152 Public House Restaurant and Bar
Bar and restaurant on Limekiln Pike, serving Lew's Seafood. Brunch runs 11am to 3pm Saturday and Sunday, and there's a separate late night menu from 9pm to 10:30pm Thursday through Saturday.
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The picks
- 152 Public House Restaurant and Bar
- Barnaby's - West Chester
- Beaver Creek Tavern
- Becker's Corner
- Birds Nest Bar & Grille and Golf at the Nest
- Blue Dog Pub
- Brick & Brew
- Buckets
- Casey's Place
- Chelsy's
- Clubhouse Bar and Grill
- Crossroads Hotel and Bar
- Doan tavern and grill
- The Drake Tavern
- Farmhouse Tavern
- Flip & Bailey's
- Flying Pig Saloon
- Fran's Pub
- Garrett Hill Ale House
- The Glenside Pub
- Good, Bad & Ugly
- Great American Pub
- Green Parrot Restaurant Pub & Patio
- The Grog Grill
- Gullifty's
- The Highland Pub & Kitchen
- The Hungry Pilot
- J.T. Bankers
- Jack McShea's Pub
- Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
- Jitters Bar
- The Jockey Tavern
- K's Kitchen & Catering
- Kelly's Taproom
- Kildares Irish Pub - West Chester, PA
- Kings Corner
- Kings Tavern
- Liberty Place Pub
- MaGerk's Pub & Grill
- Makefield's Public House
- Marchwood Tavern
- McCloskey's Tavern
- McSorley's Ale House
- Michael Kelly's Irish Pub
- Montella's Sports Bar & Pub
- My Friend's Tavern
- North Penn Social Club
- Olde Indian Valley Inn
- Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern
- Panico's Neighborhood Grill & Sports Tavern
- Penn Taproom
- The Perk
- Pike's Dinner & Drinks
- The Pour House - North Wales
- The Proper Brewing Company
- Rooster's Glenside
- Ryan's Pub
- Saloon 151
- Seven Tap-Tavern
- Side Bar & Restaurant
- The Stray Dog Tavern
- Suspenders Bar and Grill
- TimeOut Skippack
- Troubles End Brewing
- Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
- The Valley House Bar & Restaurant
- VK Brewing Co. & Eatery
- The Ways Restaurant & Brewery
- The West End
- The Whip Tavern
Barnaby's - West Chester
Barnaby's has held down the corner of South High Street for decades, a wings-and-beer bar that fills up with West Chester University crowds. Grab a booth for the wing specials or a stool at the bar for the game.
Beaver Creek Tavern
Comfort cooking in a tavern out on Bondsville Road — bacon cheeseburgers, fish and chips, ribs, and beer on tap. Prime rib happens exactly once a month, the first Saturday starting at 4, and that is the whole schedule.
Becker's Corner
The corner bar on Old Bethlehem Road, open seven days a week from 11 in the morning to 10 at night. There are drink specials, there's a menu, and there's zero pretense about any of it.
Birds Nest Bar & Grille and Golf at the Nest
Half bar-and-grille, half indoor golf: a full bar and five flat-screens up front, TrackMan simulator bays you can reserve in the back. Leagues, tournaments, and lessons with the house golf pro fill out the calendar.
Blue Dog Pub
A family-friendly craft beer tavern that keeps its rotating draft list posted online, so you can scout the taps before you claim a stool. The kitchen backs it up with burgers, cheesesteaks, weekly specials, and a real vegetarian list besides.
Brick & Brew
Gastropub on East King Street in Malvern built around craft taps and pub food. The move is a burger and a local beer at the bar.
Buckets
A West Avenue bar and grill where the TVs are on and the crowd knows each other. Wings, burgers, and a beer while whatever game matters is playing.
Casey's Place
A little corner sports bar out on California Road, the kind of room where the wings have a following and the beer shows up properly cold. TVs everywhere, and the doors stay open past midnight every night of the week.
Chelsy's
Bar on E Lancaster Ave, right next door to the Juice Pod. A neighborhood spot for a drink after work more than a night out.
