Chieftain Irish Pub & Restaurant — Restaurant in Seattle

Drinks are always fine, karaoke is good- and sometimes the food is good. Basically, a solid 3 (at best).

However, tonight we had a rat friend- who we named Ben- in the corner with us in the back. Ben was clearly hungry. We were too. So we ordered food.

Unfortunately the online menu is dated- and so the potato skins and coconut shrimp we decided were not actually an option. Thats fine, but socially awkward people try to decide ahead of time and instead we had to uncomfortably decide while the bartender was already waiting on us. A best-guess-decision led us to the “garbage tots” and the chips & guac.

Our food arrives. The garbage tots were giving middle school lunchroom tots. Not offensive, not good, no one really ate them. The chips & guac- oh my god. Chieftain, like most establishments, has something like an air freshener through out the building. Kind of a perfumey-windex smell. It’s not terrible when you’re in the building. It IS terrible when your tortilla chips are old, stale, and absorbed the perfume into them. They were genuinely gnarly and inedible. The guac got mixed reviews, I personally thought it was fine. Though, anything after the perfume chips probably tastes great.

So, back to Ben the Rat. Ben kept visiting, and if we weren’t going to eat the chips & guac, we thought Ben might. We threw some single tortilla chips and chips with guac near his hole in the fence. Then, nervously, Ben slowly came out from his safe hole and cutely nibbled on the tortilla chips. HOWEVER YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT BEN DID NOT LIKE THE GUAC. He would take the chip and leave the guac.

So, two food items were immediately rejected and then the last debatable food item was rejected by BEN THE RAT.

I would’ve liked to give it a better rating, but instead all I can give it is a “no guac...

I and a friend visited this bar yesterday, two men of color, and we felt singled out by the bartender.

The bartender said it was against the law to serve us three drinks a piece. On a prior visit, other bartenders would serve us whatever amount of drinks we wanted. I did my research, and found that there is no such law in Washington that sets a limit on how many drinks a bartender can serve a patron at a given time. The bartender therefore lied to us. Forced us to take one of our shots in front of him before he gave us our other drinks that he already prepared.

We ordered food and he purposely took longer to bring it to us. Then he just slid it across the table instead of presenting it to us as he did other patrons that were not people of color.

Later on, he came to our table and accosted us about not tipping when we in fact did tip for the drinks we bought. He asked if we were at Chieftan fives weeks ago and why we did not tip that time. We in fact we’re not at Chieftan five weeks ago. It was months ago that we were there and we did tip. He was also not our bartender at that time. This started to feel very racial and prejudice because he started to harass us the whole night.

In closing, the guy singled out and harassed us. We did nothing wrong. We come to the Chieftan often but not regularly. The service is usually great but last night it...

My friend tried to leave a review after a horrible interaction due to unprofessionalism and somebody who’s been stalking me for awhile, but instead of addressing the problem they deleted the review ! Super disappointed though, I really loved this establishment and the bartenders gave great service. Bouncers though, had some girl who didn’t work there trying to check my ID. Very weird and unprofessional ! Also attempted to force me to leave without getting my debit card and tried to physically grab me out of the bar as I was trying to get my card back. I was super compliant and didn’t try to make a scene, but 6’4 male bouncer trying to put hands on a 5’4 woman is super disgusting and should be looked into. Also disappointed that due to a personal stalker I’m no longer...