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Restaurants

Should Philly Restaurants Add Auto-Gratuity During the World Cup?

       Listen to the audio edition here: Over the course of 39 days in June and July, amid all of our semiquincentennial festivities, more […]

City Life

Philadelphia Bar Bans Conservative Columnist Over Offensive Comments

Listen to the audio edition here: Late in January, in response to the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE […]

Restaurants

Prominent Potential Buyers Line Up for McGlinchey’s

Okay, to be frank, we are not entirely sure what the hell is going on at this point with McGlinchey’s, the legendary and legendarily smoky […]

Restaurants

Philly’s Favorite Irishman Offers Some St. Patrick’s Day Advice

In 1994, a young man from Ireland known as Fergie staked his claim on an Irish pub on Sansom Street in Center City. Thirty years […]

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Restaurants

A Comcast Exec Left This Philly Bartender a $1,000 Tip on a $47 Check

When an NFL star left a 20-cent (as opposed to 20 percent) tip at P.Y.T. in 2014, I exposed his utter rudeness. And when a […]

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Restaurants

Fergie Is Out at Monk’s, Will Take Over Oh! Shea’s on Sansom Street

Thursday turned out to be a rather pivotal day in the life of Philly bon vivant Fergus Carey, known to most simply as Fergie. In […]

Restaurants

Fergie’s Is Throwing a Party for Its 23rd Anniversary

Fergie’s Pub, one of Philly’s great bars, has been around for 23 boozy years. To celebrate, they’re throwing a party and debuting some new happy […]

City Life

One of Us: Fergus Carey

My name is … Fergus Carey, but I play the role of “Fergie” in the City of Philadelphia. Fergus was a wise and sexy king. […]

Restaurants

Dear Guinness: Here’s How Not to Debut Your Crappy New Guinness Nitro IPA

Dear Guinness, On Tuesday around noon, I received an invitation “to be among the first people in Philadelphia to try out Guinness Nitro IPA” at […]

Restaurants

Fergie’s Beach Returns on May 20th

Last summer Fergie’s Pub opened “Fergie’s Beach” next to the Sansom Street pub. The “60-seat beer garden and asphalt paradise” will return on Wednesday, May 20th […]

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Fergie’s Pub Is Celebrating 20 Years

On Friday, November 28th, Fergie’s Pub will officially be 20-years old and the bar is celebrating all weekend. The fun starts tonight with Live Band […]

Restaurants

Fergie’s Opens a Beer Garden

Fergus Carey has announced across social media and good old email that he is doing what “all the cool kids are doing” and opening a […]

City Life

It’s Not Patty, It’s Paddy — St. Patrick if You’re Nasty

In the name of all that is good and holy in this world, please do not order an Irish Car Bomb this weekend. For the […]

Restaurants

Celebrate Fergie’s 19th Birthday Tonight

Fergie’s Pub, the popular Irish pub of Fergus Carey has been in business for nineteen years at 1214 Sansom Street. Celebrate with them tonight, starting […]

Restaurants

Halloween Fun at Jose Pistola’s

Jose Pistola’s co-owner Casey Parker loves Monk’s Cafe and its proprietors Tom Peters and Fergus Carey. So much so he’s offering half-off beers for anyone […]