sine irish pub and restaurant

sine serves guinness, which appears to be the extent of this bar's fresh food and authentic irish cuisine. 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 tasting irish food 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 tosinein 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 givesinethe 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

i love richmond.  the sights, the history, the food, butsineis unique.  it offers good deals on good food.  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 of good food.

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/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 for irish folk music and make conversation impossible guarantees for a good evening. it dont.
to this list of unpleasant things to do in the evening thesineirish 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.