O’Reilly’s Irish Newfoundland Pub — Restaurant in St. John's

I’m not one to post reviews , especially negative ones but I decided to for this visit. We had just arrived from out of province for our vacation… 1st day here. My husband had pointed out O’Reilys Pub and decided to give it a try… to say disappointed is an understatement… we were seated quickly which was great… Patio was full approx 15 people , inside was empty. Waitress was very sweet… She came to our table and took our drink orders… And our starter orders… Drinks took approximately 10 minutes to come… A draght beer, a ginger ale and a Caesar… After she delivered her drink, she came back about five minutes later… We’ve now been there for 20 mins To let us know that it had no fish left for our fish dinners … my husband and I had ordered a starter, but that was our main meal… We asked to cancel my daughter‘s Caesar salad and nachos, but she mentioned that the order had been put into the kitchen and we couldn’t cancel them… My husband and I agreed that we would go elsewhere for something to eat after my daughter was done eating… my daughter received her food and about three minutes later my husband and mines fish and chips dinner came … On top of being confused… I was very disappointed… My fish and chip dinner came on a salad plate … with 2 of the smallest pieces of fish I had ever seen…and a small handful of fries. I asked for the gravy that I had ordered and my husband asked for butter… approx 10 mins later , the gravy came but still no butter. We had also asked for 3 glasses of water that we never ended up getting, nor the butter. And to top It off I found a black hair in my fries buried at the bottom. Turned me right off … at this point we had also watch 2 other tables get up and leave as they had never been served and waited for some time. And to make it all worse, our bill was $147. They never offered a discount because of the hair, the water never came, the butter never came, the waitress came to our table to apologize but was laughing the whole time like it was no big deal. All in all it was a bad experience for our first meal in Newfoundland. Later in the evening at our Airbnb when we spoke to our host, he said he wouldn’t recommend going there… He’s heard other people complain. Wouldn’t recommend from...

My family is from Newfoundland, but this was my first trip back since I was 14 (and too young for George Street). We were only there for a couple weeks, but managed to go to O’Reilly’s twice because we had so much fun we lost interest in even trying to experience a new bar for our last night and just wanted to go back.

We got the toutons (not as good as Nan’s but close), mussels, salt beef fritters, and cod cakes, all delicious and great to share.

Exactly the atmosphere you’d want, easy, casual and a party all at the same time, and in a perfect old St. John’s building where there’s 17 different heights of flooring and weird alcoves and you know they haven’t changed anything because it’s great the way it is.

Best stage set up we saw with room for dancing, and we loved all the music (Kitchen Parti was a particular favourite).

Jasmine was our bartender both times and she was totally awesome. Super nice and attentive and helped me pick out a beer as I wasn’t familiar with a lot of them.

Here’s how I got rightfully mocked: she chose India, which I loved (probably too much), and I went home and told my family about the fantastic new beer I had found, and they all proceeded to laugh their butts off telling me yeah, they were all very familiar, as it’s so old it was my grandparents beer. Whoops, was new to me. Jasmine remembered the next week when we came back (and everyone else’s drink orders) and even offered up suggestions on where else I could get it.

TL:DR; O’Reilly’s totally lives up to it’s reputation, go see Jasmine and Kitchen Parti, and if you also haven’t been to Newfoundland since you were 14 do not attempt to recommend India to...

The pub itself was pretty busy, the band was great. The cover was expensive $10 per person. The service was absolutely terrible. We were upstairs, we did not get table service at all which is fine we were sitting by the bar. I asked the bar staff to screech my Brother in law and sister in law in. She said they were busy but they weren't and they do it downstairs, after about an hour and a half we went downstairs and asked the staff about it, they sent us back up with a note that said " please screech in these people we are busy" I went back up and gave it to the bartender who told me oh no I didn't say I couldn't do it I said we can if we aren't busy.... she was literally standing there doing nothing.. so I said okay well I would like to do 2 people please. Waited another hour as they stood around doing nothing and we left. When we commented about it they said they had to wait for someone else to come back because they needed the 2 people, but they did have 2 people and didn't do anything... we went down thr street to a great bar and even though they had done theirs for the night, they gave us free shots to screech them in. Horrible service from...