Blue Comet Bar

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  The definition of a sleazy dive bar, but it's not like they're trying to be something else.  3 Bud Light bottles and a Jack on the rock was $32, so this place is pricey for a dive.  
  
  My advice is to only go here if you miss your train and have time to kill, if you do take a shower immediately afterwards.

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  Posted on 04.03.13 Steve C.

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  Place has potential but echoing Jim B's review the Blue Comet has been somehow intetionally neglected to keep the ghost of penn stations past happy. Dive bar for sure, no problem keeping it that way but I'd recommend updating the TV's so it won't feel like 1984.

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  Posted on 10.01.12 Leean O.

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  New York drink prices in New Jersey! And no music? Sad.

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  Posted on 03.11.11 Marcus C.

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  Well, this place is a DIVE for sure!  It is very dirty, dark, musty and small. The only thing it's good for is when you are stranded late at night in Newark Penn Station and it's the only place open.  I agree with Jim B. Order the draft beer at your own risk.  Like I said, order a drink here if you just gotta have one.  If the wine & liquor store is open, I suggest you go in there and brown bag it!  If you want something mixed get a small bottle and some juice...when I've been there to grab a beer, I've seen them give people a cup with ice :) At any rate, Blue Comet could really use a makeover.  They charge enough for the drinks, you would think they could make some improvements.  Avoid this place like the plague.

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  Posted on 12.17.10 Mike P.

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  This place is like the river styx, somewhere between earth and hades....
  
  Here's a clue, don't sit on the the train station side, Bums will run in and try to steal your jacket.
  
  I've been here after a Devils game. Folks are friendly enough, sometimes too friendly....  I wouldn't go unless I was taking the train to or from a game.

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  Posted on 10.13.10 Jaime M.

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  The bar maids are mostly fat, ugly or both.  The drinks are outrageously expensive ( $4.00 for Coors Lt. pint??????), sometimes threatening with the cast of characters, a lot of ghettoish pals of the bar maids.  Loud rap music at times.  Have to find me a better watering hole between commutes.

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  Posted on 08.26.10 Jim G.

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  Most of Newark Penn has been renovated but stuck in a corner and in the past is Blue Comet.  Small and dark.  In thirty years I have stopped by maybe four or five times.  Just unattractive.  Stick to the bottled beer, I think the tap lines are not cleaned properly.

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  Posted on 11.19.09 Jim B.

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