Ann Fisher wrote:I have no Irish Pub basis for comparison, except with the distinctly non-Irish Elephant & Castle--where I have yet to have even a half-way decent meal--, but the fish sandwich I had at Tommy Nevin's on Saturday was terrific. It's huge--so big that I immediately asked for a to-go container and stowed half of it away. But the fish was fresh and perfectly cooked and really hit the spot. I heated up the other piece in the oven the next day before reassembling the sandwich and it was mighty tasty then as well.

It was also a great place to be with small kids. A nice children's menu, placemats to color, and fast service on the kids' orders.

I was at Elephant & Castle several weeks ago and I thought the curry fries were great. I had that and a bowl of soup and that was that.

Don't know about the rest of the menu...

There is also The Auld Dubliner in Bolingbrook which has curry fries. This is a relativly new place. Have not been there myself yet but friends have been and said it is a great place that pours a fantastic Guiness and the food is really good.



The Auld Dubliner
641 E Boughton Rd #152
Bolingbrook IL 60440

Quigleys Irish Pub in Naperville serves Irish Chips which are their thick cut fries that are served with a Killarney sauce

JimTheBeerGuy wrote:Atlantic Bar & Grill definitely serves curry fries. Good drinking food. Can't speak to whether the curry sauce is canned or not; it was not spectacular but it worked for me. 'Course I had a few in me.

Atlantic Bar & Grill
5062 N. Lincoln Ave
Chicago
773-506-7090

I'm not very good at addresses, but if this was the place on the corner of Lincoln and Montrose, it is now closed.

I also dig The Abbey, O'Neills, The Globe Pub, and The Grafton, especially. But in the past two years we went to McNamara's for our traditional corned beef dinner, and it was yummy. Once you get past the mediocre bar, the dining room is quite nice and family-friendly, with photos of Irish writers on the walls with little history cards. I seem to recall live music, too.

4328 W. Irving Park Rd.

JimTheBeerGuy wrote:Atlantic Bar & Grill definitely serves curry fries. Good drinking food. Can't speak to whether the curry sauce is canned or not; it was not spectacular but it worked for me. 'Course I had a few in me.

Atlantic Bar & Grill
5062 N. Lincoln Ave
Chicago
773-506-7090

Pie Lady wrote:I'm not very good at addresses, but if this was the place on the corner of Lincoln and Montrose, it is now closed.

Montrose/Lincoln is 4400 N, Atlantic Bar is 6 blocks away and very much still open.

Far as Atlantic Bar's curry fries, never had them, but I've had curry chicken wings on two occasions and thought them quite good. Curry sauce is not from a can and if asked they will amp up the curry quotient.

Enjoy,
Gary

I have really been impressed with the food on two recent visits to the newly opened Wilde Restaurant and Bar on Broadway in East Lakeview. It is a bit on the pricey side. But, the food was excellent on both occasions.

I haven't had an opportunity to try the restaurant's curry fries or curry chicken. The Shepherd's Pie and Fish and Chips (Atlantic cod) ranked pretty high with me. The fish and chips were fried in this great Guiness beer batter- crispy and light. The Shepherd's Pie had excellent flavor and was loaded with beef (sorry, but it appeares too lack lamb altogether) and veggies in a robust gravy.

It's an upscale place. Totally renovated in a former hardware store. Feel free to check out their menu below:

http://www.wildechicago.com/menu.htm

I didn't find a dedicated thread for Tommy Nevin's, so I'll add to this, which seems to be one of the more recent.

After a meandering afternoon in the suburbs (got to the Botanic Garden just as the rain began so we instead killed a few hours drooling over kitchens at Abt), we headed to Nevin's for a late lunch. My BF had never eaten there, and it had been ages (10 years or more) since I was last there.

We each had one of their specials. The BF had a smoked salmon platter with brown bread plus the usual fixings (cream cheese, capers, tomatoes and onion, as well as some lettuce). He devoured it! I had a salmon BLT on rye bread, which was fantastic. I'd never thought about it, but smoked salmon and bacon go very well together. (My only nit, if I had to pick, was that it came with one fat slice of tomato when I would have preferred a few thinner slices.) Their homemade chips (crisps, not fries) were terrific, too...thick slices that weren't too greasy.

To drink: They pour a great Guinness.

As nr706 mentioned earlier, there's a group of musicians who gather there to play Irish music on Sunday afternoons, so we took a seat in the main room and enjoyed listening to them. One thing we both appreciated: They are there to socialize as well as play music, so they'll play a song then stop to chat with each other for 5 minutes. Because the breaks allowed us to talk to one another, too, I found that we actually listened to the music rather than letting it fade into the background.

Nevin's really does feel like a typical Irish pub on a Sunday afternoon (at least in the main room...football was on in the north room). If you walk into most pubs in the British Isles on a Sunday afternoon, you'll find them full of families enjoying their Sunday roast, having a pint, kids underfoot while the adults socialize. Nevin's has the same vibe, and is very family friendly (at least on a Sunday afternoon).

Does anyone have a recommendation for some decent corned beef & cabbage this weekend in the northwest suburbs? Peggy Kinnane's in Arlington Heights is out of the question due to an atrocious customer service experience my mother-in-law had there a few years ago. I have a small window of time tomorrow evening to go to dinner, and I don't want to haul out to Evanston for the Celtic Knot. I'm fine with non-Irish places if they do a good job at it.

abe_froeman wrote:Does anyone have a recommendation for some decent corned beef & cabbage this weekend in the northwest suburbs? Peggy Kinnane's in Arlington Heights is out of the question due to an atrocious customer service experience my mother-in-law had there a few years ago. I have a small window of time tomorrow evening to go to dinner, and I don't want to haul out to Evanston for the Celtic Knot. I'm fine with non-Irish places if they do a good job at it.

You may want to try Kilcoyne's in Wheeling. It's a small place that's more of a bar with tables in the back, but the CB&C they serve as a special during St. Pat's week is very traditional.

We were at Peggy Kinane's a couple of weeks ago and it seems like the menu has gotten less Irish. At any rate, they took the boxty off the menu and added more dishes like fajita salad.

Kilcoyne's Redwood Inn
342 Milwaukee Ave. (between Lake Cook Rd. & Dundee Rd.)
Wheeling, IL

Jasubar wrote:You may want to try Kilcoyne's in Wheeling. It's a small place that's more of a bar with tables in the back, but the CB&C they serve as a special during St. Pat's week is very traditional.

Kilcoyne's Redwood Inn
342 Milwaukee Ave. (between Lake Cook Rd. & Dundee Rd.)
Wheeling, IL

Oh! AYCE, too! I've been wondering about that place for a long time!

Not an Irish pub, but Four Moon Tavern has surprisingly good food in general including CB&C during St. Patrick's season. The menu will not blow anyone's mind from a creative standpoint but the food is solid.