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June 22-28, 2006

Eats : Food

Watering Hole

It's Where We Drink

The Thirsty Camel Saloon
1115 West Chester Pike, West Chester, 610-696-0959, www.thethirstycamelsaloon.com

After a hard morning's work, there's nothing like throwing back a brewski where everyone knows your name … and wears nothing but underwear.

Nestled in an anonymous West Chester shopping center, The Thirsty Camel Saloon finds boozers sidled up to frothy steins while moms push carts full of children into the ShopRite next door. Not that the TC regulars notice.

With a Lingerie Lunch that involves drink specials and female barmaids stripping down to their skivvies, all attention stays in-house. "For a humping good time," boasts the TC slogan, and it's right on the money. Part dive bar and part strip club, it sells its food cheap and its liquor cheaper—if you go, be sure to try a test-tube shot, administered mouth-to-almost-mouth by a scantily clad bartender.

As I attempted to take it all in, I found myself distracted by the ass smackings of a perky bartender. Not exactly a lure for the ladies, TC gives new meaning to the phrase "sausage fest." By day anyway. After 6 p.m., the 'tenders pull a Clark Kent and put their pants back on.

 
 
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