Sue S.
Yelp
McCoy's was a pleasant surprise in an area of the Twin Cities that we don't honestly often frequent. We visited at the request of a friend, and I have to say, we had a pretty good time. The restaurant is pretty traditional, with a nice long bar, dark wood fixtures, etc. It doesn't scream Irish pub, but there's just a hint of that (besides the name).
The beer list is good. I was pleased to find a lot of good solid tap beer options (about two dozen) plus additional bottles and non-beer options. It seems they had a decent number of wines listed, but everyone knows I'm a beer snob, so I can't say much more than hey, they have wine, too.
Food-wise, things were good but not perfect. Not excellent but a good tasty bite.
We ordered the zucchini fries, which are battered zucchini fingers deep fried and served with some sort of creamy, mayo sauce. It was pretty good. The fries came from the kitchen piping hot and the zucchini was still a bit firm in the middle, not mushy. The one complaint was that they were extremely oily. I am pretty sure that the kitchen just dumped the lot into the basket without draining.
For dinner, I ordered the Beef on Weck, which is a roast beef sandwich with onions, a horseradish aoli sauce and au jus. The sandwich was pretty good. The bun was nice and buttery and soaked up the au jus. The beef itself was tender and flavorful. The onions were properly caramelized. My only complaint was food temperature. I would say it was warm being generous. But I was hungry and it tasted good, so I ate it. I can only imagine how good it would have been if it had actually been hot.
My husband got a big buttermilk chicken cobb salad which was very impressive and he reported to be very good. Our friend got the veggie burger, which he said was among the best veggie burgers he's had.The fries were an upcharge (Seriously?) but pretty yummy fries. There are happy hour specials as well that make the whole thing a bit more affordable.
Dessert options were cool and fun, including Sabastian Joe's ice cream, creme brulee and cookies and milk. I tried to order the creme brulee, but our waitress told me that a large table had basically just bought them out of creme brulee. I switched to the cookies and milk then. The cookies were gooey but again, part of the cookie was warm and part was not. Seems like the kitchen may have temperature issues. They weren't really very busy... but the parts that were warm were very good. They reminded me very much of Nestle Tollhouse store cookies... they were very flat like Tollhouse cookies. And the milk for some reason really sealed the deal. It was absolutely frosty cold and washed down the cookies in a really satisfying way.
We would definitely come back. We found the food to generally be better than most pub/bars, and the beer list was pretty good. Wish the service had been better and also that the temperature on the food had been consistent. But we didn't have any issues we felt were enough to keep us from returning someday if we are in the area.