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3 Best Pub Restaurants in Winnipeg

The 3 best pub restaurants in Winnipeg, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best pub restaurants in Winnipeg are One Great City Brewing Company, The Grove Pub & Restaurant, The Toad in the Hole. Start with One Great City Brewing Company if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Marcus Chen•3 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
One Great City Brewing CompanyThe Grove Pub & RestaurantThe Toad in the Hole
3 Best Pub Restaurants in Winnipeg
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Top picks at a glance

#1One Great City Brewing CompanyPub • Polo Park • value#2The Grove Pub & RestaurantPub • Winnipeg • value#3The Toad in the HolePub • Winnipeg • $$

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated pub restaurants in Winnipeg. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Polo Park and Winnipeg.

Quick picks

One Great City Brewing Company
Pub • Polo Park
One Great City Brewing doesn't cosplay as a neighbourhood pub — it commits to being one, with the industrial bones to back it up.
The Grove Pub & Restaurant
Pub • Winnipeg
The Grove, on Stafford Street in Winnipeg's Osborne Village-adjacent southwest, has done what most pub operators won't bother to: it built a room worth sitting in and a menu worth arguing about.
The Toad in the Hole
Pub • Winnipeg
The Toad in the Hole is an easy pub option in Winnipeg to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Editorial details
Author: Marcus Chen
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. One Great City Brewing CompanyView →
  2. 2. The Grove Pub & RestaurantView →
  3. 3. The Toad in the HoleView →

How the restaurants compare

One Great City Brewing Company
Polo Park • Pub
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Pub night
Mood
Polo Park
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for The Grove Pub & Restaurant
Google
The Grove Pub & Restaurant
Winnipeg • Pub
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Pub night
Mood
Casual
The Toad in the Hole
Winnipeg • Pub
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$
Best for
cocktail
Mood
Easygoing

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

3 ranked picks

One Great City Brewing Company — One Great City Brewing doesn't cosplay as a neighbourhood pub — it commits to being one, with the industrial bones to back it up. Inside the Madison Square space on Ness Avenue, brewmaster Joshua Berscheid's tanks sit exposed behind glass walls, blonde wood and blue-grey panels giving the room genuine character rather than mere scale. Co-founder and chef Jon Burge trained at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and spent time on Vancouver's high-end bistro and gourmet truck circuit before returning to Winnipeg — that tension between serious culinary training and an unpretentious setting is what makes OGC worth paying attention to. This is a room built for the person who wants a pint of Tipsy Cow Milk Stout alongside food that actually justifies the trip. The menu centers on a tight set of dishes with clear ambition. The Lambwich — shaved slow-roasted leg of lamb on grilled sourdough with arugula, lemon sambal aioli, Swiss, and a red pepper spread — is consistently cited as the standout: the sambal aioli reportedly brings a citrus heat that cuts the richness of the lamb, while the sourdough base keeps the whole construction from becoming unwieldy. The Beer and Cheese Soup has drawn genuine enthusiasm from regulars across the board, and the Veal and Pork Meatballs have developed a reputation as the small plate most worth anchoring your order around. Berscheid's Tipsy Cow Milk Stout is the obvious pairing — described as roasty and soft enough to complement rather than compete with the kitchen's flavours. The practical move, based on what diners consistently report: start with the meatballs and a pint of the milk stout, build toward the Lambwich, and grab a seat near the glass walls overlooking the brewery floor if you can. At price level one, this reads as a weeknight dinner that doesn't ask for compromise. Go early on weekends — the room fills and the best seats go fast. View restaurant →
The Grove Pub & Restaurant — The Grove, on Stafford Street in Winnipeg's Osborne Village-adjacent southwest, has done what most pub operators won't bother to: it built a room worth sitting in and a menu worth arguing about. The horseshoe-shaped bar at the center is the architectural spine of the whole operation — it makes the space feel genuinely communal rather than transactional, and first-timers consistently remark on it. The owners made a deliberate choice to keep the aesthetic warm but uncluttered, enough dark wood to nod at the British pub tradition without drowning in it. The result is a place that reads as a real neighborhood bar, not a costume. That distinction matters when the neighborhood is as lived-in and opinionated as this one. The kitchen, led by Chef Kristel Blawat, anchors the menu in elevated pub classics while finding specific moments to push harder. The Stafford Burger — named for the street the pub sits on, part of a six-burger lineup where each is named for a nearby street — is loaded with blue cheese and bacon jam, a combination that diners consistently point to as one of the defining reasons to come back. The Lamb Sarnie puts shaved lamb on focaccia with horseradish aioli, arugula, tomato, sautéed onion, and Havarti, a sandwich that signals the kitchen is thinking past the genre's usual ceiling. The Habanero Asiago Pasta, baked with a garlic and herb crumble over a signature habanero-asiago cheese sauce, is the kind of dish that becomes a regular's standing order. The Grove also holds a distinction that matters to serious beer drinkers: it is the only venue in Manitoba that regularly stocks cask ale on tap, delivered Fridays. The cask beer is the insider move — arrive Friday evening if that's your priority, because it moves. The burger lineup rewards a side-by-side comparison if you're coming with a group. The room's horseshoe bar means solo diners and pairs have a proper perch with sightlines to the whole space; if you want table seating for a larger group, an earlier arrival on weekends is the practical call. The Grove is open seven days for lunch, dinner, and late night, which makes it a more versatile anchor than most pubs in this price range. View restaurant →

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