Mugs Alehouse

Mugs Ale House

125 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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718.486.8232

Cuisine: Bar Food
Our Rating: ★ ★ ★
Cards: All Major
Hours: Mon-Fri 2pm-4am; Sat-Sun 11am-4am
Booze: Full Bar
Subway: L Bedford Ave.
Menu: Click Here
Delivery: No
We say:

Much better than you would expect from bar food and at a very reasonable price. Lose yourself in the best beer menu in the city, while dining upon any of their tasty burgers including a portabello, vegetarian, or and old-fashioned beef burger. Italian specials are usually tasty, and daily fish grills are not to be missed. Mussels are surprisingly fresh (and cheap) and the spinach quesadillas are wonderful. On the downside the jukebox is horrible and some fool will surely choose “Stairway to Heaven.” And sadly, they no longer offer any $2 pint specials.

NY Mag says:

If you could somehow transport to North Williamsburg one of those hearty Cheers-like Irish pubs in Boston that attract slumming college kids, you’d have an approximation of this oak-filled tavern and restaurant with arguably the best beer selection in Brooklyn. Dark, spacious, and festooned with, yes, mugs, a light-up American flag, and paraphernalia from seemingly every brewery ever invented, the place just might pass for the headquarters of a labor union. Though not as gloriously blue-collar as the clientele at Turkey’s Nest Tavern down the street, the folks lifting big mugs of Weinstephaner Heifeweisen at the bar do seem like the last remnants of Williamsburg’s pre-hipster wave; they’re novelists and journalists in their late twenties and early thirties, rather than college drop-outs looking to conquer the world with rock-and-roll. (Don’t look to the jukebox for anything made after 1992, though Jimi Hendrix, Earth Wind and Fire and one CD of “Music to Drink Beer By” do represent.) Our only worry comes from the anomalous restaurant in the back, serving dishes like which, though tasty, are nevertheless woefully out of sync with the bar’s décor and spirit. If you want to join the resistance to Mug’s becoming Williamsburg’s first Park-Slopish yuppie hang, just stay out front watching sports, order nothing but beer and nachos.

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