Pub restaurants in North America
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Winking Lizard Tavern
This hugely popular pub-grub outlet, named for its caged iguana, is a logical downtown stop before or after a sporting event (Cleveland is a serious jock town with three modern downtown sports venues).
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Moose's Tooth Pub & Pizzeria
An Anchorage institution serving 18 custom-brewed beers including monthly specials, and 50 gourmet pizzas.
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Chuck's Waterfront Grill & Endless Summer Bar Café
For someplace dressier than Brophy Brothers, reserve a table in the nautical-theme dining room or outside overlooking the sailboats. Come between 17:00 and 18:30 for around US$15 to around US$17 sunset dinner specials, such as an 8oz steak or grilled salmon. Upstairs at the publike Endless Summer, the scene is Jack Johnson-casual (and cheaper), with fish-and-chips, burgers, billiards and beer.
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McLean's Pub
If you're after great pub fare you can't go wrong at McLean's. It does an excellent line in chicken wings, Reuben sandwiches and burgers with a mountain of crispy fries. Dark wood, dim lights and high ceilings make it easy to lose track of time at this Irish pub. The beer list features beers like Keith's and Euro-brews like Stella and Leffe. There's live music some evenings.
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L'Amère à Boire
This bilevel brewpub with 25-ft ceilings, two outdoor terraces and a rustic brick interior is often filled with toe-tapping students enjoying the Spanish and jazz beats and unusually good pub food. Patrons slurp freshly brewed pints of the house German- or Czech-style lagers over tapas and burgers (downstairs), or borscht, pirogies and goat's cheese salad (upstairs).
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Sink
- Boulder, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
Waiters bob and weave under the low-slung, graffiti scrawled ceiling of the Sink, a Hill classic that's been around since 1923. Colorful characters cover the dimly lit, cavernous space – a scene almost worth a visit itself. Almost. Once you've washed back the legendary Sink burger with a slug of a local microbrew, you'll be glad you stuck around.
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Pilot House
The oversized wood beams and brick columns of the historic Roger's Hardware building provide a bold setting for fine dining or light pub fare. Lunch specials are creative, delicious and a bargain at around C$10. Throw in some vegetarian selections and Pilot House has something for everyone.
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Union Street Public House
Gas lamps out front welcome tourists and locals into this spacious taproom for frosty brews, raw-bar delights and nightly dinner specials. Inside, the atmosphere is equally inviting: a wide bar, heavy wooden furniture and exposed brick provide equal parts retro-and-warm atmosphere.
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Chair 5 Restaurant
The kind of bar and restaurant skiers love after a long day on the slopes. It features more than 60 beers, including a dozen on tap, gourmet pizzas, big burgers and a lot of blackened dishes like blackened halibut tacos.
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Merchantman Pub
The crammed-together tables fill quickly at this locals' favorite. In addition to great traditional pub grub, you can also dine on Asian-influenced creations such as Thai peanut curry or Madras chicken sauté.
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Dundee Arms Inn
The historic inn is home to chef Patrick Young who, using local fresh ingredients, comes up with fabulous creations like pork tenderloin marinated in island maple syrup.
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Kona Brewing Company
Locals and tourists alike crowd around the bright, noisy bar for handcrafted brews at the Big Island's first microbrewery. Specialty ales include Big Wave Golden, which blends traditional pale and honey malts, and liliko'i (passion fruit) Wheat. Try the four-beer sampler. Diners enjoy salads and thin-crust pizzas from a stone oven, on a torch-lit patio surrounded by leafy plants. This place packs, so reserve ahead and anticipate limited parking.
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Norfolk Pub & Restaurant
Norfolk Pub & Restaurant claims the ‘widest selection of the finest beers in the world, ’ which we can’t confirm, but they do indeed serve excellent suds, especially those hailing from Belgium and England. Happily, their solids stand up to their liquids – smart pub grub with some twists. Try the spicy crab cakes with Thai chili sauce ($15.50). Take note of the chair made of antlers in the corner.
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Phantom Canyon Brewing Co
In an old exposed warehouse building saved from the wrecking ball in 1993, this local brewery serves a variety of pints and American cuisine in a casual atmosphere with wood floors and furnishings, and an antique bar.
The appetizers can be large enough for a meal, happy-hour pints of house-made blondes, IPAs and stouts are just $2.50 and the downstairs dining room is family-friendly. Locals flock to the upstairs billiards room at night.
