Finnigan’s Wake

Saw a mouse scurry across the floor while dining. Waitress said she hoped she doesn’t see it! Ouch. You decide.

So happy that this place may be closing for good. GOOD RIDDANCE

Dirty and the bathroom was gross but the live bands are decent and it’s a good place to go after a few drinks because then you are more unaware how dingy the place is.

The bouncers are extremely rude at this place. One of the bouncers tried to tell me that my ID was fake because he was too blind to see the hologram. He had me wait outside in the cold until he finished checking everyone else’s ID just to tell me he never said my ID was fake. Finally after being allowed in, a second bouncer tried to question my intelligence asking me if I had a brain. Extremely rude and disrespectful. I would strongly discourage people from going to this bar.

I hate this place and I’ll never go back there.
On St. Patrick’s day I went there, just after match day 2013, and was dancing with some other people who similarly were almost finished with medical school and had matched into a residency program. Well, around 9PM, one of the bouncer’s got the idea that I was drunk, and I’ll admit I was buzzed. He decided to kick me out. I told him I would leave in peace just let me gather my things. No, apparently that was too much to ask.
He started dragging me from one end of the bar to the other. He wouldn’t let me simply close my tab and grab my $ 189 dollar jacket. We get to the shady back door, where there is a stoop and six steps. I was literally thrown down the stairs. I landed on my hands and I was okay. So I started asking them to please just let me return inside to grab my jacket and my debit card because I had no money otherwise. No that was not possible. Okay so can you get it for me? «NO, I’m not doing anything for you!» They kept saying «do you want us to call the cops?» I said «go ahead!» I should have called them myself.
Finally, after thirty minutes of this back and forth, being pushed around by these assholes and yelled at by them and by the manager, I gave up and ended up walking home over a mile because I couldn’t get a cab with no credit card. And it was freezing out and I had no jacket. I returned there two or three times in the following days and never did get my jacket or my card back. Even met one of the owners one time and he didn’t do anything for me.
I’ll never return to this place. The bouncers are total douche-​bags, the manager is an asshole, and even the owners suck. It wasn’t even that fun. I advise you to steer clear of this poop hole.

I went here with 10 other people and had a great time. Bartenders were pleasant. This is an average party bar.

An awesome bar, with a lot of character, that’s always a fun place to hang. Live music every Monday and Saturday nights :)

Nothing real impressive about this place. Was really awkward at 9 pm on a Saturday when there were 5 people in this huge space. Kinda dark, not in a charming way. Beer was cheap enough We tried to come back around 11 and found a $ 10 cover fee. That did this place in for me for a while.

My friend and I drove up here on a Friday night to see the male strippers that are located downstairs. It was an experience.
We did eventually go upstairs to hang out. It’s an interesting mix of people, that’s for sure. The drink weren’t cheap (I’m not sure if it’s standard to pay $ 4 for a bottle of Yuengling in Philly, but in Baltimore the most I’ve paid for it is $ 2).
The place is big inside, and they have a dance floor. I guess it’s worth checking out, but I’d like to assume Philly nightlife has more to offer than this.

This place deserves no stars! I checked out this place last night after my bday dinner for karaōke. But ended up getting harassed about my TX ID after ordering a «double pineapple juice on the rocks with grenadine.» the bartender was sooo arrogant and rude that I didn’t want to stay there. He finally made my drink after I told my friends lets go. When he tried to give it to me, I told him I didn’t want anything from him, I turned around to speak to a friend, and felt something hit the back of my legs. The bartender actually threw the drink across the bar. I can’t beliehet is behavior the «manager» came around and didn’t even apologize, just told me to calm down that he would «take care of it». As the bartender continued to scream at me, about paying four dollars for the pineapple juice. We left and went to 12^th and Samson for karaōke and had a blast.

I do like it but now that I am older (and by older, I mean legal to drink) I hate when minors sneak in. At Finnegan’s, there’s always minors or ugly girls. Trust me, I know alot of the girls, I went to high school with them… ugly! ;)… So, I would go somewhere else. Also, it is a bit pricey and gets extremely crowded.

