Ned Devine's — Restaurant in Boston

Was having a great night and was really surprised by the unexpected party atmosphere... until one of the security guards on the dance floor started to really noticeably abuse his power... over the night, I (a sober guest) watched him plow his way through the crowd constantly, verbally abusing anyone in his way, shouting profanity and actual verbal abuse at each one. I couldn’t believe it. At first I thought it was people who were too drunk, but then I watched carefully as the abuse continued through multiple guests who I saw hadn’t done anything wrong... finally he made his way through my group of friends, and when my friend didn’t move in 2 milliseconds he absolutely lost it, screaming and shouting at the top of his lungs. We were in disbelief. This guy clearly didn’t know how to control his anger, and he let his power go to his head. It ruined the night and we left right away.

I used to work for this company in fact, at another restaurant, and this is NOT the kind of behavior we tolerated. Yet somehow one employee has allowed himself to get sucked into the power vortex. Normally I’d say people can become hard to control when drinking, but this time I was in the inside and my friend did nothing. My whole view changed. Instead of sympathizing over drunk people, I immediately began to realize that this employee had other issues. He was the only one getting into fights, and they were full of verbal abuse.

It’s a shame, because this is a place I really liked. Believe it or not i had never been there before, even as an employee of another restaurant in the portfolio. But now I am too shocked to return I think. Clearly management needs to step in before the establishment gets a bad...

First time here, and I will not be back. I attempted to attend a pub crawl that required me to pick up a wrist band from Ned’s. I waited on the side walk for almost 2 hours before getting my band, which by this point the pub crawl was almost over. It took forever to get the bands because large groups of people kept cutting in line. As a group of 18 college kids kept pushing their way into line, one being a guy twice my size who kept elbowing me to get into where I was standing. I addressed him numerous times, and the elbows to my ribs and side kept getting more and more aggressive. Finally, he elbowed me really hard in the kidney, and having preexisting health concerns this was not safe. I turned to say something again and noticed a staff member doing “crowd control” and attempted to get his attention for help. He flat out told me “I don’t care about that,” and walked away. Half an hour later I attempted to get help again, and the staff member yelled at me to “go home” when I told him numerous times I’m being hurt by people in the line, and that he’s not preventing issues. The people at the very front of the line admitted that they had been there for 45 mins. Twice the time I was stuck being beaten up behind them. I spent the rest of the weekend in horrid pain in my kidney. After this experience I realize that Ned’s has poor crowd control and very little concern for the safety of their patrons, and are incredibly ill prepared for large crowds. I would not patronize a place that doesn’t look out for the safety of a 5’2” woman begging for help from staff. To me, this shows very very very little care for your customers and...

I enjoyed dancing and drinks here. The servers and bartenders were absolutely incredible and I heard the food was good too! The 3 stars comes from the bouncers. There are two doors at Ned Devines, the Quincy Market entrance and a side door. We came in at about 8 pm before the rush and went in through the Quincy market entrance. Our 24 year old friend came late and had never been here before, walked up to the side entrance and my other friend who was inside opened the door to tell her to go around. When she opened the door, the bouncers screamed at them for about 30 seconds and made them feel terrible. I saw there was no sign on that door to inform that she had to use the other door. I informed them kindly to please stop yelling as she honestly just didn’t know and there was no sign. They yelled back that “you wouldn’t open up someone’s door to their house and that when they get audited and shut down and we can’t come here then I’ll care”. I feel this was very uncalled for as my friend immediately just walked around. She was so upset. While I understand that some people might do this to sneak people in, please have a sign to help the people who honestly don’t know to stop them from having a very bad start to the night from a very easy to make mistake. Also, screaming is never the answer, and I’ve seen many calm, collected, and stern bouncers when faced with actual real...