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Great bar , great staff, great selection.
Great place to start or end a Saturday night bar outing with some bar hopping or some post gaming after an early movie to get your day started.
This is a nice little dive bar in a bit of an awkward spot to get to , off the beaten path , but none the less a fun little place to go hang out with friends.
Tends to be on the mellower side, but cheap drinks good food and an even better staff.
The only downside is the parking especially with the new rules. It used to be you could go to this side of hoboken and park just about anywhere, now 90% of the streets over there are permit only and believe me they enforce it even on weekends. Â So you either park on the man street and get a meter (2 hours max) , park someplace and pay , or take public transit .
I have been here a couple times for drinks/apps and once for lunch. Each time was a great experience. Â The bartenders/servers/other patrons are super nice.
On my boyfriend's birthday we decided to go out for some beers and appetizers, his favorite kind of meal. It was early-ish on a Thursday night and we sat at the bar. Â The bartender was very attentive and the food was great. We could tell we were amongst regulars but everyone was very welcoming. Â My boyfriend mentioned that he had called and they told him there was a dartboard but he didn't see one. Â The bartender let us know that it was in the party room upstairs but that we could go up if we wanted - which was awesome to have the place to ourselves.
We just went back recently for lunch with a friend and all three meals were delicious. Â Definitely plan to be back for both the food and atmosphere.
It is however located pretty much below an overpass which is a little creepy to walk to at night.
This restaurant is a really solid. I've always had a good meal here. Tonight I ordered the "Fresh Mozzarella" appetizer as meal. The app is fried mozzarella balls, but it's lightly fried. Â Not too heavy.
I was really impressed with the service. Â The waiter gave my friend a good sized sample of the draft beer. Â Then when he ordered the actual beer, it took awhile to get so the waiter gave the beer for free. Â I really appreciated the waiter's pro-activeness.
I need to come here more often!
Been here a few times and it's been hit or miss for me. Â Like other reviewers say, it's way off the beaten path in hoboken, but i view this as a plus- parking is easier to find and the crowd is more bearable. Â
First time. Â 5 stars. Â dinner on a weeknight
BF and i were blown away by the burgers! Â Sweet potato fries are the best I've ever had. Â no complaints on service. Â
2nd time. 3 stars. dinner on a Saturday night.
brie eggrolls were a let down but the pasties were great. Â burgers were good, other entrees were average. Â i got katie's way which is an open face turkey sandwich. Â it was massive and overly rich (and trust me, i can eat). Â i had about a quarter and was paralyzed for about 4 hours after. Â service was spotty, felt forgotten about at times.
3rd time. Â 5 stars. Private party upstairs.
probably the best deal in the area on private parties. Â $30 open bar for 3 hours in a private room upstairs. Â the room is nice and comfortable, you can order food in advance, decent selection and you have the freedom to use an ipod hookup for music and a dvd player. Â well-done carpe diem! HIGHLY RECOMMEND for parties. Â We had a great time
4th time. Â 2 stars. Â Brunch on a Sunday
Despite being one of 3 tables, service was slow and inattentive and 3/4 meals were overcooked (the 4th meal being a salad). Â when i say overcooked i mean a burger ordered medium rare came out medium-well, eggs overcooked, and chicken was charred. Â highly disappointing. Â sweet potato fries were still amazing though.
with some consistency, this place could easily be 5 stars for my standards.
This has become the spot for a few friends living nearby and we've found our way here pretty often. Â Staff is great and friendly, beer selection is always good, and the food is definitely a step up from the normal pub fare - go for the hot turkey, bacon, and "some kinda cheese" sandwich! Â Not necessarily a spot to sit and watch the games but they do have a number of TVs, a decent amount of seating, and a great vibe. Â Never a bad experience!
Review Source:Interesting beer selection. Â The food came out hot. Â Carpe Diem kitchen makes food that is easily a step up from 'normal' pub food.
The location is a little hard to find, we were coming from the 126 bus. Â There is some road construction going. However, once inside the restaurant...you'll find a cozy spot. Â
Lots of TV around, if that your thing...
