The Half Door European Beer Bar & Gastro Pub Reviews

Great ambiance. Great selection of beer. Great food.

Service can be a little slow but they do a great brunch and we also had a blast on St. pattys day. Wonderful old world pub vibes.

We stopped here on the recommendation of a couple locals as we were in the area on business. Staff was super friendly and reasonably attentive. Food was spot on. The big winner for me was that they had Delirium Tremens on tap. :)

Cool Irish Pub. Yummy food, awesome atmosphere and friendly service. Live music a few nights a week!

A terrific Irish Pub. Great people and better Guinness.

Great food great location and good beer selection. Staff is awesome and well loved.

Great west end hangout spot. Awesome Brunch on Saturdays & Sundays! Always have great beer selection and the Irish coffee is amazing. Check it out!

Great tavern for a pint and surprisingly delicious pub style eats. Check out Wednesday night's for beer deals and live music!

Food was good. Service was attentive, but slow. Small onsite parking meant we had a long walk to get to the place.

Their brunch is one of my favorites good quality food and good drinks

This spot always delivers. They serve fresh food for reasonable pricing, there is no waiting time even when the place is full.

The service is always prompt, lovely mood, super friendly employees. I will come back again when I arrive here.

Never had a bad meal or experience at the Half Door. The people who work there are awesome the food is always fresh, made to order, just can't say enough good things about it. I have lived in Hartford for about 9 years and that is always my go to place to eat/drink. By far one of the best brunches in the area.

I love this place. Its a great pub with a welcoming atmosphere. Its the neighborhood joint. Welcome back shay!

A1 happy hours. Not enough football stuff for a football pub.

Very slow for brunch....few pepper working and Sun is lost waiting for good!

Good food, great drinks, good staff, great bartender/manager, have seen good live music there too.

Best bar! Especially when Bridget Hurley is bartending!

What a fantastic place! Appetizing appetizers! And the beers are spectacular!

Best boozey brunch in hartford for the 20s-30s age group. Order the cobblestones! Best place to have a beer and breakfast on Sat/Sun morning

Spilled a whole beer on the bar and they didn't even yell at me

Discriminating selection on draft, friendly staff. Great pub.

One of my favorite local watering holes. Great selection of craft and imported beers. Great happy hour with 3$ Irish pints, and the food is always delicious!

Great place to have lunch after the tour at the Mark Twain house. Friendly welcome when we walked thru the door. The Cobblestones were the best! Caesar salad and Vegetarian Chili delicious too. Highly recommended.

Would surely recommend trying this spot. Fantastic atmosphere, yummy food, awesome customer service. Highly recommended.

Snugs in the corners, loads of the good imports on tap, amazing can/bottle list, friendly staff, and I highly recommend the "cobblestones" for an app. Relaxed and an "at home" atmosphere that is wonderful for a old charm, cozy, yet upscale Irish pub.

The cobblestones are little corned beef silders of heaven. Surprisingly good salads considering its a pub. Also $2 Guinness Smithwicks and Harp can't be beat.

Lived next door for three years and would spend several nights a week here. Back for a visit and the food is just as good. The cobblestones are delicious. Good service and always a good time

Great live music, very friendly atmosphere. Decent drinks and prices but you need to be 21+ to enter since its a bar. Outdoor seating is nice on warm evenings. Overall a nice place to have a night out with a few friends. Only downside is the sketchy neighborhood.

A great traditional pub, with decent drink offerings and above average food. Great service, and a nice neighborhood feel. A comfortable and great experience for adults of all ages.

Can you please have enough servers for events???? There are not enough people for the world cup. The wait for food and drink ordering is ubsurd. You have to flag down the server to even get attention. I get that you normally this busy, but you can be better. People want to watch soccer here.

Normally, the half door is totally fine. It used to be better, but I'm not a hater. The food is decent. The beer selection is good. Service is generally pretty good too. But I'm biased because they used to have much better food and drinks. Happy hour is good though. All day Monday, but Sunday through Friday. Drinks and food are very reasonable during that time. Trivia is fun.

Love it. They have my favorite beer on tap (Delirium Tremens), a wide selection of other beers and ciders, and what seems to be a ton of whiskey - although that's not how I roll.

The food is pretty legit - good portions, vegetarian and vegan options, and the full spectrum of healthy to not so much.

Trivia is ultra competitive and the live music is pretty chill, not terribly loud and conversation-stunting like some other places. You can't hear the TVs, so don't go there to watch political debates or other dialogue heavy broadcasts.

A real Irish pub! If you love world football, come here!

