McLeary's in Waterford

31/03/2025: Gorgeous meal recently. Staff friendly and knowledgeable about the menu, cosy booth seating available and the food was perfect!

18/03/2025: We found food in Bodega to be incredibly tasty: both meaning that it has a strong taste and that the taste is deeply enjoyable. That's a very good reason to give it a second chance as the rest (service and atmosphere) was not where we would have liked it to be. We went in on a very busy night and so we're ready for some sub optimal things. We were surprised when we got our food in 12 mins (not what you would expect for a crispy duck leg and fresh pasta). We were also quite disappointed when the 2 cocktails we ordered arrived when we were toward the end of our main, after we had to solicit them and the waiters came back a couple of times to clarify the orders they had taken. The atmosphere was very lively but seeing waiters literally running up and down the place and repeatedly dropping glasses and glass bottles didn't help having a relaxing enjoyable night. That contested with them literally stopping to talk to customers who were paying to go and hugh other customers who were leaving. It didn't help that at the table right close to us there was a very loud group of friends celebrating someone's birthday.