Slip Mahoney’s

I was shocked at what great selections their menu offered and how good the food tasted. I sat at the bar and was greeted immediately. I ordered the pork chop and baked potato. It was delicious! I was surprised when I realized the silverware was plastic, but, the meat was tender and cut right through it. The food is not cheap, but it is worth the money.

On the positive side… The two beers I had were cold… though they don’t have all the tap beers listed on their menu on any given day. Had to go to my second choice… The bartenders give generous pours. Nothing else to do while I waited for my food.
Negative… Told me my pork chop take 15 – 20 minutes and took over thirty. Server recommended it and it was on the fatty side. Garlic mashed were really good.
Weird how you have to wait for the food to be delivered from someplace else.
This place is built to drink at.

Terrible. Couldn’t tell how you how the food was because after 15 minutes of waiting for a waitress, my co-​worker and I got up and left. This was at about 6:00 pm on a Tuesday. You’re better off going to the food court.

Just leaving LGA. Wish I could make my first post a more positive one. Yikes. Ordered a glass of wine and my hubby ordered a draft beer. He got a bottled beer instead. No biggee really. Then we ordered the pork sliders. We drank the first drinks and then reordered drinks waiting on the sliders. The plane is at the gate so we checked the tab and we were not charged for the sliders. Since we are Christians we wanted to check if they misunderstood. We reordered the sliders which never came and we had to board the plane. They did remove the charge, but hey. … I’m hungry and on the plane. Just a side note, who is the manager and do you have any female employees? Just saying,.,

No. Just… no.
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Me, to the Bartender: Hi! Is there table service, or may we go ahead and order through you?
BT: No. You order through me.
Me: Okay, cool! My wife over there would like a mimosa and a chocolate croissant, and I’ll have the…
BT: No.
Me: No, what.
BT: No alcohol til 8…
Me (it’s 7:40am): Oh! Okay…
BT: …and we are out of the chocolate croissant.
Me: I’ll be right back, thanks.
(3 minutes later…)
Me: Okay, we’ve decided. My wife would like a black tea, and…
BT: No.
Me: No, what.
BT: We don’t have that.
Me: Okaaaaay… well can I put in her order for a muffin?
BT: No.
Me: No, what.
BT: We’re all out of that.
Wife, from across the room: Are you f*cking kidding me?
BT: [shrug]
Me: I’ll be right back, thanks.
(3 minutes later…)
Me: Okay, we’ve decided. My wife would like an orange juice, and I’ll have an iced coffee. We’d also like to split the omelette listed here [points at menu]. Is that all do-​able?
BT: Yup.
(40 minutes later…)
(I’m not kidding.)
(About any of this. It’s verbatim.)
Me, after waiting at bar to get bartender’s attention: You know what? People who got here after us have been served their food already… I think we’d like to just settle up, please.
BT: Yeah, they’re very busy back there.
Me, after cashing out: [leaves $ 0.91 on the bar]
(40 minutes later…)
Me: I still haven’t heard a convincing argument as to WHY I have to turn off my cellphone to take off…
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I wish any of the above exchange was fictional. No apology. No instruction. No desire at all to provide information of any kind. Or… you know… service.
If you’re stuck reading this, it’s because you’re already in the terminal. Here’s my advice: Wait until you’re on the plane, and order booze and food there. It may be more expensive, but at least it’ll be served with a smile. Usually.

this place charged me $ 3.50 for a glass of club soda!!! What in the heck?! That is totally highway robbery!!! :(

I fly almost weekly so I’m overly familiar with airport restaurants. Here I’ve discovered a new concept that is advertised as «The OTG Experience». Apparently all of the food venues are managed by OTG. Based on my observations, that experience consists of OTG doubling the menu prices!

So I guess I’m the only one that realizes that the food is cooked in a shared kitchen, not attached to this place?
The food-​an omelette– wasn’t bad, but more importantly at the hour I was there, the sole gentleman on staff was rocking great service and pouring stiff drinks.

came here for a pre-​flight beer. quick service, was left in peace to enjoy my beer and intermittent phone calls, will come back to try their food because i love me some good barbecue.

The food was pretty good. I got the smoked salmon breakfast plate. Presentation was poor. Smokes salmon was a bit tough and the bar (itself) smelled of mildewed rags. Overall I enjoyed my experience (upon sitting at a table). Service was pretty good too.

I normally do eat at the airport because of I have the worst motion sickness any adult can have. I could not resist the vibe, look & smell coming from this place. Me and my boyfriend were sad that our vacation was over and had a lot of time to kill. We originally stopped in to get a good bye drink but we ended up ordering food. I had the best burger I have had in years. I will say the wait staff was not good but the food was amazing.
If you ever end up at this airport please go and have a drink and food.

