Dooley's Pub — Restaurant in Eau Claire

I understand college kids wanting to party. I hung out on Water Street when I went to college here a few decades ago. Also, Pickle Fest is fine if you'all stick to bars.

I thought Dooley's was not just a bar, but now I am unsure. It's a place non-college humans might like to go for food-but probably not anymore for me. You can have your college students, and I'll eat somewhere else. The most unfortunate thing happened. We tried to eat there on February 23rd, an unknown "holiday" to the masses-Pickle Fest. We were surrounded by many schwaaaaasted University students, who had been drinking since 9:00 that morning. Dooley's...... You need to escort screaming crazy drunk people to the door if it's only 5:00 p.m. My party could not hear each other talk. At. All. It was like Shenanigans, 1984, at 1:00 a.m.

Our server was an outstanding, positive guy, and he did his best. He told us that this was the busiest day of the year, even more so than Saint Patrick's Day.

The food came rather quickly, but it wasn't that great, and it was accompanied by a young girl screaming, "Look at me!" while putting celery sticks in her mouth like walrus teeth. Another girl was so drunk when she tried to stand up she crashed over to the floor.

Management, you could at the very least, make an attempt to ask people being crazy in the dining area to chill. Embarrassing, but necessary.

PS I'm happy your...

We went for a Friday Night Fish Fry. Server was very confused and probably new. There was three people behind the bar that appeared as of they might have been employees? Whatever the case, we ordered a pitcher of beer that cost 12.00 and was served with two wet and warm glasses...When we ordered our dinner we had to inform the server that it came with a potato choice and salad, she later came back and said we could only have fries, fine... Salad came, no silverware... Server came back with a holder filled with napkins, condiments, silverware etc... And said "I hope that is all you need" Food came out before we could eat our salads. Lukewarm fish fried in old oil... Blah food. Horrible service by a girl who appeared near tears... Seems like a good place to go if you like to watch sports and pay too much for drinks... Noty to mention it was freezing cold in January as if warm beer should be enough? Do not go here if you want to get what you pay for... You are better off with a filet-o-fish and 40 of Coors light. We will...

As a customer, I've seen several tables sit and customers sit at the bar and service for them takes 5-7 minutes, and the restaurant is like 1/4 full. The servers are not experienced. The bartenders, except for maybe one are not experienced. The "main" bartenders still don't even know how to make a Moscow Mule, and they have them on special, Mondays. I was at the bar and I overheard one of the servers say, I don't exactly know which ones are on special (Monday Mules). As a special on a specific day, you should know what's included in the special. The food is cheap and decent. They need to find experienced people to train others in order provide a good customer experience. The main supervisor/bar people that come in on their time off, while there's a lot of people, sit at the end of the bar and watch their employees/co-workers get slammed without stepping in to help. If you want he quickest service possible,...