We started going to this place for quizzo last fall. Â As far as quizzo goes, it usually starts almost AN HOUR late. Â I guess it is a college bar and a Thursday night, but we have to work the next day so this is very annoying and keeps us from going some weeks.
We also started going when they had good (craft) beer specials until about 30 minutes before quizzo starts and then domestic specials for the rest of the night. Â Now they ONLY have domestic specials unless you get there before 7:00. Â They also got rid of their half-priced appetizer special and their $4 pizza special. Â (Pizza is the only food special now at $5.) Â
The food is HORRENDOUS. Â We've tried probably 15 things on the menu and they have all tasted like they have been sitting under a heat lamp for 30 minutes or more. Â Nothing tastes fresh.
The service is okay though. Â The girls that have served us have always been great. Â The guy at the bar is very rude. Â He alone was enough to almost make us not want to come back after one visit. Â
Also the bathrooms are disgusting and you can smell them from the tables that are closest to them!!
To start off, their daily specials kill every other place in Manayunk! Happy hour...buy one app get one free...me and my room mate get 4 apps to split...or their pizza!!! Plank Pizza is huge and can feed 3 or 4 people. Â I do not recommend Taco Tuesday! they are cheap but not great! Go to cactus if you want a taco. They have a good selection on beer. Â Very good looking waitresses...who for the most part are friendly. Â
As for the weekend...it is a totally dif place! after 930ish it turns into a club with no cover for college kids. Which is fine! Best place in Yunk with no cover and a dance floor! Â At about 12 the third floor is poppin with people...it gets to smell a little up there and the drinks are pretty small. Â Plastic cups usually. Â
So it depends on what you are looking for...go there for dinner between 5-7 and you will love everything on the menu! If you want to party with 21 year olds...weekend is the time to go. Â 4 stars because of the specials and great food!
Maybe the apocalypse is happening, but I had a good night at a McGillicuddy's bar. Â It seems the trick is to get in before the douche crowd shows up to ruin the place.
There was the requisite cheap beers ($1), but the food was decent this time as well. Â Had a chicken pizza something and disco fries. Â Entire bill was $21... Including 4 rounds of drinks! Â Yay.
If you are looking for an adventure, head to the 3rd floor of Cuddy's any weekend night after 11 PM...
On a serious note, McGillicuddy's has some solid happy hour and game specials and there is never a cover charge. Â Three floors of fun include a dance floor on top and plenty of bar space to grab a drink. Â The food ain't all that bad either, but the bathrooms need some work.
It's the plastic cup, more ice, less liquor kinda place.
Ah well, I'd still come back in a heartbeat!
Drinks are cheapp for the 'Yunk... but that's obviously during specials times or the "experienced" bartenders jack up that price like crazy.
But still... three stories of good times. Plenty of space to move around. No cover Saturday nights (that's when I've normally been there). Third floor dancin with normally decent DJ's bumpin good tunes.
All in all - it's a divey place but who cares.
Cuddy's is the epitome of the college dive bar experience. While it's great to see everyone from school at the bar, Cuddy's is overall a disappointment. There are three floors, which are always jam-packed, except for a ten-foot radius around the front door. I am NOT impressed with the bathrooms at all. They're badly placed (near the staircase which will be mentioned later) and there is ALWAYS a line that causes foot traffic to get very confused. Unsurprisingly, they are not super-clean, due to the myriad of drunken individuals using them nonstop.
The place is kind of maze-like, with a narrow staircase that is constantly jammed with people, and the third floor (the dance floor) is an absolute oven. They put the DJ up really loud so you can hear it downstairs, but overall the music is not that great-- too much rap for my liking and not enough pop music to overcome it. The alcohol is not overpriced, but I can't say this is ever a place I go before I'm done for the night.
The best thing about the bar is that there is no cover, so if you want to go late at night, you won't get stuck with that bill.
Also, BE CAREFUL here. Cuddy's is extremely crowded and has very narrow areas to mingle. You WILL be brushing up against people and you WILL NOT have enough room to move. I say this not out of agoraphobia, but out of commonsense security-- the crowded conditions facilitate a thieving atmosphere and more than one friend of mine has had a phone or money stolen while here (one out of her closed purse that was being held in front of her body-- he reached around and snatched it).
This place generally sums up the Manayunk experience. Poor mannered staff, terrible menu, awful bathrooms, unclean tap lines, and worst of all horrible service. We rarely frequent Manayunk, due to high levels of douchebaggery and daily 15th grade graduation parties.
Please avoid this place at all possible costs. I don't even want to give a review on how bad our service was...I will simply never give my money to any of the JD McGillicuddy's franchises, ever. Bar tenders were clueless and ignorant -- servers were locked into their smartphones and socializing with the yocals.
