I've now been to the Irish Pub A Terrible Beauty at 201 Williams Ave S.
a few times now, and like the place quite a lot. The place was once a bank, I think, and since then has had several incarnations. It was a brewery( and a good one!), and then several incarnations of Irish Pub. When it first opened as an Irish Pub, the food was astoundingly bad, and as fellow blogger Tin Foil Hat asked " How can you screw up corned beef and cabbage?"
Well, that was several ownerships ago, and I'm happy to report that A Terrible Beauty has really good food now. In fact, they make their own corned beef, the fries are skins on and hand cut, they serve breakfast on weekends, and reasonably priced above average quality pub food the rest of the time.
They had chocolate cheesecake the last time I was there, and it too was great.
Many pubs and taverns have food as an afterthought, and the patrons are too drunk to know the difference.
Not A Terrible Beauty. This place takes their food quality seriously. The place is a comfortable place to hang out in, and service is mostly just fine, though when I was there for breakfast they were understaffed, and the poor server was running around frantically trying to keep up. Go there.
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i love this place - the brunch rocks, the burgers are on my top list and the vibe is just downright good
just to let you know - your material is showing up on a "blog" run by the Renton Reporter - but you ain't really getting proper credit i'm afraid - check and see if this okay for yourself
http://www.rentonreporter.serramedia.com/content/new-ribbins-bar-b-q
i used to work with the owners pat and jenna at the whistle stop and i just dropped by last night. i was very impressed!
So the Terrible Beauty is Finnegan's/C.J.Brennen's/Giants Causeway? Do they still serve the beer in proper crown pints (568ml)? Loved my Smithwicks. The food I never cared much for, so hearing this is a good thing.
OK, now I'm convinced. I'm going to try A Terrible Beauty because it's not far and it's a place I'm [terribly] curious about :)
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