Walsh's Tavern

Walsh’s Tavern is a neighbourhood bar and grill on Monroe Street in downtown Buckner, Missouri — pool table, Chiefs games, and a taco Friday.

Description

Walsh’s Tavern occupies a storefront at 15 E Monroe St in Buckner, Missouri, on the town’s short downtown strip in far-eastern Jackson County.¹² The business describes itself simply as “a fun, casual place to meet your friends for drinks and food.”²

It is one of a handful of licensed drinking establishments in a town of roughly three thousand. Missouri’s primary alcohol licence record lists a Retail by Drink licence at the Monroe Street address held by Cafe by Day II LLC, with James Walsh as the licence contact.¹ Buckner’s other licensed establishments in the same record include Bad to the Bones, La Hacienda, Lady Lou’s Bakehouse and Buckner Grocers.¹

Customer reviews aggregated on MapQuest describe the tavern in terms of food and staff rather than drinks alone, and single out a Friday taco service.³ The kitchen’s menu is not published online; the tavern’s own social posts advertise an 11:30 opening on serving days.²

Buckner sits on Missouri Route 24 east of Independence, and Walsh’s is one of the few evening gathering places in the old town centre rather than on the highway.

Ownership and history

The licensee of record for Walsh’s Tavern is Cafe by Day II LLC, and the licence contact is James Walsh, matching the trading name.¹ The “II” in the entity name suggests a predecessor entity or an earlier “Cafe by Day” operation at or near the same address, but no record confirming that has been located; the relationship is “.

The tavern’s founding year is “. No local press coverage, chamber listing or first-party history page giving an opening date could be located, and neither the Facebook page nor any listing states a year. Editors should not infer a founding date from the age of the building or from listing-site “established” fields, which are frequently user-supplied.

Whether the business is family-operated across generations — a common pattern for small-town Jackson County taverns — is unverified and should not be asserted without a source.

Links

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Walshs-Tavern-100057528665974/

Menu

No menu is published by the business on any first-party channel. Aggregator-listed dishes and prices have deliberately not been reproduced here. Menu content is “ pending a first-party menu photograph or in-person visit; reviewers note a Friday taco service.³

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Missouri Primary Alcohol Licenses,” Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control via data.mo.gov, dataset d9fr-pncw, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. “Walsh’s Tavern | Buckner MO,” Facebook page, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. “Walsh’s Tavern, 15 E Monroe St, Buckner, MO 64016,” MapQuest business listing, accessed 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩²