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Neighborhood: Society HillHeck yes, this place is awesome. They have a wide selection of beers on tap and they made me a chocolate martini (per my profile pic). I saw a quaker in there which I thought was strange but hey being the tourist I am, I asked if he'd take a picture with me. He says "yeah after I smoke" and I saw him walk outside to smoke but then poof he was gone.
I'm very not educated in Quaker culture and all but.. yeah I thought that was weird.. anyway back to the bar.. we had our first morimoto hazelnut ale here and we fell in love ever since. I didn't have the food since we went there so late they didn't serve anymore.
Every time I go I like this place less and less. Yesterday we went here to get a burger and watch a baseball game...I couldn't even stay to finish the game because our server was in such a poor mood that he made me miserable!
Some suggestions, don't get the margaritas. They have a half priced special on Wed for them...but trust me they are half price, because there is not tequila in there, just sour mix. Gross.
The burgers are decent if you keep in mind that you're eating at a bar.
This is quite the South Street bar....on weekends expect not to be able to sit...or stand for that… Read more »
I always find it amazing that this bar is on South St, because it so lacks that pervasive atmosphere of ghetto meets hipster meets teenagers from Jersey meets college students on their first outing in Philly that so pervades every other place on the street. It's not really a South St. bar, it's a bar that happens to be located on South St. This is a very good thing.
The beer selection is great, the food is yummy, and the prices are quite reasonable. The music really is too loud sometimes, and usually whoever controls the jukebox buys an hours worth of crap, but hey, it's still on South St, after all. It's about as good as it can be, and I enjoy myself whenever I'm there.
If this bar were on my corner, I'd probably be grateful to have it. As it stands...you know Tattooed Mom's is like less than a block away, right? Why are you here again? Unless the answer is "because I'm a lame ass who is probably putting Steve Miller Band on the jukebox right now", then please pick up your dignity and head to a real bar.
Manny Brown's is a fine spot with a great selection of beers on draft and perusing list available for a take out sixer. Rock and roll.
We unfortunately decided to stop in Manny's on New Years Day to kill about 30 minutes until Tattooed Mom opened up (we had our hungover hearts set on their free pork & sauerkraut buffet, om nom). My two girlfriends & I sat in a booth. Took about 10 minutes just to get a server's attention and they were not busy at all (1/3 full at best). We asked for water and coffee - while looking over the beer list - and the waitress snipped that, "the coffee is going to take a while." Um, okay, that's fine.
We hoped this bit of huffiness would be a one time thing, but a minute later she walked over with our waters and asked, "Do you want a food menu?" "No, thank you." Keep in mind - still looking at the beer list. She rolls her eyes, slams our waters down and we all give each other WTF face. My friend decides to give her an opportunity to redeem herself: "I'm sorry, are we not allowed to chill here for a minute?" Here's where she should have left it at, "Oh, yeah, it's totally cool." and adjusted her shitty attitude accordingly. Instead, she blurts out, "Well, you know, most people who GO TO A BAR want to EAT SOMETHING or HAVE A DRINK."
Are you fucking kidding me? I've been here 2-3 times in the past and left unimpressed by the mediocre food and inattentive service (2 stars), but at least I wasn't basically told to get the fuck out by some lazy cunt masquerading as a server. Judging from the reviews it seems this place is going steadily downhill, and it was never particularly great to begin with. I, for one, will never go back.
Boyfriend, Mexican Friend and I have attended exactly two Taco Tuesdays in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection thus far, and we spent both of them at Manny Brown's.
