D’arcy McGee’s Irish Pub

Service was fine. Food: poutine: worst I’ve had I think. Hardly any curds, terrible gravy, chips might have been mediocre if the gravy didn’t obliterate them. Better poutine at McDonald’s, seriously. Farmers salad with salmon: salmon ok. Potatoes ok. Rest quite awful, and the combo completely wrong.
We were shocked at how bad the food was.

Service is terrible. I can say this after being a frequent customer for 4 years. It has it’s ups and downs with staff. Sometimes the service is great, others it’s the worst. Seems like they have quite the turnover rate at this location. I tend to go around lunchtime, and let me say they are completely understaffed even on weekends. The food isn’t bad. Don’t expect refills, and the seating hostess was especially bad today (June 20^th). She didn’t even bring a high hair as we had asked for our year and a half old son. We always expect to be there 2 – 3 hours, which is unacceptable at lunch time. Even after complaining, the timing doesn’t change. Yes, we customers have lives, and don’t wish to linger in a location 2hours plus.
I’m giving this location a separation trial for a bit. Suggest you should to.

D’Arcy McGee’s, nice little irish pub in Kanata. I think it has slightly improved since last year. We had actually stopped going to this spot because the service and food had gone downhill quite a bit. However, we gave it another try over the weekend.
Still a lovely authentic dark wooded irish pub. Clean and welcoming. We were immediately greeted at the door by the hostess and led to our table. Two patios to choose from and depending on the day and where the sun is at, this is a nice option. Our waitress was prompt and attentive. She had been on the job for just two weeks but seemed to be up to speed. She had not tried all the menu items but at least was honest about it and went to the kitchen to ask if she didn’t know the answer.
Excellent selection of beers on tap which makes for a nice summer patio experience. They had a new menu and it was definitely improved. Better selection than 2013 and the quality on most items ordered was decent. The kitchen still had some hiccups with our orders in that the wings we ordered were missing the veggie sticks and blue cheese. Turns out just 3 small carrot sticks come with it anyway which is a little chintzy, but the bluecheese was yummy. Also we had to ask for the basic condiments. When the HP came out (for steak sandwich) it was still factory sealed. Not a huge deal but I doubt other customers would appreciate seeing our fingers and knives etc. digging into the seal on the new bottle when it should be done in the kitchen with gloves on. All that said, the steak sandwhich was good and cooked to order. The fries were improved from last time and yummy. The samosas yummy. My party all agreed that the chicken wings tasted a lot like what you would buy at the grocery store in a box (battered), but they were still good. I would be interested to know if they make them from scratch.
While there is still room for improvement (especially where the kitchen and food is concerned), I think based on this improved experience that we would considering trying again at a future date.

Good pub to go watch the game at and have some cold beers on tap. The food isn’t amazing, but they do have good Chicken Wings (Hot Honey & BBQ Flavors, Served w/​Blue Cheese Dressing, Carrot Sticks, 2 lbs/​$ 23). The sauce was flavorful, and the wings were cooked well. I just wish they gave you more carrot sticks (and had celery available), and that you could order additional carrot sticks as a side. They also have a good amount of beers on tap, which include some local Canadian beer selections, as well as a few selections for scotches/​whiskies. My only complaint is really with their slow service– it can be difficult to flag down your server at times since they have so many tables. Parking is easy since there is a huge lot.

The best part of my visit was leaving.
More like 1.5 stars, as I have experienced a LOT better. I sat outside on a cloudy but nice day. The patio had two other parties there already, and the one remaining after a few minutes was a group of five older gentlemen. Not an issue, until the young server flirts with them and just about completely forgets my existence.
The salad I got was not flavorful, quite bland in actuality, and not the traditional «pub food» I’ve had in authentic pubs.
I had to ask for a refill of a free beverage, and when it came out, she puts it literally RIGHT against my left hand instead of removing the old glass and putting the new one down. I’ve never seen that before, until now.
I was there with a female co-​worker, but don’t discount your other patrons to try to squeeze a larger tip from a group of men. I won’t be going back to this place.

Went to D’Arcy’s for a «quick» bite but turned into a 2 hr saga that felt like it would never end. Very bad evening service wise, we were very unimpressed and from the comments around us we were not alone. Took 35 min to order our food, it was out fairly quickly-​one star-​but getting a drink refill was impossible which was outrageous for a hot night on the patio-​can I mention it was almost 9 pm so it wasn’t because it was busy.
Food was barely ok, I’m certain my steak was really liver that I ate anyway because I was so hungry-​and my husband had more brown than green lettuce in his caesar salad. We were ready to leave when second drinks showed up so we moved inside because the bugs were getting bad and it was 28 inside the bartender told us-​it was sweltering. Finally got out of there after 10 pm, what a waste of my evening. We won’t be back.

Went for a night cap the other day…
Drinks were reasonably priced, and dessert was delicious!
Red velvet donuts and spice cake!
The portions were a good size for 2 people to split, but no ore than two…

VERY good food, decent service and yummy drinks.
They make an amazing Guinness Burger, Caesar salad (real bacon) and the curries are out of this world!
Do not expect large portions like you may see at other pubs.
We went expecting to watch the hockey game but we could not get the bar to play any TV sound. The music was blasting instead.
½ Price appetizers after 9pm on a Monday night.
Would return for the food when in town.