Hamilton's Pub — Restaurant in Columbus

Wednesday evening about 630PM. While discussing a Yelp Talk thread about wings, a friend mentioned HP. I called, and sure enough it's half price wings special on Wednesday after 5pm. Bonus that limitations are not just Happy Hour 4-7. We strolled on down the street to a strip center locale with a curb appeal pub. "Hey, I know this place". Mezze Middle'terranean is here also. Private parking lot, with plenty of spaces. Good size patio, partially covered for shade. I now remember hearing live music flowing out to Hamilton Rd as I have driven by on nice days. I have also seen the draw of suburban motorcycle enthusiasts. When you enter, you are immediately stimulated by the display of TV overload. Big screen TV's are edge to edge, lining all the walls. Look down quickly before walking into a table. Since grabbing a cocktail here once years ago, I noticed the remodeling. It's as if John Taffer came here and said "more seats, more money". They are all high-top tables. No booths, no standard height tables. Maybe that is to remind patrons this is a PUB. The TV and Yuengling promotional material pretty well emphasize the PUB brand. Seated ourselves and were promptly greeted with help for our thirst. Now this must be a go to place for local wing eaters on Wednesday night. They were hopping at about 75+% capacity. Yet, there was plenty of staff on hand, with no bad attitude to be seen anywhere. The noise level was loud. Audio overload from the jukebox, TV's, and general bar and crowd chatter, struggling to be heard. Standard condiment basket for each table holds a special drink menu, as well as the food menus. Ok I was totally zero'ed in on the wings and my starvation. I ordered Traditional buffalo with garlic. My sweetie ordered the boneless with sweet chili tai. The wings only come in 2 sizes(boneless/traditional), half(4/5) and full(8/10). We also ordered the smothered Tater Tots, because they looked so good at a nearby table. Celery and dressing is additional $$. The food came at a respectable time considering the crowd. I immediately noticed the volume of her plate. These are not just 2" wings without bones. OH NO! These were easily 5" chicken tenders. Right there is your value plate. My traditional were big. You would not wrinkle your nose for tiny wings here. Plenty of sauce. I like a small puddle that I can re-baste if needed. Just not the pool of sauce with wings under the surface. They were the perfect crispy. Not hard, just the perfect crunch, and seal of moisture inside. I liked the heat and flavor of the sauce. The 2oz. ramekin of ranch was half full and not a value. Her boneless were less crunchy, and made of chicken tender meat filling. She did enjoy the sauce, and the chicken. The Tots had a nice crunch to them. You have to order well done or crunchy if you ever order something smothered or covered. These were chili cheese, and green onion. Served with sour cream. When being seated look up. We were under 1 of 4 fans on the high setting. Eat quick, it's getting cold fast. No one seemed to know how to change it. The tots were good, but I would suggest trying a new brand of chili. Now we really are eating quick, because literally over our shoulder, a guy is loading in speakers and setting up gear. It's loud enough. Let's go before the amp and speakers 3' away start up. I guess they have LIVE music, DJ, or Karaoke on Wednesday evening.

In conclusion, we will try to put off our wing cravings until Wednesdays. Choose a table under a slow fan, away from the live entertainment speakers....

I’ve been coming to Hamilton’s for almost 2 years now and it’s for the most part always been great! (Nothing is perfect but they were consistent) now fast forward to the past few months and there has been an obvious decline. The food standards have jumped all over the place, the last three times I’ve ordered chicken wings and pizza they have came out tasting like it was from 3 different restaurants it’s like you don’t know what your gonna get. My BIGGEST issue is the massive difference in price from the physical menu and the bill you get, I understand that prices have gone up over the past few years but if your going to change a price have it reflected on your menu or get a heads up before ordering during the transition of receiving new menus (this can’t be the reason at Hamilton’s I’ve been paying more than menu price for 3 months no change in menu)The staff is okay but I noticed I no longer see long term bartenders like Chris and Kelly who really brought great energy to the bar. All in all I believe Hamilton’s has what it takes to be a 4-5 star pub by simply updating menu pricing, consistent product from the kitchen, dedicated FOH manager to guide daily operations and divide the work load.

I’ll continue to be a regular Parton at Hamilton’s I have a lot of hope for this place and believe it’ll get back to what it used to be just 7-8 months ago idk what changed at that time but I’m sticking around to see what happens and am looking forward to...

Our group came here on Wednesday for trivia. It was great the first few times, it was great. The trivia host was great. But the last two times, it was impossible to concentrate on trivia because there were a bunch of people there who weren't playing trivia and they were being very loud. I couldn't imagine going to a bar to hangout with my friends while there was trivia going on partially because I feel like that would be very rude of us and I would be annoyed that the trivia would make it hard to hear my friends talking. Those evenings were made even more frustrating because there was usually only one person waiting on every table and this place isn't that small. We would get there early before trivia so we could order and get our food before the game started but somehow that still didn't despite getting there 30 minutes early. Once we got our food, we wouldn't get any drink refills which usually meant they just wouldn't charge us for the drinks. Sometimes we wouldn't get drinks or food we ordered, we would ask again and it would just never come. The wait staff is always really nice and they are definitely doing their best so it must just be poor management. We were so excited to find a new place for trivia and even more excited when it went well the first few times so we were really sad when it...