Blarney Stone Restaurant & Bar

If you find yourself in the Financial District, don’t hesitate to grab a drink or two at this cool dive pub.
A bunch of us came here right after the market closed for a few holiday drinks.
Lots of space by the bar, good services, and decent prices if a beer drinker.

My coworker and I were looking for a new place to eat lunch at and randomly visited this place. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend this restaurant to anyone. The food and décor was okay, which is where the positives end. For the same price you could get something else much better in the Wall St area. The food was lukewarm and unoriginal, thankfully didn’t cause any digestive issues but for the price we paid was a huge rip off — spent the equivalent of 3 lunches for a lousy single forgetable meal. Went during a weekday at noon and half the items on the menu weren’t avaliable. The specials, which were the only dishes available, turned out to be the most expensive items on the menu. I still feel guilty for not telling the huge crowd of tourists who walked in while we were leaving to stay away!

Disappointed and upsetting. The bartender kinda of ignored us for 5 minutes. We ordered food, took forever to get, even thou we were the only ones eating. Place was not busy at all. The food was just ok. Will not come back.

This meal was perfect, as was the service. We chose this location, on the way from 911 Memorial and Staten Island Ferry… And we’re pleasantly surprised by the quality and value of the food. We ordered a Reuben sandwich and Irish Nachos to split, but we didn’t come close to finishing it. And the service was exemplary! Friendly and helpful from the moment we stepped on the door.

After my lunch here, I felt like I my inside was being brined by the massive amounts of salt in everything I ate.
The French Onion Soup would have been pretty darn good if it had about a third of the salt. The roast beef sandwich was a disappointing because a) it was also incredibly salty and b) the sandwich only came with roast beef. No cheese, no lettuce, no tomato, nothing. I admit that I preferred plain sandwiches when I was 6 years old, but since then I like sandwiches that have a little more to them than meat.
Speaking of tomato, when my friend asked why his cheeseburger didn’t come with tomato as was promised, the waitress told him that they didn’t have any but that she would go out and buy one if he wanted.
The waitress is the only reason for the second star. She was friendly and helpful. But the food she gave us was really really very not good.

Haha, I’m sorry, guys, this is so divey that it’s almost charming. But…
I also know that the person who brought me here is going to read this review and either laugh, feel a little offended, or a little of both. (You know that I had SO much fun, so don’t even!) But seriously, this place… oh man.
I can’t really even sum it up. I don’t even know if «divey» is the right word. I don’t even know what to say right now.
Honestly, I feel bad knocking it– the bartender is nice and beers are cheap. These are NICE PEOPLE. So I feel bad giving them one star. OK I’m upping it to two. NICE PEOPLE.
The good news is that there’s a bus that goes right to LeFrak City from here. And when the area floods, it all goes into the Brooklyn-​Battery Tunnel and the bar stays dry!

Divey pub with $ 10 PBR pitchers and lots of large tables for large groups of disenchanted city employees to gather after work and have surprisingly lively ideological conversations about their dreary jobs.
Plastic cups. $ 20 credit minimum. No one will bother you except to clear away empty pitchers.
The entire back portion smells like pastrami. The bathroom has one of those «Too wasted to function? Get a taxi by texting this word!!» posters, framed, right at eye-​level. It’s the hallmark of only the diviest dives, and I love the shamelessness.
The food looks terrible and languished on steam tables in the back throughout the hours we were there (oops). Luckily this is the kind of place where you can expect to be hit with a sudden, non-​negotiable craving for Chipotle instead. Even luckier, Chipotle is right up the block! Serendipity! (Or parasitism, either/​or!)

Great bar with good prices. The food is better than typical bar food and more authentic irish type fare. It makes you feel like your stepping back in time. Cool spot to hang out.

Popped in for lunch while we were doing a walking tour of lower Manhattan at this particular Blarney Stone. It was a cold and windy day so we were up for something quick and hearty.
I had the meatloaf plate with broccoli, brother had the brisket on a roll.
The brisket was mediocre and the meatloaf was dense with a mealy texture. The brisket was the better of the two.
My broccoli however was rather decent for veg that had been sitting in a warming pan for an hour or so.
Inexpensive by NYC standards, the beer was good… but any real pub or bar cannot screw up beer now can they?
We were in and out inside 20 minutes, but indigestion set in 30 minutes later… for both of us.

