Very pricey food, for bar food. It's right on the pier, on the water in OOB. Great place to get some drinks but I wouldn't go for the food. The bar tender was super friendly and nice! read more

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TOURIST TRAP! No prices for drinks on menu and bartender charges whatever he wants. Irish bar? Not even close! One of the worst bars anywhere in the world. Under no circumstances do you want to come to this place. Came here yesterday on a Saturday night and ordered two drinks. Drinks were watery and bartender Dan said this is a dive bar so no top shelf. The alcohol tasted watered down in an unmarked bottle. It was clear by his demeanor and attitude that he didn't want to be there. This Sunday, I wanted to give it another chance and I ordered a beer and seltzer (they only have cans and no taps) and, unfortunately, Dan was back on the bar. He told me that one beer and one seltzer were $10 each. 20 dollars plus tax! Obviously overpriced and no evidence posted anywhere of the price. He didn't open the cans nor provide glasses. He did nothing but give the cans. No pour, no opening the tab, nothing. He threw my tip money into the bucket like it was meaningless. I was going to order a mixed drink and I asked him what kind of vodka he had and threw an unlabeled bottle on the bar. He told me that if I didn't tip him more money IN ADVANCE of the next drink, he wouldn't serve me another drinks. So, I asked to speak to the manager, Kaylee. Kaylee told me Dan can refuse service for ANY reason. I asked her if Dan's demanding what he determined to be enough money for a tip before serving a drink was a justifiable reason for no service, and she said yes. So, demanding a tip of whatever Dan deemed appropriate in advance is a reason for non service! Come on. Dan's service and his grouchy demeanor sucked. That's why he didn't get a larger tip. He did nothing to earn one. What a sense of entitlement. The manager, Kaylee, didn't even have the fortitude to stand up to this incompetent Dan and hold the line that no drink Is contingent on a minimum tip in advance. So, because we are tourists, he basically doesn't care, changes and does anything that he wants, and he's backed up by management. Weak Kaylee. What a joke! read more

The service and location are fine. We made the mistake of thinking it would be fun to hit OOB since we never do it anymore. Big mistake. Tourists everything, the city is just built and teeming with tourists. The prices are outrageous, no matter where you go, since the view is pretty epic. There's something to be said for eating dinner while seated above the ocean crashing underneath you. Watching the sun go down over the horizon when you're eating is something you won't forget. The food though.... Also something you won't forget, when you're in the bathroom for some time several hours later! The food is tourist food at tourist prices, so not good. Way way over priced and the food was awful, just awful. There are no words to truly convey my dismay at what came out as our meals. Needless to say, never again. Every eatery on the pier is owned by the same person. So all the food is the same on every menu. We left one place because the prices were like astronomical, only to find out it's the same menu and prices all up and down the OOB pier. Now I remember why we try to stay away! I gave three stars because it's not the servers fault, and she was polite and quick, and didn't let us sit long without coming over. You can definitely tell that the younger hired help gets thrown here ! read more

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The location on the pier and the Irish pub ambiance are very cool. The menu is good. Our waitress was friendly but didn't seem to know anything about the menu or the food. There are lots of TV's with sports playing and our food was very good but...I was disappointed to have a bunch of tiny, broken potato chips with my fantastic burger. The burger was big & juicy & delicious. Even a pickle or something to add to the basket would have been nice. The drinks were good though. Our waitress didn't offer anything else or come back to see how the food was. She just brought the check so we paid and left. I liked the location & the pub style. The entree item was excellent but there wasn't anything with it to Wow me. Overall, I give it 8.5 out of 10. read more

We come to Old Orchard every year and always go to hooligans to do karaoke. We planned on singing but that didn't happen, instead we got blown off by the DJ and got ignored all night, so did some of the other customers. We put our name on the list to sing at 10, by 11:30, the DJ had let his regular patrons sing multiple songs and no one outside his posey was called up. We came to this establishment to sing and never got called up! The dj himself was singing while people on the list hadn't got a chance. We have never experienced this from any other dj's that we have encountered there, this particular DJ(Danny), was arrogant and very rude. I will say that our food was good and our waitress provided excellent service, but we won't be returning. It was also severely overpriced, but so is everything else on this strip. read more

Waitress was great, food was GROSS and looked like it was heated up in a microwave and cost more than twice what it was worth. We had quality high end food in Portland and Kennebunk for less. Do yourself a favor and avoid this place read more

