Manny Brown’s

We did a pub crawl this past weekend and felt right at home here. We had some great tacos and tater tots which were just the right food for a night of drinking. The staff were friendly and we enjoyed ourselves.

So I came into Phili and had no idea of this place, after walking south street I stumbled into this bar! First and foremost I felt very welcomed at this bar along with my gf! It was a little dive bar type of bar but very cool ! The wait staff was cool on the first night and her name was Macy ! She was cool and very attentive. We had a few margaritas and had the buffalo chicken quesadillas and I had the chimichanga !!! Both excellent choices ! Good serving size!
The second day on Saturday they had live music until about 10pm then played throwbacks !! Very cool crowd. What I like about this place it seems to me that there are locals that come to this bar .
The little thing that grabbed my attention was all the singles taped to the beam boards and I had to go along with the hype !!!
Definitely check this place out

Got lucky and found this place today and had lunch. I had the pork sandwich with au jus and it was pretty good. 7 $ for a real hefty sandwich and a solid portion of fries. It wasn’t busy but it dis have a great beer selection and it reminded me of the dives we loved in the Florida keys but without the trop rock music. Didn’t get to dive Into the beer list as I was working but it’s the perfect kind of place to pregame a fun night out and I hear there’s live music too!

Solid dive. I can only speak to the reasonably priced drinks and the helpful service, since I haven’t eaten anything here yet. Not the kind of place I’d spend a whole night at, but perfect for ducking in before or after going somewhere else, like the TLA. It’s pretty dark, but the dollar bills stuck to the walls lend a touch of whimsy. I’ve heard good things about the wings– maybe one day.

THE WORST GROWLERS AROUND. Twice I’ve brought my growler in to be filled and twice I’ve walked out with a $ 27 jug of flat beer that tastes like it was passed to me in an 1800’s saloon.
I usually get a pint while I wait, and a growler to go, so I know it’s not the keg or the tap. It is their process.
Here’s what they do: a) pour the beer into a pitcher, then b) pour the pitcher into the growler. So as you can imagine, that is a lot of sloshing around and thus a horrible beer experience on your sofa 10 minutes later. This was even with using my Hawthorne’s growler with the non-​standard pressure cap; I can only imagine how awful it would’ve been with the standard-​issue screw-​on cap.
At any rate, this would all be fixed with a simple hose running from the tap, to the bottom of the growler. I mentioned this to the bartender as I watched on my first bad experience. She just smiled and said, «yea I know, I don’t know why we do it like this,» lol.
Hoses are standard and probably cost all of one dollar. All I can assume is that this is a south street bar with transient traffic, and growlers tend to be local. So they don’t care.
Tourist trap, whatever… this is Philadelphia. Beer and general quality matter. No matter who butters your bread or from where, a $ 30 single transaction (incl. tax) should warrant a better customer experience. Won’t be back.

Looking for a place to pregame before a TLA show, stumbled on here after a mini pub crawl. My favorite one of the three places I hit. I had planned on eating elsewhere, but it was an inviting atmosphere, good beer, and tasty looking menu. Got the Stuffed Burger and it came as advertised.

I’ve always liked this place. They’ve always had good beer, good food, and good drinks. They’ve always had good entertainment and good bartenders too. I’ve had some good times here and met some cool people from like all over the world. I’ve always really enjoyed their Quizzo too.
I feel like this place is one of the last hold outs on a very rapidly declining and getting VERY VERY TRASHY South St. The last few times I’ve been there the place has been edgier than before, and it’s no fault of the staff. It’s just a shame to see people come into this place and start shit.
This is not the bar to be ghetto at on South St. Practically all of South St. is ghetto now. Not urban. Ghetto. 5^th & Olney ghetto, but thinks it’s swanky.
If you want to act like a drunken teenage clown go to Fat Tuesday’s. If you want to gawk at fat assed women, stuffed into spandex, that look like a Crayola box threw up on them, again Fat Tuesday’s. If you want to get your bro on, South St. Diner, Copabanana (shithole), Boyler Room, Lorenzo’s, Lickety Split, you got plenty of choices for places to act like a jackass.
Knock yourself out, but for the love of GOD leave this cool bar for adults and cool people to enjoy and appreciate.
Again, this place is pretty cool, the staff are nice and work hard, the food is good, the drink selection is good. I like this place, but you can’t control it when riff raff decides to invade, and again I think that’s more because South St. is so crappy now.
The only reason this place gets 3 stars and not 4 is because they conceded and added a grape flavored drink to the specials menu to appease the stragglers. And each time I have seen someone order it, they bitch about the price. I haven’t been there in a little bit so maybe it’s gone from the menu, which, if it is, good, and if not, why?
Again, if you want candy flavored crap and to act like a moron, leave this place. Fat Tuesday’s is right down the block. Have fun. Plenty of illiterate skanks to play with. Otherwise, don’t ruin a good place for people like myself who dig cool chill spots and hate to lose our quirky places because stupidity is the norm.

Came in on a random Saturday afternoon, sat at the bar for a couple beers. Ended up having some appetizers along the way. The onion rings may have hands down been the best I’ve ever had. Perfect crisp and flavor, a nice dipping sauce that they give to you as well.
The bartenders are really cool and down to earth and very attentive. What more can I say for a quick stop in for a pint and a bite to eat. I’ll be back next time I’m on south street.

