POPE is the ultimate hipster spot. Excellent beer choices, good late night eats, and a fun crowd. It gets pretty packed...pretty much all the time. But it's a fun spot for a night out. Good brunch too!
Like your favorite t-shirt. The Pub on Passyunk East, P.O.P.E. to the locals and partons, is like my favorite old cozy t-shirt. It's dark and dingy interior looks the same at noon as it does at midnight. The beer menu is immense, and the prices are reasonable. I usually go for a $2.50 Miller Lite, but more discriminating pallets can go for any of the 14 beers they have on tap or many more bottled selections.
The food menu is surprisingly good for a dive bar. They have a seitan shepard's pie and seitan cheesesteak, and usually have some sort of vegan daily special like seitan tacos or BBQ tofu. They also have a portobella mushroom sandwich that's about par for what you'd expect in a brew pub.
Faithful readers of The Feisty Foodie may recall last year's Cheesesteak Chowdown , where I earned my stripes as both a cheesesteak expert and a total glutton - within a 6 hour period, I consumed 6 half-cheesesteaks (which comes to about 3 cheesesteaks, but given my size, it's quite a feat; also, I like to differentiate that I didn't eat 3 cheesesteaks, I ate 6 halves from 6 different places). Of course, while Beer Boor and I undertook that task, on our return to NYC, we noted that there were places we wished we'd gone and other sandwiches we wished we'd eaten. We talked occasionally about revisiting Philly to remedy that, but never set into motion a specific plan until late September, when Beer Boor took a Monday off and I "played hooky" from my own job. That day's focus: eat roast pork sandwiches , Philly's other sandwich - those in the know will mention them, but they're definitely not yet as famous as cheesesteaks - though they're not exactly difficult to come by in this city eithe
1501 E Passyunk Ave - Philadelphia
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