Flip and Bailey’s

Went with a couple friends to get drinks at 7pm. Had drinks but the bartender wouldn’t let us sit at a table if we weren’t ordering food. There was no one else there but he still wouldn’t let us sit at the table. Ridiculous. Won’t come back

This place is awful! They charged my table twice for only one pitcher we ordered from the waiter. After talking to the waiter and 2 different managers they still refused to refund us. Horrible customer service! Would not recommend.

Solid beer selection, attentive waitstaff, and the fish tacos were really good. My wife had the crab dip which was rich and delicious and the short rib sandwich which was awesome.

A great neighborhood bar, with an active night life courtesy of Villanova students. You’ll definitely get a mix of people here! The food is a bit overpriced, but the drinks are on par. Plus, their beer selection is pretty extensive! Keep an eye out for their seasonal weeknight specials… Half price burgers are my favorite!

Wednesday night quizzo at Flip and Bailey’s is seriously awesome. The bar atmosphere is obviously really great given the drink specials and the fact that there are tv’s everywhere you look. When it comes to the trivia itself, the guy who runs it has got extremely large cajones! He gives 0 F’s about any sort of explicit language and is set on the fact that you can’t use you’re phone while playing (which is good because nobody likes cheaters). A++ for F&B’s trivia night!

I have been a regular at this place for the past 4 years every Sunday to watch football since I moved her from out of state. The first two years 2009 and 2010 were awesome. Specials during football, great service and great selection of games. However, the past two years it has really been awful. The first two years we knew the staff and the service was great and we had the same servers every week. This has not been the case the past few years, the turnover is constant and the servers are always knew and not sure what they are doing. We had a bad experience last year but being not people who give up a place after one bad experience we kept flips on our list. However today was the last chance. I will not be there again and the ownership/​management clearly doesn’t care.
If you bill yourself as a sports bar and advertise best selection of games on the mainline then don’t book a private party for the room with al the tvs on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of football season. The first time this happened, we were told in the middle of the 4^th quarter we had to move outer table where we were all settled with our drinks and stuff. After the experience we suggested to management that perhaps they should put a sign when the games started that there was a private party and the instead of settling in the customers could just go upstairs from the start. Well it happened again today and we were pissed. The staff was really rude about it to. I’m not going to give my $ 40 a week for 6 months a year Tia. Place that’s going to treat their regular customers like that. I’ll find another place with Sunday ticket. I’m giving one star but I’m giving zero stars with my wallet and won’t be back

I’m shocked the average rating is only three stars to be honest. Moved to Bryn Mawr two years ago and Flips is definitely the first place I take my friends to when visiting.
Their food is excellent and very well priced. Typical bar atmosphere and the inevitable entertaining regulars. Wings are the best you can get on or around the Main Line.
Beer selection is decent — they always have great seasonal brews on tap. Would highly recommend eating here and hanging here to watch the game.

A lively bar atmosphere with the typical bar food. We found them on open table and made a reservation but it wasn’t really necessary they are pretty informal about how they handle reservations and I got the impression they were more of a novelty then a requirement.
We hosted 3 «starving» students from nearby Villanova university and enjoyed the typical bar fare — burgers, wings, ribs, wraps, etc. The students were very satisfied with the food and enjoyed themselves. For me, the food was find but not something special that would make me want to go out of my way to find a parking spot in order to visit again.

This place has a good atmosphere, a clean and respectable billiard room, comfortable seating, and good food.
BUT! … They put Hunt’s Ketchup in old Heinz glass jars… And these glass jars are old and battered. To a Pittsburgh native, this is an atrocity, and it’s too bad, because they have good fries. Plus it’s kind of gross.
Makes me wonder what else is just a «show» at this bar!

A few great bartenders, but the food is poor most of the time.

Very impressed with the beer selection.
Surprised by how spacious it was and the shuffleboard, pool tables, and bar activities galore. The second half is through another door and there are couches and large TVs, and the space is available to rent for private parties.
While the food was not the best I’ve ever had… the beer and the space made up for it. After all, it is a bar. It was a bit loud, thanks to a few unruly bros at the bar.
Parking is easy, location is easy to find.
It’s my dad’s favorite go-​to spot on Friday nights to get a beer :)

When it was the Wild Onion, it was a five star establishment, either for a quick drink, a meal, a game, or a night out. Now it is an overly self-​impressed, underwhelming mess. The food isnt as good, the service isnt as good, the crowd isnt as fun, going for a game isnt even as good. Some things are better left the way they are. The Onion was one of those things.

