Merrion Square

Customer service was horrible. Even though I stood up against the bar they took three orders of people around me, one of which asked if he had skipped me, to which I said yeah, and the bartender STILL took his order first. It used to be an awesome friendly dive bar. Not sure what happened.

If you are feeling cold and are looking for a cozy place with excellent food come to Merrion Square. Its not too much lights but nice and warm. I like fish and cheese there. The fish is steaming hot and cheese I can have of my own choice. A place like home, away from home, the food taste awesome and the service is excellent.
Whenever I have my friends coming to New York, we make sure that we have the one-​time meal here, as we enjoy the food and have our small chit-​chat. The drinks is cheap; the Burgers are Free, and you order a beer pitcher, then you get free wings. Enjoyable treat. I just love having food here whenever I can.

Merrion Square is so great for lunch. Perfect on a cold day. I had the Fish and Chips. The fish was steaming hot!
The bartender Colin is so nice. He’s right on top of everything. He put my order in right away. In no time my meal was ready. The presentation was way prettier than I expected! I’m not very knowledgeable about fish preparation. I enjoyed the taste. I thought it tasted fresh. (As compared to when I put the frozen fish sticks in the oven!)
The best part for me is their sweet potato fries. I make those a priority when I select my place for lunch.
Today’s lunch was a great way to celebrate my review making it into today’s edition of the weekly Unilocal

Merrion Square is possibly my favorite bar to go to while in Manhattan. If you order a beer you get a free burger that actually tastes pretty good. If you order a pitcher you get an order of chicken wings. The beer prices are very reasonable and the staff have always been very nice. The beer selection constantly rotates, however they are more than happy to let you sample a beer. They also have a nice selection of bottle beer. Oh ya, Skeeball, they have Skeeball!

Great deals on burgers and wings and super friendly bartenders. Inexpensive place to grab a drink or two, a bite to eat, and watch a game.

My favorite place on the Ues. Great beer selection! Order any beer and get a free burger or veggie burger which are good. Tator tots are awesome. Also just a fun spot– has nudy photo hunt, big buck hunter, ski ball, pool. Has a good vibe– barrel tables, cool art. And always great service. Great local spot.

Had an awesome time here with my friends on New Years Eve! The beer selection is dope, the staff is knowledgeable and on point and the overall vibe is chill. Their specials are crazy good, best wings in the neighborhood!

Good draft list, on-​the-​ball bartenders, and the free burger with your first drink /​free wings with each pitcher is legit. It’s ⁷⁄₁₀ decent bar food, neither fancy nor terrible, the real full-​sized portion, which is AMAZING considering it’s FREE. Don’t be a dick and be sure to tip more than 20% on what the bill would have been in theory if you’d paid for the free stuff: gratuity is only 18%, and anyone who’s worked in the industry knows that when they give you free stuff AND are nice about it, you tip MORE.
I’m frankly amazed they haven’t yet taken this special away given how many entitled douchebags on Unilocal don’t understand that *the food is free*. The beer is good and the prices are fair no matter what, anything else is a bonus. The correct response is «thank you.»
Dropped in randomly on a Monday, liked it so much I came back on my birthday with all my friends. Bartender brought everything to our table (there were no cocktail servers) even though we were a noisy, disorganized group of ten ordering at random intervals. Please, industry people reading this: bring your industry friends for Sunday Funday /​TGIMonday /​Boozy Tuesday and act like a real human to these poor weekday bartenders, to hopefully give them financial and emotional incentive to keep offering us the best goddamn deal in town.

This place get better each time i come here. I found out that their ‘free burger’ is meat or vegan, they have a selection of cheese, perfect for lactose intolerant who can’t have American cheese but can have cheese, of course one must pay for the cheese.
The beer selection is fabulous, and Gary is a beer wizard! His knowledge of beer is spot on and can be trusted.

They got rid of the pool table!
That was honestly one of the few reasons Merrion Square was a cool place to be.
Pros:
Drinks are cheap, free burgers, free wings with drink, pitcher respectively.
Ambiance is not too upscale or tryhard.
Cons:
No more pool table!
Bartenders aren’t super friendly.
Beer selection doesn’t change very often.

