McCormick’s Pub & Restaurant

Great atmosphere. Wings are amazing, I highly recommend. Fish and chips are wonderful with a different and delicious tartar sauce. Happy hour is great. Not a huge beer selection hut what can you expect from an Irish bar. Food makes up for it however.

Had lunch with some friends today and hadn’t been there for a while since I’m in New York so much. These guys are simply world class. The owners are there every day making sure things are perfect, so it’s no wonder. Hands down the best food in Wayzata.

Great place to relax and grab a drink in Wayzata.

Very good food, service and décor. I don’t have much to say other than everything was right.

I would definitely recommend McCormick’s to anyone in the Wayzata area. This is no run-​of-​the-​mill, generic pub grub; rather, it’s an elegant, cozy and tastefully decorated pub serving very high quality food with exemplary customer service.
We started with the baked brie, which was delicious and tastefully served with fig jam and grapes. I had the fish and chips, which was very good; the fries were a bit overcooked for me, but the delicately fried cod more than made up for it. We closed with the apple pie — who would have guessed that an Irish pub would have a pastry chef in house? Also just to die for. Finally, our server, Cher (this is what our receipt said), was just outstanding. She made the experience truly enjoyable; she was helpful without being over-​the-​top, and she was attentive throughout the evening. You get what you pay for, and the prices here are not cheap, but the value overall is quite good.

Love this place for so many reasons. It’s hard to feel at home in wayzata when your simply in the mood for a casual food experience. McCormicks definitely gives you that but with exception food. Absolutely love their burger, chicken sandwhich and house salad. For dinner, pretty much everything is great but the salmon stands out. Also the quality of their hospitality and service is 5 star without the unnecessary pretentiousness.

McCormick’s new addition is perfect, congratulations! I missed you.
Best thing is to make reservations, they are jam packed all the time. I normally get there with my husband a little earlier have a drinks at the bar and then move to the new dinning space. Best meal and experience.

I enjoy this Irish pub and it’s usually a busy spot in downtown Wayzata. They serve a proper pint (which goes with out saying for an Irish pub!) I like that the restaurant is bright and cheery. They expanded the size of the restaurant which made a huge difference. It’s pretty loud tho…
The food is good and as other Unilocalers mentioned it’s not a large menu. Honestly, I usually pop in for a drink.

Have gone 3 x for breakfast and service was great and Bloody Mary’s were right on. Yesterday was a different story so it rates the two stars. Went late in the day for lunch and the Bloody Mary was blah and watered down and I wish I would of sent it back. Ordered the special on the happy hour menu — burger. It was gross and tasted like cheap hamburger meat. They also piled on greasy scraping from the grill — it was so unappealing and gross. I split that with my husband who ordered the veggie portabella sandwich. The portabella mushroom was cold and slimy and no flavor — just like the entire sandwich. No flavor in the tomato or the avocado and then served on a ciabatta bread. Both sandwiches were piled too high and a MESS to eat. My joy for this restaurant went to the back burner for sure. May return for breakfast but never again for anything else. I think they clearly order their produce from an industrial supplier — local and sustainable would be a great improvement. There clearly is NO flavor in industrial supplied produce.
I was going to contact them before placing a review but there is NO email address on their site.

Stopped by for a light dinner. Ordered the caprisi salad, and beef sliders. The salad came with bagged lettuce, and 2 small cherry tomatoes cut in half and the motsarella. This is the prime of tomato season, and they put 2 store bought cherry tomatoes on a $ 14 salad. We asked for more tomato, and ¹⁄₃ of an unripe tomato was thrown on top. We then noticed the salad had no olive oil, so we had to ask for that.
The sliders were nothing special, but at least we did not have to ask to have them fixed.
Left feeling like I would not want to go back anytime soon. Very poor value for the money spent.

4 star service & food & ambiance — dined in pub area so be prepared for conversational noise. Asked for wine samples & loved the Chardonnay. Hard to decide what to order! Quaint place — will visit again.

I would say it’s a high-​end Irish restaurant/​pub. We had late lunch /​early dinner. Bacon burger for me with a delicious sauce. Grilled chicken w/​garlic aioli and French onion soup for my wife.
The food was excellent and reasonably priced. The staff was friendly and service excellent. We are outside on a dog friendly sidewalk area.
The location’s also terrific a block from the lake.

Must be tough to find good and decent service staff in Wayzata… hostess wasn’t what we call «customer centric» at all, and the waitress was just plain dry and incompetent. The best part? Another waiter who came and took pictures for us! I don’t think we’d come back there… the food was good though, I must give them that.

It seems like the latest food trend around Minneapolis is the Irish pub. Used to be the only place to experience pub food was to head downtown to the longtime stalwart, Brits Pub (still iconic-​in fact I was just there for lunch a few days ago). Now pubs are popping up all over the area like dandelions in the spring. I find this odd as most of these pubs are striving to be as authentic as possible and England is NOT known for its great food!
Like all the others, McCormick’s menu features all the tradition English pub food including fish & chips and shepherds pie along with an assortment of burgers, chops and appetizers. I dined here on a midweek evening with a pal. Clearly they were benefiting from the location in affluent Wayzata and the limited dining options nearby as the place was packed with families, couples and business people. It felt a bit hectic the night we dined and the very small and close tables reinforce the intimacy of the place.
While the food was good, my meal was not memorable.

Service is 4 stars– very attentive and well intentioned.
Menu-​4 stars, varied and wide enough to be very interesting and something for everyone. although there was no walleye on the menu! which is a local staple.
Atmosphere-​4 stars since they remodeled and expanded, the new dining area is a huge improvement from before.
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My cousin and I ate at McCormick’s and we both had a great experience! First off, our waitress was awesome. She was super friendly and very attentive. We started off with a $ 30 bottle of champagne, which our waitress was great at coming around topping off our flutes to ensure that we were never wanting for more. The ambiance of the restaurant is very nice. It’s cozy and inviting, but you can also tell the bar area can be a fun spot if you’re looking to have some fun.
We didn’t order any appetizers, but I had the lobster roll as my main course. It was delicious! The bread was toasted to perfection (you can still tell that it was Texas Toast and not fresh bread though), but the lobster was definitely fresh. The thing that I loved most about it was that there was barely any mayo or sauce. The lobster was definitely the star of the dish which is why it was so great. My cousin had some sort of turkey sandwich (forgot what it was called) and she loved it. It was huge though so she couldn’t finish it all.
To top off the night, our waitress stopped by around 11PM to inform us that it was happy hour (yay! as we’d already finished our bottle of champagne) so we ordered a couple glasses of wine and just talked and laughed. Everything about this place from our experience was great. The food, the service, and the ambiance make this restaurant a must if you’re in the area.

The restaurant has expanded with more seating now. Dinners can get busy. They take reservations. Food is consistently very good.

This is my second time here. First time had the burger. One of the best I have ever had. This time I had a corned beef sandwich and wild rice soup. They make their own corned beef. It was fantastic with ever bite. The wild rice soup was a broth base with a great smokey flavor. My girlfriend had the lobster roll. We had a great table right next to the fireplace. The prices were reasonable too.

Pretty disappointed with the food. Had lunch with colleagues at this cosy joint. Good comfy décor.
The roasted pepper soup was way too thick and pretty bland. I had the lobster roll which was decent without being remarkable in any way. A colleague had the Cod entrée, which was soggy and tasted like cardboard. Even the desserts were just ok. Sorry, not recommended.

At the grand re-​opening & it was worth the wait. Same great service, same great pub atmosphere and now they have a restaurant section. Can’t wait to try out the menu! Am sure it will measure up!