I had my doubts about you, Bro-boken, but indeed there is still an under-belly that is...not exactly thriving...but at least *exists*.
One of my girlfriends and her brother brought me here. Â They frequent this establishment fairly regularly. Â I can understand why. Â No need for a Benjamin. Â You can spend, like, twenty bucks here and find yourself walking out sideways and totally disoriented. Â CHA-CHING, what more can you really ask for?
Kind of have to bring the party if you want to keep yourself entertained and not (mildly) creeped out by some of the more regular clientele.
This place is hysterical. It is very much a neighborhood dive bar with a lot of quirky "regulars". The beers are very cheap, however, it can get kind of awkward when you first walk in because you are often met with glares (I kid you not) as if to say, "what are you yuppies doing in MY bar?" Furthermore, this bar does not serve diet beverages. (I'm not sure why they don't but I've always found it to be funny)
Review Source:This place ripped me off!  Went in to grab a beer before my train left.  Ordered a bottle of Bud and then a Bud hand grenade.  Gave the bartender a $20.00 and received 5 singles for change.  Brought this to her attention and she insisted I gave her a $10.  Made a big todo about checking the register and insisted I gave her a 10. Hit the ATM before  hand so I know all I had were 20's.  She got 10 bucks outta me, but would have got much more in future transactions that will now never take place.  So this is how they treat irregulars.  Avoid this dump. Also, I bartended for years, so don't give me the chump treatment.
Review Source:My coworker and I have been talking about going to this place for the longest time and we finally made it the other night. We actually wish we had gone there sooner because the place was not bad at all. You would almost never notice it walking by, but passing through the doors will make you come back.
Walking into the place does not do anything special for you. It looks like just another bar with beyond bland colors and barely any decor to it. I would call it a dive bar in the sense that there is almost nothing inside this place besides a bar, bar stools, and the guy working behind the bar. But as soon as your order your drinks and the bartender tells you the price, you jaw will hit the bar. They are amazingly dirt cheap. We thought the bartender had made a mistake and not included something in the total price, but it was really that cheap. The dangerous part about drinks being this cheap...we took full advantage of it being that cheap. Within minutes shots were being ordered, beers were being chugged, and overall drinking chaos had ensued.
We ended up getting to know everyone in there through our drinking mania. The crowd inside the place, if you could call it that, was more like middle aged people who just wanted to sit and have a couple of drinks. Everyone was very nice and outgoing, and the bartender was pretty cool too. It is definitely a nice change from the screaming and obnoxiousness that you would find in most places in Hoboken. But in the end it was time to move on to another place, and in our intoxicated state we bid goodbye to one of our new favorite bars.
Overall I gave the Wilton House four stars because of the cool crowd, the cool bartender, and the cheap ass drinks. I am always down for cheap booze, and this was the clear case. Granted most of it is bottom self liquor, however that is never a problem with me. I cannot wait to go back.
Went here on a Friday night with a few friends and it was a discovery 3 years in the making. Super cheap Yuengling draft and a tame atmosphere. The scene here is a little older, not your traditional Hoboken Yuppie crowd or overly dolled-up groups looking for a party. It's a place I can see over-worked commuters coming in for a drink and some conversation without too many distractions.
Bartender seemed to be the owner as well and he was pretty friendly.
I must say I'm a bit embarrassed that I only started going recently. I don't have much more to say about this place that hasn't already been said. Cheap budweiser drafts are a must. Cheap shots... no music, no bs, no "scene"... just cheap drinks. This is a must as a Hoboken pre-game spot.
Bonus points for having the most odd assortment of people at a bar ever (frat boys, 70 year old drunk men, Â clearly inebriated girls, and a few guys that i'm pretty sure i saw in a rap music video - all sitting together at the bar)
Pros:
cheap. drinks.
location - 2 blocks from the PATH. across the street from a pizzeria
Cons:
crowd during the early evening is mostly old guys.
If you party regularly or go bar hopping in Hoboken then you know about this place, otherwise you just keep walking past it thinking that is a crappy old bar. Never judge a book by its cover! This is THEE Pre-Game place to be. Drinks are SUPER CHEAP and not watered down. If you want to party in Hoboken and are on a budget that night start your night here with a bunch of rounds then you can get your night started going to where ever you would like to go. The bartender Jack and I believe his wife when he is not available are both super friendly.
Review Source:Rating it a five purely because of the $1.75 drafts. Best way to pre-game before a night out in town! The bartender seems friendly enough. When I went there was a lot of old people (like...late 30s-50 year olds) so if that's not your crowd, don't go. It's a small cozy place...I'll definitely hit up that bar again!
Review Source:Dear Wilton House,
First off, I want to thank you so much for so many wonderful evenings. Â You always have a bar stool waiting for me. Â You are so conveniently located, directly between the bar I just left and the PATH. Â And you are cheap--oh so cheap, even if it is watered down draft beer that I insist to "just have one" of.
But must you always tempt me? Â Why can't you just let me walk past you, and maybe stumble into Starbucks once and a while? Â Maybe, just maybe, you could look past my cries of not quite wanting to go home, and gently nudge me away from your doors. Â But no. Â You don't judge. Â You just stand there, all open and empty and cheap, and welcome me regardless of my state of iniberation. Â You accept me. Â You get me. Â And I am grateful, I really am, but like a spoiled child I now just don't understand the concept of no. Â I must stop every time I in the magical Hoboken. Â You make me feel better about myself--entering your doors allows me to once again lower the average bar patron's age (rather than raising it as I seem to do in most other bars--thanks, Black Bear).
So where as we appear to be codependent, can we at least try to put some distance between us? Â Maybe next time I will pay more attention to my friends as they groan, roll their eyes, and tell me they have to wash their hair as they start to run away from you. Â Or maybe you can raise the beer price to $2.00, so I don't have the "I need these quarters for laundry anyhow" temptation to drink more. Â And then we can work on having a healthy relationship.
Thank you, Wilton House.
Forever yours,
AMickeyG
true dive bar in hoboken nj.
we stopped in for a quicky, bellied up to an empty bar, paid almost nothing for the drinks we drank, chatted with the bartender on her first night, got chinese from the take away joint next store.
simple, dive.... just the kind of new jersey experience we were wanting.
Absolutely solid neighborhood bar. Â The bartender knows half the people that walk in by name. Â There is a good selection of liquors and coors and budweiser on draft for $1.75 at all times. Â The decor is chintzy and awful and the two tv's that play sporting events are from 1982 but in some way that just adds to the place's appeal. Â Do come here for a drink and get the weight of the world off your shoulders. Don't bring a first date here and expect them to be impressed.
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