ML Rose Craft Beer & Burgers

Great, standard tavern-​style food.
I recommend the Nash Vegas burger. Recommended by the waitress — great menu item. Sweet potato bun, pimiento cheese, crispy tobacco onions (crispy onion strings), and bbq sauce. :P
Will be back!

These burgers are very good. For some reason the service at this location seems consistently better than at the Charlotte Pike restaurant, so be aware of that. If you are looking for a laid back environment to get a tasty burger and have some great local beer, this is a good spot to choose for sure. Like other Unilocalers, for my money, this place wins out over other places like the Pharmacy or Flip Burger for quality of dining experience every time.

Excellent from start to finish. First the vibe is a fun unique atmosphere. We started with the waffle fries loaded with queso, cheddar, jack cheese, diced tomatoes, naturally cures bacon and green onions! Shared with our party of four!
The classic buffalo wings-​hot were perfectly sauces and not too hot but had a kick! The east of melrose wings were sweet and sticky– yum with homemade bluecheese dressing was great.
We ordered a moo shroom burger… flavor good, bum was too soggy, to much going
On. Nash Vegas was served on a sweet potato bun, pimento cheese, crispy tobacco onions, BBQ sauce and was delicious! The beef patty was cooked to perfection thick! The sweet potatoes fries are to die for and a must have!!! This is a fun place and can’t wait to come back!

Delicious food. Fun atmosphere. We sat outside on the patio. Weather a little chilly and they were able to turn heaters on. We had the brisket wrap, cheeseburger, and chicken sandwich. All delicious !

We went in with a fairly large party on short notice and wow did they deliver! The food was really good. This was my first time there. We had the chicken nachos and brisket. Our service was top notch, very attentive, friendly, everything came out correct. The food was priced reasonably as well. They really went above and beyond for us! The ambiance was really cute, we sat out on the patio. Highly recommend!!!

This place blows the pharmacy out of the water! Being a vegetarian, most places have the same old mushy black bean patty that the heat up and bring to you on a bun with basic toppings. This place let’s you sub a veggie patty (not black bean, but I don’t think it is homemade either) on any of their burgers and it was delicious! The beers were great, my husband loved his full on meat burger, and those cheesy fries are heaven.
We hail from Seattle and had given up on finding craft burgers here after hearing the pharmacy was the best of the best. It is definitely not, M.L. Rose takes that crown for us at least.

Super good super Blt with an avocado, egg and fresh cut waffle fries:) seasoned perfectly! Had a chocolate stout beer and a peanut butter that were both great! Sat on the back patio covered with an awning with ceiling fans facing a natural stone wall. Their was also a nice fire pit going. Great service atmosphere and food. What more could you ask for:) thus the 5 star rating I gave is justified!

ML Rose is a favorite of mine. I have a soft spot for them for a handful of reasons:
1) Super close to my house. During Snowpocalypse, we were able to walk over for sustenance.
2) Great Happy Hour! Seriously, check out their site. They pretty much have something every day.
3) The Black Bean Crunch Salad. Please oh please don’t ever get rid of this! So delicious!
4) Waffle Fries. I like the regular ones «Loaded» and the sweet potatoes «Carolina Sweets» style. Yeah, SWEET POTATO WAFFLE FRIES! They’re a must
5) That patio! It was always fun but they recently redid it and it’s fantastic now! Much bigger and plenty of nice, big tvs and seating.
I just have never had a bad experience there. Is it crowded? Yeah, often, especially if it’s a holiday or a big game’s on but there are a lot of tables so the crowd moves pretty fast. Love me some ML!!!

This is officially my favorite restaurant in Nashville. They have so many choices for everyone (wings, fries, burgers, sandwiches, salads, soup, quesadillas, beer, cider, liquor, other fun drinks, etc.) and their waitstaff is incredible — they have never gotten my order wrong once and I eat there 1 – 2 times a week.
They are willing to accommodate you on seriously whatever you could ask for (food modifications, splitting checks weird ways, etc.) and they do carryout as well (good for nights when there is nowhere to sit in there!)
Their new patio is also amazing — it has a fire pit with about 8 chairs around it, a giant game of jenga, several picnic tables, and places to sit along the beautiful rock wall.

