North Wales: The Pour House (June 2016)



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).



 

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