British pub coming to Old City
The British are coming! The British are going!
British pub coming to Old City
Michael Klein, Philly.com
The British are coming! The British are going!
There's a small English revolution going on in Old City.
The Dark Horse on Head House Square - the premier destination for football on the telly and a popular hang among English expats and tourists - is gradually ceding to the operators of Cavanaugh's. (I say gradually because this transfer has to pass muster with the LCB.)
I can tell you that a new English pub is on the way nearby - taking the building where Swanky Bubbles last was, at 10 S. Front St.
Edward Strojan (a vet of Tria) and partner Perry Golia, who own the English Gardener gift shop in Haddonfield and the British Chip Shop across Kings Highway, are fixing up The Victoria Freehouse - a pub - and they hope to open in March. (They also want to open a British-theme gift shop in the neighborhood.) A recent trip to London cinched them on the overall location, which is 12 minutes from their other shops.
Photo: Google Maps
Now that it has been mentioned in this paper, the "grotty litta wankas" (a.k.a pale emaciated hipster men wearing skinny jeans, thick framed glasses, scruffy unkempt beards, and body jewelry who think they are oh-so-cool because they were Map of The London Underground tee shirts & squishy 'round the edges hipster women with tatoos, scruffy unkempt beards and and body jewelry who think they are anglophiles because they wear Union Jack tee shirts,) will take over this establishment in hoards like hyenas fighting over a wildebesat carcass.— MikeWizowski- @MiWi - it took you 150+ words to explain your thought, all of it entirely worthless in point?
Funny? Not funny. LOL (that's lot's of luck, pal).— 24sDad - Pints for everyone! Let me know in March. Good Luck!— A. Martinez
- I hope the Toon Army invades this place!!— pieman
- That was pretty funny, Wizowski.— ejbphila
- MW - Really? No really? Really??!! WTF?— gaffer broadcaster
Comment removed.- Thank God Obama's still around to do things like that.
Was wondering if you could tell us what Bain Capital would do with the place - after they downsized and let everyone go? - Oh great, becuase British cuisine is so world famous. Maybe if they open a curry takeaway joint next door, otherwise I'll just get my Bass at any local watering hole.— 1972bline
- No dental insurance will be provided to it's workers.— Another_1
- keep the Brits and their bad teeth out of Philly— Handsome B. Wonderful
- COYS!— OldCityJoe
- The fat broads from Jersey can't wait.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
