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Mother's Pub And Grill
Categories: Nightlife Bars Sports Bars Restaurants American (Traditional) Sports Bars, American (Traditional) [Edit]
1017 W University AveGainesville, FL 32601
(352) 378-8135
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good For:
- Late Night, Dinner
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Mon, Fri, Wed
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Good For Dancing:
- No
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
21 reviews for Mother's Pub And Grill
Review Highlights
"...specials too, including dollar High Life drafts for those..."
(in 3 reviews)
"The drink specials are awesome."
(in 2 reviews)
"Some of the best wings in the city."
(in 8 reviews)
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21 reviews in English
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Review from Travis L.
Gainesville, FL
10/30/2011 2 Check-ins Here
The best sports bar in Gainesville. Weekend nights it turns more into a college hangout but the rest of the time it is a perfect place to watch a game.
They have a great drink selection and amazing drink specials. They also have Irish drinks to go along with it's name and Irish logo.
The food was great. We had wings and sweet potato fries and they were great. Some of the best wings in the city. The only knock is they don't have a lot of Irish food to go with it's theme. -
Review from Joel C.
Gainesville, FL
10/4/2011
This is the best bar in Gainesville!
Great bar food with a big menu. Great specials every day. Attentive staff. Tons of TVs. Never a cover charge. There's a reason it gets croweded people! -
Review from Amy S.
11/1/2011 1 Check-in Here
Mother's had an awesome special Fest weekend! $1 High Life's couldn't have been better to get my Saturday rolling! The food was delicious, the waitresses were extremely nice, plenty of seating, and if you're into college football it looks like it's the place to be.
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Review from TJ G.
Gainesville, FL
9/30/2011
A true sports bar. Rugby, UEFA Cup, Center Ice, MLB, NFL & NCAA Packages.
The Best Wings in Gainesville. $1 High Life Everyday. Each Day & Night there is a Cheap Food & Drink Special. They Never Charge a Cover. They Never Charge "Game Day" Prices
It's a Neighborhood Joint, one that always is there to Welcome You Home -
Review from K M.
Gainesville, FL
6/5/2011 1 Check-in Here
Good prices! Especially on Wednesdays.
I always enjoy this place, not to loud, good amount of crowd. The food is general bar food, nothing to great or fancy, a little overpriced, but I definately keep going back with friends! -
Review from Bryne Y.
Orlando, FL
4/17/2011
Best sports bar in Gainesville. TONS of televisions. The staff is always really friendly, and the drink prices are pretty decent. They always have good specials too, including dollar High Life drafts for those days when you're on Day 12 or 13 since you've been paid. I usually opt for the fancier beers, but that's just me.
It can get loud and crowded, but hey, it's a bar. Deal with it or stay home and watch the game on your 19 inch TV. The crowd seems to be a mix of hipsters, college kids and old fogeys that have lived in GNV their whole lives. Nice mix, always interesting. -
Review from Courtney F.
Gainesville, FL
7/5/2011
Their tacos give you the shits and the staff from at least my experiences are not very friendly or knowledgeable.
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Review from Johnny L.
12/5/2010
Should be 3 and a half stars. Mother's Pub is pretty good. I love monday nights in the fall here. On monday nights, they have .35 cent wings, $5 bucket of beers (5 beers), and 2-4-1 wells. All that with Monday Night Football on a bunch of Tvs make for a pretty awesome Monday night.
Mothers Pub is a place to grab some drinks and have a good time with some friends. On Sundays, they have Tvs for pretty much any game but it can get packed pretty quick. The food isnt that great though and the wings have really gotten bad recently. They're over-fried and drenched in some oily sauce. The burgers are good though and the fries (both beer-battered and sweet potato) are awesome.
The service can be pretty bad, but I give them the benefit of the doubt. It's probably due to the sheer volume of people that come in and out. The place gets busier around some days and after 9 pm, they have a bouncer out front. At night, they will only allow people +21 years old to get in.
Overall, awesome place to grab some drinks and watch the game, but food is subpar. -
Review from Michael W.
Jacksonville, FL
1/13/2011 1 Check-in Here
I went last fall for a NFL monday night fall - Late review posted today.
Here for 35 cent wings and 50 cent taco
Service decent- but long wait for wings
Food is pretty decent and I ordered terayaki wings. I also tried a new Orleans wing flavor from my friend.
Cheap for it's quality. But it is a chill place to be to watch games with your friends. It does get pack and crammed. It is very hard to find seats sometimes. However, i enjoyed the atmosphere.