Well worth a stop if you are in HOB.
Good food, brew, and staff!
Im from LA but was in town on business and wanted to grab a burger and beer to shake off the jet lag. Â
The place was empty with the exception of a few locals around the bar. Â I grabbed a seat next to the bar and ordered the mushroom & gruyere burger......simple and delicious. Â
After finishing my meal the bartender and locals made me feel very welcomed, giving me the heads up on the local points of interested. Â One pint turned into 6 with the conversation going on and I went back to the hotel a happy man! Â
I'll definitely go back when I'm in town.
We tried going here twice before, it was WAY too crowded, third time was the charm! Â Ordered the asparagus puffs appetizer, AMAZING! The pear salad was also a winner. I had a burger for my dinner, definitely one of the BEST burgers in Hoboken! Cooked just right, with hot perfectly cooked fries. This place is tiny, try going during an off hour like we did (late Saturday afternoon) & you should have no problem getting seated. Love this place, we'll be back!
Review Source:Best hamburger in Hoboken, hands down.
Also great soup.
The veggie mash sandwich is bland - and the only disappointment I've had.
I've been here so many times - I'm only writing a review now because I'm new to yelp.
The service is friendly - and fast.
I took my 1 year old here the other day - and he trashed the place, as 1 year olds will do. The staff did not make a fuss - and told us not to even try to clean up.
I'm waiting for the right occasion so we can book the upstairs there.
Without a doubt the best Bar Food/Irish fare I have ever had and one of the best restaurants in Hoboken. Â Â My fiance and I came here before going to see "The Five Year Engagement" (decent movie, not great) and really enjoyed our meal. Â
Quite frankly, I was shocked at how good the food is here. Â My sandwich was delicious (great with the gravy) and my fiance really enjoyed her burger. Â The sweet potato fries are the best fries I have ever eaten.
The service was very good and the crowd was really friendly. Â Best of all, the beer selection was great and the prices were just right.
We had a great time when we came here for New Years Eve. Â I'm so glad we came back for dinner. Â It's a bit off the beaten path (I live downtown), but I will be back as often as possible.
The Carpe Diem Pub is a great little restaurant. Â I have a friend who is getting a divorce and she was heartbroken and I took her and her parents out to dinner there. Â I looked up yelp to find a good restaurant and The Carpe Diem pub came up with great rating so I took them all their and we had a New York strip steak and orange chicken salad and the shepherd's pie. Â The food was very good and everybody was very satisfied with the service. Â I always loved to find great little restaurants like this. Â This is a very good restaurant.
Review Source:I went here for my birthday dinner a few weeks ago- we went because of the yelp drink special going on. I had had a particularly terrible horrible no good very bad day at work and was looking forward to celebrating and letting loose!
this place is SO HARD Â to find if you don't know where you are going! I never even knew it existed! You go down a seemingly dead end road with construction near the beer garden and POOF there it appears out of nowhere!
The decor was good- good job on the fireplace. Our waitress was mehhhh OK. She wasn't especially helpful and seemed to be serving her very large breasticles instead of good service. Can't even remember what she looked like, just cleavage.
The food came out and it was OK, nothing to write home about. I got the burger and it was a typical greasified goodness of a burger in a pub. Drinks were OK, nice selection of beers. This place is just so chill, not somewhere you want to go when you are looking to have fun and get CRUNK. So this did not satisfy my desires that evening.
The best part of the night was when we got the check and it wasn't too shabby! The place was not bad, but not memorable. There are tons of bars restaurants in Hoboken and most of them are easier to get to and more fun than this place. I would probably only return here if I lived within walking distance.
Located in uptown Hoboken, this bar is located close to the movie theater. Went here with the yelp squad to try the drinks. The place is nice and cozy. As soon as we walked we were welcomed by the server and she arranged tables for us(we were 10 of us).This place offers a relaxed and inviting setting to enjoy a refreshing brew, cheer on your favorite team, or just catch up with friends and they also have a fireplace, located in the dining room.
