Nice bar to hang out in if you just want to relax and have some drinks. Bartenders always take care of you quickly, the prices are really good, and the bar is clean. The bar is cash only so make sure you're prepared. read more

This place is great for what it is. Cheap drinks, divey, friendly staff and hilarious regulars. It's a nice break from the hustle and bustle of mostly younger crowds downtown. And you can bring your own food. I basically picnicked there by bringing sandwiches and fresh mozzarella with a friend. Ben, my favorite bartender, served us with his usual charm, and provided good banter when needed. It's a vibe. Go inside. read more

I stopped into Wilton House for the first time recently. As I expected, it was full of regulars that all seemed to know each other, or at least know the bartender. However, that did not stop any of them from being friendly and welcoming to a newcomer like myself. The bar was cash only, but with their 24/7 happy hour specials that was not a problem! Their liquor and beer list was mainly basic (think well brands and Budweiser), but I was pleasantly surprised to also see Aperol and even cans of High Noon - two of my favorites. Lastly, they had a dartboard, and their digital jukebox had every song I was dying to play, even ones that were not overly popular. So, they were set up to offer a fun evening for anyone. Wilton House was a great low-key bar with affordable drinks. read more

Came in for a quick drink. Very small and quiet. Not usual for Hoboken. They had happy hour so 3 beers and a vodka club came to 17$. Wasn't busy at all for 3pm in the afternoon. read more

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The term "Dive Bar" is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. I strongly feel that a genuine dive bar is a long-standing neighborhood institution that caters to local, working stiff types that like to stop for a drink after (or before) heading off to work. They should typically serve cold beer and simple, classic cocktails. Wilton House is a classic neighborhood dive. Go inside and you'll see what I mean. "Dive bar" doesn't mean filthy bathrooms, surly staff and an ear-piercing jukebox. Wilton House is the kind of bar my grandfather stopped in after a long shift at work to unwind with friends and have a cold beer. The place is clean, the staff are friendly, the beer is cold, and it's a throwback to simpler and fun times. Check it out. read more

Want to not be told it's a cash bar and asked to be in cash at the end of the night? Go here. Want to have a big bouncer standing behind you while you take cash out? Go here. Want to have your bank suspend your card for suspicious activity the next day? Go here!! read more

Classic Dive bar. When you walk in you will likely find an older crowd, and it seems like a local favorite, as everyone was talking to one another. The music varied from all kinds of genres so there's something for everyone. This is a place I would bring my dad to drink with. The bar is cash only, so be prepared if you choose to drink here. There were only three beers on draft when we went, and I got a coors lite for $5 to give you an idea. The place is also very close to the path so it's easy to get to if you don't live in Hoboken. read more

This is the best bar in Hoboken. Ownership cares for the patrons. The bartenders are excellent, the doors are open most of the day, and you are steps from the train station/waterfront/pizza parlor. If you are looking for people of all ages and backgrounds seeking the old school vibes of the pre 9/11 tri state area, you won't find it many places, but you will at Wilton House. read more

This place has amazing cocktails. Food is nice too. Only thing that could get better is maybe music. And location is nice too. Very close to path Station read more

Wilton House is a bar frozen in time: outside, this section of downtown is a yuppie's paradise of trendy restaurants, packed sports bars, and hipsters galore. Inside, it's 1970s Hoboken. No attitude, no trends, no atmosphere. People come in for a strong spirits and cheap domestic beer. The bartender will greet you with a nod and as long as you keep things quiet, this is an ideal place to wind down an evening (or regroup for something later). Wilton's rarely gets too crowded (St Pats aside), so pull a stool up to the bar, grab yourself a bottle of Bud, and relax. read more

I had my doubts about you, Bro-boken, but indeed there is still an under-belly that is...not exactly thriving...but at least *exists*. One of my girlfriends and her brother brought me here. They frequent this establishment fairly regularly. I can understand why. No need for a Benjamin. You can spend, like, twenty bucks here and find yourself walking out sideways and totally disoriented. CHA-CHING, what more can you really ask for? Kind of have to bring the party if you want to keep yourself entertained and not (mildly) creeped out by some of the more regular clientele. read more

