5/5 stars
Note: This rating was given in consideration of O'Bryon's compared to others in its category, such as Cock n Bull, RP McMurphys, and Lulu Lemon.
Here are a few reasons why O'Bryons has won my heart and sabotaged my sundays:
1) Their Sunday drink special is Jaeger, which makes a statement. One of the best parts about not being a student is that sundays are a free-for-all, though it is tough to find people in Cincinaughty who feel the same way. I'm so thankful for the first time I peeked under the O'bryons blanket and found them all hiding here.
2) The food is definitely above average for a bar - I would certainly come here just for a weekday lunch, without trying to aggressively pregame for afternoon meetings.
3) And if you're a bad orderer, you won't mind as much because of the wonderfully friendly wait staff, who seem to be enjoy their jobs much more than the clientele pregaming here on Sundays afternoons for Monday morning.
4) If you're trying to drink outside, without doing so in your apartment parking-lot, this is one of your best options in town. AND they have a quirky ritual of throwing your sharktank's shark from the O'Bryons rooftop to some stranger's rooftop. One day, that stranger will finally visit their roof and be inspired to build a jenga set out of toy sharks. Jengark?? No, Sharkenga. NO, Topanga! #boymeetssharkworld
5) I've wrote this before, and I'm not afraid to typewrite it again - between clientele, drink prices, and music, music holds the largest part in my congested bar heart. And O'Bryons delivers - last time, upstairs they were rocking Justin Timberlake pandora, and downstairs what sounded like '98's 2nd greatest songs by one-hit wonder artists. (e.g. instead of playing Mystikal's "Shake ya Ass," they played Mystikal's "Danger." #GodBlessAmerica
7) See #1-6
8) Sorry I blacked out