I would never usually write a review on a airport restaurant, but this one was surprisingly delish?!
What can I say… I wasn’t expecting such an awesome meal!
I ordered the BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders and a side of Fries.
The pork was so good, topped with slaw and jalapenos
…my only grip is, I wanted 3 not 2. (my thoughts are sliders should come as a trio) Right?! :)
Fries were perfect. and HOT. Not over cooked, just right. Not too salty. YUM!
There are no servers, so you order at the bar. Which I didn’t mind.
Will definitely belly up to the bar again, if I ever get stuck @ LGA.

Not bad for a airport bar you can see the gate form some of the bar seats only drank, haven’t eaten here yet. Good beer selection, OK whiskey pour. Prices are expensice but it’s NY and its at the airport. Much better than The Big Apple Bar

Got the Duck Potato Hash with fried egg. It was very greasy and no flavor. Tasted like left over from last night.

I hate airports. Tons.
After a Guinness and a.
Burger. Life sucks less.
A review, in haiku.

Ugh. In an airport as big as LaGuardia I’d expect a restaurant to work to rise above its competitors. Not the case with Slip Mahoney’s.
Granted, it’s a bar that plays at being a restaurant and that’s part of the issue but still! They have a menu. My sandwich was not good at all (well, I guess it wasn’t horrible ’cause I ate it). It was a tuna BLT. Sounds good, right? Well they managed to screw it up. Weird sauce, bread was over-​toasted and it took FOREVER for me to get it (coincidently, it arrived about the time I finished my beer, thus I needed another — hmmmmmm).
I don’t think I’ll be heading to NYC any time soon but when I next layover in LaGuardia I am going to skip Slip Mahoney’s.

For airport bars this is a bit better than average. At least there is a resemblance of ambiance. As typical for airports, it is pricey… however, when I ordered a mixed drink they came very strong (Thanks!).
I am very leery of ordering food from airport ‘restaurants’. Rarely is it anything worth eating and usually doesn’t surpass the Fast Food options. In this case, I asked the bartender for her opinion. What I learned is that some of their food comes pre-​put together and they just warm it up. Other options are actually made on site. I think I had some chicken club or something like that. It was pretty decent and seemed like it was freshly prepared and not simply warmed.
While I was there for lunch on my outbound leg the place was empty and a bit sad. On my way back home I stopped by in the evening hours and it was standing room only and everyone was having a pretty good time. it might as well been a bar out in the real world. It was a great mix of New Yorkers flying out and other transients like me all mixing.

It’s an airport bar… whaddya expect.

I rarely give out one star reviews. I usually reserve those for places that have absolutely no hope at all; a culmination of failures in every facet that add up to an utterly miserable experience.
The girlfriend and I were outbound somewhere together, breezed through security, and pulled in based on the attractive appearance of the restaurant.
We ordered beers while we decided what we wanted for food, and paid in cash for them.
Once we decided on food, I ordered a veggie burger and fries and my girlfriend ordered a turkey burger and fries. I did this at the bar because we waited about 10 minutes without table service.
It took more than 30 minutes to bring out the veggie burger. The place wasn’t that busy, there were empty tables all around us, and the few tables that were there were only drinking. We were seriously starting to wonder where our food was when some completely disengaged greasy haired guy pushes over a car with food on it. He drops off the food, and continues on his journey of delivering sadness and mediocrity.
The food looked great. The girlfriend took her first bite and said it was passable. I grabbed my veggie burger with both hands, gave it a lusty wink, and took a first bite.
Cold.
Really cold.
Colder than room temperature cold.
Great, I thought. I had at least a pile of Parmesan coated fries… they should be crispy and warm, right? Not a chance.
Since no one had been by to ask how the food was, I went back up to the bar. The bartender (the only high point of this entire episode) immediately took action, grabbed a manager (a similarly greasy disengaged guy who looked like he could have been the cousin of the first) who really didn’t seem to care at all, although he submitted another order for everything and promised that they’d make it fresh.
I can see the advertising now: Slip Mahoney’s: where «make it fresh» is something a little extra we do from time to time.
I got the veggie burger back, about 20 minutes later, and marveled at the proper temperature of it (and the fries). It was actually a decent and unique veggie burger.
I went to get the tab, and the bartender tried to charge me for the beers we had already paid for. Perfect. She couldn’t fix it, so she had to grab the manager again (and it’s obvious how much he loved us by now) to fix it.
Maybe my standards are too high for an «AIRPORT BAR» (Ernie H). Maybe, even in one of the shi**iest airports in the country, I shouldn’t expect a modicum of service or a granule of quality. Slip Mahoney’s fails the most basic aspects of restaurant expectations: hot food, and cold beer. I give my strongest advice against this establishment to the traveling populace passing through LGA.

As if everything Maximillian M. said about this place wasn’t already enough, I’d like to add that Slip Mahoney’s has a terrible beer selection, even if you count the things that they were supposed to have but were out of.
Oh yes, and $ 11 for a beer?! You must be kidding!
Even in New York, even in an airport, this isn’t even close to acceptable.
Too bad, too. The place looks nice and would seem to provide a nice view of the airplanes. But as it is rather than as it could be, this place shouldn’t last a New York minute.