They had a good variety of beers on tap and also had a wide selection of wines.Overall it is a nice bar to have a good time with friends.
HMMMM... This place is weird to eat dinner at but I am sure it is a great place to go "belly up" at the bar. Totally off the beaten path for Hoboken.
We had an early evening meal here during the Yelp Drink special week. The service was lacking as we needed to ask for silverware after our food arrived and hound the waitress for waters and beer refills. She was nice but clueless.
The food was okay but I have to remind myself we were at a bar not a white tablecloth establishment. The menu is outdated as they no longer offer some of the items listed on the menu.
The tab at the end of the night was the best thing about this place. Totally affordable little hole in the wall.
I used to come here all the time. Â It's on the outside edge of Hoboken, so it's not always easy to get to, but that's why I love it. Â It's a local Hoboken crowd. Â Beer selection is good and includes some local NJ beers and other craft beers. Â
They do serve food, although I have never eaten here. Â The layout is great, don't seem to be many bad seats. Â
TIP: Try the Banana Bread Beer. Â Anything associated with Banana Bread is great, and this is no exception.
Came here on the invite of Steph. for the Yelp drinks event here. Gotta say I had a really good time. The peeps I met were/are really awsome. This is more of a four stars for the time I had than the place itself. Although I gotta say had the fried cheese app. and it was killer. Prices for drafts were really great and my wife enjoyed the house pinot. Will deffinatly try this place again soon.
Review Source:Carpe Diem is a really cool little joint that I never would have found if it wasn't for yelp. And this is why I shall yelp until my dying days, because it is so great to find fun little out of the way spots! Clearly I am not the only one either, when I headed there for dinner a few weeks ago it was packed, especially in the bar, on a particularly chilly Hoboken evening. It was extremely cozy inside especially by the fire. The waitress was very friendly and efficient. And the harvest salad I had there was light yet delicious and just enough food for me. I love when pubs have good salads, I feel like I can go to a fun place without leaving feeling like I ate 1500 calories and need to be rolled out in a deep-fried haze. Good times! Looking forward to a return visit for sure.
Review Source:I've been here twice now, both were private parties in the upstairs area of the restaurant. There were 4 different food options in the buffet, but everything was delicious(especially the penne vodka). Space is limited, but the staff are accommodating and very nice. The bartender who worked the private party had a heavy pour, but he was also friends with the host of the party, so he took good care of us. When we did go downstairs to leave, I got to see how intimate the dining area was, but everyone was sitting so close together and its seemed pretty loud. This also probably had a lot to do with the fact that it was getting late and people were getting pretty rowdy at the bar. Definitely a nice place for a small gathering upstairs, and the bar seems to get pretty packed later in the night.
Review Source:Excellent diamond in the rough type place 'round the 'boken! It's easy to hit up for a meal before or after a trip to the movies or the brand spankin' new biergarten if you're looking for German beer but not German fare.
The dining room is rustic with a fire place and close tables, yet the decor is clearly cute and intentional with interesting photos in a collage-style arrangement. I had the Belgium Onion Soup - like French Onion, but slightly lighter in color and with gruyere cheese. For my main meal, it was the turkey burger done "California style" with a side salad. The burger was good, seemingly homemade-ish, but the bun was overwhelmingly large and overpowered the burger so I ended up removing the top part of the bun. The happy hour specials knocked a couple bucks off of the brews, so I had a Stella with my dinner.
I'm looking forward to another stop here. For drinks or for food, the vibe is great and I like that it seems to be a well kept secret!
I came here with a few friends before going to see a movie across the street, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this place! It's a cute and cozy bar with a huge menu. All four of us had a hard time figuring out what to get because the menu was extensive. The goat cheese bruschetta and wings were tasty apps, and I got the Kate's Way sandwich, which is actually drenched in gravy. I definitely didn't need that much gravy, but the dish was delicious.
