Entice Your Inner Kid at Philly Bar With a Focus on Fun
Going out with your friends as an adult is supposed to be fun, but the reality is that good time comes with a high price and a lot of hassle. In Philadelphia, getting into a decent club will cost you around $20 at the door, to say nothing of drinks, and will usually involve dancing around in a pair of uncomfortable shoes. What ever happened to having a blast the way that kids do? Concourse Dance Bar, open at 1635 Market Street on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, is the cure for the common bar. With a retro arcade, great drinks, bangin’ music, and a FREAKING BALL PIT, this Philly bar is the hangout you didn’t know you were desperately seeking.
0Come for the ball pit, stay for the low cover and great music at Philly’s most fun adults-only club, the Concourse Dance Bar.About the Concourse’s ball pit: it’s the bar’s highlight feature. It’s loaded with over 100,000 translucent pink balls, and inner tubes and other inflatables are scattered atop it like a swimming pool. The pit is cleaned out once a week – no worries about the sanitation issues in the McDonald’s ball pit that 90s kids remember – and swept for lost items, most of which are cell phones. Rose Brownell, marketing manager at FCM Hospitality, which owns Concourse as well as other notable Philadelphia hotspots Morgan’s Pier, The Dolphin Tavern and Craft Hall, says that cell phones frequently escape guests’ hands and pockets, and are near-impossible to retrieve at that point. The bar is looking into some sort of wrist lanyard situation to alleviate the problem, says Brownell.
There’s more to this Philly bar than just a ball pit. There’s also the fact that cover is $5 on Friday and Saturday nights, and that there’s a happy hour from 5-7pm on Friday featuring $3 well drinks. The music is an eclectic mix of 80s, 90s, and current chart-toppers, and the dance floor is always packed. It’s as great a place to bring your squad as it is a venue to meet new people.
“People come for the ball pit, but you stay for the dancing and the music,” Brownell said. “The ball pit is really awesome and great to get a picture, but everything else about this is so great that I don’t think it’s a one and done club. You want to come back.”
