Mrs Murphys Pub & Grubb

One of the best local dive bars in town. Iggy the chef has turned this place into a dive bar with great inexpensive food. The crowd is local but inviting to anyone that walks into the door Marlene and Sue are good bartenders hat remember what your drinking. Entertainment is sketchy Bahama Bob is the exception Kareoke is the only thing missing.

It’s the bar where everbody knows your name, complete with retired Irish Catholic priests and whores with hearts of gold. Best of all are excellent drink specials and Iggy, the Sardinian chef serving up delectable delights. I needed to update this to let you know that there hasn’t been a single dish that disappoints — and wow — at really great prices. I’ve had the French Dip au jus twice — with a killer horseradish sauce and some of the best home made French fries around. The French onion soup reminded me of days of yore dining at Famous & Barr in Saint Louis — that good. The clam chowder took me back to Boston– which is saying something since I’ve never been there — and the fried chicken puts the south to shame and gives South Beach’s Yardbird some healthy competition.

Its been Mrs. Murphy’s Pub and Grub for the past five or six years though I originally knew back when it was the Shark & Tarpon Club, $ 10 for a year’s membership hiring off duty mini skirted go-​go girls… at least they appeared to me as such, but other longer area residents seem to have known it under more than 20 various names in the past. So, as far as location goes, it’s had its ups and downs, though mostly downs.
It’s basically a locals hang out, mostly of the 55+ age group generally having a full bar of drinking patrons during happy hours but serving some rather good food, when they serve food, particularly their chicken marsala or clam dishes with most offerings having an Italian accent.
It’s super friendly; most of the patrons know each other, gather for the drinks and to generally engage in conversation of local interest. It’s rarely frequented by the tourists and isn’t at all aimed at attracting them which isn’t surprising. If you know anything about Lauderdale, there are tourists or snow bird places and then there are places for locals, and as is most often the case especially with drinking bars, they distinguish themselves as such with the two rarely mixing together.
Overall it’s a pretty good easy on the wallet place serving up a decent drink in good company, allows smoking, and certainly likeable enough to me. However, even for a locals bar I honestly have to say I’ve seen better in the area.

This place really seems like it’s a place where the locals do and get drunk and complain about their lives.
We went there for lunch. While we waited to be acknowledged at all and brought menus, we were able to take in the colorful conversations of the old drunks at the bar — it was about 1230pm, LOL.
After waiting about 10 minutes (and there were only 7 – 8 people in the place) the bartender came over to take our order and told us that they close their kitchen for the off season, basically the whole summer, and that they only serve food when the tourists are in town. Pretty strange for a place that obviously needs the locals to survive???
Can’t think of any redeeming qualities about this place — maybe the booze is really cheap — not sure if it would be worth going back at any price though?!?
It zero stars was an option, this place would have gotten it!
p. s. obviously, we were there several months ago, someone just asked me about the place, so I am adding the info for all