text: I will start this mediocre review with the caveat that I went here on a Wednesday night for happy hour with some coworkers Also it was evidently training day as our service was unusually slow according to my drinking buddies who are regulars there So take this with a giant grain of saltnnFirst of all the foam on the Guiness was thin Inexcusable If you are going to market yourself as an Irish pub I expect the Guiness to be molasses thick with an impenetrable foam served just the other side of room temperature They got the temp right but nothing else Also my black and tan was thoroughly blended by the time it got to me thanks to some rough handling by the bartenderwaitstaffnnThe band got off on the wrong foot by asking the largest group in the bar aka us to move so they could set up their stage monitors Give Me A Break You are not playing the House of Blues there are people in the bar and you have a crappie Mackie channel mixer sitting on top of the string fretless bass players amp I think you can get by without setting up your two giant floor monitors for this gig And spare me the crappy Johnny Rotten soundcheck too I get it It is an Irish bar Johnny Rotten was from London not Dublin you ass not Wembley ArenannTo make matters worse they started off with an unspeakably lame cover of Al Greens seminal soul masterpiece Let us Stay Together done as a solo piece by a guy who sounded like he learned to play guitar by listening to NPRnnSaving graces Boddingtons was on point I heard one of the funniest stories I have heard in a long time from James Cool Whip H for those of you who are interested take me out for a drink and I will tell you about the Whip Test Wings were not badnnProbably my last time at Rosies but I guess to be fair I should go back on a weekend or when the Fleetwood Mac cover band is not playing but seems unlikely at this point