Posted by Arthur Etchells on November 28th, 2012
This is the fourth year I’ve run the Foobooz Top 50 Bars list, taking over after Philadelphia Weekly ran a similar list in 2008. A list on which I contributed.
The mechanics of the ranking is modeled after that Philadelphia Weekly list. Ask a bunch of writers, bloggers and other assorted bar hounds for their top ten bars. I’m not sure how mathematical Philly Weekly’s list was after polling, but I’ve kept mine to a formula.
And that formula is as follows:
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Posted by Foobooz on November 26th, 2012
We’ve posted the 2012 Best Bars in Philly list and now that we have had some time to let the list soak in, here are some interesting facts and figures about the Top Bars list.
- 14 first time bars made the list.
- Alla Spina had the highest ranked debut.
- Welcome back to Doobies and McMenamin’s, neither had made the list since 2009.
- Biggest jump, Frankford Hall jumped up from 41 to 10 in its first full year.
- Farmers’ Cabinet saw the biggest drop falling from #9 to off the list.
- Standard Tap, South Philadelphia Taproom and Pub on Passyunk East have been in the top 10 each year of the list.
- Beer dominated the top ten spots but cocktails are a priority in at least seventeen of the establishments.
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Posted by Foobooz on November 26th, 2012
We’ve done it again. Foobooz has polled a panel of writers, bloggers, noted drinker types and others whose opinions we respect to assemble our list of Philadelphia’s Top 50 Bars for 2012 ranked 1 through 50.
We’re once again impressed with the way the list has turned out. There is a bar or three for every occasion, whether it be fraternizing with a dozen friends, reconnecting with a digital buddy from the 80s or looking for a new companion.
For each of the top bars in Philadelphia we provide some praise, a pro’s tip or a quote from one of our panelists. Check out the list and tell us what you think in the comments or on Twitter via our #50BarsPHL hashtag.
Best Bars in Philadelphia 2012 [Foobooz]
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Posted by Foobooz on November 3rd, 2011
For the third straight year we’ve polled a panel of writers, bloggers, Twitterers and others who play a part in Philadelphia’s bar scene for the Foobooz Top 50 Bars in Philadelphia list. As curators, we like this list. It has a bar for every occasion and spans the spectrum from cocktail lounge to dive an back again.
New this year we offer a Foobooz tip for each bar on the list. Hopefully these make your visits even better. Check out the list and tell us what you think.
Foobooz Top 50 Bars [f8b8z]
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Posted by Foobooz on November 8th, 2010
Our 2010 Top 50 Bars list sure has gotten some attention. Visits to the site has been up 63% since we published the list. Here are some other numbers we’ve pulled out:
- Six bars on the list face Passyunk Avenue.
- 14 bars are located South of South Street.
- TJ’s and Teresa’s Next Door were the only two suburban bars on this year’s list
- 21 bars made the list that weren’t on last year’s Top 50, including the number one bar, Franklin Mortgage.
- 6 cocktail bars make the list.
- We count 11 spots where beer is the primary draw including 2 brew pubs.
- Number of comments complaining about hipsters, five.
- Number of panelists who self-identify themselves as hipsters, zero.
Top 50 Bars [f8b8z]
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Posted by Foobooz on November 4th, 2010
We’ve once again polled a who’s-who of Philadelphia’s drinking scene, asking writers, bloggers, drinkers, commenters and others to give us their top bars in the Philadelphia area.
There’s a new top bar for 2010 and  it fits in with the overarching trend of 2010, the cocktail is king. Five cocktail bars make their way into our top 17, pushing out gastropubs, dives and wine bars as they do.
Check out the full list and the map, we hope you find the list interesting and it spurs you to check out some new places.
Top 50 Bars in Philadelphia 2010 [f8b8z]
Top 50 Bars 2010 Map [f8b8z]
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Posted by Foobooz on September 18th, 2009
Our Top 50 Bars list certainly has created a lot of conversation, mainly focusing on who we left off. The comments are still going strong and several other sites, including contributers to the list have followed up with their own analysis.
Joe Sixpack gives his list with comments and highlights some of the deserving bars that didn’t make our list. Lew Bryson also provides some good talking points, even if he doesn’t reveal his list. And the Top 50 even gets a thread on Beer Advocate where it is decried by some as being “hipster-centric.”
Top 50 Philadelphia Bars [f8b8z]
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Posted by Foobooz on September 16th, 2009
Philadelphia is a city of bars, dive bars, neighborhood bars, gastropubs, wine bars, beer bars, hotel bars and a host of others that defy categorization. The Foobooz Top 50 Bars touches on all of them. See if your favorites made our list.
Top 50 Bars [f8b8z]
Top 50 Bars Mapped [f8b8z]
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