Hotel Mac Bar

Had dinner with my wife at a great place. We had prime rib and short ribs the key lime pie was over the top

This is an establishment with as much of a history as the colorful little town of Point Richmond itself. Wonderful atmosphere and they cook up great apps for happy hour along with good stiff drinks. The food is a little on the generous side with heaped up helpings that are a little greasy and pricey but it’s excellent for groups and is a real local hangout. Service is friendly and quick with a smile.

Had dinner here last night with some friends. The service was really good and personnel are friendly. I was expecting more seafood on the menu because a friend told me so. They had enough but I was looking for crabs which they didn’t have. Nevertheless, the food that we ordered were really good. The only disappointing dish was the Caesar salad with calamari — the salad was good but the calamari was awful. I could hardly taste the squid over the thick and greasy batter.

The bartender here was an asshole. Walked by several times, ignored me, walked away when I had a question, treated me with disrespect. Good drink was delivered at last. Fried calamari was ok. But he? Ruined the experience, made me feel unwelcome, and I won’t be back. Fire the asshole all full of himself? Then maybe I would give it another shot. Or even, just educate what customer service means. I won’t be back.

Overall Hotel Mac is 5 stars for sure! Great food, great atmosphere, great people! However, I was really, really put off by the huge amount of dead flies on the window sill in the lounge. I picked the table for two up against the window to start our evening celebrating our 40^th anniversary. Everything else was spectacular… PLEASE CLEAN UP THE FLIES!

Fun, historical building… bar was OK (lots of regulars from what I can tell).
Went upstairs for dinner… no charm, bright lights and mediocre food (with a price tag…), waitress was snippy and seemed harried (although the place was less then half full).
Stick to the pub and their pub fare, and I think you will get a better bang for your buck.

It is not the best happy hour in the area or the worst. Prices for happy hour bites were a bit on the high side. The garlic fries were only ok, but the serving was large. Bottled beer was $ 3. Same price for wine. Both were fine. Nothing exceptional in cocktails for Happy Hour.
Service is good and it is a comfy place to hang out. My fried said it looked like the bar on the tv show «Cheers». It was nice enough, but nothing special enough to bring me back.

Cool place. I’ve only been once for happy hour with a friend. Nice HH prices and a nice list of items. I had a couple of martinis (I forget what kind they were) but they were pretty strong and good. We had fries, a bbq pork sandwich (pretty yummy), macaroni (blah), fish tacos (pretty good also) and that thick slice of cheesecake. It was big but I’ve had, and made, better. So overall a good experience, I’d go back.

A real bar. Very good Rob Roy and Mint Julep. I quickly forgave the bar tender for accidentally mixing the wrong drink at first.

I’ve been wanting to trying this place for quite awhile. I finally tried it out a few days ago with some friends. I had a very good prime rib, though way over priced for what it was. The calamari was exceptional, and my friends seemed to like their oysters. My friends also enjoyed their Dirty Martinis saying they were some of the best around. I enjoyed my Caipirinha which they made the way they should be, with Cachaça, instead of Rum like alot of local places do. The ambiance is unique for this area, classic, old feel, I wish we had more of it around here. The problem is, you pay a ton for it at Hotel Mac.

I came here by accident. What a jewel this place is. Food at the bar was good and service was great. Great bartender. Nice full bar with friendly people there. i had a great time.

The bar at the Hotel Mac is all kinds of cool with cool to spare. With a bar, restaurant & hotel, the Hotel Mac is a well kept time capsule back to a full century ago. The bar conveys the feel of a Prohibition era speakeasy, something that comes naturally considering the Hotel Mac was actually already around back then.
The girlfriend & I were out treating a friend to a belated birthday dinner & wanted to show off one of our local spots. Walk through the front doors & you enter the bar area. The hotel & dining area for the restaurant are further in & upstairs. Along with stools at the bar & some small tables, there’s a lounge seating area to the side with a few more small tables, sofas & lounge chairs. We sat at a small table right next to the front window in the lounge area, great view, great atmosphere.
Though more formal dining seating is upstairs, the entire dinner menu is available in the bar in addition to their bar menu of pub grub. I usually order the shaved prime rib sandwich from the bar menu, which is outstanding, but I wanted to go light so I had the chilaquiles salad. No, it’s not authentic, traditional chilaquiles & yes, it is a salad, but it is still really, really good. The girlfriend ordered one of the dinner specials, poached salmon with a mushroom champagne sauce, crispy onion risotto & crispy vegetables. I tried a few bites and it was wondrously sublime. Being a bar, we had a couple old-fashioned’s & a margarita with the meal. Mixed just right, of course. Dessert included a Bailey’s flan, which was heavenly, & a glass of 12 year Glendronach neat.
The food & drink are the perfect complement to this uniquely cool space. The staff are friendly & personable. For a quick getaway to a place that doesn’t look like it’s in the Bay Area or from this century but still delivers the goods with style like no other, the bar at the Hotel Mac is sure to please.

I’m reviewing the bar. Not a fan of the restaurant but the mommers thinks it’s the living end (they serve prime rib). The Mac has a world-​class bar, great ambiance and a regular cast of amusing drunks especially during the day. At all hours It adds up to a hands-​down superior old-​fashioned watering hole which I loved as a kid because they would let me come in and have my Shirley Temple while my grandfather got plastered at the bar (unlike the grittier Spot, where Grampa would have to bring me my ST outside by the Cadillac while he went in for a quick snort and stoagie chew). My dad’s office was across the street, so I am sure a fair amount of his earnings were spent here. Shoot, I’m getting bleary, but if I’m in town and have some time to kill, I can’t think of a more welcoming place to kill it in… a great pour, good conversation and knowledgeable bartenders. Tastes like home.