New Deck Tavern

Food: 3.5
Décor: 4
Ambiance: 5
Service: 4.5
Value: 3.5
Perhaps my review would be different if visiting while school was in session, but we had a great time sitting out on the quiet patio out front enjoying our reasonably priced food. No outrageous menu choices or anything that stood out as amazing, but affordable with a nice atmosphere is usually sufficient for me.

This place was located right near our hotel and we were in the mood for Irish pub food so we headed here. THE BEST BANGERS AND MASH!!! Crispy on the outside and tender inside. The mashed potatoes were so flavorful. The onion gravy was to die for!
My daughter got a salad/​soup combo and loved the salad. She had arugula and a lot of other mixed greens. The loaded baked potato soup had a great flavor but the texture was a bit off.
The service was fast and friendly!
All in all, we loved it and it made our trip!!!

Spinach, strawberries, goat cheese, grilled chicken, candied walnuts with raspberry vinaigrette. .DELISH.
My man had the fish and chips. He gave it a 9 out of 10.
Friendly and fast service. .overall great service.
We will definitely come again

Nice pub look and feel, with a decent selection of brews, with heavy emphasis on Irish (including about 6 different Guiness combinations). Which made it weird when we asked for a description of two of the local brews and got a deer in the headlights look from our server. She literally had no clue so went off to ask and came back with a report that «they’re kind of weak.» !!! What kind of response is that? Quite possibly a college student, and I have a soft spot in my heart for working students, but being that clueless while working in a pub is just inexcusable.
Turns out the beers we ordered were fine, but can’t speak as positively for the food. I had the crabcake sandwich and it was a darn good sized crabcake, but nothing to write home about. Not the worst I’ve had certainly – it wasn’t fishy, nor was it dry and hard; in fact, it was actually TOO moist and fell apart from a lack of body. But it was also kind of tasteless – about all I got was a slight spicy flavor; could have been crab, could have been ground up tilapia from all I could taste. My wife picked the Irish Chicken Curry, which is hard to evaluate – what in the world is the «standard» for that? We both love curry and this was the oddest (though not the worst, by far) version we’ve ever had. The chicken was extremely tender and the sauce was tasty; I guess it was the cubed carrots and peas on top that made it «Irish»; they certainly seemed like frozen rather than fresh, but otherwise OK. For being «Irish» it was slightly odd to be served on rice (and rice pilaf at that), but why in the world does it come with a half-​dozen tortilla chips stuck in the curry?
But the biggest let-​down was our server. Not only was she clueless about the beer, but she forgot that I had asked for curry fries and when I asked why a side of curry was included on the bill, she said, «well, didn’t you ask for curry on your fries?» It was nearly vacant this evening and she spent most of her time chatting with her co-​workers, so there’s not much excuse for not checking to make sure my order was correct when she delivered it. She also forgot the tartar sauce that the sandwich comes with, and then forgot for 10 minutes that we’d asked for a box for leftovers. Other reviewers have commented on good service, so maybe our experience was unusual, but overall I suspect there are better choices in the area.
Overall, I’d give our experience a «2» but I’ll assume our server was an exception and bump it up to a «3» since I can’t give a 2.5

Malibu bucket is really delicious! Very sweet, i can’t taste any alcohol. I think it has sprite, Hawaiian punch, pineapple juice, and malibu. The quesadilla appetizer is also great.

I’m pretty new to Philadelphia, and I’ve just turned 21 last July. I haven’t been to many bars since, but I decided to go into here after my class one night to watch a Flyers game. I was also lucky, because representatives from the Phillies were there and I got some free Phillies stuff.
The staff is very friendly and I had a few beers and a plate of wings while I watched the Flyers get a much needed the Capitals on a Wednesday night.
The beer selection is amazing, and I love English beer, and they have both Boddington’s Pub Ale and New Castle Brown Ale on tap. They also have the obvious Irish beers, Guiness, Smithwick’s, and Harp Lager. The best thing about it is the prices are very reasonable. Boddington’s isn’t the best English ale, but for $ 5.50 it’s the best I can get after being to England twice when I was 18. I really wanna come back and try the fish and chips.
The prices are very reasonable as well. They have the basic beers for around $ 4, and they have a 50 cent wing night. The wings are extremely spicy and messy, but also very big and very good. I definitely wanna come back here, especially whenever my friends from Delaware come up and when the Flyers are in the playoffs

I was searching for food at 10:30pm on a random Monday night and found this place was still open close to the hotel I was staying. The menu is very typical of bar food so I ordered a burger.
When I stepped in around 11 it seemed like they had Monday night trivia with a couple of tables participating… Interesting.
I walked up to the bar to pick up my burger and luckily it was already ready and waiting for me. The burger was HUGE. I could not eat the whole thing… there were also a lot of fries… and all for only $ 12… The bacon and shoestring onions helped elevate the burger, but it was on the greasy side. It’s not bad for a late night burger!

