O'Hara's Public House — Restaurant in Lexington

Literally the worst group dining experience I’ve ever had. First off, I made a reservation for 12 at least 3 weeks in advance. When we got to the restaurant they had only reserved 10 seats. They tried to lie to my face and tell me that I called them earlier in the day to change my reservation from 12 to 10, which was astounding to me. No one else from our party was communicating with the restaurant regarding the reservation besides me, and I did NOT make any such phone call. It took a lot of cajoling just to get them to add a nearby booth of 2 to accommodate all 12, and even then, the extra 2 people were not able to sit at the same table as us. Next, we could tell that the waitress was less than enthused to be serving a large celebratory dinner. I understand, I’ve been a waitress myself, and large celebratory tables can be daunting and frustrating. Regardless, you should still try your best to be kind and accommodating, yet I think she cracked a smile maybe once for the entire dinner. She still received a huge tip at the end of the night (well over 20%) but her attitude definitely needed adjusting. Then, after we placed all of our entree orders at one time, half the table received their entrees and then 15 minutes later the other half received theirs. It’s restaurant 101 to serve everyone at a table at the same time, or close to it. A 15 minute gap in serving entrees to different halves of the table is unacceptable. Lastly, the waitress waited until the end of our dinner when we asked for our checks to let us know that she couldn’t split the checks how we wanted. We asked her to split it into 2 checks with certain people on each one. She only offered us the option of one single check, or two checks split in half from the total. I understand that this policy may be true, but waiting until it was time to pay to inform a large party of this policy is bad practice. It caused a lot of strife at the end of dinner for one person to pay and everyone else try to pay them back in cash when all we were asking for was a check split in two, but not straight down the middle. They should have told me about their check splitting policy when I made the large reservation, or when we began dinner, not at the end. The food was fine, the fish and chips specifically were amazing. But I will always have a sour taste in my mouth from this experience. We spent a lot of money on food, several rounds of drinks, and a very generous tip, and our patronage was not deserved by this restaurant AT ALL. Maybe smaller dinners (2-6 people) would be better off here, but if you’re thinking of taking a larger group here,...

We landed here during our visit to Lexington, SC. We love Irish food and love to find places that cook it! We're use to restaurants like The Irish Wolfhound in Surprise, AZ (the best, hands down fish and chips, pretzel and beer!) Pubs like Cooper's Tavern in North Myrtle Beach with a bang up job on the menu (not Irish).

Here, Jerry is amazing, he is very friendly, knowledgeable and made our visit fun, unfortunately it stops there.

I'm allergic to Onions, cooked or fried or any way prepared I cannot eat them. I asked for the Onion Ring on my burger to be "on the side" instead I got a side of Onion Rings.

My bbq sauce wasn't on the burger, in fact it was missing altogether. The LTOP top, I don't like raw tomatoes with bbq sauce, but I had no idea not to ask for it, because it's not listed on the menu as being part of the burger build!

Everything that goes on the burger, wrap, chicken should be listed on the menu, in case people like me are allergic to something on them we can ask for it to be on the side.

I asked for Sweet Potato Fries, they came out cold as the plate they were served in, not completely cooked through.

My mother had the Fish, the breading was so thick by the time she got to the fish, the rest of the breading was not cooked, it was raw against the fish. Red Flag!

The appetizer is nothing to write home about either, you can get pretzel bites at Red Robin and they taste a heck of a lot better.

If you're going to offer a pub pretzel, consider making them yourself, offer jalapeno cream cheese, beer cheese sauce and cinnamon sugar cream cheese. Be creative with the food!!

Pub food should be different, rare items things you can't get on the main menu only served in the "bar". O'Hara's looks like the watering hole for locals?

Again, Jerry is excellent in his serving but the...

I don’t often leave reviews, but this place needs a wake up call. As a once loyal referrer of this establishment, I feel equally responsible to leave a honest review after the last few visits to this place. I don’t know if it’s a lack of competence or if it’s a sheer disregard for providing quality food and service, but I can honestly say that if you want bad food and bad service, this is the place for you. Today we’ve officially called it quits for the Irish Pub. On Father’s Day, we were told that they were out of their most signature food items, after only walking in and waiting 15 minutes before getting our order taken, and then watching our drinks being made and sit for another 10 minutes at the end of the bar before making its way to our table. We’ve seen this place at its best and it has gotten worse over the past two years and enough is enough. Today we bought four drinks and one appetizer and still managed to rack up a $53 dollar bill. Charging $10 a drink is besides the point, but just imagine the money they are going to be leaving on the table if we could have at least been able to order a meal! We‘re extremely disappointed and honestly mad at this point. They will not receive another dollar from us, and I would recommend not wasting yours either. At least not until they get a wake up call and learn how to manage inventory. It was also extremely smelly and was a great mixture of dirty dish rag and chemicals. The bus boy repeatedly wiped down every table with the same nasty rag located conveniently in his back pocket. we literally moved from a less smelly table to another because we weren’t sure if we were going to be able to eat, but of course had we known that they didn’t have any food to eat we wouldn’t have been that worried about it. O’haras, what the hell...