Crowley’s Dive Bar finds warm welcome at new Painesville location - The News-Herald
Painesville has a new destination for smash burgers and sports camaraderie.
Crowley’s Dive Bar opened at 77 S. St. Clair St. earlier in April, marking the restaurant’s third location. Like its sister restaurants in Eastlake and Kirtland, the Painesville Crowley’s comes with a focus on Irish and Croatian heritage, local and international sporting events and community connections.
The restaurant is led by co-owners David Bartulovic, McPat Coyne, Seamus Coyne and Brendan Kearney.
Walking through one of the standalone building’s bright red doors, visitors will see a bar to one side, tables in the middle and booths along another wall. On the morning of April 24, music played on the restaurant’s speakers while televisions and decorations lined the walls.
“We try to offer an open seating floor plan, keep it as welcoming as possible, ready for big groups as well as two tops,” Kearney said. “We’ve got multiple community tables, just to try to embrace everybody just kind of hanging out and getting together.”
Seamus said that the owners also plan to work on a back patio over the next couple of months.
Once visitors are seated and ready to order, he said they will be able to choose from a menu that will “almost mirror” the Eastlake restaurant’s menu. The owners have previously described offerings at Crowley’s as “elevated bar food.”
That menu includes a focus on smash burgers, McPat said. Other meals listed in the menu include subs, wings, pretzels, chicken sandwiches, fried bologna, hot dogs and cevapi.
Crowley’s and the other restaurants they own have recently changed a couple of their suppliers.
McPat said the owners now source their meats from Bonner Farms near Garrettsville. Bartulovic said that a new pretzel was suggested by a sophomore at John Carroll University.
“It’s probably one of the best pretzels we’ve had,” Bartulovic said.
Seamus said that Crowley’s will offer its burger specials at all three locations. Other blackboard specials may be unique to one of those locations.