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From Yelp:


Woah! Mako's is CLOSED? What is this, the end-of-days? That bar was like a scab you think will never flake off. Best news all year. That place was a pus-seep. Hurrah!

Used to go in there countless times; just to stun myself with disgust. Uh, I love a good dive bar, unfortunately Mako's was not one. It wasn't a good dive first of all, because it was filthy dirty; the kind of wretched mess that comes from apathy rather than effort.

The atmosphere was ugly. Hey, I love dive bars where fights may break out at any moment; but the scabrous punks which hung out in Mako's were just pathetic putrid druggie losers; scum with vicious streaks running through 'em. All attitude and no fiber. The kind of guys who would pull a knife on you rather than duke-it-out man-to-man.

Drinks: much has been made (in this thread) of the shot-and-PBR special. $5? Go down to B&B's and get the same deal for $3.

The bottom line is this: Mako's is (was) a drug den. There's nothing worse than pathetic, drug-addled sad-sacks, in my opinion. Good riddance. It was a blight on that corner. A dive-bar with no self-respect in the same way that drug addicts have no self-respect: useless to everybody.

The one good thing I can say about the place: big barrel of unshelled peanuts free for anyone to munch on while drinking.

Sayonara, Mako's. If we never see you again..."that'll be too soon".


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Trashy. Shady. Drugs ALL OVER. A Good place to get into a fight and maybe get stabbed

Just an awful place to be. Anyone who says otherwise is too up their own back side to see what's going on around them. 49 cents is too high a price to pay to get aids


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You know it's going to be bad when 7 people give it a grand total of 7 stars. But I'll warn you further. This is by far the shadiest bar that exists in Philadelphia (at least for bars on streets that you're actually going to walk down). I know people who have almost been stabbed here!

The drink specials may look appealing, and Norman may appear to be an interesting character for the first 10 minutes. but be prepared to walk into a whole new dimension of trashiness if you walk in here.




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