O'Malley's 1842 Pub

an Irish pub built into the limestone lagering cellars of the historic Weston Brewing Company at 500 Welt St in Weston, Missouri (Platte County), roughly 30 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City. The cellars date to the brewery’s 1842 founding and sit close to 60 feet underground; the pub, the adjoining America Bowman restaurant, and a small lodging cluster operate under the Weston Brewing Company banner.

| Website | https://westonirish.com || | Phone | 816-640-5235 (restaurant & pub) |(first-party site) |

Description

O’Malley’s 1842 Pub occupies the hand-dug limestone lagering cellars beneath the former Weston Brewing Company complex. The cellars sit almost 60 feet below grade and were cut to hold beer at cellar temperature before mechanical refrigeration.¹ The site is presented publicly as a single hospitality cluster: the underground pub, the America Bowman restaurant in the main house above it, and lodging under the names The St. George Hotel, The Inn at Weston Landing, and Mandrake Place.²

The pub is a live-music room as much as a drinking room, and the cellars are the draw — a rare surviving pre-Prohibition brewing interior in the Kansas City metro that is still in commercial use rather than preserved as a museum.

Ownership and history

The Weston Brewing Company was established in 1842.¹ Brewing at the site stopped with Prohibition and resumed for a period in the late 1990s.¹ The O’Malley family opened the aboveground restaurant in the late 1970s and the underground pub in the 1980s; the pub carries their name.¹

Michael Coakley and Corey Weinfurt purchased the property in 2005 and restored the brewing operation, relocating modern production next door while keeping the restaurant in the main house and the pub in the cellars.¹

Independence: No chain, franchise, or outside-metro corporate parent identified. Treat as an independently owned Platte County operation.

Menu

Status: pending. No first-party menu captured. Do not transcribe prices from aggregator listings.

Links

• Website: https://westonirish.com
• Pub page: https://westonirish.com/omalleys-1842-pub-weston-mo/

Sources

See also

• pirtle-winery-weston
• Registry

Footnotes

1. National Trust for Historic Preservation — “O’Malley’s Pub in Weston, Missouri.” — asserts: Weston Brewing Company founded 1842; cellars almost 60 feet underground; brewing halted by Prohibition and briefly revived in the late 1990s; Michael Coakley and Corey Weinfurt purchased the property in 2005; the O’Malley family opened the restaurant in the late 1970s and the underground pub in the 1980s. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Weston Brewing Company / Weston Irish — official site — asserts: address 500 Welt St., Weston, MO 64098; restaurant and pub phone 816-640-5235; lodging phone 816-640-9902; operating properties O’Malley’s 1842 Pub, America Bowman Restaurant, The St. George Hotel, The Inn at Weston Landing, Mandrake Place. ↩