Cock & Bull Public House Glendale Village

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Sara Vietmeier

The food was great. Give the zero stars for service. We were traveling to Cincinnati on business and really just wanted to have some food and drinks because we had driven five hours and our hotel was not the greatest in their franchise. We sat down to lunch our waitress was very frustrated that the tiny dining room was 3/4 full. Noticing that she was busy, when she got our table tried to order our drinks and food at the same time, both ordering the awesome fish and ships. She was annoyed by this and said other people had sat down before us. She was not the kind of waitress that writes anything down which may have been part of her problem with handling six tables at lunch. Later that night we just decided return to the cock and bull for dinner Instead of go to some chain restaurant or head downtown. We just wanted to go someplace warm, close and easy to hang out in. When we sat at the bar the bartender scowled at me and demanded to know what we wanted and if we like needed menus. I thought that maybe she didnt like me because I had bothered to dress up and look nice for my boyfriend because sometimes female waitresses dislike serving women. She was pretty rude and basically ignored me in favor of talking to my boyfriend. Little did she know I was going to be paying the bill that night. After we had ordered and I got a glass of $8 wine in dirty glass ( lunch wine glass was gross too), she began huffing and puffing about how they were going to close early to the other customers, put a rude closing at 9pm! sign on the front door, started turning off the lights and pushing in the chairs by dragging them across the floor very loudly. Message sent! Which is really what you want when you just get your food at 8:30pm. There was light precipitation of melting snow on outside not a blizzard. One of the other employees that went out to smoke came in the front and yelled party of 12 to mess with this chick. So they cared little for the existing customers experience. We felt really ignored and pretty much antagonized to leave. When I threw my card down on the bar and she heard it, she said are you ready to go? I said well yeah, obviously from the monument we came in you have shown us that you want to leave work early and dont want or need us to spend anymore time or money here. She looked all shocked and said that she had never told us that and kept arguing. It is really awesome to pay for the privilege of being treated like that while I try eat food in a "public house" because I cant cook in my hotel room. Also, I need to a remember that a restaurant is all about what people who happen to be working there that day want. It isnt about how a tired, hungry, traveler willing to pay people to cook for them desires to end their day in a pleasant way wants. It was only a Monday! If you just cant possibly handle people on a Monday, stay closed. Food was great though. See ya Cincinnati.

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Rachel Robinson

As far as the beer selection, and it being a bar, it gets 4 stars. Ive come to this location a few times, namely St. Pattys day, for their 7am club. They give out free tshirts and have keg and eggs in the morning. And its right down the street from my work. They have tons of beers on tap, not really that many irish of the sorts, but whatever, its a good crossover bar. Recently theyve started doing brunch... And... its just not good. A group of 11 of us were pretty much the only ones there when we arrived at noon. (brunch is from 10-2 i guess). A group of 7, a group of 4, a group of 3, and 3 couple all came in and ate and left before we ever got our food. And thats just in the dining room area. I have no idea how many came and went in the bar area. There were 3 waitresses as well. She did great at keeping refills going and making sure coffee was fresh. The mimosas were decent, since it was definitely not real orange juice. In fact those that ordered the OJ got it with ice in the glass... umm... ew? Im not really sure of how new this whole brunch thing is, but they either need to get the kinks worked out, or just scrap it. Its not good. We waited over an hour for food, as i said earlier, at least 23 people were served before us. Ive worked in food service for 8 years prior, and even _I_ couldnt figure out what the heck went wrong. 3 or 4 people got their food, and it was barely warm. The cheese had congealed on top and looked like it sat for half an hour, which mind you it had been well over an hour since we ordered. We asked what was going on and the waitress got all flustered and we found out later she was crying in the back after someone came back from the restroom. The manager (i think??) came over, and said she had no idea what was going on, but shed fix it. She asked if anyone wanted remakes, and we asked how long that would be. 20 minutes... wait what?! no one else is here?!?! And she said the food was being cooked as we speak for the rest of us. What in the world was going on in that kitchen?! I think this was far beyond a waitress issue. This stemmed farther. Maybe even farther tan the cooks. I really have no clue. Fortunately for us, the only things we had to pay for were the bloody marys and mimosas we ordered. But still. It was awful. And even the remakes werent that good, and the potatoes were still barely warm. The omelette I had was ok. At least warm, even if the cheese was still kind of solid, and not melty, at least it was hot at this point. It didnt fill me up by any means, and my stomach didnt care for it later. But this was just... I cant even describe it, awful doesnt seem to do it justice. Forunately the group had plenty to talk about to keep it from getting even more awkward. So again, come here later in the day, for beer, not earlier, for food.

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Kelly Fogah

After spending about 30 mins trying to decide what to eat for dinner on a Thursday night with no specific cravings for anything. My boyfriend agreed to try here, I had been here once before over 5 years ago. We decided to eat upstairs outside on the patio. Even though the train tracks are right next to the building and the trains horns our loud I liked the views and nice night weather. My boyfriend ordered the sweet potato waffle fries that came with a maple sauce for his appetizer which he really liked. Then followed that up with the 12 ounces of cod fish which came with two sides, he ordered the mac and cheese and a salad. It was a lot of food. I had the bangers dip, which was just okay and a glass of Riesling. The food is reasonably priced and the waitresses were both friendly. It was pretty quiet there, only one or two tables of patrons on each level indoors and on the patio. I was surprised to see that they stay open until 2am. Maybe it was a slow night since it was drizzling outside, we were there around 9pm. I would definitely go back here again. Since I am from London though, I had hopes of more pub like food. I had thought they would of at least had bangers and mash.