Food: 2/5
Service: 4/5
Ambiance: 1/5
Despite the catchy name, this place is best avoided. It has all the ambiance of the line at the Motor Vehicle Office.
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De Mad Hoor, Athlone, Ireland
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it's really a shame that they didn't 'get it'.
We had high hopes and the 1st weekend they were open we got take away and were VERY happy with what we got. Sadly, they have just gone completely downhill since then. I got a burger the other night that was 75% bap and 25% meat. Gave them 3 chances to be great, and they failed.
Pity. It's a good location, but it's got to be high-rent, even by today's depressed standards. They better improve or I doubt they'll be around to celebrate their first birthday.
i disagree the food i very nice i had the wolfhound meal and thought it was lovely and good value there was upbeat music playing and whilst it was not full there was a good buzz in it for a saturday evening
was their yesterday service poor burger bum burnt text owner while there who finally sent the manager down to me and got the food out. this place will not last. Hereford beef don't think so. I am a hereford producer a mix of some hereford but not prime. rack that the menue sat on was rusty dity looking, staff smoking at the door outside. Not a nice picture if you are a non smoking visitor. milk was warm. Excuse was it was busy but the crowd had gone , just 3 tables in service when i ws waiting. with kids. its burgers and chips why so long. you want to be a mad hoor to go back
I have to totaly disagree, we went in there last weekend and enjoyed every bit of the delicious food. The burgers are excellent and the homestyle chips were delicious. The chairs were very comfy and staff were very friendly, will def go back again and recommend place to others.
I am happy to hear they have improved. God knows they could not have been worse at the start. Never mind the food, but some snotty-nosed 15 y.o. TELLING ,e where I could and could not sit. And leaving an odour of Jayes fluid on the excuse for a table, with yesterday’s fries caught on the sole of my shoe. By Jaysus, it was a right kip and dive, and I will NEVER go back.
Wow, what a lot of catty comments. I was in there over the Easter weekend and had burger and chips and my husband had fish and chips. Got to say they were gorgeous and the size of the fish!
Tom you seem to have a grudge against these people. You havent got a chipper in Athlone yourself have you? Your comments sound very personal.
I have no grudge. I don’t even know them. Standards however, I am intimate with.
And No, I have no business serving food.
What do you expect. English and clueless. You are the trodden idiots. You and your kind tolerates shoddy life, don’t you come and impose that upon us, like you tried with your made-up Henry 8th religion. Scum and I point you out.
Get yourself a job Tom. You have too much time on your hands.
Your comments ruin any credibility you are trying to create for yourself with this spiteful site of yours. You have a chip 0n your shoulder the size of a very large leprechaun.
Reveal yourelf too. Do you have an interest? They have bricks, I have clicks. It was a shite experience, Suggest you improve.
And if you do, I will praise you from the high heavens.
But you haven’t done it yet, still shite. Am waiting.
What a hilarious comment! Love it!! I am vindicated!
A spiteful site LOL, LOL , LOL!!!
Stop wasting your time here. Clean under the tables, make sure the grease marks are gone from the formica. Leave the booth fresh. All things you have demonstrably failed to do so far.
Ok Ok.
Tom i feel you are pushing it too much. I had a bad day in the mad hoor . It was burger and chips, The crowd had left. 3 tables were in service.
I had to wait a long time, I am not in the food business at all. But am in the business of managment.
(1) Do not let your staff smoke in the door way.
(2) Do not leave famillies waiting way to long.
(3) Please provide somthing to keep the kids busy
a nice picture of the mad hoor and some crayons
for the kids to colour it in with maybe.
To be fair the familly may not be the target market but famillies
have a lot more friends to pass on comments to. the customer is
the customer.
(4) The menue rack had rust on it.Poor presentation.
some may feel it was to go with the theme, NO i
prefer to see it clean. The burnt bun i got i suspose was
to add to the flavour and the look maybe, no thanks keep it safe not everyone likes it chared and burnt etc.
(5) Milk should be cold not warm. Even it if does only come from
killeigh./ ballinagar.
