Phone: (215) 922-1954

What I’d Do To Improve the Place:

Allow Cigar smoking - it just fits the place; Frankie and Dino would be proud. Don't allow cigarette smoking. That stuff will kill ya.

From the outside of Anthony's, you get the feeling that it is an "old school," Frankie & Dino dive that would cater to a couple of hip cats and dames looking for a place to meet and mingle. 

Well, a couple of us in the Phillytown crew were smoking stogies on the night that we attempted to gain access to Anthony's. As we entered Anthony's, we were promptly turned away at the door because of the cigars. This makes no sense at all. When we finally came back to Anthony's at the end of the night (we were close to snubbing them because of the cigar policy) the place was filled with cigarette smoke. Just about every other person was smoking.

Anthony's set-up is fairly straight-forward: a big rectangular bar on the left (seats about 30), booths along the right hand wall and in the back of the room: tables and chairs. Some of the patrons looked like they either just rode their bike over or they just got out of the the late show at the khYber.

On the night we visited, the crowd at Anthony's was decidedly mixed. At one end of the bar is a couple in their 20's, while at the other end is a guy who looks like Frazier's Dad. The booths were mobbed with Indie folk, drinking and eating it up.

Anthony's is definitely the place to be if you're hungry for a late night snack or meal. They serve food up until 1:30AM every night. Speaking from experience the mozzarella sticks are pretty darn good. So many other Olde City establishments button-up the kitchen after the dinner crowd leaves, which makes for few options when the stomach is growling. I suppose the restaurants don't realize that people sleep in on the weekends and as a result may feel like having dinner around midnight.  

The taps at Anthony's are as diverse as the crowd: Harp, Yuengling Porter, Yuengling lager, Yuengling Black and Tan, Colt 45, Rolling Rock, Miller, Guinness, Bass, Honey Brown, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. If they don't have something you even remotely like, you're just too picky. Well, somebody had to tell ya.

For entertainment there is a CD jukebox and 2 Televisions. In the maelstrom of frou frou Olde City bars, Anthony's is definitely a change of pace. So when you grow tired of your Five Spot, your Plough, your Continental, or your Marmont, walk the 1/2 block up to Anthony's - just make sure you toss your stogie-butt before you cross the threshold.