Clubhouse Bar and Grill
Over 18 years of bar-and-grill duty on South State Street, with takeout and delivery running until 10. The bar itself pours until 2 a.m., seven nights a week — the late shift, by borough standards.
Crossroads Hotel and Bar
An old-school corner tavern at Lancaster and Brandywine where the drafts are cheap and the stools have regulars. Come for a bar burger and whatever game's on the TV.
Doan tavern and grill
A bar and grill sharing a roof with the Trolley Barn on East Broad. The name tips a hat to the Doan gang, the Bucks County outlaws who ran these back roads during the Revolution.
The Drake Tavern
An American tavern on York Road doing pub food and a full bar. It stays loud on weekends and the regulars like it that way.
Farmhouse Tavern
An English pub with a working fireplace and a Dr. Pepper pulled pork sandwich that's become the reason regulars keep coming back. Weekday social hour runs 4 to 6, right when you need it.
Flip & Bailey's
Two-story neighborhood bar in Garrett Hill with a full bar on each floor and rotating drafts. Pool, shuffleboard, darts, Pac-Man and Golden Tee if you want something to do between rounds.
Flying Pig Saloon
A neighborhood bar on East King Street in Malvern with a full kitchen and a deep tap list. The kind of place you plan on one and stay for three.
Fran's Pub
A roadside tavern with a band playing most nights, 13 beers on tap, and another 100-plus by the bottle. Order the Fran's Burger and take a spot on the big outdoor patio to watch Main Street go by.
Garrett Hill Ale House
A neighborhood tavern in Garrett Hill with a scratch kitchen and rotating craft taps. The 10oz Alehouse Burger and the crepe lasagna are the two dishes the kitchen puts its name on, and Sunday brunch runs 10am to 3pm with a custom Bloody Mary bar.
The Glenside Pub
A downtown Glenside barroom with 14 taps, nine big-screen TVs and homemade soups on the daily specials board. Doors open at 4pm, and it sits a mile from Arcadia and 1.3 from the Keswick Theatre.
Good, Bad & Ugly
The bar hiding underneath Stove & Tap, with a games arsenal running pool, foosball, darts, and shuffleboard. One drink has a way of turning into three games down here.
Great American Pub
Narberth's corner pub right by the train station, with a long beer list and a burger to match. Loud on game nights, easy on a weekday.
Green Parrot Restaurant Pub & Patio
A Sycamore Street pub styled after the original Green Parrot Inn, a Newtown tavern of the early 1900s, with 19 TVs on the pub side. The bar stays open after the kitchen closes, which tells you the house priorities.
The Grog Grill
A pub on West Lancaster Avenue where the kitchen runs burgers, shepherd's pie, poutine and cheesesteaks until 9:30pm and the bar keeps going to 2am Thursday through Saturday.
Gullifty's
A Lancaster Avenue bar and grill going since 1975, known for hand-tossed pizza, burgers and wings, with the soups, sauces, dressings, desserts and even the ice cream made in house.
The Highland Pub & Kitchen
Glenside's American pub and kitchen, run by the K to Z Collective. Weekend brunch goes 10 to 3, happy hour runs weekdays 4 to 6, and eight TVs carry the game with the sound on.
The Hungry Pilot
A bar and grill inside the terminal at Chester County Airport — order the short-rib Runway Flatbread or the French Onion Smashburger and watch the planes take off. Kids get their own Little Pilot's menu, which explains the number of small aviation fans at the window tables.
J.T. Bankers
Eight-ounce burgers ground and seasoned in house, plus a wing list past a dozen sauces that runs from honey barbecue to a suicide that means it. Tuesday is wing night, Wednesday you build your own burger, and the peanut butter pie is made here too.
Jack McShea's Pub
Ardmore's neighborhood pub since 2012, family run, with the bar going until 2am. Cheesesteaks and the King Jack's smash burger anchor a short menu, and owner Neil McShea bakes on site.
Jerzee's Sports Bar & Pizzaria
Sports bar and pizzeria that opened in 2007, with a takeout bottle shop added in 2015 stocking over 200 beers and a heated patio since 2022. Open 365 days a year, kitchen running late.
