the Minisink

Minisink Hills, Pennsylvania

The carved Minisink Hotel sign under the porch roof, with a POW/MIA flag and an American flag against the red clapboard

Minisink Hotel

A tavern in a building that has stood beside Marshalls Creek since the 1740s — a stagecoach stop, a general store, and a hotel before it was this. In Minisink Hills, on the creek, less than a mile from the Delaware.

110 Post Office Rd
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301

Today, and every day

Kitchen
Seven days a week
12 PM – 10 PM
Bar
Open an hour past the kitchen
12 PM – 11 PM
Daily specials
Written up by hand, posted the same day
Daily
Seating
No reservations — first come, first serve
Always
Warm weather
Tables across the covered walk bridge, over the creek
In season
Pocono Olde Truck Show
Sixth annual, in the lot — 1999 and older, trucks only
Father's Day
Tonight
Call the tavern
570-421-9787

The room keeps one set of hours all week, and the kitchen closes an hour before the bar does. What changes is the board — the specials go up by hand and come down with the day. No reservations: first come, first serve.

Older than the road it stands on.

The Minisink is a tavern in a building that was several other things first. What follows is what public sources say; the owner is the one who can settle it.

1740s
The building goes up beside Marshalls Creek, in the Minisink — the stretch of upper Delaware valley the hamlet takes its name from.
Since then
A stagecoach stop. A general store. A hotel. The name over the porch is the one that stuck.
Now
A full-service tavern with an old-school room: one kitchen, one bar, the same hours every day, and eight handles that keep moving.
In season
The covered walk bridge carries the room across the creek to a quiet piece of ground on the far bank, and the tables go with it.
Minisink Hotel ball caps laid out on a wooden table in the tavern
Caps, in the room
Pan-seared salmon with Dijon cream sauce, yellow rice and sauteed green beans, a Minisink Hotel daily special
A special, off the board

At the bar

Eight handles and a long list of bottles and cans. The rotating IPA, the cider and the seasonal keep changing — ask what just went on.

On tap
  • Yuengling Lager
  • Yuengling Flight
  • Pabst Blue Ribbon
  • Miller Lite
  • Coors Light
  • A rotating IPA
  • Cider
  • A seasonal
Also poured
  • Bottles and cans, a wide selection
  • Cocktails, mixed at the bar
The room
  • Pool table
  • The fireplace end
  • Creek-side tables in season
  • Take-out from the bar

Private gatherings

The far bank is part of the place. The covered walk bridge leads off the porch and over Marshalls Creek to a quiet piece of ground people spread out on in warm weather, and the lot out front has held the Pocono Olde Truck Show six years running. For a private gathering, call the tavern and ask what the room, the lot and the bridge can hold.

Call the tavern
A Nacho Supreme at the Minisink Hotel — chips, chili, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, jalapenos, olives and sour cream
Nacho Supreme, for the table

Practical details for the drive out.

For a private gathering, call the tavern to talk through the date and the size.

Tavern
570-421-9787
Kitchen
Every day
12 PM – 10 PM
Bar
Every day
12 PM – 11 PM
Reservations
None taken — first come, first serve.
Take-out
Call ahead and pick up at the bar.
Outside
Creek-side tables across the covered walk bridge, in season.
In the room
A pool table and a fireplace end.
Address
110 Post Office Rd
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301
Getting here
Minisink Hills, in Smithfield Township, on Marshalls Creek — a few minutes off Business 209 and under a mile from the Delaware.