Postgame Bar for Week #3 Determined, Due To Be Most Rad Postgame Festivities To Date

After two great showings at two somewhat surprisingly awesome bars for postgame softball drinking, we are going to keep it fresh again this week and change the venue up once more.

The lucky lady tonight is another Philadelphia classic — although one that is not exactly a household name among the young and hipsterific.

We're headed to the extremely venerable Cherry Street Tavern for some hot roast beefs and beer. The C Street Tavern is located just over yonder in the oft-overlooked Logan Square nabe of the city.

"More than a century old, Cherry Street Tavern is the friendly neighborhood bar you wish your neighborhood had.

It's the type of place where there's a pitcher of beer on special every night, where posters and accoutrements from various Philly sports teams line the walls, and where you know that a hot pulled-pork sandwich will be on its way soon after you sit down.

But this is no dive bar: Rich woods, an antique mirror above the bar and an atmosphere of (admittedly faded) gentility prevail. Generally packed with a mix of students from nearby Moore College of Art, neighborhood residents, after-work professionals and longtime regulars, the place really gets raucous whenever the Eagles are on TV.

If you're hungry, the carving stations by the door will help satiate you -- the roast beef sandwich is a house specialty."

So Cherry Street Tavern it is. We have a very, very good feeling about this one and highly encourage everybody to make it out. The Fightin' Phils will be on the telly. (So will the Flyers.)

To make it ultra-easy, we've even appended directions — from the game, to the bar, no less — below.

Cherry Street Tavern is at 22nd and Cherry and is probably the first bar that is physically possible to reach after re-entering Center City from Belmont Plateau. (So we've got that going for us…)

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Directions From Game to Bar:

Option #1 - BLUE - 76:

1. Take Montgomery Drive from field to 76 East entrance.

2. Take 76 East to 676 east

3. Merge left onto 676 east and then immediately exit right onto 23rd street

4. take 23rd street south two blocks until parking lot at 23 and cherry. park here and walk one block to bar at 22nd and cherry.


Option #2 - GREEN - MLK Drive:

1. Take West River / MLK Drive all the way back to the BF Parkway.

2. Get in the right (outside) lane of the parkway.

3. Make a right onto 21st Street, the first right you can make.

4. Look for Street parking on 21st Street down to Cherry Street.

5. Make right onto Cherry Street. Look for street parking.

6. bar is at 22nd and cherry.

Directions to Game #2 — Same Parking Lot As Last Week, Different Field

How rad is today going to be?

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Boss rad.

So we got the same parking lot as last week. Different Field.

Above is a live map concerning how to get to the game, where to park and which field we’re playing at. Click it to explore.

we'll be leaving at 5:00 sharp. so be ready.

As for directions, it is highly recommended that you take West River / Martin Luther King Drive and not the Schuylkill Expressway. (The Schuylkill is a nightmare and should be avoided whenever possible.)

The good news: I’m estimating your drive time following these directions at between 11 and 15 minutes. A veritable breeze.

OK. So from Center City you need to get on 22nd street going north. If you parked at 24th and sansom resist the temptation to jump on walnut and hop on the Schuylkill -- you’ll get stuck in traffic at 30th street before even getting on the expressway.

Instead, take 24th st down to locust street. Make a left. Take locust two blocks to 22nd street. Make another left.

And then follow these directions:

1. Go NORTH on 22ND ST toward Market ST and then past Market street all the way to the parkway.

2. Turn LEFT onto BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PKWY.

3. Follow Parkway around Eakins Oval until you get in front of the Art Museum Steps at which point you should be in the right lane so you can turn right onto West River / Martin Luther Kind Drive.

4. Take West River Drive all the way to Montgomery Drive (2.3 miles).

5. Turn Left onto Montgomery Drive. Take Montgomery Drive up the hill .3 miles. You will pass under the schuylkill expressway.

6. After you do, on your right will be a parking lot. (SEE attached map.) Turn right into said parking lot and park to your left.

7. Our Field will be directly in front of you.

8. Koozie-time.