After reading some of the reviews after we sat down at our table, I was nervous about what we would find especially as we entered there was a sign at the front door that they are limited staff so please have patience with them. We sat down and it was pretty crowded on the holiday weekend but the service was very prompt even though they were definitely overloaded and we ordered a couple of appetizers after walking for a while on the beach. We ordered the veggie loaded nachos that my wife LOVED and was a huge portion and seemed to be fresh and delicious. The only critique is the fact that the sour cream and salsa were small little pre packaged containers and were so small compared to the size of the plate of nachos. I also got the buffalo bone-in wings where the sauce was cooked into the wing and I liked it a lot. The drawbacks here is if you are expecting high class and a bougie nice restaurant, this is not the place for you. It is a dive bar pub with pub style food. The place was a mess and tables were littered with garbage and the past patrons stuff. The bathroom also was backed up and people clogged the flush and didn't report it until we did for the staff to clean or fix. Now the real question is, would I go back here again? Probably not as I would rather have something with outside seating but it really was the only option that we had at that moment. But it was not as bad as some of these folks have reviewed. read more

So ridiculously overpriced They charge $10 50 for a mixed drink? Food quality not good This place is a total tourist trap Service lackin as well Would not recommend read more

Five of us dined for dinner. We ordered the nachos to start and it was a great portion for all of us to have our fill! The view was beautiful! Great service. read more

This was our first stop while visiting Maine so we didn't know what to expect. We were in a tour to find the best lobster roll, and Hooligans fell short. The lobster was just okay, and didn't taste as fresh as expected for the price. I'd skip this one and pick another spot on the pier to try out if you're looking for a Lobster roll. read more

Hooligan's Steak & Ale - Lobster Roll with Brussels - Irish Near Me - Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Nice location, friendly server. The drinks were overpriced; however, most decent bars charge about the same, I would go back.

Atrocious food, prices are insane. Pretty sure we all got food poisoning... Had a great waiter though read more

Excellent waiter-young guy was working really hard to cover multiple tables and gave all great customer service; seated right away and the food was fresh; especially the Lobster roll, the chicken Cesar wrap was freshly grilled and perfectly sauced. Service justified the price. read more

Hooligan's Steak & Ale - Lobster Roll - Irish Near Me - Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Me and the boys came here today to say yummy yummy in my digestive system, but upon leaving we had to review the place in ultimate failure. Unless you are coming here to drink it is not worth it coming for the food. Literally this place is run by a shaco one trick. 4 of us, here is how it went: Fish and chips: this meal was like eating a deep-fried flip-flop. It was soggy on the crust, but the fish inside was somehow completely dry. About as dry as texting a high school thot. the fish did not fall apart correctly like a normal flaky fish does and the fries were also soggy. This was also served on a paper plate covered by newspapers and had to be eaten with plastic utensils. Awful Chicken Caesar wrap: "inside the wrap I was served dry chicken that tastes brined right out the salt water below us. The wrap was fine otherwise, but the pickle I was served had more warts than the average witches foot. The store-bought lays on the side of the plate though, pretty good." Cheeseburger: The cheeseburger was good but my fries were so bad. The ketchup is very watery, although it came out of packets I don't know how that's even possible. The best tasting thing in this meal was the Scooby snacks, I didn't know they gave us Scooby snacks at a bar. Poutine: we split this among the four of us, it was disgusting. This was like putting diarrhea and rubber cement all over fries and calling it poutine. This was insulting to my heritage. And finally- the mozzarella sticks: I took this personal, this is an insult to my intelligence. I spent $15 to receive six mozzarella sticks. The menu did not list them as mozzarella sticks, I did not know they were mozzarella sticks, when they came out of the kitchen they were hard as rocks. They had to be brought out in two containers because I guess you can't carry six in one container, and the cheese was so cold. One of them had goop in it, and the marinara I got was homemade. Do you think that would make it good but in reality I just had a very large chunks of tomato in it, making it tomato sauce not marinara. After finishing my six months Arella sticks I decided to go get a Subway as neither was a full or satisfied. The subway cost less and filled me five times as much and tasted better and also had real cheese. We were one of two tables in our party, the other table generally agreed with the words it wasn't great but it was OK, averaging a 4 out of 10. In total for 10 people cost us about $250, and while that's reasonable for a party of 10 my mozzarella sticks say otherwise. Unless you are coming here to drink and only to drink steer clear and eat pizza (or the burger) instead. Story from my aunt: The waitress dropped sauce ketchup packets on the floor and another waitress picked it up off the dirty carpet and just put it on the fries and served it to the customer. This all happened while I was waiting for the bathroom, because I guess the bathrooms here are just not epic. read more

