Originally Posted by butterfly sue (Post 679172)

Today is my husband's birthday so, of course, we are going out to eat. I did read the paper this morning but picked it up later and found the ad from O'Shea's. Monday night is seafood night, live blue crab, oysters, clams, shrimp, mussels etc. We were going for the blue crab. So we arrive there before 5pm and the place wasn't busy. We sat and waited while the waitresses were walking around and waited and another table came in after us and their order was taken. So finally, my head laying sideways in my hand and bored, we have a waitress. We did ask questions about the low country blue crab boil. You get 2 crabs (from the gulf of MX), 2 corn on the cobs, New England red potatoes and down home corn bread for $14.99!!!!!!!! Well, we decided to take a chance, but had them check about adding more crabs later ($6 each for one crab). Our meals came and they were the smallest crabs I ever seen. Hubby wonders if they were legal size which he thinks is 5". There was no spice on them either. Blah. the claws were okay, but the inside was mushy and my hubby wonders if they were properly cooked as they were opaque in color. So ate the corn, potatoes and the claws and gave a bad tip and left and I don't plan on going back. Makes me wonder how the other meals were.

We were here once before and thought prices were high. I had the breaded Haddock and was peeling most of the breading off. I would describe it as more of a beer batter, but not listed like that on the menu. Hubby had salmon and was not impressed.

I don't like to grumble about places, but this is ridiculous!

Originally Posted by gomoho (Post 679186)

Try the chicken pot pie - it's awesome.

Originally Posted by Bill32 (Post 679277)

Best Chicken pot pie I've had is at Perkins ( and i've had several!)

Originally Posted by Richard1366 (Post 679220)

I would never order seafood in an Irish sports pub. nor would I order steak at IHOP..however, the banger sausages are fantastic.

Originally Posted by vegmum (Post 679409)

Gave a bad tip? Because of service or the lousy food? If for the service, I can understand, but if it's for the food, it's not their fault.

Originally Posted by OsheasMike (Post 679457)

As the General Manager of O'Shea's let me start off by apologizing to the creator of this post. As we came up with the idea of seafood night, we wanted to showcase that we have the best oysters in town. Our regulars suggested ideas and recipes to add to our night. We tried accommodating them, hence adding the blue crabs. Since not many people do it, we gave it a try. Obviously there is a reason not many people do it. We will continue Seafood Nights on Monday but with out the crabs. We learned a valuable lesson yesterday unfortunately at you and your husbands expense. If you care to join us again please ask for me and I will make sure your experience is a great one. One side note, because the print was small on our old menu, you may have overlooked that the haddock is indeed battered with Harp. The printer has corrected the size of font to prevent this problem. Would also like thank everyone who came out Sunday night as we raised $1115 for the local Toys for Tots. Thank you for your posts, we do read them and use them as a tool to get better.