Our neighbors just voted Skinner’s Pub & Eatery a 2026 Nextdoor Fave Award winner in the Go-To Restaurant category — and we’re still a little floored by it.
Go-to. Of all the things to be called, that one lands. Not the flashiest spot in Saint Paul, not the trendiest. The place you actually go.
Voted by Neighbors, Not by an Algorithm
The Fave Awards are Nextdoor’s tenth annual look at the local businesses their neighbors love most, and the part that matters is how winners get picked. Every vote came from a real, verified neighbor during the voting window in September. Businesses can’t pay for Faves. There’s no ad buy that gets you on the list. The only route in is for the people who live around you to put you there.
Which means this one came from Randolph. And Fairmount. And Saint Clair. From the regulars who’ve been coming in since Pete and Molly took over in 2000, and from the folks who wandered in last month for the pizza buffet and kept coming back.
Twenty-Six Years of the Same Idea
Pete and Molly Skinner are lifelong Saint Paul residents who bought this place in July of 2000, in a building that’s been feeding this neighborhood under one name or another for the better part of a century. Their son Sam is behind the bar now too.
The approach hasn’t changed much: make the food from scratch, keep the prices honest, run the free shuttle to every Wild home game whether it’s October or February, and let people tell their neighbors about it. Turns out that last part works.
Thank You
To everyone who took a minute in September to vote for the bar down the street — thank you. Twenty-six years in, there’s still nothing that beats hearing it from the people who come in every week.
Come see us. We’ll have a seat for you.
You can see the full list of 2026 winners at nextdoor.com/fave_awards_winners.
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