The Pub in south Jersey is closed for the summer
By: Big Joe Henry | Published: 2025-06-20 19:22:00 | Source: nj1015.com
When you walk into a restaurant with stained glass, dimly lit tables, it is a walk back into another time.
The Pub in Pennsauken is that place.
It has that feeling, it has the smell, and certainly the ambience that has made the restaurant an institution since 1951, when new owners took over a 1930s restaurant and bar called Neil Deighan’s.
Neil was a local personality known to the people of South Jersey. Neil sold the restaurant to three families that went into business together. They named the original restaurant The Pub and opened two more locations in Philadelphia with the same name.
In 1960, there was a catastrophic fire, and The Pub in Pennsauken burned to the ground. The owners rebuilt in the same location and eventually reopened. In the 1980’s the other two Philadelphia…
