Liberty Bar & Grill

I travel to philly a couple times a year for work and I will always make time for this place. The bartender, Sam, is great and the food is actually amazing. Don’t be fooled by the size. We came for the U.S. Women’s Soccer game and stayed for the atmosphere.

Stumbled upon this bar while apartment hunting, thought we’d stay for one beer but ended up staying for hours! The staff (especially Lee and Chris) are so friendly and amazing they sat and talked with us and really welcomed us to the neighborhood. Definitely will be coming here more often!

Great environment! The food here is super yummy, order the wings!

We just spent 5 days in Philly and ended up coming back here 3 times! The owner, Moe, is a super nice guy and even invited us back to his birthday party there on Saturday night!
The wings and chicken Caesar wrap were awesome! Wings were über meaty and definitely filling! :) the lunch specials are super cheap! You can eat for $ 8! Every better, the drinks are dirt cheap and they don’t cheap out on the amounts. Hubby sat and drank for two hours on Saturday and I got my nails done down the street. I joined him and our hill was $ 9 (3 beer, plus 2 comped, a shot comped, and my free ginger ale). $ 3 a beer? Is this common in Philly on a Saturday!?! It wasn’t even Happy hour yet!
The locals and regulars are one of the best parts of this bar! They welcomed us into their family after just a few hours of knowing us and bought my hubby some Birthday shots! I am expecting and couldn’t drink but they even offered up some ginger ale for me. I just ordered some «double cranberry ginger ales» lol
They have a jukebox to pick your own tunes at your cost. The music in there was pretty random. Some songs we haven’t heard in 15 years… Tupac? Missy Elliott? Tunes we like but long forgotten. :) most of this was crowd picks anyways.
It’s really small and only seats about 25 but definitely a place to check out when you are in town! We will definitely be coming back and visiting!

The chili is delicious! The burgers are also to die for! Never had a better veggie burger! Must Go!

Amazing atmosphere, amazing grilled cheese, friendly employees, this place is a good time.

Great place to hang out with friends. The DJ was great that night. The only setback was whem I ordered a pickle back the pickle juice had seeds inside and wasn’t served in a shot glass. It was served in a plastic ketchup dish.

I was in Philly for a trade show, happened up on the Liberty Bar. Loved it!!! This will be my watering hole in Philly from now on. Old town is awesome, but the Liberty Bar is closer to the hotel.

Tavern style (wood with character) bar with your basic line up of drinks. They used to have a fun quizzo night, with ½ price pizzas. They ended that, hence the loss of a star. Service is sometimes friendly, sometimes not so much. Food is ok. Owner is very friendly. Try the pizza and the fries, and you’ll go home happy.

I have been there quite a few times. Nice hardwood flooring, the girls restroom was beautiful with the Marble sink, clean as a whistle, when you enter the bar it’s a bit narrow but opens up a bit at the end of the bar. The tables are great also. The owner is friendly, on the premises & makes great food! Just had a Mushroom, Provolone Cheese Burger with fresh, homemade cut Fries & a banging side sauce tasted like spicy mustard, maybe Russian dressing & other spices, it was absolutely delicious to say the least. The staff is prompt & friendly. The regulars are also friendly too, which most regulars at bars are not receptive to «new» customers. Nice neighborhood bar & yes, there is some sort of adult theater a few doors down, but I’ve never seen anyone loitering outside or any kind of commotion going on. Lots of friendly walk by people too. Thumbs Up!

This is a fun place. Very small but the staff is friendly, and it’s a nice crowd of people, dj’s play some great hip-​hop/​electronic music. The food is pretty good and best of all, everything is quite reasonably priced! Bartenders are amazingly gorgeous, and very nice. Also if your a smartphone user, be sure to download «social pass» and when you check in you get a free shot with your beer purchase!!! I am fairly conservative with my willingness to give any place a five star rating so I give Liberty Bar ⁴⁄₅ stars!

Just your basic pub, in a weird spot on Market Street. It’s really pretty nice inside despite its porn neighbor. The bartender was attentive, and we never had to wait very long with an empty glass. They are really into soccer so that was interesting considering the other sports that were playing that night. Draft list is pretty basic. People were eating, but we decided to go somewhere else for food because there were a lot of fruit flies around which made me question the food.

Nice place, just a little loud on the music. I guess young people are deaf

Myself and a friend went here a few months ago on a Saturday. My friend had went a few years ago and had a really good time there. Sure enough, I agree after attending.
It’s a small bar with a small crowd, soccer games on every TV, two middle-​aged DJs spinning, mixing and scratching their favorite vinyls.
It has a really nice ambience, inexpensive drinks and a comfortable crowd. The food smelled really good too. Definitely check it out, maybe as a first stop on your crawl around Center City.

