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Category: Pool Halls [Edit]
Neighborhood: Olde CityBuffalo Billiards is a nice change of pace from what one is used to when going to Old City. Downstairs is a humongous open area with pool tables, fusball, dart boards, video games, a couch set up and best of of all - shuffle board tables. Upstairs if very similar with lots of pool tables and more couch set ups. The downstairs bar has your typical beers on tap and they offer specials for happy hours and phls/eagles games.
On a weekend, when every Old City place is packed full of douchers, BB has a nice average sized crowd. If you have a big group of people this is the place to relax and hang. If I had to complain about anything, the ratio of males to females seems to be higher than most places and the rate for shuffle-board is much higher than I expected (I cant remember exactly how much it was but i was a tad shocked when paying - although it IS worth it...most fun I've had in a long time playing bar games.)
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Great place to go with a group of buddies to have some brewskis, play some pool, consume some quality bar food (had the buffalo chicken quesadillas), and watch a game.
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This place probably deserves an additional star for employing a bouncer with down syndrome but never-the-less, crappy food and terrible service.
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Buffalo Billiards is not a bad place. The bar is huge. The upstairs is a great place to get some privacy when it's open. It's really the best pool hall I can think of in Philly... well ok, the only one i've been to. Anyway the food is pretty decent for a bar, and the jukebox has some pretty good selections (although I think the Kings of Leon is getting a little played out). + 10 points for Whitest Boy Alive.
Had a great time at Buffalo Billiards years ago! Played pool for hours (mostly because we were so drunk we couldn't sink anything), got free drinks all night, plugged their awesome jukebox, watched fellow conventioners on Spring Break makeout, and generally had a blast!
I know my drunken 5-star review would be tempered by a 1-star review if I were anywhere near sober, 3 stars for Buffalo Billiards! I now laugh whenever I see this chain, as I recently did in Austin on 6th street.
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I love Buffalo Billiards. I am not a fan of their location - on a Saturday Chestnut is a mess of drunks. The bar is chill and fun. Great drink specials and I love the shuffleboard. It's probably the most un-Old-City place in Old City.
perfect date place!! and amazingly affordable! my only issue is with the pool table we were assigned to... it was so close to the wall we couldn't make shots from a certain section of the table... and that became frustrating since my husband and i were playing for who was gonna do the late night walk for our pup for a week.
otherwise we had a good time. and i guess, you get what you pay for, right?
Drink here, DO NOT eat here!
So, they have lots of cool beers on tap. I particularly liked the Walt Whitman that was a tasty wheat beer. Hung out here for a few brews before heading over to Cavanaugh's for some dancing.
Didn't play pool. The music wasn't particularly annoying, but not memorable either. The decor is cute pool-hally stuff. The barstools could definitely use some maintenance.
Ordered the buffalo chicken quesadilla and it was terrible. How the hell can you screw up a quesadilla? It had no flavor at all. How is that possible with buffalo chicken? My assumption is, if they screwed up a quesadilla this bad, I wouldn't even attempt to try anything else on their menu. Go here for the cocktails, only.
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I've always had fun here. I never paid for a table since I SUCK at pool and I only play because people urge me to hit a few balls. I've spent time upstairs and downstairs and I haven't had a problem. I love the diversity in the music played on the jukebox and the patrons all seem to be really nice. My favorite table is the one closest by the window upstairs. There are also comfortable chairs to sit on. I guess I did have a complaint in that one time I was there, the bartender upstairs gave us weak drinks.
I've gone here on a weeknight and a Friday night and it wasn't a racuous experience. No complaints, recommended if you want to play pool and drink!
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We had wasted the first half of the Cleveland Orlando game at some lame bar where you have to sit at miniature elf sized tables and seats and watch 50 somethings walk in and out, a bad move but not something we couldn't overcome fro the evening. We walked into Buffalo just as a Beer Pong Tourney was heating up and some radio station babes were perusing the crowd giving away free crap. All we wanted was to turn the game up, kick back with a few beers (and Irish Car Bombs) and chill-ax. That is exactly what we got! They have a nice beer selection, plenty friendly help and the most comfortable seating in the front of the house I've experienced in a long while. Just as a side note, if you find yourself half drunk and ready to turn the volume up I recommend cabbing down to Delilah's, you will thank me in the morning.
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You can call this a pool hall - but it's also a great bar. I recommend finding one of the little nooks on the second floor - cozy little sitting areas with couches and arm chairs. Good beer selection and by-the-hour pool. I had just eaten when I went last night - but I have high hopes for the bar menu there and plan to return to check it out.
