Park Tavern

Love this place. People are great. The workers are great. The food & drinks are fantastic. Perfect little town bar. The friendliest people in town hang out here!

I grew up going to this bar. Haven’t been there in a while. Walked in there last night, Halloween night, with two friends. Right away the smell of hot piss hit me. It’s bad. Something has got to be wrong with the plumbing. Wasn’t going to walk out without drinking one beer. The bar was empty. Bar tender took our order, gave us our drinks. I forgot they don’t take credit, put credit card on bar as soon as we sat down. Befor we orders drinks. After the bar tender gives us our drinks he tells me they don’t take credit. I ran out to car to get cash. Came back to find the three beers we orders and a mixed drink we didn’t order. Ask the bar tender what the mixed drink was and he said my friend asked for a vodka and cranberry. No way he asked for that. He would never ask for that. After talking with the bar tender he insisted we pay for it. Bad time all around. Didn’t finish our beers and left.

Park tavern has been recently renovated with a fresh coat of paint. It is brighter and cleaner than before, and less of a dive bar. The kitchen is set up kind of unusual, but efficient. You walk up to a window to order food, pay for it, and the runner promptly brings it to you. Typical bar menu, reasonably priced, but it was very good, including the wings. In addition to the usual suspects, they always have 2 craft drafts on tap and a variety of craft bottles too, all inexpensive. Everyone, including the bartender, is local yet approachable for the most part, and you might run into a few neighbors from Palmyra and Riverton in there who will buy you a round. Nice porch to sit at in the summer. My picky wife even likes the place.
Returned for lunch one weekday. Call ahead as the kitchen is not always open.

If you’re looking for a great home town bar to just relax in and shoot some pool, this is the place. If you’re looking for crazy cocktails and off the wall beer, keep walking. They have a solid beer selection for people just starting on craft beer.
And they have great food. Smokin Js!

I grew up around the corner from this place. They use to have amazing pizza, but they don’t serve food anymore. The tavern itself has the smell I know all too well, which is sour beer, mold and bleach. It seemed like a bit of a pit.

I remember my Father taking into the Park Tavern for the first which was in 1969. I used to live in Palmyra from 1968 to 1973 and my Aunt still lives their down in The Harbour. I’ve been going to The Park Tavern for years now whenever I’m in Palmyra and its the best in town. The drinks are reasonable and the local crowd of regulars are friendly. In fact I met one of my best friends 7 years ago there. The bartenders Joe and Dave are really cool and the pizza at the bar is very tasty. So if you’re in Palmyra, stop at The Park Tavern. Don’t go to recently open Curran’s on Broad St, they’re more expensive and have $ 10 buckets and you only get 4 bottles and at The Park Tavern it $ 6 buckets and you get 5 bottles on Tuesday nights. Thats a much better deal.

The great thing about the Park Tavern is that, the whole time you’re in there, it seems like somebody’s mother is going to come downstairs, ask what the ruckus is, and chase you out. It’s just a relaxed place in Palmyra (which is just on the other side of the Taconey Palmyra Bridge, my Philly phriends) which clearly used to be a house. The bartender is friendly and is enthusiastic about his hiccup remedy. They do have some food, but it’s really a place to come and watch a game and have a beer. Maybe shoot on the pool table or throw some darts.