Chapter 165 Review: Southside

Verse 1

Yesterday we went out to get something to eat and have a few beers. We ended up at Southside on Hornsgatan and here are some observations from the evening.

- The place. First of all, it's a typical Irish pub if you look at the interior and there are some english-speaking staff as well so that will give you an idea of the kind of place we are talking about.
We have concluded that you can probably buy the decorations in bulk from somewhere as every Irish pub have the same type of items.

- The music. You might have expected it to be any number of irish songs but we could only identify one and that was something by U2. I say identify because the volume was so low we could hardly hear the music. We looked at the sound-system for the music and the speakers we could see looked like over-sized pc speakers.
They had another set of speakers too that looked like the real deal but they were not in use.
We didn't really mind the volume anyway as the selection they played wasn't really that good.

- The service. Overall it was ok but i felt that they were a bit rushed and inattentive for several reasons.
They could grab a glas of our table that was almost empty - realize their mistake and put it back without saying anything or asking if you wanted another beer perhaps.
They would also take an order from from one of us and leave, not waiting to see if anyone else wanted something too.

- The food. This was probably the best thing about Southside. The menu was quite limited, just some 10 dishes and mostly typical pub items like hamburgers and ribs. The three different ones we tried were ok, not sensational in any way but ok.

The conclusion. We thought that this is an ok place to go for a beer after work but not much more than that.
If i would venture to give it a grade it might be something like: Fair to middlin'.