Great atmosphere love the staff super friendly and nice they teach you how to dance great placeread more

My bff brought me here to reduce my stressful week! Love the vibe, the atmosphere and the Latin…read moremusic! Forgot all my worries and just enjoyed my time here. Love it! Will be back

It's located right next to Club Risqué, a gentleman's club, so it might not be everyone's cup of…read moretea. But if you're looking for a great Saturday night with friends, this could be the place! The drinks, service, and live DJ are wonderful. The food is good, but don't expect it to be a 5-star restaurant. It IS a hookah bar, so be prepared. Head there and have a good time!

Came on a Saturday evening for a bachelorette party and it wasn't quite packed yet, in fact it was…read morepractically empty. (Chalked it up to us getting there early) Anticipated a cover charge but just walked right on (no security at the door). Wanted hookah but was told there wasn't any hookah that evening because they were short staffed and didn't have any hookah workers. Dancers were subpar. Nothing special done to remember them. Staff was nice, bartender was friendly

This place is located in NE Philly in an area where the Cyrillic Alphabet starts to take over every…read moresign in the shopping center. This is an after hours club in a strip mall on Rustleton Avenue and only open from 10 pm - 3:30 am Thursday through Saturday. No cover before 12 but I've never walked in before 2 am half or fully loaded trying to continue my load. The crowd is what you would expect it to be, bloody eyed 20 somethings partaking in their drug of choice for the evening. The drinks are pricey but the dance floor is always lively. If you're a lush like me, or just trying to get one last stab at a one night stand you should definitely check this place out.

I haven't been around that place since 2010. The experiences with the women there were all over the…read moreplace. Some seemed like they were really struggling for money. One woman I saw years ago was actually pretty nice. Another one and I exchanged numbers, and I thought we were going to meet up, but it never happened. There was also a dancer who didn't quite clean herself down there , I had to go in the bathroom and refreshen a bit, another one who acted unprofessional and made me uncomfortable, who tried to keep me from leaving. I had to tell her I was gay and had a boyfriend to get out of the situation. Security didn't step in or do anything at the time.

It seems that this place has permanently closed down as there were no signs of activity during my…read morevisit around 11:30pm, even though Google indicated that they were open. The boarded-up windows give the impression that it has been abandoned for quite some time.

absolutely love this place been going for years, cheap and cheerful…read more HOWEVER..................out of all the wonderful bartenders/barbacks, there is one, ALWAYS ONE, that is absolutely horrible and I don't understand how he is still there. Absolutely miserable, when he starts his shift he will remove my beverages even if the half full, throws them away all the time and gets away with it, knows it's mine, OR will absolutely ignore me and friends at the end of the bar because he does not like us. He has been known to tell people he does not like them and refuses to serve them on that basis alone. Too many people have brought this up before to continue to endure this piss poor bartender ruining an otherwise enjoyable-as-always time at the Bike Stop.

First let me address this: The Bike Stop is what you make of it. Go in, relax, be friendly to…read moreothers, and overall be a nice person, and everyone else is going to reflect that back to you. It started off with the bouncers. They asked for my ID! I haven't been asked for ID in well over 20 years, so I was quite pleased to be asked for it. I produced my ID, and bopped on in there with my date. The place wasn't packed for a Friday night. A few folks at the pool table, some folks wandering about, and lots of people at the bar. We wandered downstairs where the light was red, and the bar had fewer people at the bar. We took our seats, ordered some drinks, and paid. Nice, strong drinks, and the bartender was super friendly. When we asked for glasses of water, they literally had a stack of pre-poured water for anyone who wanted it, and handed it over no questions asked. Some places try to charge you for water. Not this place! That's awesome that they're encouraging safer drinking. We had a lovely time. A troupe of ladies came in and were chatting with the bartender, while this shirtless guy was making out with some other guy on the other side of the bar. After a while, I wanted to maybe dance a little bit, and see if I couldn't find seats at the bar, as well as explore the rest of the space. Also, there was some kind of smell going on in the basement that I couldn't quite put my finger on, but it was getting in the way of my good time, so my date and I wandered up. There were a couple of seats empty at the bar! Nice. We asked politely from the guy sitting next to it if those seats were taken, and he gave us a big smile, saying "Nobody's sitting there, but thank you for asking anyway!" What an absolute sweetheart. We ordered a couple more drinks, until my date overheard the guys who welcomed us to grab those chairs talking about some horror movie they'd all just seen and were obsessed with. My guy chimed right in, and the lot of them got into a spirited enjoyable discussion about horror, music, and the various implications of those in our various POC communities, and it was such a good time. I was curious about the other two floors, as we'd now experienced the basement area and the main floor. Apparently those other floors are only open for special events, and they have a total of 4 of them. Some day I'd like to come back when the whole place is open, and have a nice wander around the space. The crowd on the night we went was on the bear-y side, but we also saw that group of queer ladies in the basement, and people of all different races and body types in the space. It was lovely to see a place where diversity is celebrated, and we felt welcome even as out of towners coming for a short visit. The people were lovely, the drinks were strong, and the staff was friendly too. Literally on the way out, as we passed the folks outside having cigarettes, we got them waving goodbye to us and asking us to come back again soon.