The first few times I came here I was a huge fan, but it’s possible that my judgement was impaired. It’s still a place I’ll stop by once in a while…
If you get the free burger, 20% gratuity is automatically added.
Cheese is $ 1 extra, fries are $ 4 extra I think. Seems fine, but it always takes a while to come out and when you see what you get, I kind of feel like your check total is so far from the cost of the beer and the burger doesn’t seem so free anymore. So watch out for that.
One of the bartenders there is super cool though, they have WiFi, and $ 20 card minimum… you’ll be fine if you add the fries haha.

I dropped into Merrion Square one cold rainy evening to catch a Thursday night college football game. I found the place online and saw they had some pretty cool specials. The rain successfully detoured many would-​be patrons that night but I enjoyed myself nonetheless.
The atmosphere is, at least it was that night, laid-​back and chill. The service was very friendly and accommodating.
The thing that probably surprised me the most was the free hamburger with and beer purchase. Though the burger was a tad bit too salty and very simple, it nailed the homemade burger taste that had just been made from scratch. Simply ingredients included cheese, tomatoes and lettuce.
Though there is a pool table on their site online there was none available that night. I’m not sure if it’s a seasonal thing, or the pool table has been permanently removed for space accommodating reasons.

I’ve been to this bar so many times, I started to consider it my «Cheers» bar. I live in the neighborhood so for many years I’d come here to watch my out-​of-​state team play (even though it’s considered an Eagles bar). I really enjoyed it because unlike other team bars, the people here were pretty nice and welcoming to me and my friends as «outsiders». The drinks were cheap and the food was pretty good for a dive-​y bar. I also used to order take out from here quite a bit, as they were really the only place you could get a nice burger. I don’t know when or why but they totally reduced their food menu down to only a few items and got rid of the wait service. Their free burgers with a drink order used to be a nice thick juicy burger… the owners must care more about pinching pennies because now the free burgers are frozen over cooked patties. Gross. The fries and tater tots tasted like they were cooked in old oil. And even though my friends and I had to walk up to the bar to order AND pick up our own drinks & food, we were still charged 20% gratuity. For what? To add insult, our entire group ordered several beers and food… however, my friend who wasn’t drinking was charged $ 3 for a seltzer water. Really? If I could, I would leave 0 stars. Needless to say, I won’t be back because this bar is a pure disappointment. I guess if you only want to drink it’s cool, but from now on I’ll be taking my business a few blocks down to Manny’s where they have way better food and don’t tack on ridiculous charges.
Stay classy Merrion Square!

This used to be one of my favorite bars in NYC because of its beer and burger deal and because of its cheap drinks. However, the last four times I have been here, I have become more and more displeased with the bar and how it is run.
Well drinks used to be $ 4 which was great, but suddenly they jacked the price up to $ 6 for a tiny little drink. On top of that of that, they add 20% to any tab that has food on it; that means that if you get the beer and a burger deal, gratuity is included. This is somewhat understandable as they have a few signs that say this is the case, but I’m not a huge fan since there isn’t even table service.
Once I figured out that you can avoid most of the food gratuity by buying your beer and burger with cash and then opening up a tab after, I went another time and did exactly this. However, after I closed my (drinks only) tab, I still had 20% gratuity included. After chatting with the bartender and manager, he claimed that it was because I was in a party of 6. Problem is, all six of us have individual tabs open, and we’re all ordering from the bar (remember, no table service). Of course, all 5 other tabs also had the 20% included.
All of these factors have really left a sour taste in my mouth making it very unlikely for me to come back here again even though 3 months ago I would have rated this place five stars. There are plenty of other bars in the area that will be upfront and won’t try to nickle and dime you.
And come on… They don’t even do $ 3 PBR tall-​boys anymore.
Edit (09÷10÷15): Apparently since writing this review, my friends who went this past weekend were asked if I was with them, and when they responded «no» they were told «Good, he’s not welcome here anymore.»

Free burgers or wings with your drink purchase? Um, yes please!
You cannot go wrong at this bar. Not only do they have a great selection of beers on tap, but you get a free burger with each beer! Yes, you heard right, a free burger. It was pretty good too, just don’t go expecting a top of the line burger here.
Oh and if you get a pitcher of beer then you get free wings! Clearly this is a win-​win situation, right!
Now, I have no idea what the crowd is like on a weekend or at night. I came here with a bunch of people around brunch time after having raced in Central Park on a humid day and being that we wanted to quench our thirst with beers our friend recommended this spot. So glad that he did because I would’ve never heard about this place. Basically the vibe was chill and laid-​back. Good tunes playing, they have skeeball and the bartender was great.
My friends and I had a great time and you will too!

