Thrifty Hipster

Quick Info

User Rating:

4 out of 5 (from 27 users)

Address:

1528 University Ave NE
Minneapolis

Tel:

(612) 781-4405

Hours:

Su-W: 11am-1am

Th-Sa: 11am-2am

Parking:

free lot

Outdoor Seating:

ground level

Smoke Level:

none - ordinance

Share |
Shaw's Bar & Grill ($)

Happy Hour & Drink Specials

Happy Hour & Drink Specials

Are these specials wrong? Let us know.

$2 Windsor Whiskey

Happy Hour: $1 off ALL drinks & 1/2 Priced Appetizers

$2.50 Coors Lite Taps (20oz) + WingNut Specials, Open Jam hosted by KFAI

$12 16oz T-Bone Dinner, $2 Windsor

Taco Night (3 for $3.25), $2 Windsor, 6pm Meat Raffle & get 7, 7oz beers for $7 from 7-8:17pm

$4 Redbull Vodka, Jag Bombs, 23oz Import Taps

$1.75 PBR Beer

$2.50 23oz Coors Lite all night

Average User Rating: 4 out of 5 (from 27 users)

$2.50 Budweiser during the Twins!Shaw's Bar & Grill is the perfect Nordeast neighborhood dive bar! A welcoming group of regulars, live music, karaoke, or jam sessions nightly (keep your guitar in the car, the owner might get up and jam with you) make it happening. Like most bars in the area, you don't have to worry about a dress code and drinks are low-cost, even if its not happy hour, which it almost always is anyways at Shaw's.

Shaw's Bar also offers arcade games, golden tee, and darts, as well as a large, fenced-in patio. Music is always a mix of classic rock, blues, or indie rock and the crowd is as varied as you can get.

BTW, Shaw's is also a "sports bar" so you can expect to watch the game; 9 Big-Screen T.V.'s are almost always on.

Comments and Rating

View All Comments

Another boring bar in northeast. I gave them a 2 because they are at least trying to make a comfortable atmostphere. They had a band playing but the pictures and instruments screwed into the wall makes me think of a cheap applebees. Unlike the Vegas Lounge and the Knight Cap I wasn't depressed upon leaving. I say depressed because if you go to 3 out of 5 bars in NE the population is generally 40-60 year olds drinking themselves into oblivion. Also the taplines need to be cleaned because my beer tasted like hell.

-- Beer please gave this bar a 2 out of 5 at 09:40 01.22.10

Not a bad place to go in general. Avoid the owners if at all possible. Mean people. The drink specials are rarely advertised but good if you can figure them out, no food other then greasy meat but it is tasty, and the same bands playing the same blues/rock covers over and over again.

-- Scotch25 gave this bar a 3 out of 5 at 13:38 01.21.10

This place was much better as the Sun Saloon. The atmosphere has changed, the specials are basically non existant and the owner and servers are not Nordeast friendly.

-- debbie gave this bar a 2 out of 5 at 20:20 12.03.09

great ne bar with some of the best blues bands that come thru town!

-- gfrog1 gave this bar a 5 out of 5 at 20:39 09.15.09

Definitely a dive...dingy, slow service, awful food. for example: nachos are literally tortilla chips served with salsa straight from a jar... the fried mushrooms have 0 taste...i could go on. their specials have changed too--there's no $2 St. Paulie Girl on Fri/Sat. no dart board that i could see. patio is hardly large (although they do use solar-powerered patio lights, which is cool).

-- robyn gave this bar a 1 out of 5 at 13:35 08.31.09

Post Comment and Rate
Your Name
Rating
Review/Comment

Rate this Bar
Rating