My 2^nd Saturday visit here and this is what I’ve come to a conclusion about Finnegan’s Wake.
What crappy joint of this caliber still charges cover? I mean, I pay the same here as I would in Old City but out there I’d get open bar with it. $ 4.50 for a Coors light, special, seriously Finnegans?
Is that hardcore tatted rocker singing a Michelle Branch song? I guess you gotta give props to the guy if he can switch from rapping Biggie lyrics to singing Lady Gaga in perfect harmony.
I give it an extra star because of the horny single mid 30s careered women who love coming out and cougaring on us young professionals.

Finnigans was my old stomping ground for when I was 23 and going back to visit should have a disclosure attached to it. Finnigans is the perfect hot spot if either of these apply to you:
You are 21 – 25
You are looking to dance and party
You are prepared to fight through crowds of people
You are single or okay with getting grinded on
You are ready to stand in a line to use the bathroom
You like cover bands
You are showing up before 11 pm, otherwise you may wait in a long line
You are a bachelorette
You are an amateur drinker
You have cash for the cover charge
That pretty much sums it all up. Having fun depends on your personality and how much you’re willing to put up with. The coat check line is a breed of animal that no one can deal with — 1 am and there was one elderly lady gathering every coat that walked in the bar. Ugh… really?!? That lady killed my buzz. See ya next lifetime, Finnigans because my old stomping ground is better off as a memory.
Honorable Mentions:
McFaddens is next store if you decide to leave.
There are 3 floors to Finnigans.
It is easy to flag a cab.
The drinks are on the weaker side of things so PRE-​GAME, kids.

Kind of rundown, cheap drinks, live bands, decent DJs, and a lotta tail.
Too bad I never went there single.
LOL

If you are interested in the college crowd, drunk chicks who can barely stand, a bar that smells like vomit, young guys who think they can dance but really can’t, patches of drinks spilled all over the floor and pay a cover charge to get in then I have found your place!
For me, no thanks. It was awesome and I mean tremendously awesome people watching. Entertaining to say the least. One and done. No other reason to ever go back.

1.5 stars.
It’s big. It’s plain. It has a stage. It reminds me of the bars I went to when I was in college. The downstairs has good hip-​hop music but everyone stays on the main floor and «rocks out» to whatever band is playing there. At least the drinks are cheap (ordered 2 pineapple vodkas & a miller for $ 9).

Well, this is pretty much the place college kids go to on a Friday night to get trashed.
For the small price of 10 bucks, you get unlimited drinks and food… except they take the food away an hour in but I guess it doesn’t matter because you’re probably gonna be 9 drinks down anyway.
I wouldn’t go here on a regular night but it’s definitely a good & cheap place to get started on the weekend with a good group of friends.

For this review I wish I could pull a Craig Laban and give them no stars. This place is the WORST place in Philadelphia, and makes sure to stuff as many of the most terrible people from the metropolitan area in one place.
If you have no intellect, and are down with wearing miniskirts that could pass as belts when the windchill is below zero — this is the place for you!
The only reason I EVER ended up there was because I was in college with a girl who I was going to room with for a study abroad program. She somehow got me to comply to go there with her for a drink. I ended up not even saying goodbye and ran down the street to N. 3^rd to escape the madness. I couldn’t handle being surrounded by what was within.
On another note… a few years after this terrible experience, I ended up living around the corner from this terrible bar. Every night this flea bag establishment had a «college special» I would wake up to idiots screaming at their girlfriends and peeing on the front steps of Green Street.
I really wish this place would be shutdown already.

— very much a college bar
— offers live music and/​or a DJ depending on the day and hour
— closes at 2am
— accommodating staff
— drink specials throughout the evening

All the frat boys flock to Finnigan’s once they turn 21. Instead of a keg, there’s an actual bar. If that’s your thing, you’ll love it.
I didn’t.