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.
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The picks
- Beaver Creek Tavern
- Becker's Corner
- Blue Dog Pub
- Bowman's Tavern
- The Brick Tavern Inn
- Casey's Place
- Cedar Hollow Inn Restaurant and Bar
- Clubhouse Bar and Grill
- Continental Tavern
- Cork Tavern
- Doan tavern and grill
- The Drake Tavern
- Flying Pig Saloon
- The Four Dogs Tavern
- Garrett Hill Ale House
- The Glenside Pub
- Good, Bad & Ugly
- Green Parrot Restaurant Pub & Patio
- Jack McShea's Pub
- The Jockey Tavern
- KC's Alley
- Kelly's Taproom
- Kings Tavern
- Letty's Tavern
- The Library
- Logan Inn
- Marchwood Tavern
- McCloskey's Tavern
- McCoole's at the Historic Red Lion Inn
- My Friend's Tavern
- North Wales Pub
- Olde Indian Valley Inn
- Olde Towne Restaurant & Tavern
- Panico's Neighborhood Grill & Sports Tavern
- Rusty Nail Tavern / Nightclub
- Seven Tap-Tavern
- Smokehouse Tavern
- Spinnerstown Hotel Restaurant & Tap Room
- Stottsville Inn
- The Stray Dog Tavern
- Suspenders Bar and Grill
- The Temperance House
- Union Jack's Olde Glory Pub
- The Whip Tavern
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.
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.
Bowman's Tavern
Live music every night at this tavern on River Road. The cocktails use herbs from an on-site garden, and the kitchen leans on local farms, dairies, and distillers.
The Brick Tavern Inn
An 1818 brick inn on Old Bethlehem Pike, still doing what it was built for: lunch and dinner, now new American. Sundays bring live music from 4 to 8.
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.
Cedar Hollow Inn Restaurant and Bar
A locally owned spot on Yellow Springs Road whose whole pitch is 'no gimmicks, no fuss' American cooking, open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. on weekends, which quietly makes it a brunch option too.
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.
Continental Tavern
American tavern fare in a Main Street building restored to its 1875 look, with 16 taps inside and a porch over Lake Afton. During the 2007 renovation the owners cracked open a sealed chamber under the kitchen and found more than 7,000 empty Prohibition whiskey bottles — the leftovers of the speakeasy this used to be.
Cork Tavern
A small neighborhood bar on Mt Carmel Avenue with no website of its own. Reviewers through mid-2026 mention piano nights and food service, after a stretch when the kitchen sat closed.
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.
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.
The Four Dogs Tavern
A tavern in an old stable in Marshallton village: exposed beams, stonework, and an outside bar. Warm weekends bring live music out there; the quieter Marshalton Inn, its sibling, handles the intimate end.
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.
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.
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.
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.
KC's Alley
Ambler's first tavern, open since 1999, exposed brick and a full bar that's been the default post-movie dinner for two decades. Pizza and wings are the move; the pasta salad has its own fan club.
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.
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.
Letty's Tavern
Tavern on East State Street doing American plates and a proper bar. A downtown corner for dinner or a drink after work.
The Library
The Library is a bar and restaurant a short walk from Ursinus, long a go-to for burgers and a beer after class. Louder than its name lets on.
Logan Inn
Open since 1727, which makes it one of the five oldest continuously running inns in the country and a Revolutionary War field hospital before it was a whiskey lounge. Come on a cold night for the wood-burning fireplaces and the live piano in the bar.
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.
McCoole's at the Historic Red Lion Inn
American cooking inside the Red Lion Inn, a Main Street building that's been an inn since the 1700s. Order a burger and a beer under ceilings that have seen a couple of centuries of the same.
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 Wales Pub
A small corner bar where Main meets Montgomery, the kind of room where the bartender has you pegged as a regular by the second visit. Cold beer, low lights, no pretense.
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.
Rusty Nail Tavern / Nightclub
A live music room on Haverford Road that has been booking bands for more than 70 years. Thursday is the open jam, Friday and Saturday go to local original acts, and the calendar is posted months ahead.
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.
Smokehouse Tavern
The brisket and pulled pork come off a real smoker, stacked on platters with ribs regulars keep coming back for. The surprise is a genuinely good pizza hiding on a BBQ menu, backed by a whiskey list deep enough to keep the bar busy on its own.
Spinnerstown Hotel Restaurant & Tap Room
Feeding this corner of upper Bucks since 1750, which makes it older than the country it's in. The kitchen buys from local farms, and the attached Spinny Bottle Shop sends you home with beer or wine.
Stottsville Inn
The roadside inn on Strasburg Road, bought in 2017 and remade into a restaurant, bar, and nine-room hotel. Burgers come off a wood-fired grill, the kitchen works from scratch, and happy hour runs Tuesday through Sunday, 4 to 6.
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.
The Temperance House
Andrew McMinn opened this tavern in 1772, and it spent the 1840s pouring nothing alcoholic, which is how it landed the name; the bar now runs 33 taps. The scratch kitchen leans Latin and European under colonial fireplaces where folk painter Edward Hicks once turned up.
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 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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