In the Bella Vista area, and at a few other spots that you'll find scattered around the city, Tuesday means tacos. Cheap ones. At Manny Brown's, they're a buck twenty-five, and they come in three varieties: beef, chicken or bean, well-seasoned and delicious. I especially enjoy the chicken, mostly because other places don't usually offer it. All come with standard lettuce, tomato and cheese, sour cream and homemade salsa on the side, spicy enough but with additional hot sauce at the ready if necessary. Oh, and your choice of soft or hard shell. Go for soft. This, we had a little bit of a problem with, and I've been bitched out before by other more sympathetic friends with years of table-waiting experience under their belts who think I should give those who are waiting on me less of a hard time. But, really. If you are struggling and it's your first night or week or month, write it down. Come up with a system of memorization. Or ask for the order again. I'd much rather be asked than wind up with the wrong food, and that happened a few times, but it was fortunately a minor mistake since we were all ordering the tacos anyway. Well, that's not true. On the first night, Mexican Friend, defying all cheap taco-eating logic, ordered the chef's salad, and I have to say, it was shockingly large and only cost a couple bucks, a good buy if you're not down with the tacos. So, first night, great waitress, second night, no so great. Whatever. The drunker you get the less it will matter.
Speaking of which, 5-7 p.m. is happy hour and that means half price brewskis. Their beer list is several pages long, conveniently laminated, and description-filled with ratings and everything. If I remember correctly, Miller Lite is available but unrated, so we'll never know how terrible it really is. I thought the typos were quaint, but Boyfriend is convinced Manny's has got a dyslexic on their hands. They've got some great beers on draft, which rotate frequently, and they'll let you try samples. There's an even longer bottled beer list, beer cocktail suggestions, and cheap cans of Bud are available during the game if that's your thing. Oh, and $2.50 Corona bottles on taco nights! I'd recommend the Kenzinger on draft, since the Philadelphia Brewing Co. is a personal favorite of mine. I'm also somewhat obsessed lately with Dogfish Head's seasonal Festina Peche, a tart, juicy neo-BerlinerWeisse experience. $2.50 for a pint during happy hour, and it's 4.5% abv, so you can drink a few of 'em! Totally worth it. Try one today. Or two
Mainly gets the three stars for a good beer selection. The food was average bar fare and was relatively inexpensive. I liked the atmosphere. Music was super loud which might be fine on most nights, but we were out for a few quiet beers and some conversation... Service seemed to be a bit slow at times considering they weren't very busy. We enjoyed the $2 lager special from 8 til midnight. (Thursday.) I'd probably come back as I'd give many of the other bars on this section of South Street a worse than 3 star rating...
If you're in the mood for cheap wings and PBR, Manny Brown's is the place for you. Have fun putting up with the South Street crowd.
It isn't expensive and the service tends to be quick, but don't expect much.
Normally I avoid South Street like I avoid Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Some friends and I stumbled upon Manny Brown's after dining near South Street, mainly because it was so frigid outside that we didn't want to wander very far for a drink.
I was pleasantly surprised by this place. It wasn't crowded, so everyone got a seat. The beer selection was decent, and I really liked our attentive waitress. She was on the ball the whole time, even coming over to give us new beers before we needed them. The food we had was bar food: wings and nachos. Both were decent, the wings especially. And the jukebox proved to be quite entertaining.
The big plusses to me were the seating, the service, and even a decently clean bathroom. It wasn't too crowded on a Saturday night, which pleased me because I am an antisocial curmudgeon.
Back again, this time mid afternoon. Hoped they had a Fernet to help me get over my Ishkabibble...but settled for a nice brew. Revolving beers on tap make it interesting and they serve up Tuesday Margaritas for your drinking pleasure.
I liked this bar quite a bit. The lovely bartender served me up a cocktail in a pint glass, she must… Read more »
Manny Brown's is one relaxed bar, with friendly, relaxed patrons, and chill staff. Nikky and Lindsey, our server and bartender, were attentive. Greg, who was administering a game of Kinky Quizzo, even did a shot with me (an obligatory Duck Fart).
Speaking of Kinky Quizzo, it's not your regular Quizzo. Keeping with the game's theme, penis and vagina balloon hats were given to the teams, which themselves had appropriately inappropriate names. Prices for high-placing teams were sex toys, DVDs of questionable content, and other assorted niceties.
Our team didn't win, but I'll be back another Wednesday to (try to, anyway) score some spicy swag.
I like this bar. It has the overflow room to accommodate extra drunkards, a great mix of clients- hipsters, frat boys, and cougars living in imbibing harmony. AND they have a Scottish Ale called "Old Chub" which inspired an outburst of song (check my pics).
tee-hee-hee I said OLD Chub...
