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Mikey's American Grill & Sports Bar
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Categories: American (Traditional), Sports Bars [Edit]
Neighborhood: University City3180 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 222-3226
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Music:
- Live
- Best Nights:
- Tue, Wed, Thu
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
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14 reviews for Mikey's American Grill & Sports Bar
Great drink specials (lets face it, I'm poor and the drinks are good).
Food is overpriced, but I found it quite tasty.
Quizo is a lot of fun and I found the bar staff quite friendly. :)
I'll probably return on another Thursday night.
I tried to like this place, I really did. I don't even consider myself hard to please. Sadly, time after time Mikey's is a major let down. During the colder months its so drafty and miserable, I rather not shiver while trying to have a meal. The outside dinning area is a joke. Its literally part of 32nd street and Chestnut street and a train runs under the "patio" every 30 minutes.
The one night after work I stopped in for a drink. There was some sort of open mic event going on. The speakers were spewing out ridiculously loud "music" from some drunk college bros. I love loud music, but this is absurdly loud. Not all of the cheap PBR in the world could drown out drunk college guys covering Jimmy Buffett. The agony. The horror. The headaches...
The food? No thanks, that is completely ruined for me. A co-worker found a live inch worm in her pulled pork sandwich. It must have crawled in from her side salad.
The only reason I could give Mikey's two stars is because of their happy hour. Its not so bad and my office is right around the corner. So its ideal for me to sneak in and out right after work.
You'd be better off skipping this place and walking a few blocks to a better bar.
While I have no love lost on Mikey's, I don't share the strong negative opinions of other posters.
This place is a popular in-between classes lunch place for my friends and I, more for its convenience than quality. The burgers are average, but a little overpriced. The pizza has been good sometimes, bad others. The nachos portion is HUGE. I happen to like my fries a little more well-done, and they are the one thing I really enjoy here.
I agree that the service could be better, although last time I had a male waiter (for the first time), and he was pretty good. He did disappear towards the end of our meal though, when we were in a hurry to get the check and get to class.
Average food, okay beer selection, subpar service... but a great place to watch sports. I'll give Mikey's bar 3 stars.
Went here with some classmates after a horrendous exam we all bombed. The ambiance is OK for a sports bar but it wasn't that comfortable for a reason I can't put my finger on.
The beer specials were A-OK. $2 Lionsheads and PBRs and $1 Miller Chills. I drank my fair share. Worst thing though was the service was lax at best. I'd ask for a drink and it would take what felt like forever. I also ordered a White Russian for $6 and the tiny size left something to be desired.
After a little while, I also got a "Drexel Burger" which is basically a bacon cheeseburger with cheddar. Below par. While the meat itself was OK, the bun was too dense like a baguette. The fries it came with were way overdone and rather soggy. And for $9.50 burger platter only, before tip, that's horrendous.
I went here last night with some friends for quizzo. Mikey's was a lot nicer looking than I expected, based on the other reviews. The drinks were reasonably priced, but the food was quite expensive for bar fare. The average price was around $10 for an entree. Also, there were only a couple vegetarian options, including a portobello sandwich and fries...Only one person in our group ordered food, french onion soup. He said it was just OK, not great but not bad either. I also saw a number of tables with beer towers on them. Speaking of tables, our waitress was rarely at ours, or any other table for that matter. The other waitresses seemed better, so that's good i guess.
Then there was the beer. The selection on tap was rubbish. MGD, PBR, etc and some Blue Moon. They had a decent selection of bottles though. The giant chalk board with beers and such also informed us there were random specials throughout the week. Friday is ladies' night where ladies get in free all night...There was no cover when yesterday (a Thursday night), so I'm not sure what that's all about.
I wouldn't go back for any other reason than to play quizzo. The quizzo was pretty fun. The dude's music was a bit too loud so it was difficult to hear him sometimes. Lastly, The bathroom was disgusting, one of the smelliest I've ever experienced.
I you enjoy large breasts, and mediocre food and beer, this is the place for you. It looked as if there is a minimum cup-size requirement for the waitstaff.
