen TV’s all around so it was easy to watch the game wherever you sit AND they play the game audio as well, which is a must for me if I’m going out primarily to watch the game. They have various drink and food specials each day and Thursdays are ½ price Build-​Your-​Own-​Burger night.
Hubby had the burger special and their burgers are HUGE. He tried the house made chips which were some of the best house made chips we’ve ever had. I had the Cork Reuben which wasn’t as jam-​packed with corned beef as at other places but it was still plenty & honestly more of a normal serving size of meat for a sandwich anyway — and very good. Their french fries have a sprinkling of rosemary on them, which is my favorite way to enjoy french fries, so I was a happy camper.
They were very busy before the game with families, couples and a full bar of patrons and during the first period with just the bartender (perhaps he is the owner/​manager) & one server waiting on all the tables (this is exactly the same situation we had our first visit to Sheep & Fiddle as well) but they were both very nice & and apologized for any delays we experienced, but it wasn’t bad (a third employee appeared to tend bar at some point). They mostly have hightops and the bar area to sit but there are a handful of lower tables in the main dining area as well.
Oh, and they have Wednesday Night Trivia, too. :-D

I give this place 5 stars cause of the location, the ambiance, the service, the atmosphere, and the food.
I have actually only been here for dinner and lunch, never to imbibe, so I can’t say much for that. But it’s actually a decent place to come with kids. They have crayons and kid cups. How many pubs have that? I’ll tell you not a lot.
They have a small kids meal menu which is good enough.
The food is good. It’s not the best Irish food I’ve ever had, but it is pretty good. Sometimes the food is a little salty, but that’s just how it goes sometimes. This time I had a hankering for some corned beef and cabbage. It was pretty good. A little different than what I usually have, but not bad. Oh they have poutine! It’s hard to find poutine outside of Montréal/​Quebec. And usually it’s not good. But it’s good here. The gravy is tasty, the cheese is good and the fries too. Maybe a little more gravy would be nice.
It’s a great place, and I’ll be back.

I am quickly becoming a big fan of O’Hare’s!
Let’s start with the positives, shall we?
1. The location is great! Located in Bartlett at the corner of Army Trail Road and Route 59.
2. The owners are always present and engaged! Bill and his wife, Peggy, are super sweet and truly concerned about your experience. Plus, they’re funny. So, if your dining/​drinking mates bore you… they will make up for it.
3. Paul is a very knowledgeable bartender. He works side by side with Bill, but Paul likes to throw in a little flair from time to time. And he will mix up something special from his previous bar life if you ask nicely. My cousin isn’t a beer girl and didn’t feel like wine, so she asked for something sweet but not too sweet and Paul creatively won her over. She doesn’t like people, but she did like Paul. ;-)
4. The burgers. I really liked my last burger here. It was juicy and hand packed. I almost didn’t try it, but I’m glad I did.
5. Boxty. Have you tried boxty? It’s like a thin potato pancake like crêpe filled with… I had mine filled with the Guinness stew. It was exceptional!
6. The bathrooms. Neat and tidy. No complaints here.
7. The other patrons. We have been here for all different occasions including St Patrick’s Day Weekend. Everyone is friendly. No one annoyed me or was rude.
8. It’s a happy place. I feel happy when I visit even though it’s a bit darker and a pub atmosphere. I think it’s the people that keep it upbeat.
9. My husband likes the meatloaf. I tasted it and it was very good, but the more important part is that this means I don’t have to make meatloaf.
10. They have a little bit of everything for everybody. The menu is diverse and keeps people happy. See #7 & #8 above.
11. They are involved in the community and they want to be. These are stellar small business owners who want to help others.
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Thanks O’Hare’s! Keep doing what you’re doing!