Diarrhea cha cha cha…
I had the Buffalo chicken sandwich and some onion rings with their mystery sauce, and now I am in dire need of a colon cleanse. My iced tea tasted like it had Windex in it.

Must have gotten a new chef or something because the food went from tolerable to bad. Bartenders can’t be bothered from their phones to serve you and when they finally do they act annoyed. Just do your job, you’re the one who made all the mistakes in your life that led you to be a bartender, not me.
I was a semi regular, now I’ll never go back.

Cheap beers/​drinks, bartenders who know what they’re doing and are good at their job. Served it’s purpose on my bar hop. Did not eat, did not see food.
Will come back before a show for sure.

good food and good beer ! can’t ask for more than that. the bartenders could be a little more attentive but other than that it’s a great divey spot to hang out

3.5 stars to be exact.
This bar harkens back to the days of old, when men were men and women were men. No frills, no pretension whatsoever. It’s not a dive bar because it doesn’t deliberately sink itself down to that level. Instead it’s a local watering hole that serves good old fashion American food, deep fried to perfection. I hereby give this bar: one full stomach.

Have had a few good times here during weekend days. Great beer selection and very friendly bartenders!

My favorite bar in Philly. This place is the best! Great beer selection. Good mix of people in the crowd. The people are about as nice as people get here in philly! Good music, good food, great location and the front of the bar is removed during the summer for an open feel!

Great place to have some drinks on South St.
They had the big garage door open so the breeze was perfect! It was also great for people watching facing the street if you’re into that ;)
They have a jukebox with a great mix of everything, and all the prices are pretty reasonable. AND they have Strongbow Cider-​SO GOOD. The waitress was also super nice.
The women’s bathroom was pretty nasty, so us ladies had to use the men’s room. But as my friend put it, «The men’s room was supreme.»

Small friendly place, great drinks, great times!
Tie me to the bedpost!
It’s a drink, you should get two ;)
Also Thursday karaōke… always a good time. Older crowd, some college students mixed in… unique, cozy atmosphere.

The bartender there was much more friendly than the last one. She was very attentive and made sure to hit as many people as she could on a busy Friday night, so kudos!

I don’t go out of my way to go here, but the point of this feature is to glorify the unexpected. My advice? If you are on South Street, go to Manny Brown’s. On a Monday night, you’ll steal a pitcher of PBR for less than what you paid for parking. And if you have the energy, that is if South Street’s populace hasn’t exhausted it all from you, check out its beer list. Surprisingly impressive; lots of good stuff in bottles, and a great taplist.
I just stopped by there to catch the end of a Wing Night (cheap Pabst, $.15 wings), and though I avoided the heart-​attack on my arteries and tastebuds, I ordered a draft Scheider Aventinus. Though it wasn’t served in the proportion I’m used to, but it was as delicious as ever. And there was baseball on the screen, an environment of joy and laughter, too. It felt right. I was never irritated, like I though I might be. It all seemed to make sense. It all seemed very South Street. The cuisine won’t blow your socks off, there aren’t any bands that play here, and even the service isn’t the best. But it’s a good dive, so long as you aren’t expected mind-​blowing experiences and you don’t mind being carded at the door.
This place even has Beeradvocate and Ratebeer ratings on their menu (why they’d carry a C+ surprises me, but whatever). But then it goes out of its way to tell you that your beer taste doesn’t suck, even if it does! Amazing. It’s a bar that’s nicer than I am. (But that shouldn’t convince you of much.)
And if avoiding weirdos, yuppies, and so on is something you want to do on South Street, and I recommend it, I think Manny Brown’s may very well be the place to do that.

I never realized how friendly people in Philadelphia are. Or at least on South Street they are. Within 10 minutes of being in this bar the bartender introduced herself to me and so did the guy sitting to my right. I could see this being a bar I would frequent if I ever lived here.
After walking around South Street for an hour and stuffing myself with a pre-​dinner slice of pizza (appetizer) I decided it was time for a beer. It was happy hour time and Manny Brown’s looked like a good place to stop in. Not packed when I walked in I quickly found a seat at the end of the bar. Jean the bartender greeted me and asked if I knew what I wanted. I did not, but she gave me a beer list (nice tap and bottle selection) and I chose a Sly Fox Christmas Ale which was full of holiday spirit and alcohol. Nice warmth coming off this beer on a coldish early evening.
Within about 5 minutes the seats at the bar were pretty full although the ones to my right and left were still vacant. That changed a few minutes after that. Seemed like the people that sat on both sides of me were locals as they were chatting it up by first name with all the people that worked here this night. The guy to my right introduced himself and shortly thereafter Jean the bartender also introduced herself. I noticed the guy was wearing a NY Giants (I’m a fan) winter hat and questioned how he could walk around Philadelphia with that hat without being killed. Philadelphia sports fans tend to be angry fans. Sorry to those of you who aren’t. I am not saying that all of you are angry. He said he does fine around this part of town, but where he lives it is another story.
Anyway, enough about that. Manny Brown’s is a very friendly place. They do have a nice beer list. Pints only seem to be $ 2.75 at happy hour and that is never going to be a bad thing. I hope to come back here again the next time I’m in town. Maybe I’ll even wear some Giants or Mets gear. Probably not though.