Bar-Ly Chinatown is a sports bar at 11th and Cherry, where Chinatown meets the Pennsylvania Convention Center. It pairs an unusual combination for the genre, 60 draft lines and more than 30 screens with Asian-American pub food, and bills itself as Chinatown's dedicated game-day room.
The address is 101 North 11th Street, steps from the Convention Center and a short walk from Reading Terminal Market. The Infatuation reviewed it as a Chinatown sports-bar option, noting the rare overlap of a serious TV setup with a kitchen that goes beyond standard bar fare.
The setup is built for watching games. More than 30 large screens carry NFL packages across the room, so Eagles Sundays and big fights pull a full house, and the 60-tap wall gives the beer list far more range than the category usually bothers with. Yelp files it squarely under sports bars.
What to order is a draft off the wall and Asian-American pub plates. The 60 lines cover local and import options, the kitchen runs dumplings and wings alongside burgers, and happy hour is a known draw. Pricing is mid-range, which suits a long afternoon in front of a game.
The room is a big two-level sports bar dressed with screens in every sightline, loud on game day and calmer midweek. It is laid out to seat groups and keep every table on a TV.
The crowd is a game-day mix of Convention Center visitors, Chinatown regulars and Eagles fans, swelling on Sundays and event nights and thinning to a relaxed local bar the rest of the week. Reviews flag the screen coverage and the beer range as the repeat reasons to come.
Best time to go is a game day if the goal is the full sports-bar roar, or a weekday happy hour for the taps without the crush. Big Eagles games fill it early, so arriving ahead of kickoff is the safe move.
The appeal is the combination: a proper 60-tap, 30-screen sports bar that also sends out food worth ordering, in a part of the city short on dedicated game-day rooms.
For more of the city, see the guide to the best bars in Philadelphia and the roundup of sports bars in Philadelphia. For a Spectrum-side comparison, look at Xfinity Live.
The cross-cultural setup is the hook. Bar-Ly pairs a full sports-bar build, more than 30 screens and 60 draft lines, with an Asian-American kitchen, which The Infatuation flagged as the unusual selling point in a category that usually stops at wings and nachos. The result is a game-day room that also sends out dumplings.
The location does a lot of work. Sitting at 11th and Cherry where Chinatown meets the Convention Center and Reading Terminal Market, it catches conventiongoers, downtown workers and Eagles fans in the same room, and the 60-tap wall gives the beer list far more range than the genre tends to bother with. Yelp keeps it filed squarely under sports bars.
Timing changes the experience sharply. Big Eagles Sundays and event nights pack the two-level room early and loud, while a midweek happy hour is a calmer way to work through the taps. Reviews repeat the same praise, the screen coverage and the beer range, and the same caution, that game days fill fast, so arriving ahead of kickoff is wise.
Against the city's other game-day rooms, Bar-Ly's edge is that combination of a serious TV-and-tap setup with a kitchen worth ordering from, in a Chinatown stretch otherwise short on dedicated sports bars. A complex-side option like Xfinity Live trades on scale and proximity to the stadiums, while Bar-Ly offers the downtown alternative. Related: best bars in Philadelphia, sports bars in Philadelphia, Xfinity Live, sports bars.
