Donnybrook — Restaurant in New York

The way my friends and I were treated here yesterday evening was absolutely disgusting and shocking. I still can't believe it.

I came in here with two of my friends because we had to wait 1.5 hours for our reservation to Ivan Ramen across the street. My friends and I walked in and we are all trying to decide if we even want to drink here. So we are on our way to look at the beer selection to see. And literally the moment we arrive the bartender (a girl with dark hair and a side-part working the 7:30pm shift on Sunday, November 12th) has the nastiest attitude to us ever and demands "I NEED TO SEE ALL YOUR IDs".

We haven't decided if we are even staying at this place or not but I was like uh okay just in case we did decide to drink. But from my understanding, protocol is supposed to be IF I order a drink, then you ask for an ID. The bar was retry empty. There were maybe 5 people already there.

She was already being extremely nasty to us.

I give her my passport, which I am aware is expired. But you can't fake a passport - it's actually very illegal to do so. Also, I've been using my expired passport for YEARS and have NEVER had an issue anywhere. Especially when every single thing in my wallet (bank card, health insurance card, etc has the same exact name on it as the passport). Oh and I also have stamps in it too so it's been used to travel abroad.

The bartender literally spends 3 minutes reading my entire passport and I can already feel that she is trying to find a reason to not service us. I've never had anyone READ every single word on my passport before.

She then tells me (in a VERY NASTY AND SNARKY TONE) "I CANT TAKE THIS ITS EXPIRED". And I proceed to explain to her that everything else in my wallet has the same name on it and SHE INTERRUPTS ME AND YELLS "IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER ID I CANT SERVICE YOU".

SHE TURNS HER BACK .... LITERALLY TURNS HER BACK ON US. WOW!

Wow okay. And I explain to her "that's okay, I did not want a drink". I was not rude to this woman AT ALL.

The reason I told her that was because I was unsure if she wanted to check my friends' IDs and she keeps her back turned and rejects all three of us because of me.

So we were all shocked and turned off that we left. So we are standing in the corner to figure out where to wait next and THE BARTENDER COMES OUTSIDE and goes to a group of girls and tells them "ugh so sorry that took me so long!" Literally right in front of us.

ALL THREE OF US WERE SHOCKED. SHE DID NOT SERVICE US BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO MEET UP WITH HER FRIENDS OUTSIDE ... RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!

Wow, just absolutely WOW.

We ended up taking our business elsewhere right next door to Ivan Ramen. I did use my expired passport and I had a glass of wine. That's fine if you can't take expired passports, but you can be NICE about it - for example, "I'm so sorry I can't except this here because it's an expired passport it's the policy in our bar. Do you happen to have any other IDs with you?" That is professional. But just to be treated the way we were was absolutely embarrassing and mortifying ESPECIALLY when I've drank there before using the same passport and have had no problem in the past. Again, it's fine if you developed a new policy with IDs, I completely understand and respect that, but this girl was absolutely nasty and turned away business to meet up with her friends outside.

I have never wished anyone to be fired before but the way I was treated so so humiliating, I hope this woman gets fired. She does not deserve a job. I am demanding an apology from this woman.

Please send me a message and I'd be happy to give you my phone number, but she needs to apologize.

That was absolutely disgusting!!!!

I will never step foot in this place AGAIN. And neither...

I have a new favorite lower east side bar. I found this place randomly at 11AM Sunday looking for a place to watch Man U vs Swansea. The bar had just opened and bartender Maggie asked if I'd like her to google which channel it was on so she could set me up at a table of my own. Am I in heaven? Looking around I'm amazed that, with all due respect to the neighborhood, a place on Stanton smells and looks so clean and fresh at 11AM on a Sunday morning? The goodwill keeps building. More patrons trickle in for brunch. I have a ringside seat to see the food come out. Simple and beautifully prepared. I'm not hungry yet so I order coffee. A fresh pot next to the bar. Best coffee I've ever had. My luck is getting hard to believe. The waitress sits down with a view of the game to eat her lunch before things get busy. Gnama (sp?) is a Man U fan, too. A beautiful warm smile on a cold gray morning. She orders the Norwegian eggs: perfect poached eggs and ultra fresh salmon over English muffins with hash browns and a small salad on the side. I order the same and we talk about life and her amazing journey (seriously, ask her) while I wait. It's the perfect storm of soccer, coffee, breakfast, feng shui, authentic and friendly waitress and bartender. Do the owners know how lucky they are? I am so happy....

It's a great pub, but man, this place needs to get some sound absorbing materials in. It absolutely crushes your ears to be here. It gets loud from people just talking, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it, so people speak louder so they can hear themselves, so they raise the music so people can hear it.

You get the picture. Absolutely unbearable noise levels, you can't hear your friends, and you have no voice when you get back home.

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