There will be a grand opening and we will keep you up to date on construction and dates. We have already been in talks with several local groups, including the Gryphons rugby team.”īoxers expect to be opened in June in time for Philly Pride if everything goes according to plan. celebrating his new status as an openly gay man at one of the most famous night spots in West Hollywood. Boxer Yusaf Mack KOd the closet last night. Gay Bar 66 301 1:55 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF EXCLUSIVE OUT AND. “We sponsor several sports teams in NY and want to do the same in Philadelphia. Gay Bar Ex-Boxer Yusaf Mack Throws Coming Out Party. They are working on large sepia images of local athletes on the walls to give it a true Philadelphia feel.Īnd while Boxers hasn’t even broken ground, Rob is already reaching out to the gay community. The second floor will have several new pool tables and their infamous brick oven pizza ovens.
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I made a lot of friends and have always loved Philadelphia.”įor those not familiar with the New York bar, Rob told us to expect a sports bar atmosphere, snack foods, bar foods, a full bar and large screen TVs showing the latest games. The new bar will be located at 1330 Walnut Street.įor Rob, Philadelphia has a special place in his heart, “I was on the gay softball league about 15 years ago – on the Bike Stop team. With two successful locations in New York City (one in Chelsea and one in Hell’s Kitchen) owner Rob Hynds will be bringing his bar to Philadelphia. But we are also excited for a new addition to our family – Boxers Sports Bar. The community is patiently waiting for the massive improvements in Tavern on Camac (the inside has been gutted), for iCandy’s renovations to the Lava Lounge and Liquid Lounge, and of course the new lighting system at Voyeur. NYC has so much more breathing room (however the increased snob factor is the downside).The gayborhood is constantly growing and changing. The community in Philly is very small, stuffy, and almost cult-like since everything is centered in a 5 block radius, especially with the Stonewall sports stuff.
Off topic: I know I am comparing to NYC again, but I wish Philadelphia had more gay options that aren't exclusive to the gayborhood. I used to like U bar and Knock, my friends and I would be the youngest people there, but it has a chill vibe. I know the bouncers though so I was always able to pop right in and avoid the line. It does get irritating that gay bars are now cool for straight people. I haven't been out in Philly since last summer, but I do know that Woodys is becoming more straight/ drunk college girl crowd on Saturday nights. The Boxers in HK has an awesome roof deck. Boxer PHL has been "building" a roof deck since it opened 3 years ago. The owners basically slapped fresh paint and dimmed the lighting on Hokkaido's interior, but that's OK by me because I liked its '70s contemporary design. My trip to Philly went on well as I moved to other bars, but I’m betting Boxers has great potential and I either missed it or it is yet to come. This is EXACTLY what the criticisms of gay guys center around so I am hoping this was a one off. Toasted Walnut, the newest addition to the Gayborhood bar roster, I've only been in once. Perhaps, I just hit Boxers (no pun intended) on the wrong day. Boxers is supposed to have a deck at the back of its My preferred Gayborhood go-to spots are Tabu, which has had a "no attitude, everyone's welcome" policy since the day it opened, and Boxers, largely because I like the staff and it's right on the way to Walnut-Locust station from most of the places where I do business on that side of Broad Street.
It follows complaints of racism in Gayborhood venues catering to LGBTQ customers, which came to a head in late 2016 after a video showing ICandy bar owner Darryl DePiano using racial slurs appeared. However: Woody's main floor downstairs feels to me like a generic college-town bar now, and the upstairs "Suite" looks to me like a strip club minus the strippers. Owners and staff of 11 Philadelphia gay bars and clubs are being required to take a crash course in the city’s anti-discrimination laws. The Weiss brothers, who own both Woody's and Voyeur, are the good-cop/bad-cop duo of Philly gay club owners, but they do run good operations. Not that I'd been going there all that much anyway, but the one thing I do miss about that place is its roof deck. I've not set foot in iCandy since that smoking-gun video surfaced last fall.
Woodys is also in the process of adding a roof deck for warm weather.