Maxwell's American Pub

1201 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis
(612) 354-7085

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Maxwell's Clubhouse Sandwich
Jalapeño Bacon Ranch Burger
Buffalo Chicken Tenders
Peanut Butter Burger
Chicken Quesadilla
Grain Belt Ale
Chicken Wings
Pint of Water
Mac N Cheese
Cheese Curds

Menu

Appetizers
Chicken Wings
Maxwell's award-winning fried wings are served with fresh celery and available in the following delicious ways. Choice of buffalo, or smoked dry-rubbed.
Cheese Curds
Have a state fair classic! Breaded, fried white cheddar cheese served with a side of avocado ranch dressing.
Waffle Fries
Served with our homemade seasoned sour cream.
Steak Bites
Tender cuts of beef sauteed with red onions, and garlic, and topped with diced tomatoes. Served with a side of maxwell's horseradish dipping sauce.
Warm Pretzel Bites
Served with beer cheese.
Max Nachos
Freshly fried corn tortillas smothered in shredded cojack cheese and topped with your choice of seasoned chicken, beef or chili, tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, and black olives. Served with homemade salsa and sour cream. Add homemade guacamole for an additional charge.
Cruncheros
Golden-fried, battered rolled taco stuffed with seasoned chicken, and hatch green chiles and jalapeño cheddar cheese. Served with chipotle ranch dipping sauce.
Chicken Tenders
Breaded chicken tenderloins were golden-fried with your choice of dipping sauce.
Quesadillas
Seasoned chicken or beef, tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos are sandwiched between a flour tortilla with melted co-jack. Served with sour cream and salsa. Add homemade guacamole for an additional charge.
Pizza Rolls
Grilled flatbread rolled with pepperoni and provolone. We slice them into bite-sized pieces and serve them with homemade pizza sauce. Yum.
Edamame
Soybeans sauteed in olive oil, garlic, crushed red pepper, and soy sauce. They're addicting.

Soups, Salads & Combos
Cream of Chicken Wild Rice
A creamy blend of chicken, Minnesota wild rice, and secret ingredients. Bowls of soup are served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Homemade Chili
A chunky, full-flavored, and rendition of a pub classic. Bowls of soup are served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Crispy Chicken Cobb Salad
A bed of spring greens and romaine topped with diced tomatoes, chopped bacon, bleu cheese crumbles, hard-boiled egg, walnuts, and golden-fried fresh chicken tenderloin. Finished with green onions and served with a choice of dressing. Served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Maxwell'S Dinner Salad
A bed of mixed greens with tomatoes, cucumbers, co-jack cheese, red onions, seasoned croutons, and your choice of dressing. Salads are served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
Chopped romaine, shredded parmesan, and house-made seasoned croutons tossed in caesar dressing and topped with a boneless chicken breast. Served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Southwest Chop Salad
Finely chopped romaine tossed with chili-fired black bean corn relish, pico de gallo, green onions, tortilla crisps, and co-jack cheese in an avocado ranch dressing and topped with pulled cajun rotisserie chicken and fresh avocado. Served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Bistro Steak Salad
Spring lettuce, grape tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, red onions, bleu cheese crumbles, roasted red peppers, and seasoned steak bites with balsamic vinaigrette on the side. Served with a warm parmesan breadstick.
Crispy Buffalo Chicken Salad
Romaine tossed in ranch dressing and topped with chopped bacon, grape tomatoes, and fried chicken tenders. Drizzled with buffalo sauce and topped with bleu cheese crumbles. Served with a warm parmesan breadstick.

Burgers
BBQ Bacon Cheddar Burger
Topped with cheddar, bacon, and tangy bbq sauce. Maxwell's hamburgers are fresh patties, grilled to perfection, and served on a bakery fresh bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
The Max Cheeseburger
Your choice of swiss, American, cheddar, provolone, bleu cheese crumbles, or pepper jack. Maxwell's hamburgers are fresh patties, grilled to perfection, and served on a bakery fresh bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Southwest Black Bean Burger
Topped with spring greens, pico de gallo, and chipotle aioli. Served on a fresh bakery bun. Maxwell's hamburgers are fresh patties, grilled to perfection, and served on a bakery fresh bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Pub Burger
Grilled onions, mushrooms, cheddar cheese, bbq, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Maxwell's hamburgers are fresh patties, grilled to perfection, and served on a bakery fresh bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Turkey Burger
A 1/3 lb turkey burger topped with melted cheddar, guacamole, shredded lettuce, and tomato. Maxwell's hamburgers are fresh patties, grilled to perfection, and served on a bakery fresh bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Drunken Irish Burger
An all-vegetable burger, grilled and topped with lettuce, tomato, and red onion. Beer cheese, Jameson glazed bacon, and crispy onions on a toasted pretzel bun. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.
Desert Fire Burger
Cajun dusted burger patty with jalapeños and topped with pepper jack cheese, and crispy onions, on grilled cajun chipotle aioli sourdough. Served on a bakery bun with your choice of seasoned waffle fries, tater tots, chilled vegetables and dip, or cole slaw. Sub a turkey burger or black bean burger for any burger choice. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.

