Playwright Tavern & Restaurant

A great experience my last few visits. The staff is friendly, attentive, and efficient. Fresh Guinness, poured properly. The guacamole and chips were fresh (although the guacamole was a tad too spicy for my taste). I highly recommend it!

The server completely ignored me during the entire meal and never came by to check on me. He didn't give me any water either. I complained to the hostess and he finally came by at the end of the meal, then walked away while I was in the middle of talking to him!I notified the manager who didn't respond to me. I've never had service THIS BAD at a restaurant.I would not recommend this place.

So I got a message from Yelp saying that people were complaining about my review. To be fair, I am editing it, but I stand by what I said. It's the only way to explain the HORRENDOUS service. Review or no review, I will never go back and I encourage you all not to as well. Do yourself a favor and don't go here. I even gave them a chance before posting this by emailing them and I got no response. I know better than to expect even 3 star service in a Times Square area bar but this TAKES THE CAKE. Went to meet my bestie at this bar. I feel like we went here in the past and had decent service, so I said okay let's just go here again. We get to the front door and there is a lady hawker and she says (looking at my headband that I created that CLEARLY says ART) "oh is it your birthday???" I was like ughhh ....whatever lady, birthday has a LOT more letters. But it's okay, I don't expect people to understand creativity. We sat down. We asked for a cocktail menu. The lady server was very nice and handed us a menu. This is literally were everything went south. I guess we took a few minutes too long to order. We tried to flag her down but she waved us off and told us to ask the gentleman pictured for service. He was DEEP in conversation with the two people next to us. I got his attention for exactly two seconds and he just stared at me and went back to his chat. Finally the lady bartender asked us what we wanted and served us our drinks. After talking and drinking for a bit, we wanted something to nosh on. We tried again to get the male bartenders attention but he was still completely wrapped up in his conversation and couldn't be bothered with our order. We finally asked the bar back to please kindly put in our order for nachos. He did a good job service wise. The lady bartender served us one more round as the male bartender (who was supposed to be serving us!) continued to ignore us. We got our nachos ( they were decent albeit a bit too spicy) and the bar back was nice and service oriented and got us extra sour cream. Finally we had enough weird lopsided service. I asked the lady bartender for one more drink for me and the check. She said OK and then promptly disappeared. This is where its gets REALLY BAD. While waiting for this non-appearing check, we flagged down the lady who was the hawker outside. We asked for a manager, she asked why, I said we are not liking the service, are you the manager? She says no. I say okay I'd really like to talk to the manager. She's says okay and she also disappears. Then the original female bartender comes by and is like OH WHY DO YOU WANT A MANAGER? And I'm like this service isn't great, are you the manager? Her answer? IM KIND OF A MANAGER IVE BEEN HERE 20 years. I'm like can I please talk to the actual manager? She leaves. We now ask the bar back to PLEASE get us the real manager. After a while some lady comes down who is barely coherent. I think she was in charge of washing the restaurant linens. I told her my grievances. She says (about the two people he was completed occupied by) they just got off shift so they are talking. And then she just pets my arm and says sorry sorry like I'm a cat whose tail got stepped on. And then she went wandering off. CLEARLY this was NOT a manager, in fact I feel like they pulled her randomly from a table. I'm DONE, so I start to pay the check. NOW the original male bartender comes around "Oh I'm sorry was it me? What did I do? Let me make it up to u". This 100% would not have been necessary if he had just provided the bare minimum of service. I paid my bill in cash because I 100% didn't trust them at this point. I told him NO DO NOT WORRY WE WILL NEVER BE BACK. I CAN SPEND MY MONEY IN A MILLION OTHER PLACES. I paid the check, NO TIP. I would not even have paid that check but I didn't want a fight.Do yourself a favor and go to APPLEBEES up the block where the lovely server Melissa works at the bar on the main level with courtesy, promptness and graciousness.

This is an old standby for a pre theater meal with traditional Irish fare and a small menu to meet most tastes. My highlight was the Mac and cheese, which is creamy and cheesy. I also got the truffle parm fries, which had a perfect truffle and cheesy flavor but they were pretty limp and crispy. Service was fine but not anything super special. However, if you are looking for a spot that is quieter, the top floor is a great place to grab a quicker bite.

Bangers was like if it was microwave. End burnt and hard as a rock. Not worth the mash it came on. The Guinness seems water down. The 5stars for the attentive servers only, they were great...Crossing this off my often stop eatery...

Service was friendly and food was okay. Ordered the Asian chicken salad. Presentation was excellent, but some of the chicken had grizzle in it.

Very friendly staff; clean inside, and very groovy place - the pub occupies an entire beautiful old townhouse, with lots of old wood & exposed brick. Very good black & tan. Food was also very tasty & prepared with care. I had my standard Caesar salad and wings.However - eight buffalo wings WERE SEVENTEEN DOLLARS! This is not the right price - THIS IS PRICE GOUGING! I left feeling gouged, & still hungry.

The owner is literally so rude. She kicked out me my elder mother and my little brother because we wanted to order an appetizer and drinks. She said she doesn't allow this and that "we know better" to which I had no idea what she was talking about and proceeded to kick us out. Visiting Times Square for the first time DO NOT VISIT THIS RESTAURANT!!!

Workers were rude and disrespectful. We came here hoping for a nice, chill vibe and ended up with horrible service and felt rushed to get out.

Couldn't Even get in :/ We are from out of state and were staying right down the street from this place so we thought we could swing by and grab a drink, wrong. We walk up to the door and a man is sitting on a bar stool with headphones in (I didn't even know if he worked there or not) but he starts demanding for our id's. So my boyfriend who was walking in first pulls his wallet out to show him but says he needs to take the whole id out, so he does. Then he hands his id to the man and the man says I'm not taking that get out and starts yelling at us and honestly just scared me so bad I'm pulling on my boyfriend begging him to leave because he's screaming at the both of us. Btw my boyfriend is about to turn 26 so it's not like we're fresh to the scene. Very disappointed, scared, and confused. We were really looking forward to going there.