Neighborhood: Old City - Society Hill
Parking: Street parking only.
Handicap access: Not wheelchair accessible.
Handicap access: Not wheelchair accessible.
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Former gritty rock-and-roll bar's top-notch craft-beer lineup is joined by a new, inspired Southern menu.
The little brown bag arrived at our table at the Khyber Pass Pub mottled with grease spots already soaking through. Oh, so inviting. Spice-dusted popcorn spilled out, and the billowy white puffs glistened with rendered Benton's bacon fat, a smokehouse glow so incandescent, so dangerously magnetic, that even the early resisters at our table - the ones who first crowed "ewww!" - could be seen reaching guiltily back, back, back into the pile for more.
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Cuisine type: Barbecue; Cajun; Creole; Southern
Meals Served:
Lunch - Mon. thru Sun.
Dinner - Mon. thru Sun.
Late Night - Mon. thru Sun.
Style:
Old City's classic rock-and-roll beer bar has been revamped, spruced up, and given a Southern makeover, with some of the best New Orleans-inspired cooking this town has ever seen, plus respectable barbecue, and a serious craft-beer list, too, paying homage to the bar's pioneering beer-scene roots. The dangerously addictive bacon-grease popcorn - so bad, but so good - may be the best reason of all to visit.
Specialties:
Khyber gumbo, gumbo z'herbes, short rib chili special, bacon-grease popcorn, boudin balls, fried green tomatoes, po-boys (roast beef with debris, fried shrimp, fried catfish), crawfish etouffee, pulled pork, BBQ brisket, onion rings, "big-ass" biscuit, smoked duck cashew peanut butter and pepper jelly sandwich, bread pudding, sweet potato creme brulee.
Alcohol:
Craft beers anchor the large, brew-centric drink program, with a dozen great blackboard choices on draft (from Easton's Weyerbacher to Norway's Nøgne Øcq), and 70-plus top-notch international bottles. There is also a significant list of bourbon and ryes, with worthy twists on classic brown-spirit cocktails.
Weekend noise:
The downstairs bands are gone, but it's still a bar. Expect a 90-plus decibel din. (Ideal is 75 decibels or less.)
Hours: Entire menu served daily, 11 a.m.-1 a.m.
Reservations: Recommended
Prices:
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