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Went to hooligans yesterday 6/8/24 what a great time that was had by my entire group! We were at the bar with Jason he was fun and made the best drinks around! I had the crazy leprechaun burger, talk about amazing It was cooked perfectly and some may think the combination is a bit odd but it works perfectly i highly recommend the crazy leprechaun and Hooligans's steak and ale! Oh and go in and ask for Jason!!!!! read more

Good service good food but my only problem is the way you pay now with no splitting is really difficult but good attitude,food, and service

1/10 The ratings here speak for themselves. The bar is situated with a nice view, but the food was awful. I definitely could have made a better salad at home that is not priced $30. read more

My son really wanted to eat over the ocean but we tried Hooligan's which was over the beach instead. Fantastic waiter! Really attentive and engaging. Food was decent, but $25 for chicken Nachos with many bare chips won't cut it. $18 for a burger but fries are extra? Specialty drinks were pricey. Burgers were overcooked but not to the pt. of being able to eat. But if you can't make it to order, why ask? We make a yearly pilgrimage to OOB each yr, but this will be our only 1 to Hooligan's. read more

Food is ok.. sub par. The place was very dirty. Service was great. Drink was made well. Pretty expensive

Bartender was awesome He was great and made me a good drink.He took my order promptly and all the food was fresh and good.Definitely coming back. read more

This was the worst place that we went on our trip BY FAR. I mean we should have known by the fact that it was EMPTY on a Friday night, most of the people who were there looked like they were just drinking. So my boyfriend got this $25 lobster salad with like 2/3oz of old lobster you could tell it had been sitting there for a while and are you kidding me the "salad" it was on was the worst excuse of a salad I've ever seen. Let's just say that the bagged salad you get at the grocery store is 10x better and they don't charge you $25 for it. Everything else was almost inedible, the pot roast was disgusting and even the burgers!! They were definitely not freshly made and they were both cooked well done and very thin patties. The burgers at Wendy's are actually way better than anything here. Everyone in our group of 7 was completely dissatisfied with the food here read more

Hooligan's Steak & Ale - $25 "lobster salad" - Irish Near Me - Old Orchard Beach, Maine

We came and a waiter told us to seat ourselves which we did, we sat for 20 mins or more and nobody came in to event acknowledge the fact we were there, we saw the workers just sitting maybe on a break but that's just absolutely not how you treat customers, needless to say we walked out and gave our business to someone else. Don't waste your time! read more

Okay - I can totally understand in a post corona world that restaurants are running down staff. I can be patient to a point - but at some point, you have to look back to mint and tell them they need to staff up. Service was VERY slow!!!! Waiting fifteen minutes or more for a server to touch a table, running out of drinks, food was okay, but nothing memorable by any means. After lunch, asked server for check and she was GONE! Came back about fifteen minutes later with a tray full of drinks and three checkbooks in her hand. Didn't even glance our way, walked right back up the ramp from the beach seating into the main restaurant and never missed a beat! Waited another five minutes before I got fed up and we left, went in to the restaurant and had to find her to ask for a check a second time. She was prepping another tray of drinks and told me I would have to wait even longer. Took more than 20 minutes to get a check - it will take an even longer time for me to think of ever coming back. read more

FoodWhat does great in hot the drinks were cold and timely bartenders were amazing place is Clean and Covid protected. Was a wonderful experience and I recommend this place if you're visiting old Orchard Beach read more

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Worst service I've ever had in a restaurant don't waste your time don't waste your money go anywhere else. read more

Hooligan's Steak & Ale - Irish Near Me - Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Food was way overpriced and not very good. Coconut shrimp was ok but not great and not worth $24 for 6 pieces. Chicken was overcooked and very dry. Staff seemed overwhelmed and disorganized despite it not being that busy. Staff members are kind and attentive but the food is seriously lacking and the inside bar area is very dark and dingy looking. read more

The service was lovely. However, I've never hated a meal at a restaurant before, so I was so confused to hate my meal here. But it was so bad. Like even the fries. The chowder was sour and the fish and chips weren't even good. AND a meal for 2 was $70!!! I've never been disappointed by a restaurant. I'd rather have a good meal in Boston. read more

Went and had a drink at the bar, the bartender was super friendly and had great recommendations!

