Paddy’s Irish Pub

This is generally a really great Irish pub. My favorite nights here are Sunday’s– not too busy and most importantly, not too many wneu kids.
They’ve got a HUGE variety of local draft craft beers, which is truly awesome! The prices are great– really can’t be beat, around $ 4 for local drafts. Also, they’ve got a great Irish whiskey selection.
The bartenders are attentive and quick. The Sunday night bartender (my memory’s failing– forgot her name) is my absolute favorite. Great personality and she always remembers me (now I feel bad).
But honestly the best part? Peppas is attached. Whiskey, beer, and pizza? YES.
My only complaint is that some nights it gets packed with college kids and I’m not a higher fan of that. Other wise great!

Great local bar, usually a younger crowd on the weekend with WNEU so close by. Love that you can grab pizza slices from Peppas next door and eat them in the bar. Always has a good selection of beers on tap! Trivia nights, drink specials… always a good experience!

It’s an ok place mostly for the young college crowd. When a bar that has a generally young crowd I tend to stay away from any liquor as it’s most likely been watered down quite a bit. Nice place to hang out with a decent pizza spot next door. 21 – 35 crowd would be it. Anyone in a higher age group would probably not enjoy themselves much here as it can get a bit rowdy.

Okay, call me biased but after being at McCaffery’s my normal 5 star rating for Paddy’s is at least 5.5 or 6. Kyle at the door and Audra behind bar are awesome! My black and tan is delicious and Audrey has already given us suggestions of other newbie items we might enjoy. Very HAPPY, and service and atmosphere has corrected my earlier experience/​mood so much so that unlike gal at the other bar Audra will receive a (generous) tip. THANK YOU AUDRA & KYLE!

I don’t get it. I really don’t think I’m THAT much a jaded New Yorker but what is the big deal? It’s a hockey bar/​college bar in a shopping center at a sketchyyyyy part of town. No bar food, just a big room with tv’s all around for the games. The drink selection is typical and fairly cheap. Nothing at all stood out; the atmosphere was neither awful nor positively memorable.

If you called Paddy’s a neighborhood joint or even a college bar you’d be selling them short even though they are technically both. Paddy’s could hold it’s own, dare I say, anywhere.
It starts with the staff; on a recent Friday night they were well staffed with polite professional folks. There were probably four or five guys working as security and lending a hand clearing tables or bottles and glasses along with three bartenders.
As far as I know there was no wait service; not really necessary with an approachable bar. Again they may have been there, I just didn’t notice.
The most important thing to know about Paddy’s is you need your ID. They will check (and scan) it regardless of how old you look, act, or smell.
The second most important thing to know about Paddy’s is that they are attached (have a common entrance) to Peppa’s Pizza. They have THE best pizza in the area when I’m sober. After a few cocktails, well you get the idea.

The positives here are a great beer selection, number and size of flatscreens, prices, atmosphere, awesome jukebox, and an open wall connecting to Peppa’s pizza next door.
The only real negatives are the lack of pub food, the fairly constant tap list, and sometimes the music selection (to be expected).
Overall the taplist is worth it if you like to mix it up past the regular light beers. It’s a college bar but has something to please everyone. Where else can you get a tub of Natty Ice and a Stone Arrogant Bastard on tap? Other good selections are Berkshire, Dogfish, Bear Republic, Wormtown, 21^st Amendment.

This bar is awesome. Hands down. And placed perfectly next to an awesome pizza shop. Even better. The atmosphere is very clean and trendy sports bar-​ish. The floors were even recently redone. Great drink/​beer selection. You won’t go thristy here! Def stop in for a pitcher during the games.

As I continue on my quest to find a decent Bar in Western, MA this one has been the best so far. I went there on the night before Easter so there was not many WNEC students there (maybe thats why I liked it).
I’m a huge hockey fan and it is hard to find the Bruins, let alone other teams on TV at a lot of bars, not here though. We walked in and on most of the TV’s was the BU vs. Miami (OH) Frozen Four. After that finished, I expected a random basketball game or baseball game to appear on the TV’s. But to my absolute amazement, they put on Calgary vs. Edmonton.
I knew then and there, this would be my go to place when I am home.

Paddy’s, like Sophia’s across the street, is a popular spot for students of near by Western New England College. For this reason they will often have good specials. For example they offer free boneless wings and pasta for happy hour on Thursdays and Fridays. The décor is a lot nicer than Soph’s and somewhat similar to the Dirty Truth in Northampton which I recently reviewed. They have a good selection of beer on tap including Sam Adams, Guinness, Magic Hat, and BBC.
Clean décor, good specials, good selection, and across walking distance from WNEC get Paddy’s a ⁴⁄₅
Note: Paddy’s is next door to a liquor store in case you don’t want to stop drinking when you leave the bar.