"I never go out of my way to leave a bad review but I’ve also never been treated as I was at JM Curleys last night. Had a booking for dinner and a catch-up with a transatlantic friend I haven’t seen since 2019. We ate, had cocktails and two bottles of wine over the course of 3 hours as we were enjoying catching up. The waiter came over and advised that he had to turn the table over after 4 hours, my friend made an obvious joke asking if this was his polite way of asking us to hurry up and get out and the waiter totally flipped out telling us to pay up and the get the f out. At first we thought he was joking, but he continued to shout at my friend to get out. He also almost accused us of not wanting to pay the bill, after we’d already paid for dinner and a round of drinks separately when they’d brought over bills, and all we had still open was a bill for one bottle of wine. We paid up and the other two of us calmly said this isn’t how you speak to customers who’ve been here all night spending money causing no problem, to which he rudely replied “you didn’t even spend that much money”. Firstly, foul, secondly, how many run of the mill burgers do you want me to eat? Honestly i have never been asked to leave a bar in my life, especially when sitting having a quiet dinner with two people. It wasn’t exactly a wild night and nobody was waiting for a table. Regardless of the rules, it was utterly disgusting treatment from an employee and this bar needs naming and shaming for this. We left (obviously and went to a bar a couple of doors down and had a great night with staff and customer alike. So frankly he did us a favour because the atmosphere was lack lustre, food extremely mediocre, and the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had in my life. Be my guest and head on down to JM Curley’s but for the love of god, don’t stay longer than 3 hours, don’t spend too little money, don’t make jokes with the staff and basically don’t enjoy yourself."
