Mercy Tavern

Food, drinks, and music in Salem, MA

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Mercy’s Mother’s Day Brunch

If anyone needs a little Mercy, it’s your mother! Here are some samples from the menu.

Sweet

  • Brioche French Toast, rhubarb and blueberry compote and Crème Chantilly – 10
  • Nutella and banana stuffed French toast with toasted marshmallow Fluff! – 11
  • Bennies
  • Let’s get a bit funky…English muffin, roasted tomatoes, sautéed spinach and Fontina béchamel – 12
  • Not crazy enough, try this… Grilled sourdough bread, roasted onions, bordelaise with mushrooms and ham – 13

Savory

  • Potato and Chive Perogies, with fried eggs, sour cream, and caramelized onions 13
  • Chilaquiles with spicy tomato poached eggs, salsa verde, avocado, sour cream, cotija cheese, and black beans and soft flour tortilla 12
We are also serving the traditional favorites as well!

Mercy Tavern profiled on Wicked Local

From “A New Era for In a Pig’s Eye” by William J. Dowd.

After a four-month renovation, In a Pig’s Eye, 148 Derby St. in Salem, reopened as Mercy Tavern on April 7 to much fanfare after a pair of back-to-back soft openings.

On the tavern’s first day, the bar hosted its popular 4-7 p.m. Friday blues jam session. The place was at capacity with a line out the door shortly after 4 p.m.

“I’ve always loved this space and have been coming here for 20 years,” said the establishment’s new owner, Patrick Schultz, in a mid-morning interview Monday. “It’s the right size for me, and I’ve always wanted to run a neighborhood bar.”

Mercy Tavern Opens Friday, April 7!

We will soft open Mercy Tavern the first week of April and we will be fully open on April 7.

THERE WILL BE A BLUES JAM ON FRIDAY, APRIL 7!!!

Here are just a few of the items we will start with, but keep in mind our menu will continually change based on the fresh ingredients we buy:

The Mercy Tavern offers a gastropub style menu that emphasizes international and New England comfort food. Our menu ingredients will be locally sourced and sustainably produced.

Small Bites

Hand cut prosciutto
Roasted cauliflower with sesame yogurt
Roasted red pepper and hazelnut on crostini
House made bread and butter pickles

Apps 

French onion soup
Grill ginger pork skewers with cucumber sambal
Toasted and grilled vegetable “salad” with cumin dressing, toasted chick peas, golden raisins and baby greens (vegan)
Carpaccio with chimichurri sauce
Cauliflower and lentil pate, Freekeh tabouli and toasted almonds (vegan)

Sandwiches

Double patty burger with bacon jam, cheese of choice and potato bun, with hand cut fries
A Proper Cubano…slow roasted pork, sliced ham, gruyere cheese, onion pickle relish, and mustard
Grilled Haloumi cheese on pita with Kalamata olives, oregano-mint dressing, romaine and roasted tomatoes
Hot pastrami, fresh rye bread, whole grain mustard butter, quick pickle slaw, classic thousand island dressing and Swiss cheese

Entrees

Bob’s famous fried chicken with sweet and sour slaw and black pepper gravy
Rum and molasses brined pork chop with New England brown bread and Boston baked beans
Line caught cod with roasted vegetables and tomato-hazelnut puree
Spaghetti and meatballs (can be made vegetarian or vegan)
Cast iron pan-roasted rib-eye, house steak sauce with garlic fries and watercress pickled red onion salad
Butternut “strip steak,” ancient grain pilaf, roasted garlic escarole, toasted pumpkin seeds and pomegranate molasses (vegan)

12 taps!
Specialty cocktail list!
Great music!