Minus a star for having a billion television sets.
Thirteen bucks and change for 30 wings and a pitcher of PBR including tax and automatic 17% gratuity for party of 2. Not too busy and the music is loud enough to cover my conversation, not interrupt it. Monday = win.
The waitress was a bitch, frowning, not really speaking at all, and mostly sitting in one of the booths, with probably another waitress, and randomly coming over to us like we were the end of her world. That was great. They should have an attitude. Our food was good and gave us some heart-attack warnings on the way out, or was that the cigarettes we were constantly smoking right outside every two seconds?
This place is almost in the heart of South Street, so there's a lot of people that walk by, to look at it, hit on, get conned by.
The music selection was mostly punk rock, punk, rock. The digital jukebox for some reason didn't have as great a selection as I thought it would, though, so be warned! Not every one of those things has what they say they have! Speaking of selections, get ready for a pretty good and somewhat surprising selection of beer, and get ready for a menu which has an outdated drink section.
The clientele is mixed and that's great. You've got the oldies with the youngins and everything in between. At first I thought it was going to be overrun by hipsters and we wouldn't be able to enjoy our meal in peace, but those stone-cold-eyed regulars gave us stares that made us forget about the rest of reality
Manny's has gone from quite the scene atmosphere to your stereotypical sports far with the fare change to match. The food used to be killer along with the margaritas, but now only the latter remain up to my expectations.
The past few visits to Manny's has been a disappointment to me and for a while it was the only bar on South Street we would venture to on a regular basis. The wait staff on those nights was nearly impossible to get a hold of and the food just turned out to by not that good. The burgers were just not the appealing, the wings dull and the last time we got nachos the ingredients were undercooked enough to get you sick.
The beer selection still remains good enough for a bar seat, however, much of the crowd has changed. It is very much becoming more like it's brother store in the Neshaminity Mall but the beer specials are enough to keep rolling in every once in a while.
I visited Philly recently on a road trip down to Virginia. I was told that South St was the place to be in town, but walking down from the Mutter museum, I felt like I was in a ghost town. Manny Brown's was the first place my group managed to find in 16 or so blocks that looked like a cheap, suitable place for beers and burgers. (I still regret not stopping at one of the soul food places along the way). The happy hour deal was good, half price draft beers. I had my first Philly Cheese Steak here, and I was not impressed (the meat was incredibly dry), but it was filling and after a day's worth of walking/driving, it was a good place to relax.
I came here from Fat Tuesday's one night after the latter establishment told me a Rolling Rock bottle was $7.
At Manny's I got a window seat away from the crowded bar, 2 baskets of fries and two beers for under $20. The fries were surprisingly addicting (hence the 2) and I would definitely order more bar-esce food next time I go.
The place was pretty packed compared to other bars, so they must be doing something right.
The beer was warm and the food not so great. The nachos are those yellow brown cardboard kind. More of a sports bar vibe. Ok, so it's on south street. i guess they think they don't have to try their hardest because of the location. walk a few doors west and go to Tattooed Mom instead.
I don't love this place, but it suffices every once in a while. Manny Brown's is kind of pricey.. just because they've adopted an eclectic beer list doesn't mean should charge elitist prices for the old standby beers. The food is nothing special, but I will say that the garden salad is completely with the $4. It's giant. The waitstaff is usually indifferent to customer service and more interested in applying too much make up or wearing entirely-too-short skirts. (Am I turning into my mother? --or my grandmother???)
I am addicted to their nachos, I love they have my favorite beer here (which is saying a lot since that is the only beer I drink), the service is pretty bad but the nachos keep bringing me back!
It's not the best of bars, but next to Tattooed Mom's it might be one of the better bars on South Street. Take that for what you will though considering there's places like Makos and Fat Tuesday on South Street.
But for a sports bar this place usually has a good crowd. I wouldn't go on weekends because that's when it gets mad crowded. but it's the perfect place to chill around a table with good friends and a pitcher on a week night. It also has some really good and addicting pub food. I'm not to big on the whole sports bar atmosphere, but I'll more then likely be coming back here for awhile.