Beer is simple and cheap here. The bartender Jack had stories for hours and I had a wonderful conversation and really loved it. No frills, quiet hole in the wall where the beer is cheap, there isn't too much noise and the people are regulars. Will certainly be going again, and if you start a conversation with Jack ( and like the Mets/Giants) , you will love your time here read more

Dear Wilton House, First off, I want to thank you so much for so many wonderful evenings. You always have a bar stool waiting for me. You are so conveniently located, directly between the bar I just left and the PATH. And you are cheap--oh so cheap, even if it is watered down draft beer that I insist to "just have one" of. But must you always tempt me? Why can't you just let me walk past you, and maybe stumble into Starbucks once and a while? Maybe, just maybe, you could look past my cries of not quite wanting to go home, and gently nudge me away from your doors. But no. You don't judge. You just stand there, all open and empty and cheap, and welcome me regardless of my state of iniberation. You accept me. You get me. And I am grateful, I really am, but like a spoiled child I now just don't understand the concept of no. I must stop every time I in the magical Hoboken. You make me feel better about myself--entering your doors allows me to once again lower the average bar patron's age (rather than raising it as I seem to do in most other bars--thanks, Black Bear). So where as we appear to be codependent, can we at least try to put some distance between us? Maybe next time I will pay more attention to my friends as they groan, roll their eyes, and tell me they have to wash their hair as they start to run away from you. Or maybe you can raise the beer price to $2.00, so I don't have the "I need these quarters for laundry anyhow" temptation to drink more. And then we can work on having a healthy relationship. Thank you, Wilton House. Forever yours, AMickeyG read more

"What's on tap?" "Bud, Bud Light, Heineken, Corona." "What do you have in bottles?" "Bud, Bud Light, Heineken, Corona." What's the point? read more

Love this place Jack is very friendly and Ronnie. Coming from eating we stop in to see this place like I said they are a friendly

My coworker and I have been talking about going to this place for the longest time and we finally made it the other night. We actually wish we had gone there sooner because the place was not bad at all. You would almost never notice it walking by, but passing through the doors will make you come back. Walking into the place does not do anything special for you. It looks like just another bar with beyond bland colors and barely any decor to it. I would call it a dive bar in the sense that there is almost nothing inside this place besides a bar, bar stools, and the guy working behind the bar. But as soon as your order your drinks and the bartender tells you the price, you jaw will hit the bar. They are amazingly dirt cheap. We thought the bartender had made a mistake and not included something in the total price, but it was really that cheap. The dangerous part about drinks being this cheap...we took full advantage of it being that cheap. Within minutes shots were being ordered, beers were being chugged, and overall drinking chaos had ensued. We ended up getting to know everyone in there through our drinking mania. The crowd inside the place, if you could call it that, was more like middle aged people who just wanted to sit and have a couple of drinks. Everyone was very nice and outgoing, and the bartender was pretty cool too. It is definitely a nice change from the screaming and obnoxiousness that you would find in most places in Hoboken. But in the end it was time to move on to another place, and in our intoxicated state we bid goodbye to one of our new favorite bars. Overall I gave the Wilton House four stars because of the cool crowd, the cool bartender, and the cheap ass drinks. I am always down for cheap booze, and this was the clear case. Granted most of it is bottom self liquor, however that is never a problem with me. I cannot wait to go back. read more

Ever dream of experiencing Hoboken's pre-gentrification days? Well, this is your ultimate opportunity. $2 drafts. Airplane style Sutter Home personal bottles. 70's era paneled walls and mirrors. Fee-only juke box. 2 blocks from the PATH train. Say hello to my new favorite dive bar. read more

I must say I'm a bit embarrassed that I only started going recently. I don't have much more to say about this place that hasn't already been said. Cheap budweiser drafts are a must. Cheap shots... no music, no bs, no "scene"... just cheap drinks. This is a must as a Hoboken pre-game spot. Bonus points for having the most odd assortment of people at a bar ever (frat boys, 70 year old drunk men, clearly inebriated girls, and a few guys that i'm pretty sure i saw in a rap music video - all sitting together at the bar) Pros: cheap. drinks. location - 2 blocks from the PATH. across the street from a pizzeria Cons: crowd during the early evening is mostly old guys. read more

Neighborhood bar tucked amongst the college age scene. Prices are extremely reasonable and staff is friendly.

