MacLaren's Pub

MacLaren's Pub is a fictional drinking establishment featured in the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother. It is the second most-often used set on the series after Ted's apartment and the main characters can be seen visting the pub, usually sitting in the same booth in nearly every episode.

MacLaren's is an Irish pub located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The night time bartender is a man named Carl, whom frequent patron Marshall Eriksen believes may be a vampire.

Another common patron, Barney Stinson, will often sit at the bar when he's not with his friends and try to pick up woman. Armed with a trusty wing man and an arsenal of elaborate pick-up lines, Barney is usually very successful in his never-ending crusade to score a date.

It was at MacLaren's that Barney first met Ted Mosby. They first encountered one another in the men's room while urinating, at which point Barney made the decision that Ted was going to be his best friend, whether Ted wanted to or not. Barney convinced Ted to shave off his goatee and get a suit (though Ted usually just wears a blazer).

Ted is in a perpetual state of being unlucky in love, so Barney tries to help him break the ice with local female patrons with a game he likes to call "Have you met Ted?". It was through this tactic that Ted first met Robin Sherbatsky, whom he dated for a brief time then became very close friends with.