The people at this bar are nice. They are open and in a place where nothing else is around during off hours when you may need to talk in the south ferry area. It is not stone street. This is very no frills. However, sometimes, no frills is all you need…

We were looking for a quick bite for lunch before visiting the Ground Zero memorial. We walked in and saw a lot of home cooked favorites written on the chalkboard and thought we’d give it a try. We weren’t told about the cafeteria style buffet line in the back of the «bar», but were handed menus that had a variety of sandwiches and other bar food. We ordered the reuben to share and it was quite good and large enough for two. But, the fries were overcooked and mostly inedible, and the wait staff and bartender seemed annoyed to have to wait on us. The place was loud and obviously filled with locals who «knew the drill». It would have been nice to have known about the food in the back but no one told us. Not a tourist friendly place, in keeping with the unfriendly reputation of New York City.

Visited this place while passing by with my fiancée and two small children. Upon entering the smell was almost enough to make us turn around, which I wish we would have done.
One waiter/​bartender/​cook staff member was taking care of everything, and needless to say turned our visit into an overextended, aggravating, dis-​pleasing experience.
After receiving food close to 40 minutes after ordering, it was all cold and the kids meals looked straight out of a microwave.
Avoid this place at all costs.

MT bf used to work next door to this bar, so we come here every now and then. This is a dive bar and before the renovation it was a lot more dive! But cheap drinks and every one knows everyone else! What’s not to like?
The only down part about this place is they don’t play music for whatever reason, they have a jukebox, but no music unless someone pays for music…

Came here to use the bathroom, and ended up hanging out for a bit since the Yankees game was on and beers were cheap. It doesn’t really seem to fit in with the area, but the service was good and the Friday pre-​happy hour crowd was friendly, entertaining, and drunk. Lots of dudes though.
It does have an indescribable smell and the ramshackle front door needs a new piston or just be torn off completely because it kept slamming. The sound to the game was turned down in favor of the jukebox and nearly started a small riot at our end of the bar though. You can also buy lottery tickets at the bar. Never seen that one before.
All in all, I liked it, and the one bartender chick is damn cute.

Walked in, smelled like urine, walked out.

If it wasn’t for the company paid social gatherings here, I’d just as well walk right past this place and never go in.

I’ve only stayed to eat once because I usually don’t take a full lunch hour. I always have their roast beef sandwich served in the back at their hot buffet, DELICIOUS… and the guy that works the counter is SO NICE! I’ve never had a bad experience.

Good location — used to be a complete dump. Some TV show recognized it as a dump and provided a makeover. The makeover makes it much better but overall this bar still kind of sucks.

My initial impression was that I did not like this bar. Good thing I decided to stick it out, because I missed a lot in my very quick summation. For instance, there is an Olhausen pool table in the back. Not just any pool table — Olhausen! On the TV they were showing Jeopardy. What was interesting was that several of the older regulars were watching it intently, even turning up the volume between commercial breaks. Who knew this was a Jeopardy bar? Also, our 4^th round of drinks were on the house. That’s a nice deal. The Irish accents are real which makes the place feel more like a retreat. Even their very dismal looking buffet in the back is not all that dismal. Their lone Irish selection of corned beef and cabbage featured decent corned beef. Similarly, the sandwiches are said to be remarkable. Hmm. A bar that can grow on you. I kind of like that. It might keep others away for me to enjoy it more.

I actually like this place mostly because it has that old-​school Irish feel with friendly Irish bartenders (love the accents!), yummy Irish pub food that’s super cheap and a friendly atmosphere. We go here when we want a good cheap beer and some down home food and to watch Jeopardy with the old drunk dudes and beat them by answering the Daily Doubles correctly. All in all, it’s a fun joint and if you happen to be in the downtown area and want to kick back in a no frills but fun atmosphere, I’d recommend this place.
P. S. try their roast beef sandwich with beef gravy!