Molly Maguire’s Pub & Fine Eatery

Ok atmosphere, but if you are looking for food don’t bother. Their kitchen is never open.
I have tried a number of times. All times during the week.

Five stars for the bar! Please note that the menu on this listing is not accurate. Perhaps it just wasn’t available when I was there. Asked for a menu and was told they only have grilled sandwiches. Still worth the trip, but eat first.

Best bar keeps and brunch in town. Cannot say enough good things about the owner here. If you get there 5 minutes after they open, you’re late.

Guinness and jello shots. My first jello shot.
A solid Irish dive bar. What more can I say?

All around awesome place. The staff is friendly, the drinks are not outrageously expensive, and a fun, no frills place to hangout with your friends.
This place has been around for a long time, and as a old timer Seatlleite, I hope it stays!

Love this place! Brandi always makes sure we feel welcomed and greets us with her huge cheesy smile.

Sometimes I wonder why I come here.
Is it for the people and their ridiculous stories that they tell 5 different ways all of them ending differently… perhaps
Is it for the emotional abuse I get from the Bartender as she pours me a heavy hand of Jameson… maybe
Is it because the pool table, which I constantly win at, usually in a drunken state… sure
Is it because of the most random encounters with people I met over the years from grade school to college and we share our stories over a pint… possibly
Is it all of the above, and the great Friday night karaōke nights… HELL YES!

If you’re a drinker, not an a-​hole, and appreciate small local businesses that have soul, then you need to order a Harp and stay for a while. This is a bar for the awake. The attentive bartenders are always happy and helpful at this authentic Irish bar. Further, I’ve by chance met profound people there, yes in a bar, and the real regulars make all their stories far more interesting with their first sentences often delivered with fine humor and wonderful accents than any other bar along the street that you think you might give a try.

I had my doubts about this place, but I was wrong. As a New York boy, I expect my bars to be Irish, but in the Emerald City? Well, some of the patrons have names like Pat, Kate, and Michael, and brogues to go with them. Every so often, they have a live Irish band. The food? Well, come on, it’s an Irish bar: hearty and simple.
They also have a nice beer selection, live music a few times per week, karaōke on Thursdays, good service, a mixed crowd not made up only of hipsters. Great place if you want a real bar.

Excellent open mic. Met lots of cool people. Bartender was very friendly.

I want to like this bar more, but the customers really ruin this place for me. I do go here for football games, but outside of that, I usually avoid it. The bar itself is awesome, I just can’t stand their clientele

Great bar with a nice deck and cheap drinks cant beat that!

Dart board? Check.
Pool? Duh.
Best bartenders ever? Yup.
Delicious home-​cooked complimentary food on the weekends? Super check.
This is the greatest place in all of Phinney/Ballard…and arguably the world.
I am in love with Molly Maguire’s.

I dont’ drink alot. While eating the hamburgers, mac’n’cheese or the shepards pie IT IS ALMOST impossible to not want a beer!
The red hen rye whiskey is one of those decisions that are bordering on whats’ new, and whats’ different.
I wouldn’t know what would be better, Having a nice, cool chill place like THE JOYCE motel… located off of 11^th and Burnside close by… or a better theatre. Create Jobs… remodel the cinema off of 105^th!(I swear i saw Mickey Rourke having sex in there while watching PREDATORS.)

Local irish pub. Has kilkenny on tap and I know they try hard to have a great menu but I have only truly ENJOYED the shepards pie. Stay late so you can watch the regulars get in arguments about global politics but give up on getting on the pool table past 9pm.

