Calahan's Pub and Pizza — Restaurant in New Braunfels

You would think that visiting a pub with a clover on the sign for St. Patrick's Day might be an invitation to large crowds and nonexistent service. While there were certainly a fair share of the former, the service was impressive throughout the night.

Sure, there were certainly enough cheap specials the night of our visit, but the bar has an impressive stock of beers from the better parts of Europe, as well as a large collection of Texan and U.S. brews. The Scotch selection, too, presented over two dozen varieties. It was fun exploring some of the better offerings over the course of the night.

The bulk of the menu centers around pizza, so we ordered a couple of thin crusts adorned with venison sausage. The sausage was unique and (unsurprisingly) gamey, though nothing remarkable. The pizza on the whole was better than I was expecting, with a thin crust nearly in the Midwestern style, cut true to form in squares. It certainly didn't last long given the long wait thanks to the crowds. We also tried the pizza rolls, which were freshly made and larger than expected. It's not something that every pizzeria makes, certainly.

I don't think New Braunfels has much of a night life scene, but you could certainly do worse than the fairly-priced drinks and solid pie...

I'd heard such great things about the pizza here. Went with my wife and daughter at lunch time on a Saturday. We went in and there were only 2 other tables already eating so the place was dead slow. We ordered a 12 inch pizza, half cheese and half pineapple and red onion (my wife's choice of toppings) for my ladies and a meatball sandwich for me. After 20 minutes waiting in a dead eatablishment, we start getting impatient. A couple more minutes waiting I get up to go to the bar to see where the hell the food is and they're coming out with it at long last. The pizza was half cheese and half PEPPERONI and red onion, despite my receipt clearly saying pineapple. We were hungry, so we decided to just eat it because we weren't waiting 30 more minutes for them to fix it. My meatball sub was not great. Meatballs were chewy, and the flavor wasn't great. Pizza was also just ehh. No excuse to get the food wrong and take so long when the place is dead, on top of being average at best. Needless to say we...

We really wanted to love this place. Sadly, disappointment after disappointment. Upon entry, it smells like granny’s basement. Old and stale. You sort of adjust and stop noticing it. My order was forgotten about, I informed the food runner, he forgot too, had to go up to the counter and check on it and then it was incorrect. I ate what I was given because by that time, my dining companion was done with their food. When I questioned the discrepancy, I was lied to by the counter staff on what I did order. I was given an itemized receipt for someone else’s order - the credit card’s last four digits did not match mine. Both draft beers I ordered tasted off. And they were beers I’ve had before, so I know how they should taste. I would be willing to bet that the draft lines in this place have not been cleaned recently. If ever. Tips: Ask for and get your itemized receipt. Don’t drink the draft beer. Don’t rely on the staff to course correct. They couldn’t get things resolved on a slow...