The Public House West Texas — Restaurant in Midland

I was really excited to try this place for a pub-style dinner, as I love traveling through the UK. We ordered three appetizers: the pretzel, bruschetta, and caprese salad. The pretzel was good. The bruschetta felt more like a deconstructed version, and the caprese salad seemed fine for those who ate it. For my main course, I ordered the chicken sandwich. First, I was disappointed to see there were no fries on the menu—what pub that serves bangers and mash doesn’t also have fish and chips or at least chips (fries)? The food took a long time to come out, and when it finally did, the bun on my sandwich was cold. Our server rarely checked in on us, and since I was hungry, I ate some anyway. Unfortunately, the chicken tasted off, so I stopped eating it. A few hours later, I became very sick with food poisoning. I was the only one in my group who ordered chicken and also the only one who became ill. The space itself could be great, but the acoustics made it extremely loud. The. concrete floors and walls just had people yelling over each other. The menu also needs serious improvement. Honestly, I’d recommend grabbing food somewhere else and only stopping here for a pint.

This place had potential, but between the poor menu curation, long wait times, inattentive service, and food safety concerns, I will not...

The only reason this is getting two stars instead of one is because the drinks were absolutely amazing. My brother took me and my husband here (we are from out of town) on Friday from 4:45-6:30. While there, we had an incredibly hard time getting any of the bartenders attention, they walked past us multiple times and didn’t check in but twice in over an hour and a half. We were ignored even when we made eye contact with more than one employee. For 90 dollars you would think the service would have been much better. Had the bar been packed it would be more understandable, however it was not. The icky icing on the cake was we could hear the bartender complain about the tip as we left. I personally would never go back because of this, that was disgusting considering we still left 10 percent despite the terrible service. She was lucky to get a tip at all due to her very poor service. (Photo of the drinks because they...

Well, what can I say. We went in with high hopes of it being somewhat of an Irish pub. I guess when you see the name, you tend to think so. Overall, it was a decent experience, but it could have been so much more with just a little work. Pretty well everything they did was domestic. They said they only had 2 types of Irish whiskey. The " bangers and mash" was some kind of regular smoked sausage, not at all an UK style sausage. It was served with brown gravy, not an onion gravy. So very untraditional. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, just not right. The shepherd's pie was about the same. I can allow ground beef to be used instead of the lamb, but again, brown gravy, not tomato and red wine. Again, not bad,...