In sum, if you are 21 and looking to hangout with sub-par college girls or pretentious 20 something college bro's looking for the cheapest and dingiest spot in town; this is your place.
2.5 stars maybe if you wished that Paddy's Pub from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia was a real place. If you squint you can pretend your bartender is Sweet Dee. I was here on a weekday night, it was quiet. People drinking and eating without joy. JD's features cheap beer, high def tv's and Mendoza Line bar food. They seem to cater to groups well, there was a poker game on the first floor and people were drafting a fantasy football league on the second floor. My party enjoyed their wings and burgers. Pizza a little better than frozen supermarket quality. The bathroom was the type of place that they try to clean, and kinda looked clean, but the little flies buzzing around show it never actually is clean. There were wierd water drops coming from the AC vents. I could see how this becomes a s-show on the weekends. This is a place for those who love to be cheap, or wear Bad Idea jeans.
Review Source:they get 4 stars if its daylight and I'm sitting outside at one of the patio tables drinking beer and eating pizza!!! I've had my share of fun at this place & really like all the bartenders I've met - local/friendly! Not a huge fan of the scene at night.
buffalo chicken pizza plank is huge and soooo good 1/2 plank is enough but order the full b/c everyone at the table is going to be drooling over it and you'll have to share.
great pizza/buffalo sauce, cold beer, outdoor seating, local/friendly - I'm a fan!
Worst bar in Manayunk. Â Bartenders are fairly good. Â Manager is non-existent and avoids phone calls. Â
If you go, leave your phone at home or in the car!!!  I am not kidding.  Bouncers are thieves, one stole my friends iPhone when he wasn't paying attention.  Bouncer was stupid enough to email himself from the device, so it was easy to check the sent mail online and  trace the email address with Facebook;  big black guy named "Randall Sims", works weekends. Â
BEWARE!!!!!
Not a fan at all. Â I came here the other night with some friends and we got the worst service ever from the bartender. Â The place stunk of non-tobacco smoke, if you know what I mean, which I assume was coming from a vent (the bar seemed to be surrounded by apartments full of college students and young professionals) and was rather empty for a Saturday night. Â If you're looking for an Irish pub in Manayunk, I would suggest skipping JD McGullicuddy's and heading to Kildare's instead.
Review Source:This is probably the worst place in Manayaunk. Â As if most of Manayunk wasn't white, frat boy-esque, this seems to be the epicenter. Â I didn't want to be there the minute we walked in, but a friend was meeting someone there, so we opened a tab and ordered 2 beers, a standard bar procedure. Â Not long after, it was last call, and when they say last call, they mean it. Â
We tried to close our tab but we were overcharged. Â My husband went to ask why there was liquor on our tab when we literally only had 2 beers. Â Instead of the bartender or manager trying to figure it out, Â the bouncers came over. Â So, every bouncer in this joint came to investigate this "hostile" man. Â He calmly told them what happened, but it quickly escalted into a d-bag blow out (and by d-bag I mean the 5 bouncers who tried to make us pay for something we didn't order, and proceeded to call my husband all kinds of slurs like "the f-word"). Â Now, my husband is neither a small nor wimpy man, so perhaps his intelligence and build threatened the goons' "manliness." Â So, instead of trying to do the respectful business thing and solve their customers' problem, the goons-for-hire proceeded to stomp on my husband's glasses and then tried to stomp on him when he bent to pick them up. Â One goon took this opportunity to literally pick up my husband by his pants and shirt collar (like a suitcase) and THREW him out the door. Â Luckily, my husband knows how to fall properly, because there was a THUD. Â Another person could have easily cracked their skull open.
The next day when we called, the manager didn't apologize or give a crap. Â He told us we deserved it. Â I don't care what kind of mob boss you think you are, you cannot run a business by throwing people head first into the concrete, especially for questioning a measly bar tab. Â If you value your life, stay out of this s-hole.
McGillicuddy's is quite possibly the trashiest place I've been to in Manayunk. But does that stop me from stopping by every time I'm in the area? Heck no.
There is no cover, there are three floors so it doesn't get too crowded, and there's a dance floor upstairs. I've always had a good time here and almost always get into shenanigans outside. There are a few picnic tables right out front, so it's nice to sit out there for fresh air when you want to escape the creepers. Though I have literally only bought two drinks from McGillicuddy's in my life, both were pretty cheap, around $2-3 for a beer.
Beware: the bathrooms are nasty. There are four private bathrooms for the entire bar, so the lines are horrendous. Making it into one of them before the toilet paper runs out is a blessing.
