sine irish pub and restaurant

food is great and most of the staff is awesome but when it turns into a night club and the security guys are there some of the staff think they are there to party with friends. the server at the next table was jumping around and spilled a full drink on a person in my party and the appology was half assed at best. and she continued how she was acting, it turned out to be the box "security girlfriends and he paid more attention to her than his job while we were there. management was informed and just didn't seem to care how the staff acted and would stand behind the staff when they were wrong. i will never return because of management and a few staff.btw those who knew what services is were tipped well.( cook, original waiter and bartender and staff also said management didn't listen to them whengoodemployees complained so i am sure anything on here will be met with the same effort. avoid this place after about 9.

i love richmond.  the sights, the history, the food, but sine is unique.  it offersgooddeals ongoodfood.  you can eat outside, where it is very pleasant.  the food is pretty good, i have had better, but given the cost, and if you just want a fairly quick stop, then this is your place.  the hosts were helpful, but there were some dirty parts to the restaurant.  it could take some more cleaning!  but it has a lot of potential.  i would go back, just because of the variety ofgoodfood.

just a great atmosphere at any time...the food was enjoyable pub fare and the soups are tasty!! at the end though, a great bar withgoodfood and great atmosphere!!

great bar. they should 86 the food menu. have visited several times(mostly for drinks). if i was starving and had no other choice but to eat at sine, then i would but that's only if its a life or death situation. the food, in concept and execution is absolutely horrible and the service even worse. microwaved green beans accompany low quality crab meat in a ball which is deep-fried and called crab cakes (this all served on top of mashed potatoes). hey chef.... 1970 called.. they want their menu back. yup, its that bad. instant grits in cake form and deep fried, are served underneath over-cooked, not de-pooped shrimp with horrible charred sausage and raw onions and peppers (they call this shrimp and grits)haha. the bartenders are complete a-holes and the managers are not that much better. the only thing that the staff isgoodat there is kicking people out.. they love that. but as far as giving someone agooddining experience, they drop the ball every time. actually the foh staff isgoodat one thing, and that is not sucking as bad as the boh staff.. so keep up thegoodwork bob(general manager)..and chad(chef) you could at least wipe the rims of the dirty, ugly plates that your lazy, disgruntled kitchen staff puts out. and as for bartenders, the guys are as disrespectful as they come and the girls look like trolls. so if youre reading this, and you have to go to sine, just get a couple drinks

very pub like.goodvisit!!!


-----24 sep, 2011-----

fun pub.good food

brawls, po-po, and great music. the wines are slightly better than blah (i can't drink beer). the food is above-average bar crap (i had the quesadillas). but the band effing rocked. the place gets crowded and is a drunken blur of riff-raff, even if it's not st. paddy's day, but it's great fun. so an occasional random will sit at your table and swear he knows someone you're related to. it's cool. makes for agoodadventure. you can go early and get a booth by the window, so you don't have to stand the whole time, and that way you can leave when riots break out and cops come.

when irish eyes are smiling. i once got caught up with a group of people in new york excited about st patrick's day and wearing lots of green to prove it. they took me to an irish pub and tried to convince me of the rectitude of several things that are patently untrue.
the first of these is that guiness is nice and/orgoodfor you. it is not. it is a pretty foul drink invented as a substitute for solid food. you could do better with squid's ink, vodka and a reasonable blender. the other was that being in the middle of a screaming drunken crowd of people claiming some sort of connnection to "the auld country" is in any way a fun thing to do. or that listening to the appallingly mawkish ballads that pass for irish folk music and make conversation impossible guarantees for agoodevening. it dont.
to this list of unpleasant things to do in the evening the sine irish pub has managed to add a menu that appears to have been the result of an irishman fighting with the founder of mcdonalds. it is uneatable. you would have to completely drunk to order it and helplessly intoxicated to eat it.
the barn-like floor area is uninviting and the staff indifferent. i never doubted that the irish came to american to find a better life, but that they thought their idea of pub life would improve it was cleary wrong. try it and see.