Specialty Sandwiches
Buffalo Chicken Wrap
Golden-fried fresh tenderloin tossed in our secret wing sauce, mixed with shredded lettuce, tomatoes, shredded parmesan, and bleu cheese dressing. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Avocado & Chicken Pita Sandwich
Our hot, rotisserie chicken with melted pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, and chipotle aioli in a warm pita. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Maxwell'S Sloppy Joe
Traditional style with seasoned ground beef topped with banana peppers and melted pepper-jack cheese on a fresh bakery bun. Served on freshly baked bread or bunched accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables, dip, tater tots, or coleslaw. No split plate with the purchase of second sloppy joe. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Smokey Mountain Chicken Sandwich
A 6-ounce grilled, smoke seasoning-dusted chicken breast topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, bbq, and co-jack with chipotle aioli on a toasted bun. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Maxwell'S Clubhouse Sandwich
3 slices of toasted wheat bread with smoked turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. Served "Points-up" with our award-winning seasoned fries. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips.
Roadhouse Dip Sandwich
Maxwell's slow-roasted beef topped with melted cheddar and crispy onion straws on toasted ciabatta. Served with a side of au jus. All sandwiches are served on fresh-baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Grilled Reuben Sandwich
Thinly sliced corned beef topped with kraut, 1000 island, and melted swiss on marble rye. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich
Golden-fried fresh tenderloin tossed in Nashville hot sauce and topped with coleslaw, fried pickles, shredded lettuce, and chipotle ranch on a toasted brioche bun. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Slow-Roasted Beef Sandwich
A maxwell's specialty. Rubbed with garlic, and house spices, and slow-roasted for 8 hours before being heaped upon a fresh bakery bun with red onions, banana peppers, and au jus. You'll be back for this one. All sandwiches are served on fresh baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and our award-winning seasoned waffle fries, fresh vegetables and dip, tater tots, or coleslaw.
Beer Battered Walleye Sandwich
Golden fried beer battered walleye with melted American cheese with lettuce and tomato on a toasted bun. Served with a side of tarter sauce. Served on baked bread or bun and accompanied by pickle chips and seasoned waffle fries, vegetables, dip, tater tots, or cole slaw.

Signature Dishes
Chicken Tender Platter
Golden-fried, hand-battered fresh chicken tenderloins served with seasoned waffle fries and your choice of dipping sauce.
Homemade Mac & Cheese
Penne pasta sauteed with provolone, co-jack, and American cheeses and finished with seasoned bread crumbs. Served with a warm breadstick.
Midwest Jambalaya
This ain't orleans. Our version is tomato based with andouille sausage, rotisserie chicken, sautéed shrimp, peppers, and onions. Served over a steaming bed of rice pilaf.
Fish & Chips
Battered Atlantic cod fried golden and served with seasoned waffle fries, slaw, and a side of tartar.
Smothered Steak Bites
Tender cuts of beef smothered and sauteed with mushrooms, red onion, and a pinch of soy sauce and topped with bleu cheese crumbles. Served with steamed vegetables and a choice of seasoned waffle fries, rice pilaf, or tater tots.
Burrito Bowl
A bed of rice pilaf with black beans, roasted corn, pico de gallo, avocado, shredded lettuce, sliced jalapeños, tortilla crisps, co-jack, cheese, and cilantro. Served with sour cream and salsa.

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Recent Reviews

Drinks way to high! Food was great! Waiter was awesome! And they need to change the stations nobody needs to see all that local news crap that's on there put something happy on there like Food TV!
January 2026
Stopped in for food and a few drinks—great little local bar with a welcoming, laid-back vibe. Compact, cozy, and perfect if you’re looking for a nice small spot that feels truly local.
January 2026
I love Josh and Vivian they are so amazing! Exceptional customer service. Probably the best I've experienced in mpls. My only issue with this pub is the music lol, where is the touch tunes!!?? I have to harass Josh for some decent tunes, his playlist is decent sometimes but needs a bit of variety. I will gladly update my review to a 5 star if you all consider getting touch tunes. Or allow me to keep my own Playlist. The other customers agreed to this request. Trust me, I...
November 2025

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Maxwell's American Pub

1201 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 354-7085