I’m a big fan of this bar. They have a decent draft list, and although the beers are a little pricey at $ 8 – 9 each, you get a free burger with it! And you can get either a beef or veggie burger, which is great for my pescetarian self. The burger doesn’t come with anything on the side, but you can add fries for $ 4. The veggie patty was good and came with lettuce and tomato, and I also really liked the curly fries. They have tables here, but you have to go to the bar to order (or at least that’s how it was on a Sunday night).

I’m very confident in saying that this is the only dive bar in New York City that I will go to and soberly order food. The deal is a free burger (cheese + fries are extra) when you buy any of the ~30 beers/​ciders on tap or a call liquor cocktail. They range from $ 7 – 11 and it’s a very eclectic selection. Did I mention that this deal is all day everyday?
The bar staff got my name right after only being in here twice. They’re all very friendly, observant and attentive so don’t be a drunken idiot and TIP THESE MEN, alright?
Pretty amazing if you asked me and that’s coming from a gay vegetarian who doesn’t drink beer.

Great Happy hour for hungry people!
Burger with purchase of beer!
Wings with purchase of pitcher!
Small place, we went to meet up with some new people starting a new residency. Ideal for people in the area. Bartenders were cool, their ticket machine broke so our orderes took forever but we took it in stride since they were so nice.
Were really busy so they messed up my order (wings with no sauce) so they gave us the saucy wings and made us new wings. Also messed up another order (fish tacos) and gave us fish and chips, so they gave us the fish and chips and gave us new tacos.
Overall I wouldnt say I have to come here, but I had a good positive experience. For happy hour at least!

Tough to beat a place offering a free burger with every beer, a pool table, and plenty of seating, but my experience with some of the staff here was disturbing. The worst of which was an incident a few weeks ago, where one staff member cornered me in the bathroom, blocking me from washing my hands as I left a stall. He did not respond or move when I asked, «excuse me, do you mind if I wash my hands?» He simply looked at me. A little worried, I went back to my group’s table (without washing my hands) and sat down, where the staff member sat down next to me and grabbed me roughly around the back of the neck, saying, «You can’t do your little thing in there.»
I was a pretty confused and a little worried at this point, so I asked what he was talking about, to which he replied with something similar to his original statement, vague but very accusatory. We went back and forth like this maybe six or seven times: me trying to figure out what he was accusing me of, him making the accusation again, and threatening to throw me out. All the while, he’s still got me in a pseudo-​headlock in front of a group of friends. Finally, he said, «Don’t lie to me, you’re doing drugs in there. I know you’re lying, and if you fuck around again, I’m throwing you out.»
As a sidebar, I have Crohn’s Disease, which is why I was in the restroom to begin with (not drugs, as some believe). So I’m already uncomfortable when it comes to the number times I have to use a bar’s bathroom. This kind of public (and bizarre) accusation drawing attention to my use of the bathroom made me doubly so.
I reassured him several times that this was not the case, and offered him the opportunity to search me if he liked. He declined, and released my neck, but stood watching me for the rest of the night. Being scrutinized is not really a pleasant way to hang out, so the rest of the night was not long. There was never an apology.
Moral of the story: be prepared to demonstrate your complete drug abstinence and purity of character to the staff and your friends if you have to use the bathroom in this place.

Went there to watch the fight Silva X Diaz. We arrived early, got a table, got the pitcher promotion (1 pitcher for $ 24 and u get some wings) that serve 4 people a full glass each (Mostly hoppy beer — not my thing :(), the place is not huge but was okay overall.
Didnt like the burger and the side portion of fries are very tiny, and made it very expensive and not worthy ordering it
I Would go back another night. Had a lot of fun there

Plus de 15 bières pression au choix,
Tous les plats typiques à la carte (burger foch and chips, Wings, mozza dips etc…) un service soit au bar soit à table et de qualité ! 6 Tv 1 billard et des prix honnêtes … What else?