Mulleadys is hands down my favorite place to drink AND eat. The food is good, the drinks are good, the atmosphere is great.

I'm admittedly biased towards Mulleady's as it is within walking distance of my house. It's definitely my pub of choice, and without a doubt one of my favorite places to spend an evening. I don't go there cause the food is fabulous, since I think it's somewhat naive to expect fine dining at a pub. But I go there because it has great ambience. After years of going to the Irish Emigrant and Finn MaCools, both more sports bar than pub, I relish the laid back attitude at Mulleadys. The staff is always friendly, the Guinness is poured well, and the french fries are fabulous. All you really need in a good pub. Plus, trivia night on Mondays is always a good time!! And on a side note, it's a vast improvement over the Mulleadys that it was a few years ago, in the small cramped space across the street, which has given way to condos.

Mulleady's is proof that there's more to an Irish pub than simply having Guinness on tap and Irish knickknacks on the walls. This place was lame. The food left much to be desired. The 'County Longford Lamb Stew' resembled a French lamb stew more than an authentic Irish dish. It was full of potatoes, with barely a piece of lamb in the entire bowl. I'm serious - by the time I was done, I didn't remember one good chunk of lamb. In addition, it was tomato-based (hence the resemblance to a French dish), and I'd be surprised if there was any Irish stout in it. I've had true Irish stew many times, including at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, but this dish almost made me embarrassed to be Irish. The Halibut Fish and Chips were unremarkable at best. The halibut was obviously pre-battered and frozen, like the kind you can get in the freezer section at Costco. If this wasn't the case, then it was so badly prepared and/or horribly overcooked that I couldn't tell the difference. The dish certainly didn't stand up to other solid fish & chips made nearby (like at Little Chinooks), and was almost insulting in this town of great seafood. Seattle has far too many great restaurants, bars, chefs, and bartenders to waste one evening eating dinner here. I'm a dual citizen of Ireland and the USA; Mulleady's somehow manages to combine the mediocre of both great countries, rather than being any kind of inspiration.