This place attracted a fun crowd and the location was perfect. Our waitress was accommodating and friendly. After enjoying our time here, we were denied service by the a manger/bartender for "being over served". Mind you, we only had 2 rounds of shots and no one in our party was out of control or causing a disruption. If you are in the area and looking for a great night out, I would highly recommend considering another bar. read more

Don't go over priced, $27 for frozen fish, (just like Van de camps). My grandson couldn't even fished his steak. No silverware until we got our meal, so we had to wait to eat till she brought it over. Soda flat did get a new one no better ($3.25) you would think it was drinkable. The bill was over $140 and not worth $5.00. I also leave 20% or more to our server, but only left $20 this time in part you can't blame them for the quality of the food but her service was not the best. Will not return, sorry read more

My parents have been taking me to OOB for about 20 years, but I've only recently been able to experience the 21+ attractions this honkytonk locale has to offer. Hooligan's Steak & Ale (otherwise known as Hooligan's Landing) is your standard Irish/American divey beach bar that serves classic pub food and offers decent beer deals (Ex. $3.75 for two pints of the featured light beer of the week). I haven't tried the food so I can't comment on it, but from what I've experienced, the staff is nice and attentive. Hooligan's is located at the mouth of the pier, immediately to your left. The pub is a little on the small side, but there's plenty of seating and an okay view of the beach. They host a different "nightlife" event every night, including live cover bands, and D-list comedians like Yo! Adrian that are good for supplying a few laughs if you've got an hour or so to kill. If you're looking to dance to top-40 club beats, you hafta walk down to the end of the pier and pay $5-7 to get into Lindbergh's Landing. If you're looking for cheap beer and eats, nice people and good atmosphere to break up your beach day and don't feel like driving, give Hooligan's a try! read more

Hooligan's Steak & Ale - Irish Near Me - Old Orchard Beach, Maine

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Went there on a Sunday night. The waitress was not friendly or helpful. I asked for an original recipe Long Island iced tea. They said they would make it but there was only a hint of liquor and the rest was filler. FYI- it should have equal parts of gin, tequila, vodka, rum, and triple sec. read more

One of the bars on the pier in OOB. When in OOB and out for drinks I sometimes stop in to Hooligan's. Some of the tables will give you an ocean view in the dining area (from indoors out the window, but hey). I hear they used to have outdoor seating, they should totally get that back if possible. I do think the drinks are slightly overpriced for what you're getting. Their big sell is the "pier punch" which is a concoction of a couple different cheap rums and fruit cocktails mixed into a large vat, and then spigoted out into glasses for the customers. $8.50 for a small (which is literally about 3-4 sips on a hot day), and I want to say $15-16 for bucket, which is probably 16-20 oz filled with ice and the punch. It's pretty weak but tastes good. There's a handful of beers on tap. The food is okay, I'm not a seafood eater which I'm sure is mostly what people order when they are in OOB. I usually order steak and cheese sandwiches and things of that nature. I'd say the food here is pretty much on par with other pub style places in southern Maine. I will say that on my last visit to Hooligans about 2 weeks ago it was a day in the mid 80's, and it was soooo incredibly hot inside Hooligans that sweat was literally dripping off my forehead and onto the table. I got heat stroke. Get an AC. read more

Our dinner at Hooligan's was absolutely terrible. 6 of us all ordered different items and not one of us could finish our meal because they were so gross. And none of us are picky eaters! The nachos chips were soggy and stale (at the same time, somehow). The rueben didn't have the right dressing and didn't taste fresh. The Chicken Caesar wrap had chicken that tasted like it was out of a can. Also, the place was dirty and had flies all over the restaurant. Maybe good for drinks? But either way, we will never come back. read more

I highly recommend this place. Kinda sucks that the pub is so dark. Being on the beach however I ordered the green monster. I hate when double party burgers are too thick but this butler was made perfectly. I got the onion rings and they were very good! Overall very good ! The only down side was our waitress. She didn't clean our table and come over only once to see if we wanted more drinks. I ended up cleaning our own table and removing the cups and plates from the previous people who sat at the table. Luckily ! The food was amazing. read more

Very delicious drinks! My fiancé and I both got two different rum buckets and enjoyed both! Great service!

i've been coming to hooligans for about 14 years now an let me tell you this is honestly the best place i've ate at in old orchard beach. The haddock sandwich is amazing favorite thing there the cook is excellent. read more

I always come back to Old Orchard Beach, because of this place! They have the BEST steak tips I have ever tried and a delicious RUM BUCKET. I will be back this year again, I can't wait! read more

Went and watched the Celtic's game and had a few drinks and apps with friends. The bartender Jason was super friendly. Great place to watch a game with friends. read more

Way too expensive and there's no AC! I thought $8.50 for a mixed punch was way too expensive! The bartender was very friendly and welcoming.