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- Maccadam's Old Oil House – Transformers franchise
- MacLaren's Pub – How I Met Your Mother (2005)
- MacLaren's Pub (East Side) – How I Met Your Mother, episode "How Your Mother Met Me"
- Mad Dog Saloon – Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Mahoney's – Frasier (2023)
- The Maidenhead – Serenity (2005)
- The Malt Shovel – formerly the other pub in Emmerdale
- Maxwell's Nightclub (Metropolis) – Smallville, episode "Charade"
- McAnally's – The Dresden Files, a series of contemporary fantasy/mystery novels written by Jim Butcher
- McCoy's – Fair City, Long running Irish soap opera set in Dublin
- McGinty's – Boondock Saints (1999)
- McGinty's – Early Edition (1996)
- McGinty's – Frasier (Martin Crane's hangout after Duke's pub is closed down)
- McKenna's – Lou Grant, ground floor bar and restaurant in the Los Angeles Tribune building. In one episode, its owner was played by Rue McClanahan.
- Meibeyer's – The Pale King, 2011 novel by David Foster Wallace
- Merlotte's Bar and Grill – True Blood
- The Mermaid – The World's End (film) (2013): The eighth of 12 pubs on the "golden mile" pub crawl
- Mesmer Club – The Woman in Green
- Mickey Finn's Palace – Way Out West
- Midnight Bell – 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
- The Midnight Star – Silverado (1985)
- Milk – The L Word
- Milliways – Restaurant at the End of the Universe, second novel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
- Misty's – Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
- Mr. Pubbs – Cheers, episode "The Beer is Always Greener"
- Moe's Tavern – The Simpsons
- The Mohune Arms – Moonfleet, by J. Meade Faulkner
- Mojito Inn - Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
- The Monkey Bar – Tales of the Gold Monkey
- The Moon Under Water – "The Moon Under Water", 1946 essay by George Orwell
- The Moonrakers – Hobson's Choice
- Mos Eisley cantina, aka "Chalmun's Cantina" – the bar in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- The Mucky Duck – Man About The House
- Muggy's – Fangirl, novel by Rainbow Rowell
- Mulberry Street Bar – The Godfather Part III
- Munden's Bar – Grimjack (comic)
- The Mayhew – Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)
Martinis - “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)