Awesome food!
Old Bag of Nails has the best food. The staff is very friendly, and the prices are reasonable.    [11 Feb 2003 17:26:57]

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Recommended Dishes: Fried Pickles!!! and fish and chips

     ­sarah   

BEST RESTAURANT EVER
This place is great. I am assuming that the rest of the food is great (I have only had the fish). If you're a first-timer, get the fish. It comes in planks a foot long, NO JOKE! The fish and chips are very reasonably priced (only about $9 for 2 planks of fish and some fries). Even the children's fish and chips is large enough for an adult. I also thought the fried Snickers bar was an interesting twist. One thing though, stay away from the wings (they are very small and are riddled with large bones)!    [02 Feb 2004 19:42:48]

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Recommended Dishes: !!!FISH & CHIPS!!!

     ­Richard & Cristy Ortiz   

Great little pub for food or beer
Food was great, beer was even better with a wonderful selection. It's a great low key pub, don't expect a glamous atmosphere.    [04 Feb 2004 21:22:16]

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Recommended Dishes: Cajun Chicken Chez. Steak

     ­Bob   

Great Bartender and Hostess
The Old Bag of Nails was the best!! The bartender was great. She knew her stuff. The hostess was also great. They were both very hot!! I LOVE THE OLD BAG!!!!    [20 Apr 2004 20:48:58]

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Recommended Dishes: fish and chips

     ­James   

Have become a
My job keeps me on the road every day here in Central Ohio, so I get to eat out every day. I happen to be a regular at the Gahanna location and have been to the Hard Road location several times! I love it! What more can I say. Staff is always eager to please. They make sure the food is prepared correctly, before they serve it to me. My drink is always full. I have tried several menu items (not all) and have no complaints! Keep up the great work!    [01 Sep 2005 21:54:44]

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Recommended Dishes: Broiled fish dinner with the vegetable kabob

     ­Mark N., Pickerington   

This is gonna be long and critical: Avoid this dump unless you're already 2 sheets to the wind when you enter. Hosts and hostesses are rude and apparently English is not their first language nor did they study it in school. You'll never guess who your server is - at least 3 people will stop if you hail them down and say they will give your order to your server. Then prepare to wait 1/2 to 1 hour to eat twice-fried food or soggy sandwiches. That's after waiting for a table because we all look alike to them. Don't bother to make a reservation - they'll screw it up anyway. Last Saturday our Red Hatters group went to Franklin Park Conservatory to see the Amazing Chocolate Tree which may be touring presently. Neither my daughter or I eat chocolate and she had to work so we joined the ladies for lunch. No fun! The last time I was in that Old Bag of Nails it was called BJ Young and owned by a friend and his son. The occasion was the wake for the father. Imagine! a wake being fun...chance to see lots of old friends and relatives of friends. Restaurant/bar had a lot more charm back then - they made up an imaginary person BJ Young and printed all sorts of "facts" about him on the menu plus the owners' cousin-in-law/aunt was the cook with unusual comfort food on the menu. Menu now is quite pedestrian.

Old Bag of Nails recently backed an initiative on the ballot in Westerville, the birthplace of the WCTU, and dry for eons. Locals were up in arms when the issue passed with flying colors. Alcohol will bring in business but, alas, the food won't. Plus there was a mixup on the reservations with about 4 Red Hat groups coming in and they thought it was only 1. Hopefully there won't be red hats there again.

This restaurant/bar was previously known as Muddy Creek because it's on the banks of Alum Creek but I remember it longest as the Broad Nel (close to corner of Broad St and Nelson Rd), which was on my tee-totaller mother's list of no-no places and she went ballistic when I was a teenager and my friend's older brother took a group of us girls there for Cokes after a basketball game. I guess he's finally forgotten the reaming she gave him - he died a few years ago.    [29 Jan 2006 18:59:44]

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Recommended Dishes: Anything served elsewhere

     ­BL   

Pickels!
The Beer Fried Pickels are the best in the world...I love this pub...just like in Ireland the pubs have the best food and this one should be on the top of everyones list! I just love all the old pictures and signs every where it gives it that homey welcome...I am even going to eat at the Bag of Nails for my senior prom because I love it so.    [19 Apr 2007 09:53:38]

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Recommended Dishes: The Beer Fried Pickels

     ­ChelleBelle   

DON'T ORDER CARRY OUT
I ordered pub Oscar (sirloin w/ crab meat and Béarnaise sauce) that SHOULD have come with garlic mashed potatoes and a sautéed veggie for take out

I had to ensure I had what was needed - 1 - had to wait for the béarnaise sauce I noticed that was MIA before I left
2 - got home no veggies - but French Fries - HELLO? In addition to the mashed potatoes that did NOT have any hint of garlic    [14 Apr 2009 18:56:22]

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     ­Anonymous