The only reason I'm not giving it 4 stars is because the server was SO weird. I don't know if she just didn't want to be there, was having an off night, or just sucked, but she was very short with us and not helpful at all. It really sucks to have a great dining experience ruined by the service, but it was hard to look past.
Either way, I'll definitely go back the next time I'm uptown. The brunch menu looks great, too!
In Hoboken you either live Uptown (10th and higher) and love the relaxed atmosphere  at night sans drunken 20 somethings roaming around being loud and obnoxious or you live downtown forced to eat and deal with over crowded places.
This place is a hidden Gem of Hoboken and really represent the meaning of community and pub life. I love this place and it's such a great escape. Â Something so cozy about the bar and the staff. It's a really welcoming place to get away from a getaway (Most Hoboken Bars)
The food is all excellent and reasonably priced. I love the all their burgers and their sweet potato fries, so yum!. I would say the food overall is great but the atmosphere is even better.
I always have a great relaxed experience when I come here.
*Music Choice is Great also ...
(I could write more but I almost don't want to draw more attention to this place)
Roomie and I had dinner here before we went to the movies. Let me just say...what a hidden gem this place is!
I got the Orange chicken salad, which had a really awesome orange vinaigrette and had black pepper chicken, orange segments, tomatos and almonds and  carrots. Also got a side of asparagus.
Roomie got the Harvest Chicken salad, she said it was super good.
I don't spend all that much time in Uptown Hoboken, but I probably should, if restaurants like this are hiding out! Service was quick and efficient and we were out in about an hour to catch our movie. Before tip, the big was about $40 for 2 salads, a glass of wine and a side.
We'll be back no doubt!
This hidden bar is a gem in Hoboken. Â
The beers on tap are the standard plus a few unique good ones (Palm).
The food is bar food but good nonetheless. Â It is very reasonably priced. Â
Carpe Diem is a great uptown bar if you are tired of the over priced & over played scene at City Bistro or Madison's. Â
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You know .. it does have a pretty bum location, as far as hoboken goes. The addition of the movie theater has to provide for a biz bump and truthfully, they deserve it. As long as you take them for what they are, then you will be just fine! We had stopped in before a movie and didn't even make it there after all.
We enjoyed a couple of burgers ... started off with some wings and over all we were certainly satisfied. It will not stay in our memory as the most incredible meal to date but you don't got here expecting that ... gimme a burger and a beer !
The Bartenders here are awesome...always generous with the pours.
Most of the menu is your typical bar food but they have some excotic dishes like stuffed asparagus (the bartender did not recommend).
It's a bit off the beaten path so it doesn't get too crowded and there is an upstairs you can rent out for parties.
Carpe Diem is a small Irish pub. when I say small, I mean, the main dining area can fit maybe 25 people. so it does have that whole cozy feeling. I believe I saw a sign which said there was a larger room upstairs, though.
the pulled pork sandwich with chipotle dressing (interesting, but tasty combination) was great, and the sweet potato fries (one of my tests of a restaurant's quality) were incredible.
aaaaand they have Magic Hat on tap (oh ho ho yeah!) - awesome sauce!
service for food was fairly fast, although it took a long time to get our check. and, go figure, we were in a rush to go see a show, so we were a bit miffed about that.
I did like that there were two comfy chairs and a fireplace. the perfect setting to sip brandy and discuss the latest news from the outer colonies, mmmmyes?
the only real gripe? it's quite deep into Hoboken, and while it's not a bad place, unless I was already in this end of the neighborhood, I probably wouldn't go here.
that being said, I feel a 3-star rating is what this place deserves. it's fairly priced, the music isn't blasting (so you can -gasp- actually have a conversation with your friends), and the food/beer choices are good. if you're in this end of Hoboken (say, to go to the new movie theater), check it out!
This cool little Irish bar is situated in uptown Hoboken, right near the new Clearview movie theater, which makes it a perfect spot to stop by for a drink before or after a movie. Â Very friendly service and they always seem to have good drink specials like half price bottles of wine or free buffalo wings during football halftime. Â Fireplace is also a nice touch, especially during this cold winter.
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