"Walk into this Fairfax institution, and there’s a good chance you’ll find a cluster of Irish musicians jamming in the corner. The menu features dishes lightly fried Scotch eggs, a gravy-smothered Irish stout burger, Guinness beef stew, fish and chips, and shepherd’s pie. The atmosphere gets rowdier in the basement area, named Jackie O’Shea’s, where George Mason University students party." - Tierney Plumb, Missy Frederick