One of the best places in Philadelphia for good vibes. Good atmosphere…read more Malek one of the best bartenders I know in town Best old fashion I drink thank you amigo

This spot isn't my scene, but it's super fun and a cool vibe. The bank vibe goes out the window on…read morethe weekends when it turns into a full club space. More of a college aged crowd with some seating areas in the middle but the main dance floor is truly giving club - which is fun, if that's your style! The music is good and the bartenders are on it!

Came here to support a fish fry, that's it! I could not see myself coming again. To start this…read moreplace is 'UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT' well da** what did the 'old' management look like? This place is a hole in the wall to the tenth power. Ok they buzz you in then you have to sign a ledger to get into this 1963 episode of the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits' or more like Tales From the Hood. They may have added the air conditioners in the 70's, and they are on full blast while it's 50 degrees outside. Can I get my food so I can get the heck out of here ASAP??!! While I wait for my food I had to name three types of beer they didn't have before I said 'let me get up and look into the fridge to see what you DO have! Hour later and 10 more people over 80 enter NO FOOD. Umm... who offers fish at a fish fry without fries? This is s tacky place! Bye I'm gone keep the fish that's probably from a frozen Save a Lot bag!!!!

This is one of my FAVORITE PLACES! It feels like CHEERS!! If you are a person that likes a beer…read moreand a shot, well, this is for you. They are not really into mixed cocktails, but if you want one, they will make it for you. They have a good jukebox that has plenty of credits available but that's probably because there is usually a DJ and they often have "pop up" karaoke!! Because this is a private club, the rules are different, you can smoke inside and many of the members bring their favorite cigars. I think I even saw hookahs there. Oh, and one more thing, they have a working kitchen that serves bar snacks like wings and fries, but they also have fried fish sandwiches and they are known for their lamb platters {they sell out every time}. Parking is usually not a problem, but I would suggest taking an Uber or Lyft.

New policy and manager (owners friend) are absurd and I believe illegal. Bar is often poorly…read morestocked. Heating and Air Conditioning are always broken. Prices go up 3 times a month. Warm domestic draft is $5.50. Tap system is also sub par for the premium price. Cook is often left without basic ingredients. For example. No cheese, fries, or chicken strips for a week. Drug residue in the bathrooms ALWAYS. On a plus the kitchen is clean. Just nothing to eat. By the way be aware a %10 inclusive tax is added to every purchase now. ​​When a small cup of coffee is $4 plus an inclusive tax to boot something is obviously beyond repair. After 20 years of enjoying a drink after work at my local pub I will no longer spend anything here. The free pool table from 6-9 is the only good thing left going here

MOUSE FECES and many other disgusting violations were found by city health inspectors as per their…read morerecent report (click the attached screenshots or visit the city's site). If the aforementioned failed health inspection is not sufficiently off putting, read on. When I first entered this lowly establishment, I smelled the worst odors that I have ever encountered at any business of any type. It smelled like a combination of a dirty public bathroom and a garbage dump with rotting meat. And I noticed how dreary, dark, dirty, old, loud, depressing, and run down the joint was. The patrons were unwashed, smelly, filthy, poorly dressed, very old, and loudly/crudely arguing with one other. This so-called tavern seemed more like a homeless shelter. The food was what you would expect from an ultra-low-end bar: old, rancid, leftover, and overly salty and greasy. The sausage (or whatever it was) in the sandwich was so dry that it was more like expired beef jerky. The roll was stale, probably at least one day old. The whole mess was reheated in a microwave, as if that would make it taste fresher. What little flavor that it had was more like rotting pork. The turkey in the sandwich tasted old, like that awful rancid mess that you get in a hospital. Again, microwaved leftovers. They did not even add mayo as I had requested, as if they could not spare it! The potato salad was bland and obviously old. The coleslaw was barely better. At these grossly inflated prices, I would expect better than a notch below convenience store food. All of the employees were drunk and/or high, and especially irritable and high strung. I suppose that I could forgive those flaws because the patrons were so rude and nasty. But I could never forgive the awful food, which is why I came here. Ironically, I never drink alcohol in bars, just eat. I have been to other local bars that have EXCELLENT tasting food for LOWER prices. And NO mouse feces as per their city health inspection reports. There is no need to even believe my legitimate criticisms. Just read the attached screenshots for the city health inspection report to get an unbiased analysis. This is a real review from a real consumer, so please do not delete it!