MC's Pub - Oakdale — Restaurant in Oakdale

This place is a mixed bag. The service was fine. We enjoyed our food (a novelty cheese curd appetizer, a spicy burger, and the shrimp basket), and the shrimp basket was particularly good, some of the best fried shrimp I've ever had.

The beer selection, though, was the worst I've seen in years. Some places without many tap lines will at least try to have a few decent beers available in cans or bottles, but not this place. It seemed strange that an establishment advertising with "burgers and brews" wouldn't take advantage of any of the huge number of excellent local beer options, or at least have a couple of run-of-the-mill Summit or Surly selections. If you like to have a good beer with your meal, you don't really seem to be the target audience.

(Also, we weren't really expecting this, so it doesn't impact my star rating, but I'm mentioning it because it's hard to find this info for a lot of metro-area bars and restaurants: if you're with someone who can't or doesn't drink alcohol and usually goes with a can of THC seltzer as an alternative in MN these days, they don't have those either.)

The atmosphere was, again, mixed. The noise level was reasonable compared to many places we've been. It was pretty clean and, as a disabled person, I appreciated that there were some low tables in addition to all the high-tops. But don't sit anywhere between the back door and the bar, or you'll have icy wind and nauseating cigarette stench blowing in your face every time one of the smokers goes in or out. It would probably help if they hung a curtain or something.

We happened to be there during bingo, which was well-run and had screens you could see the numbers on (appreciated since a member of my party is hard-of-hearing), but somebody walking by our table stole my spouse's unplayed cards for the last few games, which is something we've never had happen even in years of going to much sketchier-seeming places in the city, so I'd be careful with my personal items and wouldn't leave a phone on...

Edit- not changing stars because of the attitude I got when I called, but apparently their listing on doordash is incorrect. They do not carry gravy, and the woman who answered the phone definitely let me know that I was wasting her time calling to give this establishment another shot. :( I just wanted my order the way it read on the website, so maybe instead of being condescending to customers, you actually let management know about the issue?

Review: I didn’t actually meet with anyone from the restaurant, I ordered from DoorDash.

I LOVE a good mushroom and Swiss burger, and this place almost hit the nail on the head. I ordered here for the first time ever and was very excited when I noticed they add gravy to the mushroom and Swiss - in my opinion, it’s what MAKES the burger good, and any place that doesn’t add it isn’t doing it right.

And my burger came tonight without gravy. It wasn’t near close, a large order, or even during a peak dinner rush hour from what I could find based on Google traffic estimated at that time and the fact that it’s 0 degrees outside on a Thursday night…

I wanted to ADORE and RAVE over this place. They almost got that, too, but missed the entire point of my burger, for me. :(

Fries were okay, but could’ve been cooked slightly more. Seemed.. almost raw to me, still. Could’ve been a combination of the weather and the condensation in the box, might be much better at the restaurant. Theyre my favorite style, but something was off.

I do love that I was able to get a delivery drink for only 2$ by ordering a child’s drink. That was the most decently priced thing I’ve ever seen on DoorDash, and I applaud whoever kept it at that price for those of us unable to leave the house at night.

I’ll go back, happily. I’ll try this again. I just hope they don’t skip the small details to save time in the future (ie, running out of gravy and not caring enough to make more), or simply don’t...

2 visits last week. Sun noon and Fri evening about 830 pm. Sunday was real good, food was a bacon burger with cheddar, blackberry jam, onion straws, and coleslaw. Other person got the chicken Philly sandwich with queso and chips. Also good. I think one side of menu specifies onion chips are potato chips and other side doesn’t? They are not onion chips like White Castle has (or used to). Football was on all tvs I think. Good server! Fri night got there as Bingo was ending. A 2,000 coverall! Wow! Lucky man. Of course we expected it to be loud during Bingo, but after it cleared out, the music was so loud our small table of 4 had to yell to try and carry on a conversation. That’s ridiculous! We asked server twice to turn music down. He said he would. Never happened. It was not busy and others could’ve still enjoyed music even if turned down. Server either got ignored, overruled or never asked! Silverware was dirty! Wrapped in napkins greasy. Same drink came in 2 different type and size glasses. Server was ok but we would not recommend a weekend night if you want to visit with others! Sunday much better. 1.50 off drinks and $5 off appys. Cheese curds great but not with the $13 on Fri night when we did not get very many at all. They can do better. I hope they do! The place looks very much like Titans...