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34TH STREET Magazine February 13, 2013 Dining Guide<br />
10<br />
WHISKEY ‘N’ GO GO<br />
Trestle Inn offers a whiskey–fueled disco escape from the Penn bubble<br />
BY ZEKE SEXAUER | PHOTOS BY ZEKE SEXAUER<br />
I<br />
was a little worried when<br />
our taxi dropped us off at<br />
what looked to be a crack<br />
house in the no–man’s–land<br />
between Chinatown and<br />
Northern Liberties. “I mean,<br />
I like to let loose as much as<br />
the next guy, but when you<br />
said we were gonna have<br />
fun tonight, I thought you<br />
meant get drunk, not shoot<br />
up heroin,” my friend said<br />
worriedly. “Whatever. Senior<br />
year! YOLO!” yelled my other<br />
friend.<br />
Because the Trestle Inn<br />
is located north of the Vine<br />
Street Expressway, it seems<br />
out of the way and hard to<br />
reach. But it’s actually only<br />
a few blocks away from Chinatown,<br />
making it the perfect<br />
spot to hit up after your<br />
friend’s birthday BYO at<br />
Charles Plaza.<br />
Inside, the crack house<br />
theme continues with a decor<br />
that can best be described as<br />
"Trainspotting" meets "Aus-<br />
tin Powers," but in a good<br />
way. Projectors screen vintage<br />
footage from 60s flicks on the<br />
raw, unvarnished walls. Near<br />
the bar, an old sign from the<br />
days when the Inn was a strip<br />
club begs patrons to “please<br />
commit no nuisance.” “I’ll<br />
try,” I think to myself, “but I<br />
make no promises…”<br />
The mirrored shelves behind<br />
the bar boast an impressive<br />
collection of whiskeys,<br />
the Trestle Inn’s specialty.<br />
The beer list is equally impressive,<br />
but lots of bars in<br />
Philly have impressive beer<br />
lists, so when in retro–funky<br />
Rome, do as the retro–funky<br />
Romans do and order a whiskey<br />
sour—it’s reasonably<br />
priced ($9 regularly, pitchers<br />
for $18 and only $6 during<br />
happy hour) and quite delicious.<br />
They also have an impressive<br />
bar menu, featuring<br />
“Sweetish” meatballs with a<br />
sweet whiskey sauce ($6).<br />
While the whiskey selec-<br />
TRESTLE INN<br />
Northern Liberties<br />
339 N. 11th St.<br />
(267) 239-0290<br />
DON'T MISS: Anything with<br />
whiskey.<br />
SKIP: Having a bad 'tude. This<br />
place has go-go dancers.<br />
$$$$<br />
tion here is definitely top–<br />
notch, what really differentiates<br />
the Trestle Inn from any<br />
old bar with a solid cocktail<br />
list is the dancing. You know<br />
those nights when you want<br />
to go out dancing, but you<br />
just don’t feel like grinding<br />
your junk into someone else’s<br />
trunk (or vice versa) to Top<br />
40 remixes at Rumor? Those<br />
are the nights that Trestle is<br />
for. The DJs stick to a repertoire<br />
of '60s and '70s disco,<br />
funk and soul (don’t bother<br />
asking for any Taylor Swift,<br />
I already did and they don’t<br />
have it). Professional go-go<br />
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dancers—and the occasional<br />
drunk girl—get the crowd<br />
going on light–up platforms<br />
around the dance floor.<br />
I’m generally wary of<br />
any genre of music that has<br />
such close associations with<br />
bell-bottomed pants and<br />
platform shoes (with the ex-<br />
k<br />
ception of the Spice Girls,<br />
of course). But with a fun<br />
crowd, friendly atmosphere<br />
and a few drinks to loosen<br />
me up, the funky disco music<br />
and dancing made for a fun<br />
and atypical night out way<br />
off campus.<br />
DINING GUIDE:<br />
because mcdonald's doesn't have<br />
whiskey and go-go dancers,<br />
does it?<br />
get ya nom on, kids.<br />
(or check out food porn at<br />
34st.com)