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Del Churro Saloon
It serves giant, inexpensive margaritas and delicious pub grub (try a burger or the cheese stuffed peppers) – it’s no wonder Governor Bill Richardson chooses to dine here. Inside the Inn of the Governors hotel, this popular pub is an atmospheric place with copper-topped tables, lots of vegetation and a blazing fire in the winter. In summer the patio opens up and tables spill onto the sidewalk. It serves food well into the night.
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Colonel Brooks' Tavern & Island Jim's Crab Shack
This friendly bar fills with regulars at lunchtime and happy hour. In the wood-paneled dining room, it serves pub grub and Southern fare. Live jazz bands play in the evenings. If you are feeling tropical, head to the tiki bar next door. Romp in a palm tree-shaded sandpit or sip umbrella drinks on the outdoor deck. Try the 'Kick Ass Margarita - hot and spicy, cold and icy.' Boogie down to live music on Wednesday evenings. Life is good, mon.
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Maui Brewing Company
- Maui, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
This microbrewery sports a classy pub atmosphere with a glass wall overlooking the brewing operation. The food goes way beyond the usual pub menu, with oysters on the half shell, Cajun crab cakes and raspberry-glazed duck. Beers range from the light, crisp Honolua lager to Wild Hog, a robust, full-bodied black stout with a creamy finish - sample them all with six 3oz glasses ($6). Live music nightly.
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Victory Café
Writers, artists, musicians, students and publishers shuffle down Markam St and congregate around the leafy Victory Café patio. There's a truly bohemian vibe here, with Tuesday-night poetry readings and jazz quartets regularly be-bopping it up. The food is pub-style – wings, steaks, curries and burgers – served with a minimum of fuss and washed down with a swathe of beers on tap.
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Oak Creek Brewing Company
- Sedona, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
Beer-lovers will want to make the pilgrimage to this microbrewery, which has been racking up the medals at various beer festivals for ages. The nutty brown ale packs a punch, while the Hefeweizen is a fabulous post-trail refresher. They pair well with the gastropub fare, including delicious spicy wings. There’s a more upscale (and touristed) outpost at Tlaquepaque village.
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Waimea Brewing Company
- Kaua'i, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
It resembles a suburban mall joint but the open-air plantation building and swaying coconut trees are pleasant and the island-inspired pub food is tasty. Two creative uses of 'ahi poke: a seared poke wrap and a sushi roll filled with poke and flash-fried. As for the US's westernmost microbrewery's beers, aficionados find them only passable.
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Beaver Street Brewery
Perfect on a chilly night, grab a pint of hoppy Rail Head Red and plan your next day’s adventure by the pot-bellied stove. Grub is burger, pizza and sandwiches kicked into high gear – margarita chicken anyone? The attached billiard room with its heavy wooden bar stays open till 1am (2am on weekends). Cool beer garden with mountain views in summer.
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Red Onion
- Aspen, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
Open since 1892, this saloon has been recently renovated with a certain mountain bistro flair. The fusion menu has a brainy side, starring mango and brie quesadillas, and grilled lamb chops in a habanero preserve, plus you've gotta love a joint that serves chicken and waffles for (late) breakfast. The kitchen stays open well into the night.
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Ford's Filling Station
The 'Ford' in question is Ben Ford (yup, son of Harrison) and he'll fill you up in his lively gastropub favored by a chatty, boozy crowd. Flatbreads are toasted to perfection, the fish and chips have the lightness of tempura and the vegetarian polenta cake is a symphony of textures and flavors. Only the noise level needs some fine-tuning.
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Fiasco's Dinner Show
- Orlando, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
Fiasco's Dinner Show has so much going on at once, it's hard to concentrate on where the next surprise is coming from. Sets fall apart, actors throw tantrums and then the show goes downhill from there - all in good fun, of course, or at least we think so. Great curry and traditional pub grub selection. Kids are free on Thursdays.
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Doc Water's Pub
- Juneau, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
If the Hangar doesn't put you close enough to the water head next door where you can grab an outside table complete with seagulls. Dinner is served until 01:00, but this is a better place to linger in the late afternoon sun drinking beer and devouring the pub's Big Island burger (teriyaki sauce, pineapple salsa and Swiss cheese).
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