I've come here twice on Friday and Saturday nights. Bud Lites were $2.50 and that's all I purchased here so I can't speak to drink specials. This place has 3 floors which progressively get more trashy as you go up. First floor's more bar than anything else, second floor gets to be a louder bar and the third floor is a bonified dance floor after 10pm. There's a DJ, loud music, lots of bumping and grinding going on, and 30 minute lines to use the bathrooms. Â As a lady expect to have random dudes try to grind up on you as you attempt to snake your way through the sweaty crowd to the bathroom. Classy. They play lots of pop dance music, so if you want to come here to dance your drunken butt off it's a lot of fun!
Review Source:This place would get 5 stars if the stairs and bathroom lines didn't converge into a huge I-95/ US 322 cluster*uck on the first floor.
How did that ever pass inspection?
Anyways, lots of space on 3 floors, the drinks are reasonable, and the music is good.
They don't (didn't) have any blue Curacao, so that led us to create the Grand Marnier Bomb one night!
If your looking for a simple bar night, this is the place.
No cover, Average beer prices, and an upstairs dance floor. It's not really a "club" dance environment. Almost everyone dancing is with their friends and arn't looking to meet new people. They play oldies and other random hits.
It's fun with a good group of friends but if you go with 2 people it kinda sucks.
This has to be my favorite bar in manayunk. Â It definitely holds a great staff and management team. Â During the week, it has a good happy hour crowd since all the specials are very enticing. Â The food is good, i enjoy the wraps and pizza. Â
During the weekends, you can explore different options in the bar. There are 2 bars on the first floor, on the second is another bar and the 3rd floor has a bar and dance floor. The dj usually resides up there during the weekend. It never takes me long at all to get a drink, service is very immediate.
It also is a great spot to watch sports. they play all the sports on their many many TV sets on every floor. In addition, usually have a special with the sport involved.
Definitely try it out, great bar!!
At first glance this seems to be a typical Manayunk bar: lots of young people, lots of drinking. Upon closer examination, the owners manage to cram a lot in their space - plus security's actually friendly! Having no cover helps.
With three floors and multiple bars, it got progressively more crowded the higher we went, towards the dance floor. A DJ kept everyone bouncing around like ping pong balls - thanks to classics like "Sweet Caroline" and the usual lineup of pop music - but we came down to earth at the end of the night.
You know the phrase "nothing good happens after 2AM"?* In McGillicuddy's time, that gets bumped up a few hours. Nothing good can happen here after midnight, at least for me. One time, my friend got punched in the back by some random chick and we all had to form a protective dance circle. More recently, I cut my finger in the bathroom on the toilet paper holder and bled profusely on the dance floor. In both cases, I was too sober to deal.
On the plus side, they have a decent Quizzo night, cheap drinks, and a large dance floor. I can't hold their short-attention-span DJ against them either (he tends to mix to a new song after the first chorus, just when you're singing along and really getting into it). I should probably just learn to pack up my things around midnight and leave before stuff hits the fan.
* This is from an episode of How I Met Your Mother, and I like to debate whether it holds true for both NYC and Philly, or if it should be adjusted for bar closing times. Your input is welcome through the medium of Yelp compliments.
Not bad! Very Irish pub! What a kick-ass happy hour these cool cats offer! I got REALLY drunk off of 4 STRONG rum and diets for 8 bucks! Thank you! Buy one drink get one free is amazing! I also enjoy their Quizzo nights! First time I went there and actually played Quizzo was in September right after Patrick Swayzey passed away and it was a good time! Also, I live super  close so it's nice to walk home after getting drunk off of cheap booze!
Review Source:i haven't been to this bar since it was the cotton club some 10+ years ago. it was a small then and still fairly small now but the new design seems to be more open. i went to meet up with a friend for a drink and they had a 2 for 1 happy hour. not to shabby. so i bought one dos equis and POW...got a 2nd for free. there were also some very cute woman present so that is always a star in it self.
Review Source:A solid sports bar or hang out place in Manayunk. Â 3 floors, good beer specials, and usually a good crowd make this a reliably fun spot.
They also have good bar-food type apps... if you're hungry try their pizza. Â These "personal" pizzas are on a thick yummy crust and about the size of my backyard!
Be warned though - there are TWO steps at the bottom of the stairs leading to the bathroom, and there is probably a line for the bathroom behind you that you can't see when you come down the stairs. Â So don't do what I did: trip over the second step in front of everyone, try to escape embarassed into the bathroom, then be told that there is a 3-deep line for the bathroom that you are attempting to cut. Â Because then you have to stand there in line for 10 minutes with everyone pretending to watch the game while your face turns tomato-red. Â NOT my most shining moment.
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