Build-A-Mess Express is here! Create your own drunk bus featuring 10 Delco bars (Past or Present) & 1 place (Past or Present) to grab food during. Here’s what experts on the Flannel Panel picked for their school bus chauffeured shit show Saturday:
Hollywood
- Busty’s Tavern – For a pregame pitcher
- The Wave – Cause it’s The Wave
- Cawleys Irish Pub – Cause it’s the longest relationship I’ve had
- Maggie O’Neill’s – Was always the best on the Erin Express
- Tony’s Tavern – If only it was a Thursday and there’d be Roast Pork
- Dolans – For the finest of Delco Red’s (Blackberry Brandy)
- McGillicuddys Kirklyn – To stare at the Ducks softball trophy’s
- Trophy Tavern – to leave my card for an excuse to morning drink the next day there
- J.T. Brewki’s – for some Mind Erasers and Wildwoods
- Tumble Inn – to sing some Billy Idol for Karaoke
- Food: Mike & Emma’s for a Cheesesteak
Kerri
- Cawley’s Irish pub – the walls are pink and they serve fine drinks
- Busty’s Tavern – pitcher and a shot
- The Crossbar Havertown – class it up, heathens
- The Rusty Nail – live music that isn’t just “Whiskey in the Jar”
- Oakmont National Pub – Fancy
- Maggie O’Neills – represent Drexel Hill
- Trophy Tavern – keep repping Drexel Hill
- Marty Magee’s – cause it’s home of Delco 3 and 4
- 39 North – throw Glenolden some love
- J.T. Brewski’s – some nice parking lot beers
- Food: Staying at Brewski’s for some Fried Cheese Curds
Big Al
- Bungalow Inn – because this Clifton-ite bleeds flannel
- Hunts Annex – wings amongst other things
- Marty Magee’s – three bars for one great time
- Cawley’s Irish Pub – he heard there was roast beef
- Barnaby’s Havertown – bump n’ grind on the dance floor and pull something
- RP McMurphy’s – to relive his heyday
- Tom n Jerrys – he heard there was roast beef
- Barnaby Ridley – to stare
- Dolans – the Most Delco Bar, undefeated
- Lou Turks – he heard there was roast beef
- Food: Olympic Diner
Profitt
- Casey’s Drexel Hill – for the atmosphere
- Busty’s Tavern – for the atmosphere
- Cawley’s Tavern – cause they come up big for drunk buses
- Skippy’s – where else can you get hammered for $5
- McGillicuddy’s Kirklyn – R.I.P. “every day, every day…” – Bone Thungz N’ Harmony
- Maggie O’Neill’s – wings, and the free for all party upstairs
- Ivy Inn – to represent Havertown
- McGillicuddys Brookline – two floors of shenanigans
- The Lamplighter – feel that fresh carpet on the toes
- Barnaby’s Havertown – basically a stockholder there from back in the day
- Dolans – the service, the people, the Delco
- Food: Sam’s Boardwalk Pizza Havertown
Delco Jesus
- Dolans – the only place that lets him play music
- Hunts Annex – they fed him once, and he’s like a stray cat
- McGillicuddy’s County Line – he’s got memories
- Mickey’s Tavern – 80 beers available, not breaking the bank
- Marty Magee’s – cause he isn’t banned from there yet
- Cawley’s Irish Pub – because he’s Irish
- Tip O’learys – it’s a fine establishment
- Stingers Waterfront – for a beautiful view of the Darby Crick
- Leftys’s Irish Pub – finally, some love for Marcus Hook on this list
- Lou Turks – to buy Easter flowers
- Food: Llanerch Diner to sit in the Bradley Cooper/Jennifer Lawrence booth
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