Merlins Rest Pub

Get your Fish & Chips (British style) and pair it with a good scotch . Also enjoy the Wednesday Night trivia . It's a great way to spend an evening with friends.

Dark and convivial, with servers and patrons obsessed with good conversation and great Scotch , Merlin's Rest is an eerily authentic pub considering its East Lake Street location. Read more

On Mpls St Paul's list of Insider Eats for single malt goodness. They have an impressive selection of scotch & Irish whiskies

Their food is wonderful. The regulars are friendly . It is family friendly . It is a warm and comfortable place.

Voted Best Neighborhood Bar in MPLS by City Pages in 2010. Thewhiskey selections are great, and the bar often hosts special tasting events for singlemalt Scotch enthusiasts.

The mussels came in a swimming pool sized vat of garlicy buttery perfection. This place was a great find.

Amazing staff , great selection for food and drinks. Relatively vegan friendly .

A St. Partick's Day or Any Day must is to order a "Black and Brown" aka a "Black Castle " (Guinness & Newcastle). It's a euphoric event .

Great mussels , a hearty hummus/feta/pita plate, bangers & mash and an amazing scotch list. What more do you need?

Get the crisps that come with the burgers - precisely what crisps should be, at least to this Yank. Also, there are worse draughts than Finnegan 's, a delightful medium-bodied local Irish amber.

The food was amazing, and we had a server named Alyssa who was extremely friendly and pretty darn kewt.

Don't bring your own birthday cake . Also, don't forget your pub quiz team name. And definitely don't do both of these things on your birthday...

On any given night, visitors might find locals who walked from their homes, elderly patrons bused in on a road trip and ready for a good tim Read more

Fish and chips , various pies , and the whisk(e)y.

Fish and chips are great and scotch selection is awesome.

Best regulars in the metro!

They serve lunch which is great if you don't want to compete with the loud evening crowds!

Food was great, bar tenders were entertaining.

First Thursday of every month, Merlins Rest holds a sampling session of their large variety of scotches at 7:30.

Order a single malt Scotch off the bar 's extensive list -- if you've never had a Laphraoig 10, see if you like one of the smokiest, peatiest, most challenging Scotches out there.

Awesome food & beer selection

Try the Pimm's cup, totally worth it.

Food is great, service is great

Be careful in your conversations, apparently the owners have invested in some surveillance technology, and just might hack a loogey in your clam chowder .

Ask for the mash potatoes with garlic and basil garlic butter . It's magical.

They make amazing Bloody Marys . Try the Chiswick!

Try the new Prime Dip made from Thousand Hills beef ! Delicious!

If the bagpipers are there DO NOT encourage them. They'll never stop. Bagpipes are for outside people!

Strong drinks ... And they have strongbow on tap

Get the Chiswick. Way more than a Bloody Mary ever could be.

Come on a weekend morning and get a toad in the hole.

Pub Quiz is super fun. Food is decent. Beer selection is great.

first Thursday @ 7:30: Scotch tastings. worth it to try and learn about Scotch

Ooooh! Sweet Potato = Strongbow + Finnegan 's. Beer training wheels.

The Bacon , Banger & Egg Butty is the Bomb! Try it with the HP sauce.

Black and Tan and a Cornish Pasty - Heaven.

The plowman rocks

Fish and chips !

Awesome trivia every Wednesday at 7:30

I love the vibe here

use the bathroom before you go, because Merlin's Restroom is a single stall...

Friday nights are "Kilts and Corsets" night.

Come see Nikki and the Ruemates 2nd Thursday of every month - Fantastic!!

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine editors’ pick for best trivia night .

The Trivia

DEFINITELY get the fish & chips .

Be on the lookout for Aaron Landry.

Ask for Gremlin!!!

Fish and chips . All the way.

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