BJ Ryan's Banc House — Establishment, food and restaurant at 16 River Street, Norwalk, Connecticut.

This place is pretty good. I think the atmosphere is the best thing about this place. There was a live duo with guitars and singing and everyone at the place seemed like family to each other. People clapped after every song without fail and it was just very inviting.

On to the other important stuff. Our appetizer was the Mexican Nachos (or something like that) and they were decent. I might just not be a huge nacho fan, but they didn't seem to really be great. For my entree I had the pulled pork sliders, which really was a good amount of food for an entree, something I don't always see with sliders. The BBQ sauce was probably the best part of the sliders because the pork by itself was kind of dry. With the sauce though they were definitely good sliders, just nothing that would compare to BBQ from the south. The fries that came with it were good, but some had way too much salt on then. They use large salt here, kind of like sea salt but it seemed even bigger. I liked that and it made the fries stand out more than just plain old fries even though that's what they were. If they got the amount of salt right they would've been amazing for sure.

Update: Since my first visit I've been back many times and haven't had a bad experience. The dirty bird is probably their best menu item, but the weekly specials are always good and interesting. You should definitely come here, I don't think there's a bad thing on the drink or food menu.