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Walking Tall and Speaking Easy

02 April 2013 Rachel McDevitt

How to get yourself in the coolest underground bars.

Bartender Miki Neuman works at the Union League of Philadelphia. She has had more than 30 years of experience in the industry. | COURTESY MIKI NEUMAN

Snapshot: Miki Neuman

02 April 2013 TJ Creedon

With 30 years experience, Neuman has served multiple celebrities.

Junior legal studies major Alex Salter has bartended for eight months at R2L, a restaurant in Center City. He went to bartending school in Allentown, Pa. | KATE McCANN / TTN

Snapshot: Alex Slater

02 April 2013 Rebecca Zoll

Junior legal studies major Alex Salter bartends at a Center City bar.

Thompson: Bartender gets served memorable customers

02 April 2013 Chelsea Thompson

Thompson recalls notable suitors – both the flubs and successes.

City’s modern speakeasies offer nostalgia, exclusivity

02 April 2013 Rachel McDevitt

Mystery and complex cocktails surround Philly’s speakeasy bars.

Sugar’s, located on Church Street in Old City, began putting candy bowls throughout the bar when it stopped allowing patrons to smoke inside. | ABI REIMOLD / TTN

Old City’s Sugars offers sweet deals

02 April 2013 Jenelle Janci

The quirky basement bar at 225 Church St., offers a fun, youthful interior.

Located at 1114 Frankford Ave., Barcade blends the worlds of draft beer and arcade games without a cover charge. The bar is available to host special events and parties. | IAN WATSON / TTN

Barcade scores with customers

02 April 2013 Kevin Stairiker

The Fishtown bar draws a variety of patrons for beer and arcade games.

Beer and billiards offered in Old City

02 April 2013 Kevin Harkins

Buffalo Billiards in Philadelphia’s Old City offers games, beer specials and a game-day hangout.

Margarita happy hours

19 March 2012 Meghan White

As the weather warms, seek out the best mixes of triple sec, limes and tequila that the city has to offer. The impending warmer weather signals a change around Philadelphia, as people on Main Campus

Our picks: bar food

19 March 2012 The Temple News

You’ll find more than nuts and pretzels on the bar at these places. The Abbaye 637 N. 3rd St. Don’t let the name scare you off, the Abbaye – pronounced “Abbey”– at 637 N. 3rd