I came for for a dinner date with my friends. It was our first time.
I ordered the Reuben sandwich and fries and it was okay. The corned beef was just a glob and there was a lack of veggies. I was disappointed. I expected more portion and taste wise. My friends who ordered burgers are pretty happy with their order.
The service was mediocre. Our server was running from table to table and didn’t really acknowledge us most of the time.

Weird and unpleasant lowlight of our recent vacation to Philadelphia. After several hours of doing a walking tour around the University City area we spotted this place around 3PM and decided to stop in for a drink and a pause before continuing on.
The place was basically empty, and a few moments after stepping in we were «acknowledged» by a snotty, arrogant waitress who made it clear she couldn’t stand the sight of us. She then proceeded to go out of her way to make it difficult for us to get any information about what the establishment had to offer and to simply place an order for a couple of drinks.
By allowing the service workers in this place to vent their hostility on customers the management is doing neither these workers nor the business any favors. The workers in the New Deck Tavern desperately need basic training in food/​drink service topics including how to interact with customers.

Have been here a few times, and the experience has always been positive. The bar is situated very close to penn and drexel so the vast majority of people in there are of college age or maybe a bit older. As such the beer prices are very reasonable for the area ($ 4-​$ 6).
What really surprised me and I guess keeps me coming back is how quick and nice the bartenders are. Even though its on a college campus and it gets busy every time I have been there, they are always quick to take orders when your drinks are running low. They arnt self absorbed, on their phones all the time, or acting like they are doing you a favor when they take your order… which seems to have become more and more the norm at many bars in this city.
The kind of push their trivia night here, ive gone a few times and its good, however the odds are stacked against you as you will be playing teams of half a dozen ivy league kids, so make sure you either come with big, well rounded team, or you really dont have a chance of making the prizes
Overall for university city (a place with surprisingly small number bars compared to the large number of young people living there) this has become one of my preferred spots

Well-​priced food and drinks. College bar with an adult feel. Had the nachos and the salmon BLT sandwich. The sandwich was ok, but the nachos were excellent.

New Deck is pretty good!
I came here with a friend, surprisingly, for the first time — even though New Deck sits basically on Penn’s campus in University City. I ordered the chicken tender club, which came with a side of hot, crispy fries. The chicken was covered in just the right amount of batter and overall made for a solid sandwich. The bread was surprisingly soft (in a good way). My friend got the flaky cod, which looked like a pretty big portion. Prices are decent (not super cheap, but not too expensive as well).
Service was friendly and pretty fast, even though there seemed to be a good number of people seated at the time I was there.
Overall, a good place to grab a bite — need to come back to check out their drink specials some other time!

I’ve been to New Deck 50+ times in the past 7 years, and I can say that it deserves a solid 4 stars.
Service can definitely be hit or miss depending on who you get. With that said, I would say that I’ve gotten good service much more than bad service in the past 7 years that I am still a frequent visitor to New Deck. THAT is saying something.
Now, while I am one of those oldies who reminisce about the good old days where they pretty much had $ 5 late night menu with everything you could ever want and awesome fries with those thin fries that were definitely more awesome than the awesome fries of today, I would still recommend the following items:
— philly cheesesteak eggrolls: they are surprisingly really yummy!
— new deck burger
— veggie burger
— awesome fries (not as awesome as before but def still awesome)
— FISH N CHIPS
— chicken tenders
— potato skins
— turkey cobbler special that emerges during thanksgiving time (NOMMMMMM)
The only thing is that i am not the biggest fan of their nachos.
They have great happy hours from 5pm-​7pm (affordable beers — it was great when I was in undergrad, and it’s still great now that I’m in grad school) and late hours starting 10pm (food at 11pm).
I used to come to here on a weekly basis probably a year straight for their Quizzo nights — Mondays & Wednesdays at 10pm! The Quizzo is fun, especially with drink specials! Fun fact: this was where Philly Quizzo was born!

Food gets a full 5 from me.
Service was slowwww 3*
First things first — y’all’s menu? Is an American menu with half a dozen Irish themed entrées. No appetizers that are vaguely, no stew or even some home made Irish Wheaten bread or anything.
Secondly, when you tell your customers you have magners, tell them it’s the PEAR cider. Magners original is not pear, it’s apple cider and while I was fully open to drinking the pear version, I was BURSTING for some original Magners. That’s all.
I ordered the fish and chips — with curry fries instead of normal fries, cause curry fries are in my veins.
Aside from the teenie tiny little side of curry sauce (like ketchup sized) I was bowled over by how delicious the dinner was. Ok, so fries are fries and not home cut chips like what we get at home, but the fish was incredible, portion size excellent and when they finally brought me more curry sauce, I had the best curry chip I’ve had since leaving Ireland.

