Bonk’s Bar and Grille

This place is a joke. They have a sign that says they have crabs and they don’t. A full seating area and no one cooking. The bartender was a rude insulting hag who has an attitude problem. This place is absolute trash I didn’t even wait to see if there food was decent. Don’t go here if you actually want to eat or drink you’re wasting your time. Really, don’t go here.

I furthered my karaōke career here. I came here only a few times. The K-​DJ had an Ok song selection. Yeah I don’t drink so sprite with cherries all night and of course water. Met a really cool & talented lady friend here who is still a friend until this day. She asked me why do I come so far and arwnt there any bars with karaōke where I am at? I told her, the atmosphere here seemed a little more pleasant. I am just looking for the type of environment I want from a bar especially to karaōke. This was experience at Bonk’s. Never ate here.

Bonks USED to have good crabs, but since they changed hands, their crabs suck & are WAY over-​priced. Can’t really get good crabs in Philly anymore since Boncela’s closed. Damn shame.
EDIT:
Went back here on 1/20/2013…other than seeing old friends that I haven’t seen in a while,(we chose this place as a gathering point) there was not an improvement over my last visit. I know it’s winter, but how does a «crab place» NOT HAVE BLUE CRABS??? All they had were snow & king, which we had to settle for. Could’ve went down the street to another establishment that starts w/​the letter B & gotten blue points… also, here’s a question… HOW DOES A BAR RUN OUT OF DRAFT MILLER LITE, arguably the most popular beer on the planet? (They did have bottle & cans, but that’s not what we wanted!!) NOTE: There were 3 taps out of commission on HOCKEY SATURDAY, not just Miller Lite! There are how many beer distributors in Philadelphia that they could’ve gotten a keg or 2out of? Inexcusable… Also, 2 of our party left early & put $ 20 on our table to help defray the cost of the check; the rest of us went outside to smoke, & lo & behold, when we went back, the $ 20 was gone… my buddy inquired to our waitress as to where the twenty went, & it materialized in her shirt pocket. «I didn’t want anyone to walk away w/​it» was our response. Well, we weren’t leaving, so did she think this was a tip? And, the service was atrocious. SSSSSLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWW as hell. Really wasn’t that crowded, & it’s bar food… our 1^st order of food took some time,(and it was average a @ best) but I ordered a 2^nd order of snow crabs, & they took ½ an hour to arrive. Crabs take 10 minutes, & that’s tops, & the crowd had thinned by then, so what the hell took so long? Overall, I was glad I got to see old friends,& maybe it was just a bad day, but too many inexcusable things happened; I figured I would give them another shot, but after all this, you won’t see me here anymore. Godawful.

Clean, casual, friendly. Food is ok.

Bonk’s is a local’s local bar. Came here for an Eagles game one Sunday, the place was filled with lifers from around Port Richmond, customers and employees.
We came for crabs. #1 blues were about 7 dollars each. There was a special on for what they called rock crab, at two for 4 dollars. These crabs came cleaned and split. They had the same shape and flavor as a dungeness crab, except smaller and with black tipped claws. I can tell these came in frozen and reheated, but they were good nevertheless. Blue crabs are served dirty (whole, delicious «mustard» and all) with or without a pool of Bonk’s juice; a briny, spicy boiling liquid that sends the sea bugs to their graves. Then they were all washed down with dollar pints of Bud Light (shitty light beer is the only beer to have with crabs). And to top it off, the fries stay impossibly crisp forever. No joke.
Maybe the lukewarm crabs when served were an issue, but I can’t remember. All I can recall is a bright white light followed by shell fragments everywhere.

Sticky, licky, sucky, messy, dirty and wet. There is something better than sex for sale in Port Richmond, and no, it’s not heroin.
Bonk’s crabs. Blue crabs in insanely spicy briny murky seawater were the best I’ve had in Philly. They were delivered less than hot, which irked me straight off, but were so tasty I forgave it.
Fries were crisp and well-​seasoned, with a side of melted white cheese that smoothed out the hot heat of the crab broth.
Wings were good, of the well-​done school. Not the best thing on the table, but respectable.
Deep-​fried beer battered crab nuggets were hot grease perfection, dipped in a side of tartar sauce.
Dinner for three with a beer each, four jumbo $ 8 crabs and many fried basket things was $ 23 each. Better than sex, but you still need a shower afterwards.

Bonk’s is a Crab Paradise…
perfectly seasoned crabs, coupled with good fries, pitchers of cold beer… the check wasn’t bad considering I was with 5 other people and we had a few rounds of shots as well…
the only thing missing were bibs, but we managed to keep the crab squirtage-​spillage to a minimum…
and we went on a Weds., it was also karaōke night…