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The Tavern

3.5 (72 reviews)
Closed • 12:00 pm - 2:00 am (Next day)

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Moderate noise
Live music
Divey
Casual

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A great sports bar to hang with your friends, chat, play pool or darts, and drink some cool ass happy dad seltzers.

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Lexi M.

Great place to watch the game and to play some games yourself! They have a whole second floor with lots of bar games like darts, pool, etc. We haven't tried the food yet, so we will be back to try the food. Just trying out all the local bars as we are new to the area.

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Chris K.

This used to be the Music Loft for years. I was happy to see the building being used again and finally made it by. The place is huge and really cleaned up nice!! We were in the mood to play pool and have some lunch so this fit the bill. We got there around noon or so on a Saturday and there was just a few peeps in the place. That was fine, we weren't looking for a crowd, just a few games of pool and some eats. We were greeted by a pleasant waitress, asked how much the pool is ($1.00 a game for the small tables and $10.00 an hour for the large ones) and headed over to check them out. We'd been to another place in the neighborhood the night before that we frequent somewhat regularly that only has one table that's a bit worn. We were thrilled to see all the tables here in great shape! The menu is pretty extensive and they have some regular lunch specials of several varieties of sliders. We got the cheeseburger sliders and the pulled chicken sliders. Both were quite good and came with a nice portion of fries. We also started with some homemade chips that were light, crispy and super thin - very good!! Like I said the pool tables looked to be in great shape - and they were! The bumpers had a lot of action compared to ones we'd played on the night before elsewhere that in comparison were about DOA! We were there over two hours and some more people filtered in, but not a lot. We wondered why cos it's really a nice place!! Very clean, in fact, amazingly clean!! We'll definitely be back and hope that this place will be around for quite some time!

After a long game, we call this a friendly tie

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Very nice atmosphere, great drinks and well priced. They also had a jukebox you can connect to and play music.

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Cool place. Reasonably priced. Lots of TV's, pool tables, pinball. Everything you need for a good place to hang.

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1 year ago

TRUE dive bar. Dark. Good place to just chill and drink a beer or twelve. Service is a tad slow but friendly.

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2 years ago

Great place to hangout with friends. Very friendly bartender and customers. Cheap drinks and always a good time.

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3 years ago

The Pink Whitney on tap made me realize why this place has 2 Michelin stars, truly masterful mixology.

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4 years ago

Great local spot! Music was great, service was terrific, and an excellent Philly cheesesteak Caesar salad! Thank you! We will be back!!

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7 years ago

Has gotten worse every visit. Food not hot, not good....not a clean place. We will not be back!

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This is my favorite bar. I think all these bad reviews are from the opening and closing all the time because of covid. Love the staff.

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The Tavern - tradamerican - Updated May 2026

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