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    Riverside Inn

    4.1 (155 reviews)
    InexpensiveDive Bars, Burgers
    Open 12:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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    What's the vibe?
    Juke Box
    Live music
    Loud
    Divey

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    Stephanie C.

    It is time to review my favorite dive bar in the area! -Music? ON POINT- Always!!!! -Drinks? CHEAP AND GREAT -Food? So good! The bbq chicken wings are really tasty! And any burger on the menu is a good choice. -Ambience? Mostly locals but everyone is friendly. It gets absolutely busy past 10 pm and the summer time is very busy. Def recommend my local dive bar! Check it out!

    Emily B.

    Oh heck ya- riverside inn aka "the dive" is your dive bars favorite dive bar. This place gets packed to the brim with locals teeming with thirst. Imagine a pack of jersians all in heat coming to this place to get wasted. And the vibes are 10/10. Mostly an experience I'd recommend for locals but can't seam to beat this experience on a packed night. Everyone knows each other. The bouncers and bar tenders are quite a bit old fashioned to say the least. The food is less than thrilling. It's wonderful.

    Alicia O.

    Everything was delicious can't wait to go back! Bartender was friendly... perfect dive bar! People were very nice

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    Chris L.

    came here with a work place associate for lunch. nice relaxed vibe. for lunch we could sit anywhere but order at the bar. for some reason the front door was locked so I had to opened the door a couple times let people in. I parked and entered through the back. there's parking passed the round about and drive thru the back side of the buildings. When the weather nicer. I'm gonna 'walk my dog' at night here with the outside dinning tent area.

    Peter J.

    Still the best Kitchen closes at 9 PM - order before 9 pm Open 365 days per year Great food and best bartenders

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    Bella M.

    I had to drop my rating for Riverside Inn after my friend and I immediately got stomach aches from our meal. The ribeye sandwich was just mediocre, the latkes were completely overcooked and burnt. I don't know what made us sick but as we left the Dive, we both had really strong stomach aches 15 minutes after. The ribeye sandwich was a thin ribeye steak (cooked decently though) in a lackluster baguette, topped with onions and cheese. Hmm. Seems like someone didn't think this one through. The Latkes were well thought out. Smoked salmon with a(n overly generous and overwhelming) dollop of sour cream over a Latke is a great idea, and I certainly will be stealing it for my own cooking. However, execution was poor with the Latke burnt almost to a crisp.

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    Lou G.

    A very cool dive bar. Small place, seats about 16 at the bar and another 25 or so at 5 or 6 tables. Some TVs to watch the games. Bartender was friendly and attentive. There was a dozen beers on tap. The yuengling was ice cold and fresh. I had a Cuban sandwich which was pretty good and wifey had a prime rib sandwich which was outstanding. The place was nice and warm on a frigid night! Another dive bar to add to my go to places.

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    Amazing hidden local bar - unbeatable prices to go along with above average food. During the week there's a lively lunch crowd too.

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    1 year ago

    The Dive! The best bar and the best staff. Maybe the most amazing thing is the quality of food produced out of that tiny kitchen!

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    Better food than you'd expect. Really busy but there's a reason. Just very cool laid back hole in the ball type of part

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    Great service, great food super friendly staff reasonable prices and huge portions - will be back !!!

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    Great menu got a hole is the wall bar. The var tenders and servers treat you like your there friend from school.

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    Great Neighborhood bar vibe with very friendly staff and tasty food choices. The perfect place to stop at, first, for a visit to Cranford.

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    Awesome atmosphere and even better bartenders. You feel like you've stepped back in time a bit, a better time!

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    My manbun chum and I have been trying to find a home to watch our one March Madness game every…read moreyear, and I think we found it for the foreseeable future. In fact, this time it looks to be a literal home. We stopped by last night to watch my beloved Gonzaga Bulldogs end their tournament run against Purdue. I could go into quite a bit of detail about some very shady calls in the paint and what I think should have been a taunting foul on Purdue's future proctologist Fletcher Loyer, but I digress. As soon as I walked in, I could tell I was going to like it. Prior years have been marred by loud sports bar atmospheres where you have to battle tooth and nail to convince someone to change the channel to something that isn't a mediocre NYC-area sports team (I say this as a Mets fan as well). Liberty was significantly quieter, definitely had an older crowd but also had numerous TVs throughout. The best of all worlds. I walked maybe 10 feet from the entrance, asked the bartender if she could switch the TV to the Zags on TBS, and that was that. Aside from a weird moment in the second half when the TV mysteriously changed to ESPN for a few minutes (we never confirmed the culprit), we had primo viewing of the game. Somehow we also managed to sit down next to a couple whose son was currently at Purdue. What a world. Vibe is everything with a place like this. I did a mild double-take when I realized the bar was located in a literal residential neighborhood in what may be someone's actual house (or at least upstairs). There's a parking lot on the side that had plenty of spots, and overall this was one of the most conveniently located establishments I've ever been to - it's about 30 seconds from Route 78 both ways. Initially I felt bad for the neighbors, but as bars go this is not exactly one that's going to be hosting raucous throwdowns outside or anything. You may actually be able to go to bed at 9pm living next door, which is my personal dream. The interior has a lot of tchotchkes behind the bar, and is surprisingly comfortable/spacious. The game started a little after 7:30pm on a Friday, but there were seats available right in front of the TVs and most of the patrons seemed to be in the back area playing pool. It did get a little more crowded throughout the game, but never to a point where it felt claustrophobic. The clientele demo skewed all over the place - several older codgers looked like they'd been rejected from Rock of Love Charm School (I thought one in particular was a dead ringer for Poison's CC DeVille), but there was also a few young men roaming around and middle-aged couples/singles throughout the establishment as well. Pretty much anyone who would theoretically come into a bar, did. We had a good bartender, who not only accommodated my TV request, but was friendly and accessible throughout our stay. I was in a sweet palate mood, and she offered to make a Hawaiian Volcano, apparently a drink pilfered from her days at TGI Friday's years ago. It's not something I'd necessarily get on a regular basis, but it definitely brought me back to my early legal drinking years for sure. I could taste some Malibu and juice, and sipped them throughout the game. We also got mozzy sticks and a pepperoni bar pie. Both were really decent for what they were, especially the mozzy sticks, which were fried perfectly. I thought the pizza tasted like a giant Bagel Bite, which is not an insult. But let's be clear - this is a dive bar, so it's not like you're wandering into the kitchen and stumbling across Jeremy Allen White from The Bear. You want something fairly tasty to munch on, and we got it. Strong recommend. I think expectations for a dive bar should be pretty simple - comfortable and pleasant. This was certainly that, minus the March Madness heartbreak.

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