The Starry Plough

Coming from a wing addict+wing snob. The wings are top 10%. Crispy, decent meat, Buffalo very sauce was perfect, good blue cheese dressing and nice mix of drums and flats. Fresh cut fries. Service is on point...both bartender and cook.

My son and his girlfriend enjoy live music here...and today was my first visit. My son and I played darts(yes two real.dart boards) and had a wonderful visit.

I would not be writing this if I hadn't JUST received a denial of a refund for an event I had to cancel my ticket on back in OCTOBER! I bought the ticket on October 21, 2023, and I requested the refund on the day of the event due to illness, which was October 27, 2023. Today is MARCH 8, 2024!!! I finally got an email saying, "Sorry but we paid the band before this request was made." So you paid the band on the morning of the event? I would hope you'd have paid them by the end of the night, at the very least, but to email me at this point and give me this load of BS is inexcusable. I figured out back in November that I wasn't getting a refund, thanks for that. Why bother at this point? My health is still in decline months later, so I sure didn't need the reminder that I missed yet another event thanks to long COVID! I think I've said all I can say without the review being taken down for use of profanity, so in closing, even if I could travel to Berkeley, I'd skip The Starry Plough. It's far too cramped and the restrooms are horrendous, anyway.

Here's the email I received, copied and pasted:
Your refund request has been declined.
Message from Starry Plough:
"Sorry but we paid the band before this request was made."

Event: Tempest's 35th Anniversary and Reunion
Order #: 8105424159
Refund Request #: 15873999
Contact the organizer if you have any questions or view this order

They pour a great Guinness and have a rad team running the place. Live music and great food.

My second time here for a live performance and it sure was lively. The stage is amazing and sound quality is too. Little light on the bartenders but service was good.

I have been to The Starry Plough Pub during several Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations. This is an Irish bar with reasonable prices (for this day and age). I was able to find a dry cider--yum!

What a celebration this 2023 Saint Paytrick Day was!!! It was standing room only. They had Irish bands, Irish dancers, and it was an open mike for singing Irish songs.

They offer foods like Corned Beef and Cabbage, Fish and Chips, and Bacon Cheseburger, but we had dinner before going there. They looked good, though.

The Starry Plough is a hangout for Irish and Irish wanna bes. They have live music, Irish music, and even Irish dancing.

Food , service , ambience , history , rebellious sacred duty ,

this place carries all that within it's walls . Go there .

Experience it .

Came on a poetry slam night with a date! Cute ambiance and tasty ciders for fair prices. The fries were a really good snack to munch on. Fairly big place, and really good service:) Would come again!

The Starry Plough is a good neighborhood bar with great fries, but the set up for events and other food can be a bit meh.

I came in on a Wednesday night for a veggie burger from my nearby hotel and had no idea where to order or how things worked since it was more of a bar than a place to eat. Thankfully a very friendly bartender saw my bewilderment and helped me out by directing me to the far counter with the register where I could order. There was a hockey game on TV and I think background music. The Irish was all over the walls and other than bar seating, there were a few tables and chairs.

My food came out pretty quick, but I was the first to order before a ton of people showed up for the poetry slam later on and they looked like they had a wait. The veggie burger was black bean and I think quinoa based, but had so much jalapeno in it I found it mostly inedible (was pretty hungry so I had just a small amount of patty and lots of bread, leaving 3/4 of the patty on the plate). The fries were on-point! Loved the crisp, skin on fries, but didn't appreciate the dregs of the bag being included (little strips of fried potato skin).

While the poetry slam was advertised for 8pm, which I waited for and then passed, it still hadn't started by 8:35 and I gave up. The lady in front collecting funds noted they should have started already, as 8:30 is more typical but I had to get going with my night and the organizer was not looking like it was going to get started for a bit despite expectation setting with announcements. They had placed a bunch of chairs in front of their stage, which were mostly filled by the time I left, so popular event for sure. Unfortunately the sound people didn't really know appropriate levels for 10-15 minutes and the bass made me sick to my stomach.

Good fries, beers and popular events await you at the Starry Plough, but come prepared for waits and maybe stay away from the veggie burger if you can't handle the inferno.

Got the fish and garlic chips. Tried the fries years ago and thought they were incredible and they still hold up.

Starry Plough is a great local Irish Pub. It's got beer, cider, burgers, stew and desserts and they are all good. There's Irish music Sunday, Irish dance with lessons for begginers on Monday, Poetry Slam and other stuff other days.
Well worth going to just sit and socialize as well.