Mad Dog in the Fog — Restaurant in San Francisco

I really like the fried pickles. I came here during the day and the server was so nice and friendly. I came here at night and the short Hispanic guy behind the bar working at night was SO RUDE. Here’s our interaction: Me: Do you take Apple Pay? He nods yes and comes over with the machine for it. I tell him: um excuse me the machine isn’t working for it. The tap to pay section is not lighting up either. Him: he rolled his eyes and said “it works. U don’t carry your card around? “ I said: no. I was just at the grocery store next door I don’t carry my cards around because I use tap to pay everywhere. He then said”people before you just used it. Like 3 mins ago. Actually someone right before you used it you were right behind them.” And then he pointed at the machine again and didn’t bother to try to look at it or help. He acted like I was trying to get free food or get away with not paying for it. I then repeated “the machine is not working.” He then just shook his head at me like I was an inconvenience and annoying to him, and got the tall white guy behind the bar to help me instead. This guy was SO much nicer and patient and more understanding he tried troubleshooting with me but it didn’t work since it was the machine’s flaw. I ended up having to walk home to get my cards. But I’m not sure why the first guy was...

Mad Dog is a pretty solid Irish bar in the lower Haight that has a great trivia night and a lot of TVs for watching the game. Run by real Irish people!

I have mostly only been here for trivia nights, which are well-done but are perhaps a bit too crowded for my liking (unless you get there like an hour before it starts, you have a hard time getting a booth and end up standing basically on top of others teams). Trivia on Tuesday is slightly less crowded than Thursdays.

They also have a table you can reserve that has its own tap built-in, and you can pour your own beer (I think it's unlimited at least until the tap runs out??).

Mad Dog pretty laid-back / casual / divey, it is but not run down. They only serve beer / sangria / I think a few types of wine (no hard-A here) and don't take CCs but do have an ATM. I slightly prefer Toronado because it seems to be a little quieter, but this is a fine...

Visiting from out of town. Googled the place, thought it would be good. Walked in w my wife and son at 4:30 on a Monday; sat down at a table.

10 mins later, no-one acknowledged us. So we finally go and stand by the counter to place an order. The bartender was at the other end of the bar, carrying on a conversation; the 3 of us are standing there for 10 more minutes, and STILL not even an acknowledgement.

We turned and walked out, and passed her on the way out. And she STILL has not as much as acknowledged that we were there.

Zero motivation to do business with an establishment that won't as much as acknowledge our presence, let alone be thankful that we walked in the door.

Currently down the street at Flippin Burgers; they acknowledged us when we walked in, and we are now waiting...