harry carey's wrigleyville

decided to go for a walk today and ended up by wrigley and dropped into the new harry carey's for lunch. the place was crowded and waited for a table for about 10-15 minutes. once we were seated the waitress informed us they clear out the tables after the fifth inning. ok, we asked her if we ordered (the game was in the fourth) if we would be able to finish our food . she assured us we would. well, no sooner than we had finished than they cleared our table and literally took our table away. we were left sitting on our stools with half empty beers to drink and our bill to pay. i made a little bit of a stink and they offered us a round which we accepted. i told the manager i thought this was a bad policy as there were several tables around us also complaining about having their tables whisked away. he informed me that they were primarily a bar, not a restaurant, even though they have a fairly extensive menu. there is no civility in wrigleyville on game days. oh, and the food was mediocre.

Wow, that's some pretty crappy service. Harry Caray's is a little overhyped anyway, in my opinion, but that just seals it.

Yeah but it's still an improvement over Hi-Tops.

DH and I went for lunch last Sunday. It's a nice looking, rather large room. We were peeved at their seat yourself policy. I think that's a fine policy for an establishment on home game days or weekend evenings when people are out drinking. However, on a Sunday afternoon when most people are clearly just in for lunch, it left us with the task of staring around the room and running for a table when we saw people begin to stand up. Thankfully this happened rather quickly. For the duration of our meal we had people just prowling and pacing around the room waiting to pounce. I felt bad for them to be honest, but it made for a bit of an awkward lunch.
It's not cheap bar food, which I expected. A huge burger menu with a ton of options for meat, bread, condiments. The food was pretty good--we both had sizable burgers and fries--- but I don't think we will go back. IMHO they should have the guy who welcomes you at the door keep a list so other diners are not disturbed on a Sunday afternoon. The lurking customers did not jibe with the somewhat upscale (for a sports bar) decor and menu offerings.

Awesome, I love Harry Caray's! We need more places that look, taste, and feel like TGI Friday's at twice the cost up in Wrigleyville. Give me a break...

I was going to say you couldn't pay me to go there but let's face it, I'm a cheap date and yeah, you COULD pay me to go there

That said, I would not willingly be anywhere near there during a game and I surely would not expect to eat in any sort of setting that did not involve me standing and holding my meal.

I haven't been there, but it seems like a step up from High Tops, and I actually think the Harry Caray restaurants have pretty good food (very good steaks and chicken vesuvio).

I pretty much would expect the service issues (and weird table policy described above) to be the case on a busy game day -- particularly the first home weekend series of the year. This doesn't strike me as the type of place that one would go to for a quiet Saturday lunch when 40,000 people are about to come pouring out of Wrigley Field. That said, on a non-game day, I would expect the place to be a little more civil.