The Oakmont Tavern has GREAT food. Â Everything from wings and mozarella sticks to cheesesteaks and italian sandwich are fresh, high quality, well seasoned, cooked perfectly, and served piping hot. Â The only menu item I've had that leaves something to be desired is the nachos - very bland. Â I would rate the Oakmont Tavern FIVE STARS in the bar food category. Â You can also see bands there, and it's usually a fun friendly crowd even though the bands could be better. Â However, the Tavern can't be given an overall five stars for two reasons: Â 1) smoking and 2) service. Â Most of the time, even though the food is great, it's our last choice because smoking is still permitted -- and it must not be well ventilated, because literally the smoke hangs in the air like (grey) pea soup. Â I always leave with a headache, and everything I'm wearing (even jacket and shoes) need to be washed. Â G-R-O-S-S. Â If you're lucky enough to get a table upstairs on the outdoor deck, you're still assaulted with smoke because people smoke up there as well. Â The open air and breeze helps, but sometimes it just serves to blow your neighbor's smoke into your face. Â The service is not great. Â The bartenders and servers are nice/friendly enough, but slow. Â Frequently they're too busy talking to their friends to notice customers need refills.
For GREAT BAR FOOD, go to the Oakmont Tavern.
If sinus problems, headaches, sore throats, and cancer are things you generally try to avoid, ORDER TAKE-OUT!
A good smoke-free alternative in town is Carnivores. Â Their food isn't as good as the Oakmont Tavern, but they have a 30-tap beer selection and are SMOKE FREE.
great neighborhood bar and as for the smoking- who cares! Â your drinking anyway! and if your a smoker than its even better. they usually have live music which is awesome, and they even have a upstairs patio deck which is awesome in the summer. good bar food also i ordered the fries and they were delicious. this place is usually packed on the weekends its hard to find a spot on the street to park. bartenders are usually nice and you never have to worry about a drink not strong enough!
Review Source:I went to the Oakmont Tavern last night to visit with some high school chums and see a crack, cracklin' Motley Crue tribute band. Rest assured, this is most certainly not a dive.
When you order a chicken salad at a dive, that is if they even have chicken salad, it doesn't look like a culinary grad made it.
My lovely ladyfriend picked for me, as I just couldn't make up my mind. Her finger landed on the Pub Chicken Salad, and it was magnifique! Red onion, crumbled bits of blue cheese, mandarin oranges, walnuts, and raisins adorned the gigantic plate. The poppyseed dressing was a creamy, tangy opiate, and the grilled chicken breast was tender and slightly charred. Notice I mentioned the chicken last, as the salad was so good, you almost didn't need any meat in it, and I barely finished it. Yes, a salad filled the belly of this 200 lb. muscled workingman.
I also had the Loaded Baked Potato since I cannot pass on any hot spud made by someone other than me. You get two toppings. I went with sour cream and chili. Aside from the plate being too small, I have no complaints. It was monster, a headbanger's side dish, fluffy, with a chili that had a corned beef hash quality to it. Memories of Parkway Center Mall's Potato Patch filled my grey matter. In my opinion, a restaurant baked potato should be akin to an ice cream sundae, rich, creamy, and topped with things you don't have everyday. It should be as gaudy as it is gratifying. If Baskin Robbins added a lunch and dinner menu, The Oakmont Tavern's Loaded Baked Potato would be on it.
The live band playing that night was Dr. Feelgood, a tribute to everyone's favorite Kings of LA Sleaze. Professionals through and through, the band played expertly amidst arena quality lights and fog. My only complaint regards the location of the band set-up; it was in a corner of the bar not easily viewable and partially obscured by pillars. Â Could a better space be made for the bands to play in? Â
That minor caveat aside, I urge you to go there and have a good time.  It's posh sans the upscale prices, the service is terrific, the people are fun, and their brand of barfood  will please any bon viviant. Pardon the smoke and loud music though. It's essentially Gullifty's run by rockers, so perhaps I'm a little biased. Hey, they're my people y'know?
Visited in December. Â I was a bit disappointed to find that this dive is somehow exempt from the new PA anti-smoking laws. Â They must not get that much money from the food they serve as that, I believe, is a major qualification for becoming exempt. Â I'm not sure why PA can't catch up with the rest of the NE when it comes to forward thinking on health.
I stayed at this bar for as long as I could until the haze of smoke forced me to take my leave. Â Complaints on air quality aside, this is definitely a local dive with reasonable prices, sparse lighting save for the glowing blue aura from the neon beer signs on the right-most wall. Â They even have an old cigarette vending machine where you have to pull those levers or whatever you'd like to call them. Â You can get something to eat, like a burger and fries, but I don't know why you'd bother.
Parking is on street and I imagine you'd get towed trying to park at the Uni-Mart down the street. Â We were there too late to catch any happy hour specials, so instead we had $2 Miller Lite bottles. Â When someone in our group ordered tequila shots, the bartender filled the shot glasses up all the way to the rim (just in case you're wondering, this is a good thing).
Overall, I would avoid visiting this bar again at all costs. Â Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go wash my smokey clothes for the second time.
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