New Deck is a comfy casual spot near campus with decent food and beer. I mostly go for their happy hour to get $ 5 appetizers and $ 1 off beer. Some of the appetizers offered are chicken quesadillas, cheese (awesome) fries, nachos, and chicken tenders. The food isn’t stellar, but it’s not bad for a quick bite and a drink after work. Mostly not a huge fan of this place because the service has been pretty awful the past 3 times I’ve come here. The bartender is friendly but not the most attentive guy — we tried signaling for a refill for a good 10 minutes before deciding to pay the bill and leave. Another time, our server mixed up our quesadillas for nachos and also brought us the full price regular fries instead of the $ 5 awesome fries we’d ordered — didn’t even apologize. Needless to say, not the biggest fan, but it is a convenient and fairly cheap place for a quick get together.

Newcastle Brown Ale and a Black Velvet (beer/​cider mixture) were quite good here. We were here around 10 or so on a Saturday and it wasn’t too crowded but had enough people to have a good atmosphere. We sat on a high top table near the bar and had a good time. Service was prompt. I found the outside of the building to be quite pretty, and it is seconds away from the Inn at Penn!
There is not much to say as it is mostly a standard Irish pub. Very nice and good! Solid.

Pricing isn’t bad, food is average. Staff is borderline abrasive, rude and unhelpful. The guy manning the front door (checks IDs and sometimes manage seating) does a good job of consistently making it a sour experience. Whether it’s his abrasive comments, general unwillingness to help, or his constant scowl, I question why I come here each time. He seems generally disinterested in providing any level of customer service.
They have live bands on Friday nights, bands are decent and very accomodating. However they are turned up loud enough for the whole tavern to hear them and yet the wait staff will put you right next to their speakers so that you can’t even hear yourself think.
Servers generally are nice but I have come across some that were not happy serving large groups. Location is great and it seems that they get enough foot traffic in the area that bad reviews don’t do much to change things which is sad because there is so much potential. Food is very average but that’s easily fixable. Attitudes and etiquette are hard to change if there isn’t a demand for it. If you want to feel like a paying customer… I would avoid this place until they fix things with their wait staff.

Come here for happy hour and enjoy their $ 5 appetizers and $ 1 off select draft beers!
or even better… come here for their late night specials after 11pm Sunday-​Thursday and enjoy an even greater selection of $ 5 or less appetizers/​entrees. I highly recommend the New Deck burger which is included in the selection during this time but NOT during happy hour. The way they make their burgers is comparable to any high quality restaurant, and in my opinion, better than Bobby’s Burger nearby.
Overall, above average food for prices comparable or lower than many other neighboring restaurants. Main qualm is that I wish they would bring back the french fries they use to have which were crispier and seemingly double fried. Waiters fluctuate alot here, pointing towards the lack of good service sometimes experienced when I am here. Otherwise pretty spacious place, numerous T.V.s, with downstairs seating — although I recommend staying on the first floor since it seems crammed downstairs.
As always, remember your I.D.

I’ve come here on multiple occasions and have been appalled by the service. The first time, we reserved the downstairs area for a private event, yet for some unknown reason we were told to find our own seats upstairs. Our group had to be split into multiple tables, with no apology. Finally, about 10 appetizers and 1 hour later, we were told the downstairs area was finally available for our reserved use, but by then, half our party had left due to the absolute disappointment in the event and venue.
So after New Deck ruined our first private reserved event, I somehow ended up having to return for a birthday party, and was treated with similar minimal regards. This time we wanted to be seated upstairs, but were herded like sheep to the basement, where they thought it was appropriate to shove LITERALLY every Asian patron that evening.
A few weeks later, another birthday event was held here, so I dragged my feet over back to this place, and third time’s a charm, was finally treated like an actual human being. Now, since I didn’t have the bitter taste of horrid service in my mouth, I could actually try tasting the food. Verdict? Just as horrible as their service; fries were soggy, soup tasted like it came out of a can, and nachos were stale.
For the life of me, please do not host another party at this place because I wish to never return.

Delicious late night burgers and specials starting at 11 PM, and the ambiance gives off a casual, sporty vibe. I like their cocktails, especially the Shirley Temple, but the last time I came here they had run out of all the cocktails I wanted to try for the first time. I ended up with a Skinny Lemonade, which tasted a bit powdery and didn’t have much alcoholic content. The fries are delicious though, as is the New Deck Burger, and for $ 5 on late nights it’s a steal!
Wednesday nights quizzos are a bit hectic, and the last quizzo game I played dragged on for longer than I wanted to. The servers were also really frazzled trying to keep up with a booked restaurant so my table couldn’t get our waiter’s attention easily.