It's a five star local bar. It's not a loud obnoxious guido, hipster, punk, or sports bar. It's an old mans bar. Do you wanna hang out? Do you wanna have a real conversation without straining your vocal chords over louder and louder music? Do you wanna not have to break the bank to get a buzz? If so, then this is the place for you.. If your a beer snob that needs a backstory and a pedigree for your beer to be worthy of your consumption, then just walk on by. There are a hundred other places for you to feel better about yourself. Go to them. The staff is friendly and open to a good conversation. Hell, if you talk to them you might just find out some cool history to the town that you call home... read more

This is what real, true alcoholism looks like. Never anyone there, always plenty of bottom shelf booze, decor is shitty... But sometimes you just want to set and drink a few. And that's what Wilton House is for. read more

Cheap, cheap, cheap! That is definitely the best thing about this bar! Came to Hoboken for a friend's birthday and decided to come here first for some pre-gaming. It was a great idea. I was able to get drunk for less than $20. That's unheard of! It was a Saturday night and the bar was not crowded at all. And me being the old lady that I am, liked that. A lot! The few people that were there were very cool. I also liked the bartender. When my friends and I were leaving, he went out of his way to find some plastic bags for us. It was pouring outside and our hair was straight. Never a good combination. A plastic bag was a necessity and the bartender helped us out. If I ever find myself in Hoboken again, I'll want to come here first before heading somewhere else. read more

One word summary for this place: "sterile." Walked in here with a beer connoisseur buddy, and asked which beers they have on tap. Military-like bartender answers with a stern face and a sergeant voice: "bud, Coors, and [some other crappy mass-procuced beer, I forget]." My friend was clever enough to ask what bottled beers they have, and we ended up having Stellas. This places smells like a bathroom that's just been thoroughly scrubbed with bleach. Never again. read more

Great place to just relax and have a cold cold draft beer. And the price is the best in Hoboken

LOL, keep passing this place and looking in. Today I decided to get drink with a friend. Not sure why but I feel like they deserve five stars. read more

THE WORST!!!!!...We went for a drink thinking that it would be good since we were looking for a quiet place to have a drink. Boy we were wrong!!!!!the bar tender was extremely rude and kept yelling all the time using course words and foul language and slaming glasses and bottles around... SHE WAS CLEARLY DRUNK, when we started a conversation in spanish she let us know that she was not cool with it which I find extremely racist since we weren't loud or disrespectful in any way. At this point all we wanted to do was leave but surprise...it was a cash bar, and the bar tender also let us know in a very "classy" was by slamming our credit card against the bar top saying "to me this is not good". I have never felt so unwelcomed and disrespected in any establishment in my life. Surreal experience in the worst possible way. read more

The worst bar I have ever been to in my life. It's not even the bar that is the worst (it's bad tho) it's the bartender/owner. A few friends and I were walking past Wilton house and thought let's go in here for a quiet drink before we go to a busy bar. We walk in and ask if they have trash cans (the drink) the bartender is slurring her words saying no we don't down the street they have a special on them. She was being a bitch and was just saying that cause she didn't want to serve us. She had no reason on to why she didn't want to serve us, we were being very nice asking for a drink. We ordered a vodka club then she said you know what I don't want to serve you guys get out of my bar. She was wasted, fighting with us on how she wouldn't serve us. We asked why she wouldn't and she's like I don't wanna this is my bar get out. We then left the bar and was standing outside, figuring out where we wanted to go next. She came out and started yelling at us to leave, we told her to stop yelling at us and go back inside her disgusting dirty bar. She got mad started yelling at us even more. The police heard her screaming so they pulled up. They wanted to hear her side of the story vs ours. The police told her to go back inside and leave us alone. I bet they have dealt with her many times before because other reviews say she was wasted too. If I were you I would stay far away from this bar unless you feel like fighting with the drunk owner. read more