Wow wow wow! We’ve been meaning to come here for a while since it’s right down the road from our place and finally popped in today for lunch! It was busy but we were served quickly.
Let me start off by saying they have a massive list of beers to choose from, so if that’s your thing — you will be in heaven. We ordered ourselves a couple of beers and dove into the menu…
I ordered the NashVegas burger and my fiancé ordered the Smashy Melt. THEY WERE SO FRICKEN’ GOOD. Seriously my burger was one of the best that I’ve had — perfect blend of pimento cheese, bbq sauce, and crispy onions… yum, I’m salivating just thinking about it. I ordered a turkey patty (that’s what I usually order) and it wasn’t chewy like turkey patties usually are — it was surprisingly juicy!
The back patio was awesome, love the fire pit and exposed rock wall. I bet this place is bumpin’ during the weekends and I cannot WAIT to come back (especially for Thirsty Thursday)!

This is such a cool place to hang out anytime during the week. You could be grabbing a quick bite for lunch or hanging out on a Saturday night.
The fries ranchero is the bomb and a must have every time.
Although this is a craft beer place they also do serve wine.
One of my Nashville’s favorite spots

Let me say, we came here on a Friday night for dinner and it was BUSY! I really don’t expect anything less from a wing/​burger/​beer joint, in Nashville, on a Friday night but boy! Busy, busy, busy.
Luckily it was just my friend and I and we were able to snag a good seat at the bar. There’s plenty of seating inside but the seating is first come, first serve — so it can feel a little awkward standing around waiting for a table to open up.
The beer selection is good and they have a lot of both local and non-​local craft beers in bottles and on tap — big bonus.
I ordered a Nashvegas burger – it was SO good. If you’re a burger aficionado, you will not be disappointed. Even the sweet potato waffle fries were good.
Service was pretty fast for it being such a busy Friday night. Make sure to swing on by if you’re in the area and want a great burger and a beer!

Nice place! I met a buddy there that frequents the place. I was pleasantly surprised to see the great selection of craft brews. They even had some beers from the Bells brewery in Michigan. I haven’t tried any of the food but I will go back for sure.

I have been here 3 times and I have had a good, an okay, and a blah experience.
Here is what it comes down to:
1. The Food — it can be really flavorful (i.e. Carolina Waffle Fries) or utterly bland and awful (chicken quesadilla)…
2. The service is however always amazing and friendly
3. this place is rather clean and has an interesting neighborhoody feel.
So basic this is like a real life version of McClaren’s from How I Met Your Mother… it is good go to… You will be bored if you go there to often.

The Five Alarm burger has become one of my favorites in Nashville. It’s hot but not uncomfortably so. Pay the extra buck for the sweet potato fries — you won’t regret it. The service can be hit-​or-​miss, especially during peak hours, but I’ve never experienced any problems. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to branch out and try another type of burger the restaurant offers.

To someone who eats out a lot service does count. I have given this place so many chances that it is partially my fault for continuing to come back after the way they have continuously treated me. I have brought my wife and mother here on separate occasions (as it is convenient to my house) and they have observed the same thing.
I used to like hanging out at this place when it was the «new» hotspot many years ago but between the terrible service, mediocre food, and abundance of other better places to go this place will no longer get my business.
Not only is the service consistently terrible, the staff is incredibly disrespectful and the food isn’t good enough to overcome the deficit. Every time I have been here it has taken me a LONG time to be waited on. When I have been lucky enough to get a waiter or the bartenders attention they have been short with me and act like they are doing me a huge favor taking my order. I am a big tipper and try my best to be a good/​loyal customer to local businesses. I am not a high maintenance customer and treat everyone with the respect they deserve.
This has not been reciprocated at this establishment.
I have tried the burger, turkey burger, BLT and the quesadilla. The quesadilla is ok, the Turkey burger is ok, the fries are average. The last time I was here it took 10 minutes to get the bartenders attention during the lunch hour (it wasn’t very crowded). After I ordered a drink the bartender went down to the other end of the bar, hung out with his friends and completely ignored me. I tried over and over to get his attention but then I decided that enough was enough and I walked out never to return.
With so many other better choices in Nashville now why bother. I gave 2 stars because at one point this place was fun.