I would come back to the place. -
Review from Stephanie R.
Gainesville, FL
6/15/2010 7 Check-ins Here
LOVE MOTHERS!
And here's why: There is SPACE. If you want to go to a bar late at night and you actually want a place to SIT, go here. The music selection is also usually good, although I have heard the same tracks the past few times I've been. They will also occasionally play the gator chomp and the fight song, which is fun :) .
The service is pretty good too, alot easier to get service in a crowded bar when you have a table.
I love this place, and it's definitely the best sports bar in gainesville. The drink specials are awesome. Tuesdays is $2 pints on every draft they have (and yes...they have Guinness people). Can't beat $2 burgers on Wednesdays either. Also $1 miller high lifes all day everyday.
Bottom line is; if you want cheap beer and you want to go somewhere you dont have to stand in someone's armpit, this place wins hands down.Listed in: Best Drinking Places!
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Review from Chest R.
Gainesville, FL
7/5/2011
I agree with said complaints and will add more to them in a second, but first, the pros.
-Friendly service
-$1 miller high lifes
-UFC in HD (only bar that uses more than 1 HD tv)
-Love their buffalo chicken sandwich
Those that require prestine service or whatever can glady go elsewhere. When you walk in here, the service matches the place. Realistic. Its a bar, people. A bar that serves bar food.
I, for one, hate tables. Theyre isolation boothes. I sit at the bar cuz, yep you guessed it, its a bar. BUT I dont want to have to fight more than I already do for the seats, so enjoy your tables!
It does get crowded and when the back (someone called it ugly?) isnt open, this place gets unreasonable.
The $1 drinks are just for high lifes and thats a mug, not a pint. Its not a bad deal at all, but it becomes a heavy beer after 8+. They should get a lighter beer with the same price. Id even settle for buying Miller Lite at $1.50.
The biggest complaint I have, the dreading I feel when I arrive, the annoyance I despise, is that god awful, LOUD music. The manager, TJ, is a nice guy, but for god sakes man, refrain from playing played out, common denominator junk! Enough of Journey, Cee-Lo, and that horrible Def Leopard song. Ok, it does please some people, but this place is tiny, so turn it down! After every UFC, TJ blares this noise as if the band is actually playing there. Guess what TJ, theyre not. Though I know you want to make this place fun, it is still a bar, not Market Street. There is no dance floor, ok? So, turn it down a few notches, I beg of you. -
Review from abigail b.
Seattle, WA
3/17/2011
bar food is something that i don't want to particularly pay for, and that especially goes for chicken wings.
$3.50 for ten wings -- i can handle that. they're not horrible. they are crispy and not breaded, but they are also insanely greasy. the fries are good, especially when you mop up all of the grease that didn't manage to stick to the chicken with them. don't expect anyone to notice if you need anything, because they won't. this bothers a lot of my friends, but i don't mind waiting for things. in fact, scoring a table at mothers on a monday or weekend night is like taking a sword out of a stone -- hold on to that shit and never let it go.
there is a huge, huge con for this place that i cannot ignore: the car bombs. i love car bombs. i am a little girl who can drink more than my share of car bombs, but unfortunately the shot glasses that they give for the drinks are small and plastic. i would say they are kind of like the cups that come to measure out nyquil. they don't sink, and at the end you are drinking pure baileys and jameson cheese curds. this is such a shame. it was one of my worst drinking experiences, and i couldn't drink for the rest of the night. i was so scarred. i even just shuddered a little now.
there are more cons -- those being each collar-popping, sandal-wearing, axe pomade-using bro that is beckoned to the place. they come in droves for the pails of beer, and my self-esteem starts to dwindle after being in that company for an extended period of time. if you're a woman who is even moderately good looking: good luck in the lion pit.
but... cheap wings or something! -
Review from Alex E.
6/8/2010
This is probably the most enthusiastic three stars I can give. I really love this place but it is definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
It's a little dark and dingy, it's a little loud and crowded. The food is best fried.
But hey, when you want to drink some cheap miller high life this is the place to go. Have a few too many and eat some fried food.
Also if you're into the more obscure sports (rugby, etc.) the owner is pretty cool about turning a tv to it for you. They've got some mega sports plan going on.
A note: I go here between the hours of 5-8PM usually. I have heard the crowd is a very different animal after 9PM. -
Review from sanjida s.