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While Philly offers plenty of spots for pool (Both Mom's, Las Vegas Lounge, Charlie's, etc.) none of them are obvious choices to people who don't initially go on Yelp or hear about them through word of mouth. That's the only reason I can see this spot making any money, because compared to those hot spots this place is pretty laughable at best.
It's at least a good idea on paper. a Pool hall where you can drink, shoot darts, and play pool by an hour rate. And the table's are regulation size, at least on equal standards to the table in the makeshift hall in my house (yeah we own a table. That's just how McThrill and company roll.). But this place is nothing compared to playing a game while listening to the jukebox selection at Tattooed Mom's. And throw in the fact that the other places don't bring in the annoying Old City crowd that this spot does and your looking at more reasons to go elsewhere. Throw in the overpriced drinks and food that this spot dishes out and damn is it hurting. I'll see you at Mom's.
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I don't play pool a lot, so this place came off as simple, fun and intimidating. I went with several friends on a Tuesday night, so the crowd was like the atmosphere, cool and laid back. They have a bunch of pool tables, 3 dart boards, a domed hockey game, a buck hunter arcade game, and (drumroll please) a Ms. Pacman/Galaga machine. For a fun after-dinner hangout spot, I was in heaven. There were also a lot of screens with sport and I was really getting into the leather faux west rte 69-ish feel.
But I would be wary of the place on an on night, it could get too trendy and "bro" oriented for the likes of me.
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Buffalo Billiards is a relaxed pool hall and bar in Old City. There's an abundance of TV sets in-house, and a few projectors will show the latest sports game on the walls. There's a few arcade machines and random bar-appropriate games.
I met with friends during their happy hour and we took full advantage of their half-off appetizer special (I think that's what it was). Don't EVER come to Buffalo Billiards for Irish car bombs. For pool, yes, for shots of SoCo ($5/shot), yes, for their decent wings (with a variety of sauces), yes. I got raped with the outrageous prices for their Irish car bombs - $10/shot!
Last, but not least, our cool server (Kristen) was fine, and available when we screamed. It's not a horrible spot, but not exactly my scene (and the price for car bombs is high, even for Old City). Your mileage may vary.
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I was in here recently for a good friends 30th birthday party and it was awesome! The staff is great and the atmosphere is perfect for a large group.
The food was good to nosh on as we focused on what was really important, drinking. I don't play pool but many of my friends said that the tables were good plus it was nice to have something for people to "do".
We worked with Kristen setting up the event and she was awesome. I reccomed this place for birthday parties!
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If you like to play games this is nice enough. The food sucks though. And when I mean sucks you might have had a better experience at the McDonald's at Walmart in South Philly. No joke... its that bad. Otherwise good to bring people from out of town when you are tired and bored out of your mind and can't think of anything else to do with you guest...Play pool with them and they will get so utterly bored and want to go home too...
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I was on this pool jag for a little while. I suck but I had a vision of me morphing into a pool shark for the sole purpose of beating this one friend of mine who always seems to win at games. I wanted to beat him badly. But the fact of the matter is I still suck. Part of my pool jag was spent at Buffalo Billiards which has 1/2 priced pool upstairs on Wednesdays along with good drink specials. Their beer menu isn't award-winning, nor is their food, but it's fair enough for a pool hall.
The bar is pretty cool too, it's big, dark in a good way and has the feel of being a real venue for serious pool sharking.
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Not a bad place, it was pretty quite when we got there on a Friday night which was nice. They didn't have a real great selection of beers and the prices were pretty high.
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blech.
The crowd is lame, the food is bad, the drinks are overpriced.
Jersey accents abound.
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So maybe I'm biased because a friend works here....but I like it. It's great to watch games at! Two huge projection screens and a ton of pool tables. It gets a bit crowded...but they do have great drink specials...the food is pub food. It's not great, but it's a bar really a dressy sort of pool hall.
Now upstairs is a bit more loungy than downstairs...over all I like it.
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good place to watch college football on Saturday. lots of TV's, always beer deals, usually pretty empty, and has most satellite (b10 network) channels.... food leaves much to be desired. but as far a "sports bar" in old city, its not bad.
never been at nighttime
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If you want to play pool then it might be worth it on Wednesday...But wait...They didn't open it up and they won't open it up anymore because they would rather you pay 14 dollars a person downstairs and stiff you on water downed drinks and BS food. I have never really given a bad review but this bad attempt at a "cool" pool hall seriously missed the mark.
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