Katie O’Donnell’s

Food is terrible!!! The French onion soup was cold and the wings weren’t fully cooked. It’s sad because I have been there a few times. And the server! He needs to check his cleanliness! He wasn’t the most pleasant to be around to say the least, it was awful and I was embarrassed. He was sweating a lot and seemed to be the only server working. He was without a doubt overwhelmed, we didn’t even get napkins and yes we did ask, thankfully my wife carries wet ones in her purse… I do enjoy the fact that it’s close but I will mitre turn. When I want good wings and soup, I will go to Currans or The Taggert house.

The food is awful! Pretty pricey too. The only redeeming quality is the outside and the tiki bar. Pat the bartender is great!

Beers are over priced, food is awful. Outside seating is nice, waitresses are all prty easy on the eyes, place has a good atmosphere for drinking beers it definitely has potential nice setup to watch games inside too. Management needs to get better specials and a complete overhaul of there menu.

I really want to like this place, it’s in the neighborhood, the clientele is good, bartenders are friendly, but the handful of times I was here to eat the food wasn’t good. It’s a good place to hangout and drink, not eat.

Had a horrible experience to start with today, but the prompt response of their management team as well as a much appreciated incentive, I think I’ll base my rating on the atmosphere of the restaurant as a whole, and give it another go. Four from me. Will update again after returning once more.

Great atmosphere, bright and airy for an Irish pub. Food was so so. Ordered Ham and Cabbage soup, which isn’t really a soup but brothy ham and cabbage. Ham is smoky, wood fired, reminded me of my Nana in Ireland Ham and cabbage that was cooked over a turf fire. My friend ordered crab cakes that had to be sent back as they were burnt on bottom. They did take off the bill, ordered a burger in replacement medium well, and came back under cooked. I ordered a prastrami sandwich and it was also really smoky and the homemade chips very salty.
We split a colcannon and it was awesome! I maybe would go back again and just do apps and drinks.

Atmosphere was good. Staff was nice. But the food and drinks were horrible! Think they water down the rum. Three drinks later and no buzz. I’m a total light weight!!!

Center city pricing in a mall environment makes for a less than pleasing review. 10 chicken wings for $ 14.95 is overpriced.

This place is very big inside with a great atmosphere, nice lighting and a very very big TV. It wasn’t dark and creepy, how some Irish bars tend to be. This is a great place to kick back and watch the game.
The chicken tenders were typical frozen chicken tenders but were hard and very salty. I don’t know what food distributer they use, but it needs to switch.
I also had a French onion soup which was good but honestly it’s hard to mess that up.
My boyfriend said his burger was great. It came with homemade chips, which were quite addicting.
The draft beer list had a bout 10 – 12 beers, mostly domestics. The only craft one was Victory (summer love). I would have appreciated a dogfish or a magic hat but hey I can take it. I will be back, for a burger next time.

I was only here for about an hour late night after a wedding. Seemed like a typical Northeast Philly bar, though it wasn’t very crowded for a Friday night. They had a standard draft list of all the «American favorites» with a few more creative beer selections. The bartender seemed nice enough and from what I remember the music wasn’t bad. I didn’t eat anything so I can’t comment on that. Definitely not a place to go if you are looking to meet people, but if you just want to grab a few brews and have somewhere to sit, this isn’t a bad choice.

Received an email from Katie O’s informing they are looking into the fish and chips. Very nice to see an establishment take criticism well! Classy place!

Had a good time. Waitress was smoking hot. They had to go look for the Murphy’s Red but I’m glad they did. Most places would have told you they were just out.
The beer menu needs a fix. If its a half & half don’t list it as a black & tan on the menu… For an Irish place you need to know the pours. Get Bass on the taps…

Very loud don’t go if u plan to talk. Drinks are moderately priced and food was okay.

I often eat and drink here since it opened a little over a year or so ago. Last night was their first All you can eat snow crab night. We went with another couple who eat all you can eat snow crabs every year in Florida and we all thought the crabs were great. The sauce/​broth actually was not just typical old bay, but some deliciously spicy concoction. Crabs were done just right. A giant baked potato, corn on the cob and a hefty green salad with all dark and not just iceberg crap! all for $ 24.95. Well within usual pricing.
The only reason for 4 and not 5 stars is that the time between getting our first refill was a bit slow, they had no crab cracker or pick utensils, and they didn’t think to give the table a shell bowl. This was probably due to this being there first night to do this.
Also, the broth for each serving was a little different, spicy wise, but still delicious and one table of two guys complained about this and left after their second serving. Their loss I say. We will definitely do it again.
Also a great outdoor dining patio!

I don’t recommend the corn beef and cabbage. It is basically a bowl of cabbage with tiny strips of corned beef mixed in. The corned beef was fatty. I sent it back and got a burger. Pretty disappointing for an «Irish» pub.

See, it’s hard to write this help because the group I went and myself had many mixed emotions.
I went here on my birthday with my family and the waiter was fantastic. He wished me a happy birthday, was speedy with everything and pretty knowledgeable. The building was really cool but nothing really screamed Irish, considering everything n the menu was Italian or seafood and country music was playing.
We ordered nachos that we’re absolutely horrible. But I don’t like nachos anyway. They were so dry and ran out of salsa! My meal, the chicken franchaise was absolutely incredible. It was very tasty and delicious. My mom however, ordered a steak medium well and it came out bloody. When she sent that one back, after throwing up in her napkin of course, she received one that was even worse! So she had mashed potatoes for dinner! Not cool.
The desserts are made at home from one of the bartenders. And that’s exactly how they tasted. They had that perfect, out of the box taste. (sense the sarcasm!).
It really wasn’t bad though. I enjoyed my meal and the dessert I chose was okay. I would go back here again.

