Atlantic City Bar & Grill

1219 Pacific Avenue (at South Carolina Avenue)
Atlantic City, NJ 08401

Phone: 609-348-8080

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Fax: 609-384-8466

This, quite simply, is where the locals go when they want to escape the kind of people who read guides to know where to go (us). Chefs come here at 3 a.m. for garlicky-good white crab pizza. Casino workers, cops, college kids and conventioneers come to get messy on whole lobsters, polish off pitchers of Coors Light, sink into roast pork sandwiches, and play Bon Jovi on the jukebox. They don’t want to be bothered. But then again, they do, because the A.C. Bar and Grill—whose claim to fame includes a visit from Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie—sells draft Guinness in commemorative pint glasses, offers an impressive selection of promotional tank tops and sweatshirts, decorates with plasma-screen TVs advertising its specials on Alaskan king crab legs, and kicks back at Level Two—an upstairs, house-dancer-adorned nightclub replete with two DJs, leather couches, “specialty” cocktails, and a $5 cover for the guys.