Great to grab a few drinks with friends bartender gave good alcohol amount thanks

.. the stuffed bird sandwich and salad was truly outstanding sorry I couldn't have a beer today

Food is ok I just had the cobble stones and it was expensive

Good ambience. I wish the drinks were little more fairly priced but the food makes up for it.

Very good. We went late so it was only bar service. They re open until 1am

I like the food and atmosphere. They are a little skimpy on the hard liquor.

Best St Patrick's place....great food, excellent service.. fun time

Good beer and more than often good live music! It also has food.

Such a good local vibe here. Very good happy hour prices and they run this every day from 3-6 except for Monday when they run it ALL day! I m always in favor of $3 wine. The Cabernet was rich and delicious! Karaoke is the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month. I just don t see or hear The Irish here. Some menu items maybe but fish and chips is British so I don t know what else is ethnically correct. The atmosphere is cozy though and the service is good.

Great local spot that if I really wanted to, could walk to. I'd give it 5 stars but ever since they swapped out their ridiculously hefty portioned Irish Nachos for a rather small plate worth I felt the need to bring it down a peg. Still, a fixture in the neghbirhoos and I'd be lost without it. Many great memories there.

Dec 2, 2014. Hard to find, hard to park, but what a great find. The food was excellent and so was the service. We had a great time.
Joel

Great old building and the bar tenders are very nuce.

Great beer selection, and the staff are awesome. The food there is truly satisfying.

Right on the border of West Hartford and Hartford. This hidden gem has great food and spirits! The service is great as well...

Great place to meet friends, good music, great.beers, great service. High recommend!!!

In response to Chris Neumann. They have rules like that to protect themselves from liability (aka getting de-licensed/getting in trouble with law enforcement...). Consider that it could be you're acting like the mac n cheese kid and try your hardest to realize there are rules for a reason. I know it sucks dude, but come on! This restaurant is a gem and just because you have issues with rules and policy doesn't mean you should potentially harm restaurants by posting negative reviews of a place you didnt even eat or drink at. I just moved in the area and have fallen IN LOVE with the half door. Everyone is so nice, drink selection is ON POINT, and the food...so good..try the fried reuben!

Love this place. Never disappoints. One of the few places that serve Aventinus eisbock. Thank you Chelsea for a great pour.

Great food, the service is so slow. Both times I have been here, waited over an hour before the food was served.

Looks like a place I would really want to go, however I went with my girlfriend on a Sunday night at 6pm. There was only one other group in there. We sat to have a nice dinner, but the waitress immediately asked for our ID's. I am 22 and she is 20, so she obviously wasn't planning on drinking. But they wouldn't even let us sit for dinner. Unfortunately they lost our business. Just keep that in mind if you are going with anyone. I could understand if it was a Friday or Saturday night after 8 or so. But Sunday at 6, just for a casual dinner was kind of unusual.

The food is good. I have been here multiple times. The lady that works at the bar is rude and barely puts liquor in your drink. I guess she has to like you. I wasn t the only person there that complained that night we ended up going to Tisane because it wasn t worth the money. I have been there when the drinks was better. I have learned If Chelsea is working don t buy a drink from her. Other than that drink experience the place is a great spot to grab a drink with friends.

A cozy pub vibe, small but good selection of craft beer on tap, larger list of bottles. Menu is a cut above average pub food, including good salads and appetizers. Vegetarian chili was delicious. Friendly service was much appreciated.

good place to chill out and have a drink. the food was good too

Gone there a little after 2pm. Entered the restaurant and there was no one to help us with seating. We found a place ourself but we had to call the waiter for placing the order. The worst part was that we had to call the guy again to bring our bill/check. Food was okay but service was worst.

Usually there for lunch. Good menu, speed and drink selections.

Great Irish pub in Hartford. Good food and great bar!

Went for brunch. Over priced for the quality and options. I had a steak and egg wrap that was good, but not worth the $11+ price. Diner quality but not diner price. My wife had the crab cakes Benedict. The 2 crab cakes were about the size of a .50 cent piece (less than 3" diameter) for $14+! It was almost as if the tiny cakes were a mistake or they forgot to put the other ones on there. Both came with homefries which were good but not amazing. I did not like the seasoning as much as my wife did.

I know this is most prominently a bar, and I've spent many positive happy hours or long nights there drinking, but if they are going to serve brunch then they need to realize the target audience and create more interesting and/or fulfilling choices for the price points. For the money we spent there with two adult beverages we could have had a more upscale experience at numerous brunch options in the area. If they want to fill a void with more bar friendly brunch options then at least keep prices below $10.