Obviously I showed up on the wrong day with the wrong server before, because my second visit here was top notch. My wife and I came in around 6pm on Thursday night. We sat down at a table by the bar and a server named Kayla came over to us almost immediately. We ordered two ciders (and they were both 2 for 1!) and she brought them out within 2 – 3 minutes. We ordered some bottle caps and wings. I got the sweet and spicy ones, my wife got the green Tabasco. All of the food was great, as it was last time. But our server was the difference between a great visit and a «I’m never coming back» visit. Kayla was friendly, attentive, and neither absent nor helicoptering. Our previous server offered no apologies for the long waits, charged us for a side of ranch dip, seemed to forget about our table, and had an air of annoyance that we were even there. Total night and day difference between the visits here, but I’m glad we came back as it was thoroughly enjoyable.
The ONLY reason I’m giving ML Rose one less star is because apparently they have someone checking ID’s after 5pm Thursday-​Saturday. The guy outside the door didn’t look official in any capacity and he was smoking, so I went out of my way to avoid him by going through the other set of doors (I didn’t realize I had to see him first because again, looked like a customer taking a smoke outside). He followed us inside and checked our ID’s. It’s been a long time since I went somewhere that you had to prove your age before walking inside, and maybe that just how it’s done these days. If it were my business, I’d have a no smoking policy while on the clock (because I don’t want to walk through a billow of smoke) and have him wear an ML Rose shirt/​coat/​jacket to make it clear they’re a legitimate employee of the restaurant. Just my two cents as a customer.
Overall though, awesome experience and we will definitely be back!

One of my favorite go-​to bars in this area, the craft beer selection is very good, although several of the seasonal beers that are listed were gone. The craft burgers are fantastic. I prefer the Nash Vegas burger, although you can’t go wrong with any of them. Ironically, the bartender did NOT recommend the Thanksgiving themed Gobbler burger. I did not give it a try after her non-​recommendation.

Service was crap (for me service is everything) our waitresses for got about us. The food was not as great as everyone had made it out to be.

This place is trendy, the menu looks promising but I ordered the feature burger and was extremely unimpressed.
The sweet potato fries are BOMB and our server was great!
My burger however came out incomplete (no biggie) as our server was right on it! But from a foodie stand point:
Blue cheese «sauce» was a bit grainy, the blue cheese wasn’t as rich as I hoped as the sauce downs out the crumbles.
With bacon, pickles and onions you would think it could cut the richness of the cheese but it was pretty far off.
This burger was probably my least favorite burger I’ve ever had sadly, I couldn’t even eat half of it and I was hungry!
But the rest of the menu seems extremely promising.

It’s insane to me that this spot has a lower rating than I think it should. Heart breaking, actually.
Perhaps I think it should be better than it is, because we came by so late after 11pm and got amazing food & decent drinks all for decent pricing.
I was going to say if you’re a white wine drinker, be sure to SKIP THE CHARDONNAY AND GO FOR THE PINOT G. FOR SURE!!!
The Chardonnay is bitter and the flavor is not great — bummer!
HOWEVER YOU MUST MUST MUST. UHM MUST. Get the quesadilla!!! Our friend highly recommended the chicken, but I went with the bean, it was GREAT!!!

Great Food… Terrible beer tap lines.
All of the beer tap lines are dirty. They need to be cleaned. There is no other reason why every beer tastes like a IPA. A Pilsner tastes like an IPA there because the previous beer on that line was most likely an IPA. I get canned beer here…
The food is great. Atmosphere is good. Staff is very accommodating and friendly.

Real interesting décor. Need a little more variety on the menu. Service was slow and not attentive. Got 2 of 5 drinks wrong never brought the right ones. Dropped off food and didn’t follow up with condiments that we asked for.

I had to come back to update and give this place a 5 star rating! I must say that when in doubt ML Rose it! Every Time I go it is amazing. The food is out of sight! It always comes hot and fresh! ALWAYS! To me that is major. To patron a place and the food quality never changes is a pretty big deal. All of the food is great. Most times when I stop in Camrin is my bartender and she is great! I love to see how well she handles the bar because she handles it! She makes you feel like you are there alone when honestly she is also working several other people. She knows about all the beers on tap and always makes good recommendations according to your taste. Overall ML Rose is one of the coolest bars and my husband and I love it!

