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The Harp Inn: A little piece of the Temple Bar in Costa Mesa
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The Harp Inn, nestled in an oft-overlooked nook of Costa Mesa, is a pub of traditional attitude and simple means. With an air of kitsch reminiscent of the Temple Bar about it, the wayward Irish tourist can sit back, relax, and give in to the general craic of the joint.
The Harp offers traditional pub fare (French fries, mozzarella sticks, veggie platter, soup, jalapeno poppers, etc.) for those feeling a might peckish, to full-scale meals required to satiate the hard-working desk jockeys of Orange County. Dishes include, but are not limited to, salads, burgers, steaks, bangers, beans and mash. Prices range from $4.50 to $14.95.
Indoors the corner stage plays host to live music almost every night of the week with regular bands Sambajah, Neon Nation, Jack’s Bad Monkey and The Fenians revving it up to “11” for your enjoyment.
The outdoor patio is ideal for automobile watching and taking a long drag on your Parliament whilst eavesdropping on the random conversations that surround during the late afternoon and early evenings, soon giving way to a mottled crowd of twenty-somethings to mid-life champions; all coming together to revel in the glory of a well-poured pint and allowing the slainte to wash over them.
The draught menu is impressive in its range with brews such as Guinness, Harp and Smithwicks for the Irish; Bass, Newcastle and Boddingtons for the English; and Coors for the Americans. Bottles offer up Heineken, Amstel Light and Hoegaarden for the Continentals, plus the standard Corona, Miller Light, Budweiser and Coors.
The Harp Inn also offers a selection of wines and champagnes, as well as a full liquor shelf, because no car bomb is complete without a shot of whiskey (Jameson’s or Bushmill’s determining which side you align with, of course).
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