I love this place and its part in the Pennsylvania RailRoad's civil war history. Â Plus I can bring my Doberman along to sit out back with me! Â I recently moved down to New Freedom and love the town and this tavern. Â I have always had good food and the staff is very nice. Â It has become a regular hangout on the weekends and a perfect stop after a hike on the trail :)
Review Source:Well, the hodle is a great place if you want to get down on the weekend with some locals. You can play pool in there too. It's also fun during the day for a random mid-day drink...quiet and no one bothers you. I wouldn't suggest getting food there though. Maybe it was just my bartender, I don't know...I don't think she liked me so maybe she gave me nasty wing sauce on purpose.
The wings are fried beautifully but the sauce tastes like sriracha. While I do like sriracha, I want buffalo sauce for my buffalo wings! lol I couldn't eat the wings with the sauce and just ate the wings plain instead (i got the sauce on the side and wings naked). Also, she only gave me like 1/4 cup of sauce on the side...like 1/4 of the side cup. Why not just fill up the side cup like normal places?
And then, I ordered a scotch and soda and the bartender gives me a scotch and coke...and then tells me it's my fault because i said "soda" instead of "soda water." Welp, when I tend bar I ask my customers, "what kind of soda? soda water? gingerale?coke? what?" to make sure I don't mess up their order. #endrant lol
The Hodle is right off the rail trail in New Freedom. New Freedom is not a big place, so it is hard to miss. I'm not sure why, but I love the Hodle. I've never even eaten here, but something just seems right. Smoking is allowed, but I've never been overwhelmed by it here. I have to admit, I've never been here when it was busy. Â
The one thing about this place that I know makes me happy is they carry both Hypnotiq and Hennessy. I love Hypnotiq and Hennessy(Incredible Hulk) and this is one of the few places(that I will go) in the York area that you will find with both liquors. Maybe that is what keeps me coming back.
If you find yourself thirsty in New Freedom, definitely check it out!
This is probably our favorite bar in the area. Â We love the food, atmosphere and people. Â The bartenders are attentive, service is quick the prices are good.
I'd give it 5 strars if they'd just install a couple of Smokeeters. Â They allow smoking inside and it can get fairly overwhelming at times with very little airflow.
Here is one of those places that I wish Urbanspoon had a 50/50 like button. Cause I am on the fence about this place. I voted Like for now, cause I really want to like it. Mainly cause we had a bad first time there. Also for the record, this isn't the place it used to be! I remember growing up in the early 80s when my dad and his friends would go here. It was a rowdy place back then. Not so much anymore, quite a younger friendly crowd.
We stop in one night after taking the dog for a walk on the rail trail (yes, you are allowed to have your dog there. Just have to sit outside). I went inside to see about getting a server to take our order and was told by the bartender that there wasn't any, that he was the only one working.. Umm ok, I ordered our beers and took the menu back outside. We decided on a Chicken Sandwich for myself and Danielle a Reuben. Back inside to order and grab another beer. Thankfully the bartender brought us the food.
My chicken sandwich was ok, the lettuce was kinda old. Dani's Reuben was just horrible. The meat was slimy and had that purple color that old meat starts to get. She really didn't want to make a fuss about it, but it looked really bad. She complained and the owner/manager came out to apologize to us. He said the chef had bought the meat fresh the day before (I highly doubt that), but agreed it looked bad. He took it back and gave her a free order of hot wings. Told us he'd comp all but the beer, which was cool with me. We said we'd go back and try again and we may at some point.
Besides the food issue, I didn't like that they didn't have a server for outside, could have been just that day. I refuse to eat or drink inside, as its a place that elected to allow smoking inside. And there is no air flow in there. Oh and either they have no AC or it was broken, cause it was hot as you know what inside!
Hmmm, maybe I should change my vote to dislike. Nah, I'll give it a chance.
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