Creid01 - 05/25/2008

awesome

   jewpride6969 - 10/23/2006

Great local bar downtown. Great bartenders, especially the dude on Saturday night. Great tunes on their jukebox. Be sure to check out the chicken fingers here if you're hungry. The chef doesn't hold back. Only negative was after a few too many shots, I was hit on a by a trans-sexual.

PackRat

   thepaqrat - 06/07/2005

A nice neighborhood bar with a decent selection of reasonably priced beer, adequate food, expensive high-tech jukebox (why is it that a jukebox with 100,000 tunes never has the one you want to hear?) and an excellent Tuesday night pub quiz. Whenever I've been there, the crowd had been a good mix of student types and grizzled curmudgeonly regulars.

Cool Bar

   mazeymooch - 01/29/2005

Cool place to chill. Besy wings in the city(get the spicy BBQ). Good selection of beer on tap, from lite to magic hat and of course Guinness. Also a good varity of beer in the fridge, nothing beats $2 pint cans of PBR. also sells beer to go. Sundays are great for karaoke, go and enjoy the true bar feel...the hard wood booths, and rustic bar stools. Not a place for a first date, but a great place to chill with your friends and drink good beer and eat good food. Avoid the bathrooms though.

Associations

   adh921 - 01/04/2005

The first and last time I was in the Locust Bar was the night of November 22, 1963. Yes, that was the date of JFK's assassination. My friend Harry and I left our wives at my place, a half a block away from the bar. We went out with the sole purpose of getting smashed. We took a bottle of Christian Brothers Brandy and demolished it. We were sitting on a curb and I saw the Locust Bar. I said to Harry "I always wanted to go in there" so we managed to stagger in and proceeded to down, I have no idea how many, shots and beers. We acheived our objective (getting smashed) and managed to navigate our way home. I remember waking up and thinking I just had a horrible nightmare. My wife, unfortunately, brought me back to reality. To this day, I have not been able to go back to the Locust Bar and I get a chill every time I go past it. By the way, their sign has remained the same after all of these years.

TokaGrande's Review

   tokagrande - 04/27/2003

The best "drinkin'" spot in Center City. Drop in a booth with some mates and have a good ole' time. The crowd is diverse (but not the annoying "fake-diverse" like other places. You know what I mean), EVERYONE (staff, patrons) is friendly, drinks are reasonably priced, food as well (and good, too!). Perfect for the start, middle, or end of an evening (or all three...), this place deserves landmark status. Really.

Szkradz's Review

   szkradz - 02/02/2002

by far my favorite bar in this city. it's so tragically unhip that's it's somehow cool. drinks are inexpensive and the place is rarely so crowded as to be uncomfortable. great jukebox, and a great mix of people from blue-collar workers to med students to just about anyone you can imagine. a place where you can actually go out and just have fun without having to worry about getting all dolled up and wearing your most uncomfortable heels. oh, and of course i can't fail to mention that sunday night is karaoke night. ;)