sine irish pub and restaurant

sine serves guinness, which appears to be the extent of this bar's fresh food and authenticirishcuisine. the rest of the menu and its execution are best represented by the "irish nachos," where consistently undercooked potatoes are subbed for tortilla chips - between the canned green peppers and dollarstore cheese i would qualify this item, and the accompanying menu as disgusting if it were any less bland. i get the "it's bar food" excuse, but such slop ought not cost as much as something palatable. i have had more authentic and better tastingirishfood on a plane to ireland.

disregarding the obnoxious atmosphere (its a bar!) the servers seem to be sympathetic to anyone who orders food, and they deserve the best tips to make more endurable the kind of crowd who are drawn to sine in spite of its menu.

i wanted to like this place, but after being dragged here too many times by groups of people with no where more creative to go, i am compelled to give sine the review it deserves and reveal it's dark secret: there is little to appreciate outside of its location.

please don't allow this place to persuade you that richmond restaraunts in general have given up. october 2017

great location. great staff. great food and guinness on tap. always a bonus at anirishplace.

good atmosphere. as far asirishpubs go, this is what you would expect, and a great experience. as a vegetarian who tries to avoid fried food though, the food is...also what you would expect from anirishpub. the beer is vegetarian though, so no worries!

apps and desserts. the highlight of the menu by far is the appetizers and desserts. theirishnachos (fried potatoes smoothered in cheese, sprinkled with bacon, jalapenos, tomatoes and finished with ranch) is a meal within itself.

the inside is unique, not just a bunch of garbage bought from some warehouse and hung on the wall.

friends and i had a great time at sines's. i'm not terribly excited aboutirishfood... but this place was probably the best i have had. my wife and i went here with another couple where we enjoyed a great dining experience. we went here on a weekend nigh and the place was not busy at all. i think the part that made the place so great was the friendly couple sitting behind us. the beer was fresh from the tap and the seats were pretty comfortable too. my shepards pie was one of the better ones i've had in a long time. the portions overall were large enough for the price.

sit by the window and enjoy some of the nightlife on the street, you'll love it!

good food and lots of it!. yes, it's noisy . . . it's a bar! ! nice selection of beers on tap! an eclectic menu and, for downtown richmond, moderately priced. nice portions - leftovers in the frig are calling to me. the mashed red skin potatoes and green bean rounded out my plate and are delish. i had a properly grilled skirt steak (mr) and my bride had the crab cakes - excellent! with a salad and the hot fudge brownie & ice cream . . . we rolled out the door!
ignore the reviewer with the nycirishpub & guiness beer "issues" - he never says anything constructive about sine' - except, he doesn't like the floors (fortunately, i didn't eat my dinner on the floor, i sat at a nice table with silverware and a linen napkin ! ).
worth a look!

asirishas weinerschnitzel. hummus, egg rolls, sliders. another appaling attempt at a fakeirishpub.

whenirisheyes 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 anirishpub 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/or good for 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 foririshfolk music and make conversation impossible guarantees for a good evening. it dont.
to this list of unpleasant things to do in the evening the sineirishpub 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 theirishcame 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.