After reading the reviews, we avoided most of the food, but the husband took a risk and had the french onion soup. It was good soup, nothing special, but something he'd be willing to get again. He called it "better than crappy."
Mostly we were there for the quizzo. That was fun, good questions, but music was too loud. When we arrived, they were playing the audio from the tv so we got to hear really loud commercials for a long time. The bar's sound system was awful. If you're going to be a sports bar and play the audio from the games, get a better system or improve the acoustics.
Service was really bad. It took at least 5 minutes for the waitress to show up just to greet us, and we had to ask other waitresses for drinks because ours was m.i.a. the whole time. It wasn't busy, just bad service. We didn't even see her at other tables, so she must have just been hiding in the back.
The beers on tap were nothing special. They had a special with PBR and Lionshead for $2, but I really don't think either are worth $2. Other beers on tap included Blue Moon, Sam Adams, Wacko (which I would recommend to no one, ever), lager, and maybe one or two more. In a town where the neighborhood dive bar will have craft IPA, stout, and wheat beers on tap, there's really no excuse for such a mediocre selection.
I doubt I'll return.
As a Drexel student, this is the only bar on campus...wish it wasn't. MIkey's used to be Ecco Qui (they switched management) and man, do I miss the old place.
Their selection of beer on tap is not bad, but their food is sub-par. I've gotten the sweet potato fries which were pretty okay, the onion rings that made me throw up for three hours and a plain pizza which was burnt at the edges and soggy at the same time.
Waitstaff is also not anything to rave about.
The only thing I like is the beer selection and the fact that they have a patio - saves getting up from the table to smoke.
This place is a freaking joke. I have been here a few times now and every time I think that there is no way it can be as bad as the last time, like I'm some kind of Alzheimers patient. Cheap beer is fine and all, but the service and food here is the absolute worst. Go anywhere but here. Mad Mex, even? Yes, Mad Mex even.
Came here with some friends during March Madness earlier this year. As seems to be the consensus, the food and the service were mediocre. However, given that they have plenty of flat screens to watch the games, I imagine that we'll return next March...assuming that Mikey's is still around.
I agree with David H...although I have only had lunch here and did not partake in cocktails, I have to agree that the food is pretty grim. We went for lunch just today, and had a freebie coupon for an order of nachos. The nachos came out with very little cheese, a small dollop of sour cream and a teeney bit of salsa. I can't forget the piece of paper crumbled up that was under the pile of chips; it read "FREE NACHO 1/2 ORDER APP", so I guess it was our order slip, just mixed in with the order. Too funny.
The pizzas looked pretty good, maybe a bit spendy at about $10 for a lunch-sized pizza, and I ordered "The Pig" with cheese, bacon and pulled pork. The cheese and bacon - not so bad, but the pulled pork tasted...off. Not quite sure what was going on there. Hopefully I will not get sick from bad pork.
I'll probably give it another shot because I work next door to the train station and there are only so many times in a row you can eat at the food court.
Wonderful design. Great service. Nice beer selection. Terrible menu. Awful food. But incredible happy hour special. Go there to drink. And then go somewhere else to eat.
we ate here around 2 on sunday.
food is ok, but i had a great time sitting around, drinking delicious blueberry beer from a sexy, raven-haired waitress.
I agree with David H. It is a great place to watch sports - lots of brand new flat panels and great beer. The drink specials during NFL games are pretty good.
The food is the killer here. The wings are okay, but after that it all goes downhill. My burger tasted like cardboard. I hope the food gets better, but that hope is unlikely to be fulfilled as this place was apparently opened by the owners of the restaurant that previously occupied the space, Ecco Qui. That place was bad.
Bottom line: Nice environment and good drink selection. Bad food.
The sauce showing production wasn't nessary and i've gotten it both times i've been in there. I think that the servers didn't know if we were there table or not (she was sweet totally not her fault) the one bartender seemed over lost and scared to get us our drinks, while the other was fantastic and a sweet heart (he gets 4 stars). we went in for an open bar and had to order drinks at the bar and food from the server which was inconvient but dealible. I don't know what this place is really trying to do, the 15 dollar open bar was nice and they used stoli vodka but the beer for the open bar was lionshead.
