The Powder Keg Pub

Very good restaurant and great food!
Great view overlooking the bay on weekends they have a brunch menu.
Have a bar serving drinks

Honestly, I was floored by this place. I chose it for the location - a convenient midway point to meet someone.

It's a welcoming small bar/restaurant. The building and setting is relaxing - takes you out of the frequent, anonymous sameness and congestion we encounter. It was full of locals in mid afternoon.

Our waitress, our drinks, our food...everything was memorably great. I had a martini (perfect) and finger-licking good mussels - literally. I sat there and liked the garlic/butter sauce off each shell. It was like the mussels from small, neighborhood restaurants in the Italian neighborhoods on the East Coast that I grew ip with.

I never had a reason to be in Hercules. Now I do.

This little place was a gem within a Gem of a neighborhood ! Cutest little spot in the cutest neighborhood! Honestly the neighborhood was so great we started looking for a place lol.

The Powder Keg pub was such a cute little spot. We had a really sweet and attentive waitress who was kind. The food was pretty good. I'm all honesty the wings were my favorite they were fire! The clam chowder was a no go for me and I would not recommend ordering it especially if you're used to thick rich chowder. This chowder was just yuk and milky water thin substance. Hard pass.

The burger was pretty good. But them wings thoughhhhhh let me tell you I will be back just for these bad boys! Also we ordered the garlic chicken nuggets and they were actually fire too! The garlic fries too were very delicious.

Even though the chowder was blah everything else was great! Thank you for the good experience!

Small restaurant but the food and drinks are good. Decided to go here on a Friday night, and it was pretty packed. We had to wait for a table but it wasn't that long maybe 10mins.

We ordered drinks and food; they all turned out pretty good. For small business restaurants the food was really good. Our entire order was cooked to perfections. The mussels were amazing!

Our server was really good too. Got all of our order to us fast and no issues.

Like I said it's a small place and on a Friday night, the tables were packed so was the bar. But they got us seated pretty fast.

4 out of 5 starts.

This is a good, solid place for casual dining. It's located in a cute neighborhood of residences. There's ample street parking.

I've been here several times and the food was always tasty and portions were good-sized. The fish and chips is a go to with its crunchy batter. The fish is moist and fresh. The fries are okay. I think that the hot fish that placed on the top may tend to get some of the fries a little soft and limp. The mussels in butter and garlic is the only dish that I wouldn't order again. It's messy to eat. Maybe a larger bowl could solve the problem. The fries kept falling off and were overcooked and chewy. My friend had the crab sandwich and said it was very good.

Service is friendly and the food doesn't take long to appear.

Wish I took a picture of my plate before I started, the food was good and I definitely cleaned my plate. Service was great and the servers were friendly. It was a little windy outside so we sat inside, the wait was very short, although I hear today was unusual because the wait and line outside is usually long. It's advisable to call ahead of time.

Very nice delicious food best bar tender Brandy R . Found her after 4 years she's just amazing

Ok, so this pics are NOT from our Friday night dinner! I forgot to take pics--but they are from a great brunch we had a few weeks ago. The PK, as we call it, is our local haunt. Tonight we had the amazing tuna melt with a side salad (fries are an option) and the fish tacos - grilled (fried is an option). Both were delish as alway! My first time with the tacos and the fish was moist and the salsa spicy--just like I like it! Staff is always friendly and caring. Come and enjoy our local pub--you'll love it!

I've ordered many many burgers and it's rare that when I take my first bite I hear my inner voice scream how great the burger is!! I had the Cowboy Up burger. Bacon, onion rings, spicy BBQ sauce. Simply perfection!
Full bar if you're interested in beer, wine or cocktails.
Cool hangout nestled in a Hercules neighborhood with great service. Thanks Angela for making our lunch fun and enjoyable!

We got food to go last night. We ordered the Zucchini mushroom appetizer, the sliders with 2 burgers and 1 fish, and chicken wings.

Most of the Zucchini mushrooms were okay. A few were doughy and uncooked. I threw them away.
The chicken wings were just okay.

The sliders looked much smaller than they used to be, and the burgers were uncooked in the middle. The fish slider was greasy.

I ended up having to take something for my stomach because of the large amount of grease ingestion.

I hadn't been here in a while and was hoping for a good experience. When I initially called in my order, I was put on hold for a very long time. I eventually hung up and kept trying to call back and couldn't get through for a while. Finally, I was able to place my order, was told it would be 40 minutes, and I'd get a hone call.

The phone call never came. I went in to get my food. No one noticed me. I looked for someone to check in with. It took a bit of time. A guy cleaning tables came over and helped me.

This establishment needs more staff. It is too small for people to have to wait long times and get half cooked food.