Surprise, surprise...I recently stumbled upon this bar and, despite my first impressions of it being a total sausage fest, I actually liked it. Great beer on tap, nice booths to park your arse while you drink, a friendly staff and yes, a jukebox that includes Elliott Smith AND Jeff Buckley. Jeez, I'm not nearly as depressive as I sound. I promise :)
Along with a group of friends who were visiting from the great Jer-Z, I hopped up in to this seemingly typical South Street pub to start the night off. I was first intrigued by the friendliness of the wait staff as we tried to pull 4 tables together for our party - they were all super cool with it. Throughout our time there, the staff was extremely helpful and courteous - or could have been simply that we were a party of 9 (yes, I'm the lone single person - shut up and buy me a drink! )
Anyway, the beer selection here is what REALLY impressed me. They had a good assortment of at least a dozen beers on tap. They had a couple "frat" beers but they played second fiddle to the Belgian and craft styles taking up most of the brass taps at the bar. The bottle list was expansive with a good amount of Belgians to pick from - Chamay, Duvel, Lucifer, etc. They also do these Guinness beer cocktails. They go beyond your typical Black and Tan and have drinks that mix Cherry Wheat beer (Chocolate Covered Cherry), Chambord (Black Velvet), or Guinness and Hoegaarden (Belgian Waffle). Maybe these are standard fare these days but it was the first time I saw such a complete list of Beer Cocktails.
Oh, and there were shot girls - it IS South Street after all. Actually, they were handing out small samples of some kind of fruity tooty beer that really tasted like the ass crack of some real life character from the Shoots and Ladders board game.
Unfortunately we only stayed for a couple beers and a shot and hopped along to the next bar. I'd like to go back again and spend a few hours there and try the food next time. Manny, I'll give you 4 stars for now. Don't disappoint me on my second visit and I'll consider bumping you up.
Now that Sal's is gone, Manny Brown's is probably the only place on South Street where I'll stop in for a bite to eat if necessary. And that's only if necessary (and rarely at night, I avoid the South Street "scene" like the plague). The food is less than impressive, even for standard bar food. However, they do have quite an extensive beer menu, full of tasty things like Troeg's Mad Elf. The wait staff has been fine in my experience, although like I said, I don't go during their peak hours.
This place used to have really good BBQ. They still have a decent spread as far as food goes, although the standards have plummeted a bit in the past few years. I'm not a big fan of the whole sport's bar atmosphere but the beer selection is okay. I can usually find something on draft that suits my palate.
It's very much a South Street bar which means that it should be mainly avoided on weekend nights. It's not a bad place to roll into on a Sunday afternoon with a hangover. You can usually find some sort of vaguely southwestern meal to soothe the savage beast. I also like that when it's warm outside, the big doors in the front open up to the South Street freakshow. Not bad for people watching but nothing really spectacular either.
A friend of mine couldn't get into Tattooed Mom's because her license expired so we walked over to Manny Browns for a brew. This place had a nice selction of beers and was pretty reasonble. Its got a good vibe, and the peeps here seem cool. When I was in college several years back I remember having a good time here. Having a few as my friend was hitting on our waitress. Also they have a good juke if I recall.
Manny Brown's may just be a relatively generic bar in the South Street area on most nights, but last night I was there with some friends as part of the Philly Zombie Pub Crawl, and it totally rocked! Not only was it filled with other friendly zombies, but we were able to get a table, order respectable pub fare and drinks, be waited on by an entirely adorable server, AND be commended for dripping blood all over the establishment. My only complaint; you really can only offer ONE lousy drink special to us unearthly invaders? Even though we're zombies, we have better drink taste than lousy Miller Lites!
Manny Brown's is one of my favorite bars. I guess I've just been lucky, but I never had a problem finding a table there and I never felt crammed in. They have good bar food and drinks. I only have one complaint! I would avoid going in the summer. They usually open the front doors and the bar gets really gross and humid. But the rest of the year? I could spend hours there.
Nice place. Bar food and drinks and the price is right! Gets a little crowded though.
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