Rudy's Tavern

I used to drop in here occasionally when I lived on campus at ESU. Back than it was more of a suitcase college and my friends would go home most weekends. I felt pretty lonely so I would stop in on a Friday or Saturday evening a hang with the locals. It helped with loneliness. Later I met my future wife on campus.

Whatever happened to the gold standard? Silver was the last hope of Billy Jennings Bryan. Smooth Ronnie Paul tried his very best to get us to put paper currency on the trash heap with the rest of the nation's garbage. But that didn't work. No, no it didn't. Hear me? It didn't work. Here we are, still trying our hand at "cash" and the blasphemous credit cards. Spending money you don't have on things you don't need.

Rudy's gets it. They take your money, though not much of it. In the shadow of the Delaware Water Gap, this honeypot sits alone, waiting, yearning to absorb your bank account. Let them take it. I'd gladly do the same.

Rudy's is the gold standard of Delaware River bars.

Behold the Super--a hotdog wrapped in bacon and cheese.  One of the most glorious foods this planet has ever experienced.  It doesn't matter that it is a heart attack in a bun, it's delicious.  And cheap.

Oh, Rudy's.  You with your good food for low prices and cheap, cheap beer.

Drafts are a dollar and a quarter.  You won't find that in many places in the 'burg that you'd ever want to go back to.  The food, be it the aforementioned Super or Cajun Chicken Sandwiches, or even simple burgers, are found for a fraction of the price at some other joints.  They don't serve focaccia or paninis or whatever is the "hip" way food is being served, they do it the simple way.  The time-honored way.  The Rudy's way.

People call Rudy's a dive.  No.  It simply dispenses with some of the modern trappings that suck the soul and character out of bars.  Like credit card machines.  Only cold, hard, currency is allowed in this joint.  It doesn't matter.  I've gone in there at all times of day and night and have always found the bartenders friendly and efficient and the rest of the customers, be they local retirees or fresh faced college kids, to be sociable and welcoming.  It's a good old fashioned neighborhood bar.  The kind you used to find when there used to be neighborhoods.

Rudy's.  It's old-school.  It's awesome.