The Bullpen--Tyrone

Oooooh the Bullpen.  This place is offically the Tyrone Watering Hole.  Primarily a sports bar, the Bullpen does have good food HOWEVER, they also have painfully slow service.  I'm not sure whether to hold the cooks or the wait staff accountable, but I have a feeling that it is a combination effort.  If you do not have a significant amount of time at your disposal, you should go elsewhere.  If, on the other hand, you want to watch whatever sport happens to be on ESPN, drink a couple of beers, and see your waitress in 30 minute increments then you're golden.  Friday night gets pretty crowded (it's the only place in town) so plan for no food service after 9 and a rowdy group.

This only happens if you're lucky.  The real fighting goes down at RJ's.

  If you're there before eight any day of the week you can meet Skip--Tyrone's Appalachian Royalty.  Truly a hilarious/offensive storyteller, Skip is pretty entertaining.  Just don't tell him if you lean a little to the left.  Ok, back to the food.  They have a pretty standard sports bar menu--wings, deep-fried food, pizza, sandwiches, burgers, etc.  The burgers are money, but some of the "salads" and sandwiches are tricky.  I ordered a Chicken Salad salad the other day which seemed like a good idea.  From that sentence, I think you can deduce that it wasn't.  Half of the fun at this place is meeting the locals and having a long, relaxing dining experience.  There's a lot of fun Joe Paterno memorabilia and other random celebrity photos to oogle while you wait for service and they have an internet jukebox (!).

Wow.  He's old.

As far as beer goes, there's Yuengling on draft and they just got Shocktop Belgian White, snazzy, in the bottle.  The selection isn't great, but it's not bad either.  If you go, tell Skip I say, "Hi."


Favorite Meal to date:


FRENCH DIP
Slices of roast beef wedged between garlic bread with au jus.


The Bullpen
Washington Avenue & 3rd St
Tyrone, PA 16686
(814) 684-1992


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