Jitters Bar
A no-frills sports bar on West Gay Street with the games on every screen and pitchers on the table. This is where West Chester students and locals land to watch the Eagles.
The Jockey Tavern
Malvern's horse-country tavern, with lunch, dinner, weekend brunch, and a 'Jockey Hour' on the board. The kitchen closes at 9 most nights, but the bar keeps pouring — until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
K's Kitchen & Catering
The kitchen inside Yardley Country Club, where Alexander's Pub does casual food and a golf-course view Tuesday through Sunday, 11 to 7. Thursday nights they trade the pub menu for plated fine dining, and the same crew caters weddings off-site.
Kelly's Taproom
A Villanova-crowd pub on the site of the old Ivy Inn, run since 2002 by a group of alumni, with a taxidermied Maine moose watching the room since the 2005 reopening and happy hour weekdays from 4.
Kildares Irish Pub - West Chester, PA
Irish pub on West Gay Street with the dark wood and the proper Guinness pour. A downtown standby for pints and pub food.
Kings Corner
A neighborhood pub on Summit Avenue with a solid beer list and a kitchen that does pub food right. The sort of corner spot you end up at without planning to.
Kings Tavern
The tavern on West Kings Highway runs on craft beer and a house creed worth quoting: locals treated like royalty, visitors treated like locals. The kitchen keeps things American, from wings to steak and seafood, with dinner specials that rotate through the week.
Liberty Place Pub
The pub tucked inside the Market at Liberty Place on West State Street, pouring drafts and pub plates. Somewhere to land when the food-hall counters get loud.
MaGerk's Pub & Grill
A sports pub pairing Philly cheesesteaks with what the house calls grub with a Baltimore twist, and the kitchen holds out until 11 on Fridays and Saturdays. It's the Horsham branch of a small family of pubs with siblings in Fort Washington and Maryland.
Makefield's Public House
The clubhouse restaurant at Makefield Highlands, cooking for local diners as much as golfers, with a smokehouse side that runs meats through mesquite, apple-cherry, hickory, or maple. Burgers and fresh-cut fries handle the back-nine appetite.
Marchwood Tavern
A Marchwood Road tavern where the specials run on a strict weekly calendar — 80-cent wings on Wednesdays, $9.99 cheesesteaks on Mondays, $7 margaritas for Taco Tuesday. The bar pours until midnight most nights, 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
McCloskey's Tavern
An Irish pub that has been on Cricket Avenue since 1934, which by its own count makes it the oldest on the Main Line. Rotating craft taps, burgers and wings, and a kitchen that runs an hour later Thursday through Saturday.
McSorley's Ale House
A Haverford Road sports bar with 16 taps and better than 30 beers in total, plus dart boards, pool tables and TVs on every game. Family run, and loud once the college crowd arrives.
Michael Kelly's Irish Pub
A tiny Irish pub right by the bridge and the old railroad depot, small enough that the Friday and Saturday live music fills the whole room. When it turns cold, it's where you go for a hot toddy or an Irish coffee.
Montella's Sports Bar & Pub
The wings are the reason to come, especially Thursday nights when the jumbo ones land in a habanero sauce that earns its heat. TVs cover every wall on Broad Street, so you can catch whatever game's on while you work through a plate.
My Friend's Tavern
A neighborhood bar on East Main where the beer's cold, the game's on, and nobody's putting on airs. The kind of tavern you stop into for one and leave having stayed for three.
North Penn Social Club
The social side of North Penn Fire Company on South Main, a members-and-guests bar tied to the volunteer firehouse. There's a hall out back for when the whole block needs somewhere to gather.
Olde Indian Valley Inn
A longtime neighborhood bar on East Broad, dark wood and cold drafts. The Souderton tavern where regulars have their stool and the kitchen keeps it simple.
Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern
Twenty beers on draft and a wall of takeout bottles, in a room that's been a bar since the days it went by the Mayflower Restaurant. Show up for an Eagles Sunday and there's usually a free buffet or pizza going while the game's on.
