Mad Rose Pub

My wife and I were in search of a new spot for wings during the week in the nw and were lucky enough to give Mad Rose a shot. We came around 6pm on Tuesday which is wing night. Place was about 70% full so we had no trouble finding a table. We had not been seated more then a minute and our server made welcoming eye contact and promptly brought us menus and explained the specials. Drinks came fast and the pints are actually 20oz. This is a rarity I have noticed lately. We only had wings and they were excellent. Big in size, hot, crispy and not drowning in sauce which we prefer. Service remained consistently good through our stay. We will definitely return.

Have been stopping in regularly since opening day as this pub it’s right across from our house. Really hits the mark when it comes to the modern pub — a great place to have a drink with friends, a lunchtime meeting, or to watch your favorite sports team at night.
The manager takes great care of the place, the device is good and the food is the most consistent of any resto pub I frequent.
A big plus is that during NFL games they play sound and the specials are always running regardless of what’s going on that day.
Give MadRose a shot if you’re nearby and I promise you’ll enjoy it.

We’ve been to the Mad Rose more often than any other pub as of recently and I like the energy even though it is definitely a unique crowd.
The service is always friendly (which goes a long way). The burgers are good, the pizzas are pretty good, and the buffalo chicken wrap is a favourite! It’s all simple pub food, but they haven’t managed to fuck it up, like a lot of pubs do.
A couple things I wish were different; When playing hockey games on the TV’s; I wish the commercials were muted or music came back on at a reasonable volume. I know it’s hard to monitor this, and I can handle the hockey noise but it’s not fun listening to Swiffer Wet Jet commercials blasting throughout the pub when you’re trying to have a conversation — I can do that at home. I wish Mad Rose would also ensure the glassware is rinsed a lot better to avoid that bleach smell… and a little change up with the menu would be nice as it doesn’t appear to have changed in a while. But these are minor and don’t stop me from coming back.
Mad Rose DOES do beer correctly though. The major plus of the Mad Rose, and I say this with emphasis, is that the beer is COLD. I mean, it is PERFECT TEMPERATURE COLD and it is never been served flat. This seems to be a very difficult task for most pubs to pull off in this city and I find it very frustrating when a bartender serves me a shitty beer and he can clearly see it’s a shitty beer.
The Mad Rose also correctly garnishes beer. Most pubs think that we don’t notice when you order a wheat beer (a belgian white or a hefeweizen) and it doesn’t come garnished properly. Trust me, we notice, and we don’t come back. (I also find it hard to believe that the beer suppliers are okay with pubs not serving their beer how it should be served.) A message to pubs: Run to the Sobeys next door and buy a god damn orange.
The Mad Rose has the «neighbourhood pub» feel with a lot of older folk (please don’t start offering blue hair specials!), construction workers and it appears a lot of husbands avoiding their wives. But the energy is fun, and you feel very comfortable here. Now I want a beer.

Awesome service, awesome food. Great prices, about only $ 20 each, not including drinks.

Great atmosphere, Nice staff, Clean and Spacious, Delicious Food and Price is very reasonable! Will definitely be coming back!

Great place in NW Calgary. A little tricky to get to but well worth a visit. The chicken wings on Tuesday nights are 0.25 cent each and are big and tender. Burger was very good, and almost too big so bring a appetite. Good service. Not sure what the other reviewer was talking about… my friend had free coke refills all night. They have a great beer selection, with lots of B. C beers on tap. Go early on wing night though as it gets busy.

These guys are fairly new and at first I was very excited for them to join my limited dining selection around my home base. Maybe that’s why I’ve now been there three times when I’m sure most of my neighbors have yet to notice them… heh.
Biggest peeve of the place is the parking lot. You can only access it by heading Northbound AND you can only leave by going North. There isn’t a good place to really do a U turn without risking a ticket so it’s a pain to either get in or out of that place depending on where you’re coming from. A civil engineer needs a swift kick in the butt for that design. That or I’m totally missing an entrance or teleportation portal there somewhere.
The décor is very nice, but it seems to be a place for professional NW dwellers to go and drink alone. There are lots of TVs so it’s great for sports but it’s not too loud for those who couldn’t care less. I don’t see a lot of groups/​couples and most people are not really there to dine. In that vein it’s a very strange environment to me so far.
I’ve been here mostly to eat but I like some of their top shelf options in the bar. They have grey goose cherry noir which I hadn’t had before which I quite liked.
My first trip involved delicious veggie lasagna and I decided I was sold on the place. Unfortunately none of the other dishes I’ve tried quite lived up to the first time.
Pizza was sold to me as «award winning»… but I boxed up ²⁄₃ of it to take home because it wasn’t don’t anything for me and didn’t actually eat my left overs because it was rather underwhelming and bland and I just couldn’t bring myself to reheat and eat it. I’m not sure who’s award it won… but it’s WAY too expensive for what it is and it’s totally boring. Even on the 25% off day, you can get the same pizza else where for less… or spend about the same for something epic somewhere else. Either way, pizza is a total pass.
The fettuccine Alfredo was boring too… it’s not the jazziest dish in the world but usually there is a taste there beyond the fat in the cream. I had to pepper it like crazy to be palatable… again, you’ll find something of this quality at BPs or somewhere that’s not going to charge so much.
With those three meals I’ve kind of burned through the 3 main vegetarian entries and I no longer know what I feel about the place. Definitely worth the lasagna do over and I love the look of the nachos I saw come out (HUGE so that’s a bit frighting but maybe good with a group)
Something that bothers me here is how the nickle and dime you. Which is one thing I could get over, but I HATE finding out about it on the bill.
— no free refills on the pop but the server never said anything about that when she offered to bring another (maybe just a service flaw) and the pop is kinda expensive for no refills
— adding things to the meal costs a fortune. Adding broccoli? $ 4! I could see $ 4 for a meat. but broccoli huh?
— If you go in on a pizza or pasta night (25% off) the discount doesn’t apply to anything you add to the pizza or pasta.
— We got a bit fancy with the bar and required cups of ice with our shots. The bill for that was an open charge of $ 1 each… for cups of ice! I ordered my pop without ice… you think they could have cut me a deal on that — no?
I mostly just want to start ordering things here with random changes to see what they’ll surprise me with on the bill. «Push all my food to the left side please» and get like a $ 2 service fee or something. Maybe I’ll be surprised when I take a second trip to the bathroom and get the explanation «Well your first trip was free, but all other trips are $ 3. You used two paper towels so I should have charged more but I cut you a break» Ahh I jest.
Worth a go… but I’m still kind of forming my opinion of the place and will give it some more time.

Were regulars!
We love it here! The environment is Greg prices are pretty average but it’s clean and classy but at the same time casual.
Waitresses are great! Patio is sunny!
Only thing that was a let down was the fish tacos: p no flavour and the Greek salad had too much oil ONCE.
The cheese burger here is stellar!
Hope you enjoy it as much as us!