Wilton House - The drunk owner/bartender - Dive Bars Near Me - Hoboken, New Jersey

true dive bar in hoboken nj. we stopped in for a quicky, bellied up to an empty bar, paid almost nothing for the drinks we drank, chatted with the bartender on her first night, got chinese from the take away joint next store. simple, dive.... just the kind of new jersey experience we were wanting. read more

Absolutely solid neighborhood bar. The bartender knows half the people that walk in by name. There is a good selection of liquors and coors and budweiser on draft for $1.75 at all times. The decor is chintzy and awful and the two tv's that play sporting events are from 1982 but in some way that just adds to the place's appeal. Do come here for a drink and get the weight of the world off your shoulders. Don't bring a first date here and expect them to be impressed. read more

If you want to go to a place where no one will find you come here. That is the charm of this place. It is a little get-away in a town full of sports bars. Although I probably couldn't come here every weekend, their is a place in my heart for the Wilton House. read more

If you party regularly or go bar hopping in Hoboken then you know about this place, otherwise you just keep walking past it thinking that is a crappy old bar. Never judge a book by its cover! This is THEE Pre-Game place to be. Drinks are SUPER CHEAP and not watered down. If you want to party in Hoboken and are on a budget that night start your night here with a bunch of rounds then you can get your night started going to where ever you would like to go. The bartender Jack and I believe his wife when he is not available are both super friendly. read more

Just did shots there last night before hitting the main spot. $5 per shot was cr...wait for it...azy.

This place is hysterical. It is very much a neighborhood dive bar with a lot of quirky "regulars". The beers are very cheap, however, it can get kind of awkward when you first walk in because you are often met with glares (I kid you not) as if to say, "what are you yuppies doing in MY bar?" Furthermore, this bar does not serve diet beverages. (I'm not sure why they don't but I've always found it to be funny) read more

Went here on a Friday night with a few friends and it was a discovery 3 years in the making. Super cheap Yuengling draft and a tame atmosphere. The scene here is a little older, not your traditional Hoboken Yuppie crowd or overly dolled-up groups looking for a party. It's a place I can see over-worked commuters coming in for a drink and some conversation without too many distractions. Bartender seemed to be the owner as well and he was pretty friendly. read more

hello there yelpers.......took a train ride down to hoboken for the day on thursday and decided to stop over to wilton house for a quick cold beer.....neat little neighorhood bar with a few oldtimers in there 10:30 am doing the same thing i was doing !! the place was clean, friendly, interesting and overall i had a HOOT !! i would love to check this place out at night read more

Rating it a five purely because of the $1.75 drafts. Best way to pre-game before a night out in town! The bartender seems friendly enough. When I went there was a lot of old people (like...late 30s-50 year olds) so if that's not your crowd, don't go. It's a small cozy place...I'll definitely hit up that bar again! read more

This place is always empty. But you have to stop in and grab a drink. Its just a fun place to stop in when you out hopping from a few different bars. read more

Mmm, this bar is great! I'll take $1.75 draft anytime! A great place to chat and relax with friends. It's not really a date night kind of place, but it is a great local dive and I will definitely be returning! read more

Look, this place has no shame, is what it is and doesn't care to change for you. With that being said, it's amazing and unlike any bar in the area. Anyone that complains can go a block in either direction and find exactly what they're looking for. Look, it's cheap beer/spirits in the most expensive part of town. That's 5 stars in my book. Great dive feeling, historical and good service. This place is real. It's like something at the base of a ski mountain Colorado or in a downtown somewhere in Idaho. This place is out of its element and is awesome for it. read more

This place ripped me off! Went in to grab a beer before my train left. Ordered a bottle of Bud and then a Bud hand grenade. Gave the bartender a $20.00 and received 5 singles for change. Brought this to her attention and she insisted I gave her a $10. Made a big todo about checking the register and insisted I gave her a 10. Hit the ATM before hand so I know all I had were 20's. She got 10 bucks outta me, but would have got much more in future transactions that will now never take place. So this is how they treat irregulars. Avoid this dump. Also, I bartended for years, so don't give me the chump treatment. read more