The Bayou Bar & Grill

 

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Patty T.

Philadelphia, PA

If you are looking for a casual place to kick back with friends.  This is your bar!  You can feel comfortable on a Friday night wearing sneakers and a T-shirt.  Best of all the beers are cheap.

Love all the TVs for sporting events and the bartenders are attentive.  They even changed the channel on one of the TVs so that I could see the Yankees game, while the Phillies and Flyers were playing!!!

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Laura D.

Philadelphia, PA

Hard for me to rate the bayou, or gayou (pronounced guy-you) as we call it due to the high dude to chick ratio.  On one hand, I've had many a good time here and they have great drink specials, on the other hand they have banned my friend for playing Little Black Backpack over and over again and getting into it with one bartender.  I have never seen one man so angry and excited at the same time, that the Colts won the superbowl and he was permanently banned from his favorite bar.  But anyway,...

On the whole it's a great laid-back place, fun to hang out with friends outside, downstairs or upstairs (in "club bleu" as my friend called the newly renovated blue room).  Can get packed on weekends, but good on weeknights or during happy hour.  Bartenders are all really cool.  And definitely relaxed where you can wear anything and be comfortable - I've gone before in workout clothes all sweaty from running, and once in my pajamas.  What can I say, I'm a charmer.  But definitely check out bayou for a chill time and cheap drinks.

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Bob H.

Media, PA

The food has always been good, the beer prices reasonable. I've been in there on Friday nights at 10 pm where there was a line outside the door ten deep, and on Saturdays when you could easily slip upstairs for some alone time with wings, a lager and sports on HDTV. I've always found the lack of space between the front door, the bar and the back/upstairs area annoying, especially when you have to carry more than one beer with people coming in and out. Always a solid place to go with decent atmosphere.

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Aubrey H.

Philadelphia, PA

If you live in Manayunk, then you already know that the Bayou is one of the best bars to hang out with a few close friends and kick back more than a few cheap beers.  It's also the sponsor for the manayunk sports league, so on saturday afternoons and week nights you'll find a lot of dirty but fun people kicking back a few.  All in all, it's a great place to be if you're trying to conserve money in the always expensive philadelphia night scene.

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