callahan's bar & grill

let me start a bad review with a positive.... ...the $6 cheesburger and fries/tots lunch special is pretty damn good. 1/2 lb, choice of cheese, and either fries or tots.

now, on to the bad. callahan's bills themselves as

callahan's
pizzeria - pub - grill


pizzeria. hardly!

i don't see how anyone could, in good conscience, call themselves a pizzeria when they clearly use pre-made crusts. i believe callahan's gets those tortilla-like pre-made rounds, throws some sauce, cheese, & toppings on them, and calls it pizza. very disappointing. i did get their pizza once before to go and was disappointed, but i thought maybe it was just one of those times. i wentbackto get the excellent lunch burger deal mentioned above and saw the pizza ovens. they were the real deal, so i thought i'd gobackand give it another shot. this time i dined in, thinking it would surely be good fresh. holy hell it sucked!

anyway, i'll recommend the burger deal at lunch, but stay far away from the pizza.

bad service. would not return to the shawnee mission location. the service has always been bad there but last night was the last time for us. we go to the lenexa location and love it but shawnee mission is not good. we ordered a medium well burger and when it came out it was by all strandards a medium rare. my daughter in law tried to eat some of it but ate only a few bites. the waitress never camebackto check. when she did we had already finished our food so she said she would talk to the manager and give a credit. she camebackand told us that they would credit $2.50 but the issue was that we ordered it wrong and that it was medium well. the burger had blood when cut open but they insisted it met all standards for a medium well burger. i was very upset. not because it was under cooked. that happens. we didn't even care if they gave us credit. but to blame the customer and tell them they ordered the burger incorrectly instead of just admitting it was not cooked correctly really upset me. also, what restaurant doesn't serve a 4 year old a cup with a lid? this waitress was so bad as was the manager. and honestly, the food is not the same as lenexa

decent food. nothing i couldn't make at home. the bartender/partial manager is horrible. you cannot sit at the bar unless you open a tab, can't switch seats with friends if it's a full house (even if no one else is ordering at the bar). would not recommend this place to anyone. the terrible customer service makes this the absolute worst place to watch the game. if they ignored us it would have been a better night but the partials manager is snooty and obnoxious, as far to even tell at us for trying to hang drinks to our friends standing inbackof us. stay home ad enjoy the game in the comfort of your home and order take out.

awful-the beef in the taco salad was cold and dry. i sent itbackand the second one was just as bad.