Roache & O'Brien — Restaurant in Lower Merion Township

This is just my opinion as someone who has been here before and after the renovations and new management. Before the changes, I would have given this place a 5 star rating. Actually as a former student of a local college, I was recommending this bar to everyone I knew during a time where I didn’t know any other students who went there. I wouldn’t do that anymore because it’s now lacking most of the things that differentiated it from other bars in the Bryn Mawr area. I feel like this isn’t the type of place that needs a cocktail menu, actual glasses, so much staff working at once, etc. I miss the jukebox, pink bathroom, regular crowd (I’ve been out of the area for a while but I recently visited and the vibes were just different, it wasn’t like everyone knew eachother though to be fair I was there on a weekend night that might attract more different people), and REDBULL. This place used to be legitimate dive bar and now it’s a regular bar/restaurant using dive bar aesthetics owned by some guy who already owns a bunch of other restaurants. It’s just depressing to see this happen. But to be clear, my complaints aren’t at all relating to the bartenders and other staff… I have nothing negative to say about the staff...

Me and my boyfriend were having a good time. We usually keep to ourselves because we arent the most social and decided to play dome games in the back. One of the games was broken and it was a bummer so I put it aside on our table and we played the other ones. While i was in the bathroom my boyfriend slammed his hand down on the broken games bubble to get a ball in a hoop thinking it might make the game work and the waitress thought he was too rough and kicked us out for breaking it... They didnt believe me and told me it was his fault and not to worry but we still had to leave. We were about to order more drinks too and were not very drunk just excited that there were board games cause we dont really dance much. It was really dissappointing for the miscommunication and misunderstanding it felt embarrassing to be not believed and kicked out over something already broken. So if you see something broken report it and just hand it in...

Absolutely embarrassing service from a bar in the hear of the mainline. I went to roache and O’Brien’s with 3 of my friends on a quiet night to drink. After presenting all of our legal forms of ID, we were refused service because 2 of my friends did not have their school ID. After showing the bartender numerous other forms of identification, he adamantly refused to accept anything less than a school ID.

This is on top of the bar smelling horrible, the excessive vaping inside, and unfriendly crowd. Will never be returning to this bar but I’d imagine the board of health will shut it down before I had...