06/17/08

great food

by ctjoe

This place has it all, tremendous food, great beer and atmosphere. Worth finding seaking out. First stop next time I go to Philadelphia

• Pros: Quiet, food
• Cons: none

03/29/08

Awesome Spot

by yayou

You want a great, low key, genuine pub? The Bards is it. The place is cozy (working fireplace in the winter), friendly staff who may play video games with you or just hang out and enjoy the bangers and mash. The Bards is a 180 from the Irish pub two doors down. The Bards offers a more genuine group of people who would would rather try to beat you at darts than hook up for the night (though not unheard of). Great beer selection and good pub/Irish food, this is a pub to no be missed.

• Pros: atmosphere, seating, food, music, activities, people, staff
• Cons: asshats from the Irish Pub next door leak in time to time

08/31/06

Great Breakfast spot!

by vendhaswater

Came here and ordered the Irish Breakfast, it was PERFECT! I had missed having some good black/white pudding! This is a GREAT dark pub! Perfect makeout table around the corner from the bar! Music.... not the best, but I'll forgive them. Great spot!

• Pros: Good dark pub, semi-romantic, GREAT food!
• Cons: music wasn't so great.

More than just Irish eyes are smiling after a visit to this popular meeting place.

by Contributor

In Short
Professionals, university students, young and old--a mix of people that marks a good pub--are often seen grabbing a Guinness at the bar. A warm goat cheese salad with roasted walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette mixes well with fish-and-chips for lunch. Dinner offerings like Limerick ham or Bushmills barbecued salmon are filling choices. For a real belly buster, order the traditional Irish breakfat for brunch, complete with eggs, sausage, black-and-white pudding and baked beans.

• Pros: cozy Irish pub

12/17/05

home

by girlchefk8

when i first moved to the downtown area, i was looking for a place to go after work for a beer or two... the bard's definitely became my afterwork destination!

• Pros: diverse crowd, cold beer, 2$ lager happy hour

08/23/04

Great Time at the Bards

by irish9674

My family and I were visitying Philly, and we read a good review of the Bards so we thought we would check it out. It was great! We had a table in the front all by ourselves. It sat outside of the "Irish cottage". The ambience was really nice. I have been to Ireland, and the hospitality at the Bards was equal to that of the country. The food was really goo. The Guinness stew was fantastic. The boxty were great( we had the sheperd's pie filling.) I had the best pint of Guinness ever, and the Atlantic chowder was bursting with fish. Even my 11 year old loved the place. I highly recommend The Bards if you are in Philly.

• Pros: Atmoshpere, Great Guinness, Good Food

07/16/03

Good food

by gctan77

The bar menu is pretty good and the regular entrees are decent. I think they have the best wings.

The dinner menu is a bit pricey though

• Pros: Wings, Bar menu

09/26/02

The best Irish bar ever!!!!!!!

by rosie_grady79

This place is the real thing......staff, beer, food, what more do you need that ireland itself??? Very upset to hear that the lovely irish girl angela left, what did we do wrong to you???? I never stopped laughing if she was standing behind the bar, sorry boys!!!!!

07/28/02

Great Irish Pub

by bruce_morrison

A great pint of Guinness, good food and warm, friendly staff. Great live music.

• Pros: Good pint of guinness, Great Service, Live music

07/23/02

perfect pint

by frankie_brennan

best pint on the east coast.real irish staff.darts.best pint on the east coast