The Golden Retriever Pub

Food is decent for bar food. I usually get served pretty quickly here no matter what. It’s a great little place to stop in if you want to grab a beer and a sandwich in a nice neighborhood dive. My only qualms with it being ventilation. Wish bars in Magnolia didn’t allow smoking!

I dig this spot. It’s a smoking bar. Dark like a pub should be. Good beer selection. Sandwiches are really good. Check it out:)

This place is filthy and run by a bi-​polar nutcase. So many other places to go, avoid this smokey place for Tailgators or anything in the Woodlands– Sketchy big time.

This place ebbs and flows like most places. Sometimes the crowd is great, sometimes not so much.
Two pool tables, two cork dartboards. Full bar. Thursday is local brew night.
Service can be a little crazy. Sometimes they only have one server for the whole place so usually I get my drinks at the bar.
Food is hit or miss, the sandwiches are great! I’d love to see some better appetizers and deserts.
Thursday has karaōke. Tuesday is open mic. Friday and Saturday usually have live music.

Place was ok. Dark and low lighting. Easy to keep your conversations intimate. Good juke box. You can smoke inside. Two pool tables and darts. Bartenders were good. Pours were good. Had potatoe skins and a turkey sandwich. Very hot and tasted good. Drinks a little on the high side for pricing. Thought they should have been about a buck cheaper. People watching was good. We will go back. Music started at 9:00, it wasn’t great but, maybe next time.

This bar is the more upscale in magnolia area to go to. Friendly people, good music, it’s where my friends and I go to get out close to home.

Smells like foot and ass in that place. It looks like it was once kind of cool, but Now it seems to be a little rough and The bartender seems like a bipolar sociopath. Go to Caseys or Tailgators, much cooler staff.

I like the atmosphere of this bar-​dark, smokey and laid back. Most everyone there seems to be late twenties to mid forties. Good beer selection and decent menu. Great place to bring a friend!
P. S. Sorry I puked in your parking lot guys… :-/

Nice selection of craft beers on draft. Darts pool tvs. Food sandwiches only but they’re tasty and just the right size. Nice friendly neighborhood bar that I wish I could walk to… and from.

Thank you great service i will be back again and with my friends i ordered the pretzel and it was great

Good selection of beers on tap. Clean, low key and friendly pub atmosphere. Karaōke on Thursdays is a plus.

I was delighted to find this beautiful oasis of fine beer on tap (good choice of Nitro’s which is the only beer I drink), excellent and attractive bar service, and a tasty menu. I also play pool and darts and smoke cigars and watch TV. Maybe I’ll move into this place! I hope that the camouflage of the surrounding strip center will keep the undesirables away, but the hip-​hop-​rap blather choices being made on the juke box suggest that I might have a battle on my hands. This is always the case when management decides to make a few bucks off the music at the expense of damaging the entire theme of the place they’ve so carefully constructed in every other way: Their poor choice cost this review two stars.

This is a great bar in the newer section of magnolia. The atmosphere is good, they have live music on occasional week end nights, and the staff is friendly
and easy going. The menu is simple bar food, we had hummus and potato skins. The beer selection is good (they have hoegaarden, which I love) and the only reason I gave this place 4 stars is because it allows smoking inside. Dark, loungey, pub vibe… It’s a great neighborhood hang out.

Service and beer selection are great

Watched the football games
on opening day recently. Nice bar, nice atmosphere, plenty of tvs with a variety of games on. It is a smoking establishment, but with all the fans and smoke eaters, you really don’t notice it. For the 2 ½ hours I was there I did not notice anyone eating anything. I kind of thought maybe they don’t serve food. Noticed the menu here on Unilocal.Not too inspiring for an English pub.

I really liked this pub except it is a smoking establishment. I am not a smoker, so this was a negative but the beer selection helped me to overcome that. I had a sandwich and it was good and fresh. This is definitely a locals place and fun to hangout.

I was looking for a nice, intimate Irish type pub, and this fit the bill very well. Drinks were good, service was good, and it wasn’t overly loud with a small band playing. It’s a small place but didn’t get very crowded. Pool and darts are available as well if you need something to do. I hope to get back there again soon for another great time out with friends!

If you’re in the area, this pub is a must go. The Golden Retriever is seriously great; smoke friendly and has an incredible variety of beer. A lot of local brews too which I love! The staff is also very helpful and friendly!
The pub itself is very nice. Surprisingly spacious with TV’s, pool tables, and dart boards. They also have small, secluded tables, great for date nights! Not to mention their food is fantastic! In addition they have nights for live music, DJs, karaōke, and even a steak night!
If you like Baker St minus the crowds and wait time, this place is perfect!
CHEERS!

The best bar in town. It’s nice, clean, SMOKE FRIENDLY, has a WIDE variety of brews on tap as well as in bottles.
The look and feel of this place is comfortable. Dark, very dark… It could be a bit brighter but it’s fine the way it is. The bar is a dark wood, which I find to be very cool.
The staff is super nice and on top, for sure. Magnolia and surronding areas needed this place!

I get why some say it is a mini Bakers Street. It is dark wood throughout, a couple of dart boards with their own little niche, nice bar etc., but I kinda hope the mall crowd never finds this place. I like that it’s tucked away and as of now has a bit of an older crowd. We will see if that holds true during college X-​Mas break.
The menu is limited because they can’t or don’t want to use a fryer. So it’s sandwiches, meat and cheese plates, and salads. I think the sister bar down 1488 is more of a burger, fries and beer joint. This location has a decent selection of beer on tap and an even better selection by the bottle. And they do have Rumplemintz.
We have tried the Reuben (marble Rye), French Dip (Baguette), and the Caprese sandwich (Ciabatta). All were very good. Like talk with your mouth full good. hmly sht vis ndwch is rery fmkn gd. They come with chips and a pickle spear. The pickle spear even though it is probably out of a giant plastic tub, tastes like an old school pickle. I don’t even know what that means but it makes sense to me. Good pickle.
Don’t tell too many people but this place is pretty cool.