I was going into this place expecting very little and i walked away with a huge smile after my experience here.
Really nice atmosphere with lots of televisions and pretty servers walking around. The food was really fantastic. Well seasoned, crisp toasted buttery breads, ice cold beer, and dynamite onion rings.
When you hear Irish cuisine most people laugh but try this place our and you will be shocked.

Apparently I have the same mixed feelings as many other reviewers. I wanted to love Katie O’s, but it’s hard. The building is lovely & the service is nice, but the food just didn’t live up to my expectations.
For an app my group & I got fried pickles & nachos. Fried pickles are hard to mess up, so they were pretty tasty. But the nachos were way dry. The serving was huge, but for that reason about 98% of the nachos had nothing on them. Then they ran out of salsa. Very tragic.
For my entrée I got blackened mahi mahi, which was pretty good. I did like the chips that come with the meal. But my poor momma ordered a well done steak that ended up bleeding out on her plate. She sent it back, and got an even bloodier mess in return. After two fails she just gave up and ate her potatoes.
For desserts, they have an offering of cheesecake tortes and cupcakes which apparently are made by one of the bartenders. They were pretty good but nothing to write home about.
I feel like Katie O’s has an identity crisis. If they stuck to sandwiches, apps & bar food I thnik they could improve greatly. People don’t go to a bar expecting a perfectly cooked filet until you put it on the menu! Keep it simple my friends.

Steve K is my new best friend, because his review is spot on; looks great, real potential, underwhelmed with the food.” I’ll take it one step further and say the food is BAD. Maybe not uneatable, but ABSOLUTELY, disastrously, unabashedly out of proportion with cost: quality. Ok, let me recap MY experience:
We went a few nights ago for the football game and to use our groupons that entitled us to $ 25 worth of food. We sat down and were met by our waitress. We told her about the groupons, and she said she would get them later. She was amazingly disconnected and made about every mistake a waitress could make. She was terrible. (sorry, but true) We placed our orders and she was off to put them in. The table next to us was meeting their waitress and we overheard her telling them the nights specials, which our waitress didn’t tell us. We caught our waitress going by and stopped her and asked her if there were specials. She said, «oh yeah,» but didn’t know what they were. We decided to stick with our original order: boneless chicken wings and fries for me, fried pickles for the misses, rack of ribs and french onion soup for my friend, and steak for his wife. We also got a margharita pizza for the table. 20 minutes later, our waitress comes back and tells us that they forgot to make the fried pickles and french onion soup, but all the other food was ready. After deciding that she just bring whats ready to the table, she told us that she’d bring the pickles and soup out when ready, but that they would be on the house. So, so far, its got its issues, but nothing that would prevent me from coming back… but then the food came out. First of all, even if I were to come back here, I will NEVER, EVER, EVER order a pizza from here again. We ordered a margharita pizza; what we got was a digiorno cheese pizza with some chopped up jersey tomatoes and literally 4 ribbons of basil. It was EMBARRASSING. It looked terrible and tasted like they brought the box instead of the pizza. If I was rating on this pizza alone, O’Donnells would OWE stars in the review. It was seriously ATROCIOUS. My wings were OK, and thats the same review I got for the steak and ribs. «Meh» seemed to be the general consensus. After a few minutes, the fried pickles and french onion soup made it out. The pickles got eaten, (review…“meh.” Go figure.) but the soup sat, uneaten on the table until my friend told the waitress that she could take it back since he didn’t want it anymore. After eating, we were brought the check. Not only had she not applied the groupons, but she charged us for the fried pickles and UNEATEN soup that she said they were not charging us for. (Total price, $ 95.) We asked the waitress to please apply the groupons and she told us she would have to split the check to do so. We were fine with that, but assumed she would split is evenly down the middle. We got back 2 checks, one for $ 32 and one for $ 18. It appeared she just randomly applied things to the separate bills. Ugh… she was trying our patience. I dropped a 20 in cash for the $ 18 bill and we told the waitress to put the rest on a credit card. It came back with TWO charges; one for $ 28 and one for $ 4. WTF?
The reason I’m not giving O’Donnells 1 star or suggesting that someone take a wrecking ball to the side of it was that it was very nice inside. There are PLENTY of tvs to watch the games and just a nice atmosphere to hang in. I would rather boil and eat my shoe than eat there again, but I wouldn’t mind going for a few drinks to watch the Eagles.
I cannot stress enough just how deplorable the pizza was, but if you just want to pound some beers or imbibe some spirits and watch something on the big screen, I guess you could do a lot worse. Just make sure you go there full.

There is an even better reason to take the Woodhaven Exit from I-​95 than the mall: The beautiful and richly-​appointed Katie O’Donnell’s Irish Pub. The owners, Ed and Dave, have missed no amenity or detail here. This grand space has 40 televisions — including a 140 inch HD model, which is flanked by eight 50 inch plasmas — on which all of the area’s major sporting events might be enjoyed. Simultaneously. An awesome sight and happily reminiscent of Reverend Jim Ignatowski’s wall of televisions in the old Taxi series.
At the expansive granite bar, one can enjoy a Guinness or Smithwick’s on tap (among other well-​edited offerings). Meanwhile, those of us with handbags are grateful for the very thoughtful addition of under-​bar bag hooks. But enough about the décor…
Katie O’Donnell’s fare was delicious. The fish and chips were very well done (all that was missing was the newsprint wrapping). The breading was both crisp and light (fried batter perfection, I’d say). From my dinner companions, I heard positive adjectives and yummy sounds made about the burger and the shepherd’s pie. Looking forward to many, many return visits.