(6) herford prime is branded as steak, herford prime burger is
presented very well at shows. They have a wagon selling it as
a steak burger. I got a small meat ball in a medium bun.
The bun was cheap, i got buns just like that one years ago in school in Tullamore made by a local bakery in tullamore, i wonder is it the same supplier.
I here some of the other meals are very nice. So maybe i just picked the wrong thing. I hope B is reading this i would love to see the business do well it is creating local jobs. But be careful keep a watch full eye. God be with the days when friends milked them cows in Killeigh, They were well look after then i wish the business well but i shall not return with the familly maybe i will
try again by myself some day soon
English and clueless? trodden idiots? made-up Henry 8th religion?
Scum and I point you out?
Where in my original post did I say I was English. I think you have mistaken me for someone else. You need anger management classes and after reading this my husband Tommy (or should I say Tommy The Tan) does too. You are a pitiful creature and should go back to New York or wherever you come from. Bigot, just about describes you but if you thought I was of another nationality would your racist bile have surfaced? Probably keeping that under wraps, God help your wife.
well it was a nice day yester and i was in town for lunch, so i decided to try the mad hoor one more time without the familly. Things have changed here for the better, maybe someone is listening. It was lunch hr. but the staff were fast off the mark. The burger bun has changed and this time it was just right, the burger was a decent size and the toppings were done nicely. I also had a pint of milk to wash it down, It was very creamy which i am not fond of but chilled to perfection and just what was need on a warm day.Ti kill time newspapers were available to read and i also saw colour sheets for kids and a kids toy with the some of the kids meals on the menue, I was asked what way i like my chips and burger. The floor was clean seating was available outside. but no wind breakers were present, when paying i was also givien a lot of coinage but this happens over all it was alot better than the last time i was there well done ye hoor maybe the new compition is helping. The sandwhich choice could be expanded as a lot of people that wee passing had rolls rapped up and heading to the co council office and i did consider the sanwhiches first as it was warm day but nothing stood out.
If I appear to have too-much time on my hands it is because,(apparently unlike you) I studied very hard, worked my butt off, paid a fortune in taxes, all done in a far-flung place. And now I am home.
You undoubtedly advocate for welfare for those kids that you cannot even mother, retarded and requiring health care. You should have kept your legs together. Now, somehow in your twisted, contorted head, I have to pay for your mess.
Tom, you have little to be doing with your time, if you have a website set up to give out about people’s businesses. I have been to the Mad Hoor myself and find it to be a fresh new idea for a’chipper’. The homemade chips and the chicken burgers are a far cry away from the usual junk that is offered in chippers. It leaves me feeling full rather than sick. Fair play to the owner who turned it into an up to date restaurant. The name is original, the ambiance is enjoyable and the staff are extremely pleasant. If you have no business in the food industry then I don’t think you should have less of an opinion on this topic. Once is enough to put this well run business down. You obviously have a personal agenda against them and I would encourage anyone reading this utter crap to take no notice of your comments.
Martin
*I meant to say you should have less of an opinion
Tom, you have left the radar. Your arguments like your revenue contributions are alien.
On the personal insults front, Tom, you are nothing but a wankstain on the bedspread of life.
So goodbye and good luck in your self created cyber feifdom when you emerge once a fortnight I will keep my eye out for you in the dole queue. We might even go around to Carey’s backyard and sing some rebel songs. You are without doubt a ‘mad hoor’. Slainte.
Alien? You Susan are a comedian.
A wankstain? More mirth. Did someone abuse you as a child? I would like to help, no kidding.
Glad you like my web world.
This website should be reported for bullying, because that’s all you are doing Tom. You make ridiculous statements and have no back up. I think you should go find yourself a job.
my best friend has been in an Anger Management class for 2 months now, he improved a lot when dealing with anger.*’”
I hope your friend is Susan. Or whatever made up name he’s currently going by.
And Martin, report away. I’ll listen to your complaint, advise you to take two pills and call me in the morning.
Fancy that. A boy called Sue. Johnny Cash had it right all the time!
I met with the new management company, (and boy was she great company!), but that’s an aside.
I have been offered to dine there once again to see what my opinion is now. Tune back folks!