I first came to Molly’s upon the request of a friend, who had met one of the bartenders and got all excited about his accent. A group of us went to watch the Seahawks play the Saints; we went back the next week to watch them play the Bears in the playoffs. Great place to watch the game :) A variety of folks– old, young, local. They have strong bow on tap, which is a plus. Did I mention there was a buffet of FREE food during the game?
We decided to go back for Wednesday Quiz Night. I believe it usually kicks off a bit after 9pm. Great quiz night! Very friendly quizmaster; not too hard, but not too easy (for instance, the eggheads we were grading got all of the academic questions correct, but totally flopped on the picture round, which was of cartoon fish. Who doesn’t know the name of Nemo or Flounder? Jeez…:)
Food and alcohol is great, atmosphere is friendly, wait staff are nice and hard-​working. My only complaints are that it’s a bit small, it’s not a very comfortable place to hang out– the bench along the wall isn’t padded at all, and there’s a runner that poked you in the back, and the menu online is expansive and delicious-​sounding, but it’s old and they don’t serve a lot of the stuff they supposedly used to (EDIT: there are two Molly’s websites, and one is really old. Do not go to
, go to
). Our group ordered the shepherd’s pie, chicken nachos, mac and cheese, spicy wings, and lamb chipotle burger, all of which was delicious. But I was really craving their (old website) online-​menu-​advertised broiled cheese soda bread with roasted garlic, which supposedly is no longer served.

I came for the Pub Quiz which is one of the best out there. Not too niche, not painfully hard but easy enough that people ace it. Lost of fun rounds and interesting commentary.
The drinks were good, and while I didn’t have the food it looks really good!

Great little neighborhood Irish bar…
Thursday nights seems to be karaōke night and it was packed.
Pool tables in the back and a jukebox with a good selection.
Good service, excellent alcohol selection and decent prices.
I don’t think it’s going to be a regular place. I will, however, definitely revisit the place.

Fun little bar with good, cheap beer! We paid only $ 5 for a pitcher of a nice, light lager, so good that it won a Blue Ribbon!
I have also been here for Trivia, which is one of the best in Seattle and is always packed.
After an appalling experience at The Tin Hat (its actually not cool or unique to be rude to people based on their appearance) we were so happy to have (Charmie?) as our server who was very friendly, charming, and interested in accomodating my group.
Thanks Mollys, and Charmie!

I’m a total fan of this place! Great food, awesome ambiance, kick a$$ jukebox, and a fantastic staff (Gibb is the nicest bartender I’ve ever met)! Plus, you never, ever know what you’re going to see/​experience when you’re there.
Now, on to my experience.
We’d gone there for my boyfriend’s buddy’s birthday party recently (on an early Saturday evening), and when we first walked in, you could immediately tell it was a local’s establishment… meaning not a touristy college place, which is what I definitely wanted to avoid. (I mean, who wants the crazy drunk guy playing air guitar to GNR nonstop, right?)
As the evening progressed, meaning as the many, many pints of Guiness were poured and the Shepard’s Pie was served, more and more friends started filtering in. Being the dutiful girlfriend that I am, I proceed to feed money into the jukebox, and at the request of Birthday Boy play plenty of GNR & AC/​DC. I escape to the comforts of the enclosed outdoor smoke pit in the back where I could smoke in peace, and they could play their pool… they were male bonding, and me not being male, well… yeah.
But I digress.
After about my 5^th trip out back, my boyfriend appears and says very calmly, «Sweetie, it is time to go.»
As we were walking out the door, I can hear Birthday Boy’s voice trailing behind me, yelling, «Hell YEAH» with Paradise City pounding in the background, and Gibb the bartender bidding his farewell…
…we learned the next day that approximately twelve minutes after our departure, Birthday Boy was moved by the music to the point of jumping onto the pool table (a beautiful one, at that), playin’ his little heart out on that air guitar, hopping from table to table a’la Slash, then ends it by cartwheeling off said table, missing his mark, and face-​planting on the floor.
I’d have paid $ 1.99 to see that.
Like I said, great place to hang out at, the food’s great, staff is awesomely awesome… and you never know what to expect when you’re there.
I give it 4 stars overall, but had to throw that extra one in just for having the ability to tell this true story.
Go there. Spend your money on very reasonably priced drinks, tip your bartenders, and split a Shepard’s Pie. So totally worth it!