3^rd favorite bar during my undergrad years at Villanofun. Used to come here for the live music they had in the upstairs section, this place is a more relaxed bar, from the owners of Kelly’s, that caters to a more diverse crowd, locals and students alike can be seen rubbing shoulders.
The downstairs area is split into two rooms, one is a narrow corridor where the bar, some tables and the bathrooms are located, while the other side is more of a lounge with coaches and larger televisions. Upstairs has another bar, a floor space that can be used for dancing, never happens. I swear the main line is the only place in the world where you come up behind a girl and try dancing with her and they stop and look at you as if you are a looney person. Huh, your on a dance floor dancing with your girlfriends, if you want to dance by yourself and not have to worry about guys coming up to you why are you at a nightlife venue on the dance floor, just go home and dance in front of your mirror. Any other place the girl either finishes the dance or does the old shimmy shake to let the guy know she doesn’t want to dance with him, not just stop and look at you with a face of disgust. Wow, I never knew how much that peeved me off until now.
So getting off that unnecessary tangent, this place is a hidden gem when it comes to craft beer, I almost had a mini stroke when I saw that this place had Founders breakfast stout and ithaca flower power, and never of them had kicked. (I almost omitted this part for obviously implications, like I don’t want this secret treasure trove being discovered by all the other beer snobs in the area, however for the greater good of manbeerkind it must be proclaimed to the Unilocalers)

And just barely for that 1star. If you haven’t heard the f%*! Word or the d@!# –bag word in awhile, hang out with the juvenile, unemployed crowd at F&P. The bartenders are completely fine with the atmosphere and judging by the chest tattoos on the men and women bartenders, it’s their usual vocabulary too. Food is very average. No need to stop. Keep driving up to Lancaster Ave., where there are many better choices.

I’ve always enjoyed Wednesday nights $ 6 burger and beer deal. The food here is generally good and the wide beer selection and good apps make this a fun place to watch some sports with the boys

This was my bar for graduate school at Villanova University. Expect affordable food and drinks. I love Wednesday nights as you can get a burger, beer and fries for $ 6.
That in itself is the selling point to this place.
They also have Quizzo. Whether you are a college student or just someone that wants to remember those days, check out this place tucked away near Villanova.

Awesome atmosphere and a great place to hang out and watch a game on one of the personal tv’s in the booths. The first time I went and had a burger I thought it was disgusting but they redeemed themselves during my subsequent visits. Also, the Wednesday night burger deal can’t be beat… Burger, fries and a beer for only $ 6!

Great food, great bar, and a great atmosphere.
This place is definitely a sure-​fire location for your dinner plans, whether as an individual, group, family, or party. I’ve been here many times for different occasions and have never left unsatisfied. The burgers are superb and their service is wonderful. Being so close to Villanova and other local colleges, it does draw a university crowd on occasion, but there are an equal number of families and business professionals who come here after hours as well. A great place to watch sports events, Flip’s has huge flatscreen TVs throughout the bar and on the second level, each booth has it’s own personal TV with game console. I have visited Flip’s for happy hours, graduation parties, get-​togethers, after-​class beer nights, and family dinners. The food is always a hit and the atmosphere is great.
I’d give it 5 stars if the food were spectacular, but as it only really has the typical bar food and nothing is extremely out-​of-​this-​world, it’s only a 4. But great nonetheless!

Great selection of brews on tap and a solid bar-​food menu make Flip’s a neighborhood go-​to. Go between 5 and 7 during the week for ½ price drafts and appetizers. The appetizer selection has all of the basics– nachos, quesadilas, and wings (ask for them «Sah’s way» for an off menu garlic buffalo sauce), but also rare finds like a hummus platter and steamed pork dumplings. Flip’s is a restaurant that turns into a bar at around 10, and the food proves it.
Go on Tuesday night for trivia, but leave your iPhone in your pocket dammit.

I vacillated whether Flip and Bailey’s deserved 2 or 3 stars. My conclusion based on a single visit, 2 stars.
A friend and I went about 5PM on a Sunday. We sat downstairs-​as it appeared nothing was happening upstairs. About eight people sat at the bar and a party of six had a table. Otherwise that was it. Yet we waited 20 minutes, being ignored by a waitress and the bartender, before we had to ask for a menu. We waited another 5 minutes before we got one.
The waitress had about as much interest in us as a mechanic at a fashion show. I ordered a draught and was brought a bottle. I was curtly informed that the draught list wasn’t up-​to-​date when i questioned the bottle, like I should have known it. We ordered wings and nachos. It literally took more than 30 minutes for them to come. Only the party of six (at another table) had ordered any food, and had done so about the time we had sat down.
The wings and nachos were just fair. The wings were dry-​like they had been cooked hours ahead of time and re-​warmed for serving. The nachos were comprised of a pasty meat and bean concoction, melted cheese and canned salsa.
Although the waitress’s attitude became less frosty as she brought food and inquired about drink refills, she was never in the least bit friendly.