McMenamins Mill Creek

Easily one of the smallest McMenamins locations, tucked in to a strip mall, more like a restaurant than the usual extravagant experience they try to offer.

Offers a fairly large collection of their house brews, most of which are decent to pretty good. Pretty fairly priced compared to other breweries in the area.

Service was pretty good, but they don't seem very enthusiastic while on the job, it was hard to get a smile out of most of the staff.

Food was decent but the portions are really small and as with the other locations pretty over priced.

A decent place to stop if you want a quick burger and brew, but not worth going out of your way for.

Indoors is dark and mostly wood lodge feel. I went outside to a small seating area with a few small trees and plants around to partially mask the busy street behind and parking lot in front.

All beers tried surprised me in their quality and overall I found their beer underrated on BA.

Service was decent but mostly down to business. Could have checked on us a tad more but we had a changeover of servers which likely played a part.

Tried a pulled pork slider from the happy hour menu, and it was phenomenal actually. I’ll have to return here for dinner sometime!

More of a typical pub with decent food and atmosphere than a McM's retrofit into an old school or historic building.

Beer selection is mostly McM brand creationson rotation, and span the range of styles they offer.

Food is typical pub fare.

 

 

 

A good selection of tasty brews here. I was only here once, as the first stop on my infamous (and unsuccessful) Seattle-to-Vancouver pub crawl. I only sampled the beer, not the food, but everything I did have was good. Sits in an unsuspecting shopping plaza. Atmosphere is friendly, semi-sportsbarish, though I didn't get a full feel for it, since I went midday and there were only a few people there. But the staff was friendly, if a bit distant. I'd like to go back eventually and get a true feel for the place.

I hit up the McMenamins in Mill Creek again tonight and quite enjoyed it. McMenamins was an old hang-out for me and my buddies back when we lived in Mill Creek, and I'm pleased to say not much has changed since then.

Although it's a chain, this place has a good local-pub feeling. Decked out in knotty old wood and once-gleaming brass, I feel at home here. The service was great with a couple of servers rotating through the relatively sparsely filled space. I enjoyed fish & chips with my beers (usually my test of a pub's food) and it was pretty tasty.

In addition to six or seven regular beers, they also had four seasonals out, which I think is pretty good. I'm not sure how many (if any) of them are actually brewed at that particular location, but what I tried was pretty tasty.

Overall, McMenamin's is a great hangout with some pretty solid beers, some friendly faces, and some quite spot-hitting tasty food.