Best place for lunch in Nashville. Awesome service, great waffle fries and excellent veggie burgers.
I really like the mood in the building. It’s always a lot of fun. Large assortment of craft beers.

Atmosphere:
Probably one of my favorite hangouts because of chill it can be. Don’t get me wrong this place can get real crowded really quick but if you get a chance to enjoy it during the odd hours it can also be pleasant. Parking can be just as bad.
Food:
I usually get the Five-​Alarm burger and it does the job. Just enough spice but not so much that I can’t continue drinking.
Can’t go wrong with the wings and waffle fries either. I usually get my fries plain but I’ve heard nothing but good things about the ones that have toppings.
Then again most people show up for the beer and they have a large draft list to choose from.
Service:
I think I’ve only had slow service here once but it was packed that night. One this particular visit everything came out quickly and without hassle.
Overall:
I think it makes for a great happy hour location for co-​workers and friends alike. Definitely one of my favorites.

Always a go to for my husband and I. Thursday’s are two for ones, great deal for this area and a great mid week treat! It does get crowded after about 7:30−8pm. People stand around your table like vultures, but if you can ignore that you’ll be fine. They always have local beers on tap and you can consistently count of the staff to know a lot about each one, their knowledge is helpful. Not everyone can be like my husband and remember each and every beer they’ve ever tasted, ha! The food is a notch about bar food, the burgers are made with grassfed beef, another reason I am a fan. They do lack healthy options. I once got the sweet tea chicken without the bun and a side salad, bad idea. Chicken was dry and my side salad was lettuce, tomotoes, and cucumber with a side dressing (super simple). Definitely a place to have your cheat meal for the week.

Great place to grab a quick lunch after the lunch rush and before the rush hour. I would recommend the wings and any burger on the menu! Great service and awesome drinks as needed…

Let me say I love anything that is more than it meets the eye, and this place is one of them! It’s so tiny looking from the outside but spunky and personable on the inside. And to add to that, their craft burgers and beer selection is A-​MAZING. Service is set at a perfect leisurely pace.
Had the Dragon Burger and a Lagunitas, perfect combination! And it’s so nice and definitely a place I can see myself in regularly. They also have a brunch special with brunch drinks (mimosas, bloody marys, etc.)
Can’t wait to go back!

I really hate to give bad reviews. With that being said, how am I supposed to give a good review if I can’t even get served here?!
I have been here three times, and only ONE of those times I’ve been able to find a table. The other two times the two of us walk around and cannot find a table or a seat at the bar.
That usually wouldn’t be a problem if there was a hostess to help in situations like these to give us a wait time. I wouldn’t even complain as much if there was seating in the door area to wait for a table, but notta. Both times we’ve had to walk out and no one has tried to help us.
The ONE time I was able to get served food it was just meh. Go elsewhere, especially on the weekends.

An old favorite. M.L. Rose. Formerly Melrose. I went in for lunch today. Cameron was the bartender /​server. She was attentive and lovely. It was funny because we talked about the menu. I noted that I always got the five alarm. I then realized –I’ve never had any of their other burgers.
I decided on the Angry Dragon.
It’s got an egg, fried hard, avocado, and Sriacha. It was amazing. I was glad I decided to try it. In my opinion it could have used more Sriacha but that’s just me.

M.L. Rose is in the up and coming area called Melrose. From the décor and the outdoor Beer Garden, this place has a really cool vibe! The parking is great for such a busy area (if there aren’t any spaces in the adjacent lot, it has an upper deck). Now onto the food and drink.
This is a beer and burger place. There is a bigger beer selection than there is food. It has a large craft brew selection and my husband was very pleased with all the choices (I’m not a beer drinker). The burgers are fantastic, as are the fries! This is what we ordered:
–The Angry Dragon Burger with waffle fries.
–The Nash Vegas Burger with sweet potato waffle fries.
Both were delicious and we hope to return soon!