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| Merlotte's Bar and Grill | |
| Continuity: | True Blood |
| Aliases: | Merlotte's Bellefleur's Bar and Grill |
| Category: | Business |
| Continent: | North America |
| Country: | United States of America |
| State: | Louisiana |
| Parish: | Renard Parish |
| Town: | Bon Temps |
| Residents: | Sam Merlotte; Arlene Bellefleur |
| 1st appearance: | Dead Until Dark "Strange Love" |
Merlotte's Bar and Grill is the most popular drinking establishment in Bon Temps, Louisiana. The bar is run by Sam Merlotte who lives in a trailer directly behind the building. He finances his establishment with money stolen from Maryanne Forrester. Staff at Merlotte's includes Sookie Stackhouse, Tara Thornton, Lafayette Reynolds, Arlene Fowler, Dawn Green, Amy Burley, Daphne Landry and Terry Bellefleur.
In 2011, Sam Merlotte decided to run for mayor, so he sold the bar to Arlene Bellefleur. The establishment was renamed Bellefleur's but it did not enjoy a very prosperous future. Almost immediately, the bar was set upon by a huge nest of Hep-V infected vampires, who slaughtered dozens of people and abducted others, including Arlene herself. In an effort to keep people busy and to keep their minds off the recent calamity, Sam asked many of the bar's regular patrons to help Arlene out by fixing up the bar for her.
Sam's mayoral opponent, Vince, learned that Sam was a shape-shifter and started up his own private vigilance committee. Vince and his lackeys decided to take arms against all vampires and used the bar as a recruitment center. They ransacked Bellefleur's for anything that could be used for a weapon, undoing all of the work that the others had done to fix the place up.
Staff[]
- Sam Merlotte (owner; bartender)
- Tara Thornton (bartender)
- Lafayette Reynolds (cook)
- Terry Bellefleur (cook; interim manager)
- Tommy Mickens (barback)
- Sookie Stackhouse (waitress)
- Arlene Fowler (waitress; owner)
- Dawn Green (waitress)
- Amy Burley (waitress)
- Daphne Landry (waitress)
- Holly Cleary (waitress)
- Janella Lennox (waitress) [1]
- Charlsie Tooten [2]
- John Dickson (cook) [3]
Frequent patrons[]
- Andy Bellefleur
- Denise Rattray
- Hoyt Fortenberry
- Jane Bodehouse
- Jason Stackhouse
- Mack Rattray
- Maxine Fortenberry
- Rene Lenier
Other patrons[]
Notes[]
- In Dead Until Dark, it is revealed that fangbanger Janella Lennox worked as a waitress at Merlotte's, but was fired and replaced by Dawn Green.