Merlins Rest Pub

Brunch: 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Evening Music: The Hot Club of East Lake with Papa John Kolstad, 9:00 pm
Good gracious! Is this January or July? And what is that fiery orb in the sky!? They tell me ’tis the sun, but I’ve my doubts. I’ve a childhood memory of light, but winter goes on so long [...]

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Tonight: Kilt Night with Live Irish Music
Time: 8:30 pm

Remember greenery on trees?
So. I’ve been laughing madly of late when thinking upon “Juke Box Hero” by Foreigner. So earnest and yet so entirely silly one wonders how they ever finished the song without collapsing in fits of laughter.
Now, if only one could cajole the Irish session [...]

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NEXT SINGLE-MALT TASTING
Thursday, February 5

Mark your calendar!
The Whisky Wench (Fiona) returns on Thursday, February 5 at 7:30 pm to host the next Single-Malt Whisky Tasting. This one already has a theme: The Laddie, the Goose, and the Inch-Long Toul. Read more from the forthcoming tasting notes at the new Whisky Wench website. The details:$25 [...]

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Tonight: Watkins Wednesday Pub Quiz
Time: 7:30 pm
Tonight, join a bevvy of good people and our good friend (and pub designer) Bill Watkins, he of many pub quizzes. It’s the Merlins Rest Wednesday Pub Quiz! Bill and his feverish brain will provide 25 questions and a great deal of levity. It really is a wonderful time. [...]

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Tonight: Folk Jam
Time: 7:30 pm
It’s Tuesday and the instruments are out! A chilly winter’s day folk jam is here to warm you up!
Join a host of friends up here as they jam without amps or mics. It’s a little thing we like to call the Folk Jam: mandolins, guitars, simple percussion, fiddles, etc. Lovely stuff.
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