Panico's Neighborhood Grill & Sports Tavern
A Cannon Avenue tavern that's been feeding Lansdale since 1919, now four generations deep and still in the family (it opened as Molettiere's). The cheesesteak is what regulars will argue about; the Don Robbie sandwich is the sleeper pick.
Penn Taproom
The reliable middle of a Doylestown night out: rotating craft taps, a garden patio out back, and live music Thursdays and Sundays. Monday trivia at 8 and $7.99 Tuesday cheesesteaks keep the regulars on schedule.
Pike's Dinner & Drinks
Bar and dinner spot on North Pottstown Pike, part of the Whole Foods at that end of town. Come for a drink and a plate without the full sit-down-restaurant production.
The Pour House - North Wales
The North Wales outpost of the Pour House, a self-declared 'better beer bar' that was stacking craft drafts before craft went mainstream. Upscale burgers and sharable plates from the kitchen, and taps that hold out until 1 a.m. on weekends.
The Proper Brewing Company
Quakertown brewpub on West Broad pouring beer made in the building, with a full kitchen behind it. The move when you want dinner and the pint to come from the same address.
Rooster's Glenside
An American pub on North Keswick, named for Danny Moyer, the Glenside resident friends and family called Rooster. Brunch runs both weekend mornings and live music turns up on the calendar. One of seven Stove & Co kitchens.
Ryan's Pub
Ryan's Pub is the Irish corner of Gay Street, Guinness on draft and a kitchen that does the pub-food basics right. A reliable spot for a pint and a burger downtown.
Saloon 151
Saloon 151 anchors the Gay Street bar strip, a bar-and-grill by day that turns into a late-night crowd after dark. Come for the beers and burgers, stay for whatever the DJ has planned.
Seven Tap-Tavern
The tavern at Downingtown Golf Club, open to more than the golf crowd for burgers, wings, and a full bar. There's a patio out back for when the weather cooperates.
Side Bar & Restaurant
Longtime bar and restaurant on East Gay Street, equal parts happy hour and sit-down dinner. A West Chester regular's regular.
The Stray Dog Tavern
From-scratch tavern cooking: sheep's-milk ricotta gnudi, flaky puff-pastry chicken pot pie, and buck-a-shuck oysters at happy hour, 4 to 6 every day. The owners also run Philly Bully Team, which they call the Philly area's largest bully-breed dog rescue.
Suspenders Bar and Grill
Souderton's bar and grill on Allentown Road, pouring until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday when most of the town has gone dark. The house pitch is refreshingly honest: good food, plenty of drinks, all reasonably priced.
TimeOut Skippack
The sports bar on Skippack Pike, games on the screens and a table-friendly menu. Come with a group.
Troubles End Brewing
Troubles End is a Collegeville brewery and taproom off Third Avenue, pouring its own beer next to a full kitchen. Room to settle in over a few pints.
Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
Wings and crisp pierogies are what this Limekiln Pike pub leads with, backed by a craft and import beer list. Open to midnight seven days, and it sends out catering trays for parties.
The Valley House Bar & Restaurant
'Smash'-style burgers, pasta, and daily specials on the food side; 20 craft, domestic, and local taps plus craft cocktails on the other. The bar opens at 11 every day and keeps going after the kitchen calls it.
VK Brewing Co. & Eatery
Veteran-owned brewpub in the historic Ship Inn on Lincoln Highway, brewing its beer on site with a full kitchen and bar behind it. There's now a second taphouse in Honey Brook, but Exton is where the tanks live.
The Ways Restaurant & Brewery
Beer brewed on site in the middle of Glenside, with the sauces and dressings made in house to match. Thursday nights are smoked ribs, weekends bring live music, and the beer van rents out for parties, taps and all.
The West End
Quakertown's calendar pub: dollar wings on Mondays, $36.95 prime rib every Wednesday. Happy hour runs 4:30 to 6:30 on weeknights, a dollar off select drafts, wine, and cocktails.
The Whip Tavern
A proper English pub out in southern Chester County horse country, pouring rotating drafts against weekend features like classic roast beef with Yorkshire pudding. Sunday brunch runs 10 to 2, and the whole place goes dark on Tuesdays.
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