I had an absolutely incredible time with my friends there. We received free shots and a hooka. All of the employees there treated us kindly and made sure everything was in order. The waitress was very beautiful and wasn't too pushy about the tip.
Avoid like the plague.
Worst tasting cocktails we have ever had.
Waitress was friendly. However we were lured in with false advertising of Happy Hour, only to find out later that it doesn’t apply to most of the drinks. Waitress said she would discuss with the (arrogant) manager then never to be seen again.
When we finally got the bill, we were told that a minimum 15% tip is mandatory.
Worst pub experience we‘ve ever had. Location good and waiter friendly, but: tables dirty (fries from guests before us), cocktails absolutely dreadful (barkeeper seems never to have seen a mojito), cigarette butts and yellow water in hookah, prices exorbitant. They were cooperative after we complained and gave us the hookah for free, but NIS60 for a pre-mixed cocktail is shameful. After all of this, our waiter lectured us on how much tip to give. Save yourselves the hassle.
I traveled thousands of miles to the holy city of Jerusalem for one thing and one thing only: to get some beer. That's exactly what drew me to the Soho Pub. The environment seemed to be quite inviting at first glance. We sat down in a vibrant and lively outdoor patio that perfectly exemplified the type of ambience one would seek in this city of culture and mysticism. Our waitress arrived and greeted us with utmost friendliness. You could tell she was the fun one of the friend group. She laughed with us, gave us suggestions, and generally felt like she was just another friend of ours. We ordered our drinks and she happily returned with all of them. Our drinks were delicious and we didn't have a care in the world. We thought this would be the greatest night of our lives, but we could not have been more wrong.
After our evening of drunken festivities, the time had arrived for us to pay for our drinks, and this is when our lives would forever change. Our waitress returned as a completely different person. She was extremely adament about us giving her a tip. Being the polite Americans we are, tipping only comes naturally. We already tip for just about everything, so she did not have to worry about us failing to tip. Nevertheless, she persisted. We gave her a reasonable tip and were about to depart when she stopped us in our tracks. She wanted to count the tip, shekel by shekel, and so she did. We expected a satisfactory response because of the fairness of our tip. However, she did not agree.
Our waitress demanded that we gave her more money. We were shocked. Who would ask for a higher tip? She would, apparently. My emotions in that moment were all over the place. I felt angered by her sudden rudeness. I felt betrayed by her change of heart. Most of all, I felt heartbroken over the fact that someone who seemed to be so close to us turned out to be just another puppet to dirty capitalism. The pressure was too much for us and we gave in. She took our extra tip money and left us in the dark, never to be seen again. This moment will forever haunt us.
Three stars.
Probably the worst cocktails and wine we ever had. Service just doesn't exist. Tried to charge us nearly double the price. We calculated it again with him on the smartphone. Then he wanted to add a 20% service-fee. We denied it. JUST DON'T VISIT THIS PLACE.
I can't tell you how bad this was on a Wednesday evening. I had to go find my server 3x, to get a menu, to get another beer and to pay. Everything was unremarkable and the food was blah. Then she told me there was a 20% MINIMUM tip. Not tonight there wasn't.
Do not go here to drink cocktails. I ordered a Caipirinha and what I got was what felt like a really small lemonade. A very expensive, small lemonade. Ofcourse we were planning to pay the 10% service charge, but the waitress kept about 20% service charge without telling us. She obviously wanted to trick us “dumb tourists" and gave us much less change than what would have been appropriate.
This experience was beyond anything we expected. First we ordered 2 Mojitos, but not only they served us something that was not a Mojito at all, but in BOTH glasses were some flys diving around in the glasses. When we told the waitress, that there were flys in our drinks, she took them back to the bar, but immediatly started arguing about weather there were flys or not with the bartender - who was really rude to her and also made us uncomfortable (and of course there were flys in the drinks!).
It was very unpleasing and made us wander if we should even drink the new drinks - in case we should ever get some... (btw they never found their way to our table, because the waitress and the bartender could not stop arguing about weather there were some flys in the NEW drinks or not - I guess there were some, the waitress was trying to show them to the bartender with her phonelight!! It was crazy!!)
Meanwhile we got the burgers we ordered. The fries were swimming in oil - I am usually not that sensitive about oily fries but the fries looked like little sponges soaked with oil. We could not eat them. And the burger: Let s say we have eaten bad burgers at some funky places, but this one was beyond anything we have experienced yet.
So please do not go to that place!! There are so many nice Restaurants in Jerusalem - do not make this mistake!
We have payed but we left the food on the table.
The place has a nice athmosphere, service was great at first but the quality of the food was very disappointing: the steak was obviously of poor quality and extremly overcooked (no one asked to what extent I wanted it cooked), my friends eggplant was swimming in oil. When we asked for the bill, they had added NIS 50 for a shisha they first told us was on the house. When we asked they told us that was only the case if we ordered Cocktails. Also the waitress was pretty rude about the tip. We gave 15% but she demaded more and actually pointed on coins in my wallet. All in all not the greatest place for a relaxed dinner.
