The restaurant has a cool, authentic Irish pub atmosphere and it steps from Fenway Park.

I'll start with the good first, the host was friendly and seated us fairly promptly. The food we ordered (just appetizer and beers) were also pretty good overall. The hot/sweet wings with cilantro bleu cheese were very crispy and delicious and were some of the better wings that I've had in a while. The hot pretzel was just 'okay.' The cheese and Irish mustard that came with it was tasty but the pretzel itself was sort of bland and dry, even with the everything bagel seasoning on it.

Now for the bad: the waitress was pretty terrible and virtually non existent. After being seated, we were not approached by anyone for at least ten minutes. Finally, a female waitress came over to us and kind of just looked at us with her notebook out ready to write down our order. No interaction or greeting or anything. It reminded me of the kind of service you expect out of an old school greasy spoon diner. We were a party of two and never received one of the drinks we ordered (however we never saw the waitress again until it was time for the check so we couldn't ask her about it).

The waitress didn't bring our food out (a runner did) and the waitress never once checked on us to see if our food was okay or if we needed anything. She walked by us twice while we were eating, looked at us, and kept walking.

After done eating and done with our drinks, she came over and asked us if we wanted the check. She gave us the check and a different person subsequently came over and rang us up.

Keep in mind, this was about 3pm and there appeared to be two servers on duty for a handful of tables both inside and outside.

Overall the food and atmosphere were good and this restaurant would have warranted a much higher rating from me, if it weren't for the poor service. I never hold kitchen mistakes or crowd levels/being understaffed against the servers in a restaurant as A) they are not cooking the food and B) they cannot control the crowds or staffing levels, however when the restaurant is not crowded, I think you can spend a little more time with each guest.

Overall experience: not very impressed.