I spent this past NFL Sunday at Liberty Bar and I was pleasantly surprised. Wings were 20 for $ 10 which is an amazing deal and the rest of the menu was equally as affordable. Best part is that that the food is actually very good. The owner/​chef Aristotle takes pride in his cooking and you can see him working hard in the back whippin’ up the goodies. We also tried the Greek Salad and Burger and Fries and both dishes were solid. Add to that the $ 3 Yuenglings that were on special and it was overall a nice afternoon with some good football action.
The staff was friendly and as big a sports fans as we were. They have RedZone for NFL fans that shows you all the key plays during NFL Sundays in real-​time. They also showed the other games playing locally on TV. The place is small but cozy, and it was not super packed. We were especially please with the comfortable bar seating, nice and comfortable! haha!
I’ll definitely be checking this place out more often for the great wings and the nice atmosphere. Enjoy.

So a couple of weeks ago my roommate dragged me out to this bar to meet up with a few of our friends. I have to say I was totally thrown off because right when I stepped out of the cab there was this huge porn shop/​theatre right in view. I thought we had the block all wrong, but no, right next door was this cute little bar, in the most bizarre location.
We get in the bar and it was definitely slow but we were like 4 meeting up with about 5 or 6 more so it made the bar look full. We sat down and were greeted by the bartender Megan (pretty rad chick), and the owner Aristotle (who was also pretty rad)! The drinks were inexpensive, there was live music from the 2 d-​jays, my friends and I had a great time. Megan took great care of us, even gave me a free shot before I left. Which is 2 thumbs up in my book. Liberty bar is definitely a cool place if you can look past what you have to walk by to get there.

Liberty Bar is definitely located in an odd spot but its a perfect neighborhood bar. The bartenders are friendly, their food is great and they have amazing Blueberry Martini’s. I’ve been there several times but most recently on a Wednesday. The place was pretty empty, ok it was dead… six people total including the bartender, owner/​chef, and the dj. The DJ was willing to play whatever you requested and kept playing songs that shocked us because we hadn’t heard them in 10 years. the kind of thing where you’re like I LOVE this song but haven’t thought of it since the ’90’s… Its definitely a small bar but can be a good place to grab a bite to eat and talk without being bothered. For me its definitely a weeknight place

It was a little scary going to a bar next door to a porn theater, but also kind of intriguing. Friends and I had been wanting to check this place out for a while, but it’s location always deterred us (sketchy spot and a bit of a hike). Until last Saturday.
A bit of a disappointment in that the bar isn’t sketchy at all, just your standard small pub with a local feel. Our group of 7 including a few loud drunk guys definitely brought some «life» to the place — the 3 other patrons probably weren’t thrilled but the bartender seemed to get a kick out of us. He was authentically Irish (cool accent), friendly (good attribute for a bartender), and made us his favorite shot, Bazooka Joe (good if you like bubblegum tasting shots). He was definitely the best part of the bar.
Good little local place, but nothing stood out. Probably won’t go back just because it’s out of the way and unremarkable. But a solid place.

This place is cool. It’s not «off the beaten path» but it’s pretty close. It’s definitely in a spectacularly isolated location, with the porn shop right next door, right on Market. It’s a tucked in little corner, but it’s got the swagger of any Market Street tavern. Here’s my beef, though: the beers on tap are all merely average – there’s nothing special about them, or their prices (not even one «specialty» beer – what???). The place is small, and intimate, which is a good, solid quality, but it didn’t seem like the bar was going for any kind of theme, and despite how «dive» the place might seem to be, it’s pretty jazzed up with great lighting and knickknacks on the walls.
The crowd is a mixture of young people and older types. There is an electronic video game machine at the bar tempting you to play. Browsing the categories but refusing to spend any money, I came across about fifty erotic games available for your heathenly delights.
The bartend was a nice young woman who seemed surprised that my friends and I were all there the day after New Year’s. Finally, the live music were these two local deejays that were pretty raging, giving a good mixture of electronic and hip hop tunes that made the somewhat average place glimmer up a bit. I’ll probably go back to this place at some point down the road, even though I’m not completely thrilled about it just yet.

I love Liberty Bar. This place is great! It’s a sport bar, pub and dance club all mixed in one. The food and drink selection is great (I’ve never been to a pub where you can get a caipirinha @ the bar). In addition, Liberty has great music and DJs. Being a electronic music lover, I’m impressed that Liberty Bar attracts top talent from around the city and internationally to play this small gem on market street. Definitely make it a point to stop by and check it out!