Gainesville, FL
7/1/2010
I give this 4 stars based purely as a sports bar. Huge tvs, cheap drinks.
Place to be to watch a big (or small) game. -
Review from Jack H.
9/24/2009 1 photo
Four of us were in town to get a taste of Gainesville, and after we watched the Gators beat the Vols, we needed a place to catch our alma mater, the Longhorns, put a spanking on the Red Raiders. A bartender the night before had recommended Mother's as a cool place with plenty of TV's and good food where we could watch the game in relative peace, even if we were wearing Longhorn gear.
Mother's fancies itself an Irish pub, but I didn't notice anything particularly Irish about the place: normal sports bar atmosphere, with bar-height tables and stools. But the Guinness-marinated burger I had was token representation, and the apparent UFC fixation is perhaps a nod to ancestral Hibernian pugilism. Despite the fight being shown on all available TV's, our waitress was kind enough to flag a manager down to get the UT game on one of them. The prompt service kept plenty of beers coming, as well as the aforementioned burger for me, which was big and delicious with all the fixins, and a side of sweet potato fries which were fantastic. At other places where I've gotten these, they've ended up soggy and flaccid, but at Mother's they were nice and crispy. The rest of the table got a mushroom Swiss burger, and a couple large orders of wings, all of which proved excellent.
All in all, a great place to catch a game or a fight, with good service even on a busy night.Listed in: Gainesville Trip
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Review from Matt H.
Baltimore, MD
1/12/2010
For some reason this place just doesn't do it for me.
There are always strange old men out front. I liked it more before it opened the second ugly - but bigger room.
Service isn't especially good or friendly, drinks are average, prices aren't special.....no reason for me to go here. -
Review from Anton P.
Gainesville, FL
4/8/2011
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
There was a time where a few of us would go to Mother's on a random night to hang out, watch some sports, talk about our upcoming raids (SSC to date this time), and enjoy some dollar drafts. Now, might as well not even try. The place gets busy by 7:30 (and by busy I mean people standing around looking for you to show the smallest hint you might be leaving your table - hovering if you will) every night, especially .35 cent wing night.
Also as bad is the fact that it is bro-dude central. If you like to wear your collars popped, baseball hat wrong, or scream every opinion you have in a "BRAH I DID HER LAST NIGHT!!" type of colloquialism you might feel at home. It is understandable however why people would need to scream, the noise level is abhorrently loud.
The redeeming qualities are that when you CAN get a table for an event it is fun to be there, though the service has gotten particularly slow over the years. The food is actually pretty good and I have never had a bad meal there and prices are fair. Dollar beers, cheap wings, UFC fights, and outside seating (and probably a bit of nostalgia for the good old days) save this place in my view. -
Review from Belen C.
Durham, NC
9/26/2010 1 Check-in Here
Mother's has a decent selection of beer on tap (slightly better than your average bar) and the food is okay. The service, however, is one of the poorest in town. I guess they assume anyone who walks through the door is a college student who likes to be treated badly. For one, I am not a student anymore. I was one not long ago, and I believe students, just like any other paying customers, should be treated with courtesy and respect. The servers who have helped us have been abysmal and are lacking serious basic customer service training. I am taking my money to Stubbies or The Midnight. These places might be more expensive but at least they treat you like a paying customer. At Mother's you get what you pay for and if what you're paying for is $1 beer or shots, then expect cheap and mediocre service.
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Review from Kerri O.
Gainesville, FL
2/20/2009
THE BEST SPORTS BAR IN TOWN. It's locally owned, not a chain, so that is even better. Go here if you want to watch the game somewhere that is NOT megahuge and somewhere that the food is decent and reasonably priced. The wings are good! There are a ton of TVs that you can sit close to, and if your program is not on, they will usually change the TV to make sure that you can see it. This is also one of the only bars in town that shows RUGBY and other international sports, like Soccer, on TV. If you have any issues one of the owners is almost always there and they will make sure you get taken care of.
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Review from Kristopher A.
Berkeley, CA
6/8/2010
It's a good place to watch sports; otherwise I wouldn't want to hang out here. There are a lot of TVs and the drinks aren't expensive.
It's crowded and kind of dirty, but some people are really into that kind of thing. I had friends that would INSIST on going to Mother's all the time.
P.S. They had a beer-pong tournament going for a few weeks last year which was a lot of fun. Of course it got canceled, though. -
Review from Maggie P.
Palm Beach, FL
10/13/2009
Great specials!
