O'Donnell's Restaurant & Bar (est. 1923), formerly O'Donnell's 1923 Pub & Grill, serves up a menu full of American & Irish cuisine with global influences.
O'Donnell's Restaurant & Bar (est. 1923), formerly O'Donnell's 1923 Pub & Grill, serves up a fantastic menu full of American & Irish cuisine with global influences along with a full drink menu. O'Donnell's Restaurant & Bar's Happy Hour goes from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and runs all day on Sundays.
Likissa Hunde, an Ethiopian-born educator and economist who emigrated to the United States in 2009, purchased the Gloucester City, NJ corner bar from Irene Delimaris in July of 2015, and recently finished freshening up the nearly century-old institution by evolving the name to O’Donnell’s Restaurant & Bar, and bringing in New York-based Chef Darryl Harmon to conceive a cutting-edge new menu while tapping former Twenty Manning Grill sous chef Issaka Fofana to run the kitchen.
O'Donnell's also has locally-brewed craft beers and distilled spirits, as well as a "bar bites" menu. Many of the menu items include boxing references, paying homage to boxing legend "KO" Joe O'Donnell, the one-time lightweight Champion of the World, who originally opened his eponymous pub in 1923 while as a Gloucester City resident.
O'Donnell's seats 50 guests in the dining room, 70 in a banquet room, and another 30 at the bar (150 total) in a 4,800 square foot space, which is also able to accommodate up to 500 patrons for indoor/outdoor events that spill over into the parking lot. The restaurant sits right in the middle of Gloucester City, which has the third-largest Irish population per capita in New Jersey, as well as one of the largest in the country. The city, which was founded in 1623, is cited by many as the birthplace of rock and roll. Bill Haley & His Comets were the house band playing at the legendary Twin Bar for 18 months starting in the early 1950's, and are said to have modified their performing style while on stage there to an early form of rock and roll. Gloucester City is also home to the wedding of Betsy Ross, then Elizabeth Griscom, who married John Ross in 1773 at Huggs Tavern, which was torn down in the 1920's and is now part of what is Proprietor's Park.
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