My spouse and I stopped at The Pour House (also known as P.J.’s
Pour House) for a drink on a Sunday afternoon in early June 2016. The Pour
House is open for lunch, dinner, and drinks daily. Reservations are not
accepted. There are three Pour House locations: North Wales (Montgomeryville),
Exton (previously Cheeseburger in Paradise), and Westmont NJ. In addition to
the three Pour Houses, the PJW Restaurant Group owns a total of 14+ locations of P.J.
Whelihan’s; a steakhouse called the Chop House (Gibbsboro NJ), and Treno
Pizza Bar (Westmont NJ). Parking for the Pour House is available in a dedicated
parking lot.
The North Wales location of The Pour House, which opened in
the fall of 2015, transformed the space previously occupied by Romano’s
Macaroni Grill from an Italian restaurant into a sports bar/music-themed
restaurant. The restaurant is located in a stand-alone building in the Airport
Square strip mall shopping center, directly across Route 309 from the
Montgomeryville Mall. High ceilings add to the spacious feel of the restaurant,
which features open concept seating with booths, high-top tables, and regular
low-top tables arranged on two levels (one level is just a step up from the
other level). In addition, 20+ flat screen TVs (one of which lists the beers on
tap, including their alcohol/ABV content), record album/LP covers on the
ceiling over the U-shaped bar, framed photographs of musicians on walls, and other
music posters above the raised section of the dining room decorate the space. The
property is expansive, seating over 200 people at a time. Live entertainment is
available on certain nights of the week. The bar offers over 100 kinds of
bottled beers and 40 drafts (all craft beer).
The menu sounds interesting, offering better-than-average
pub/bar food; some of the items that we plan to try are the deviled eggs, pigs
in a blanket, arugula flatbread, pierogis with caramelized Guinness onions,
goat cheese fritters, fish tacos, adult grilled cheese, and fried s’mores
dessert.
We wish that we had been able to dine at the Pour House to
accurately review it, but we saw enough to know that we will return the next
time that we are in the area (or more likely, at their Exton location).
