Sports Bar & Raw Bar · Hershey, PA
Penn Hotel Sports & Raw Bar is a Hershey, PA spot that mixes a wall of TVs and a game room with a genuine seafood raw bar and a mostly-regional craft tap list, sitting along the route between Hershey and the I-81 corridor near our shop.
Our take Penn Hotel sits in Hershey, on the way between the attractions and the I-81 corridor near our Grantville shop at Exit 80. If your car has been making a noise on the drive in or out, we are an easy pull-off on the route back north, and we are happy to handle the non-urgent stuff too.
The Penn Hotel does something most places only attempt: it is a real sports bar and a serious raw bar at the same time. There are roughly two dozen TVs for the game, a game room with darts, Golden Tee, and shuffleboard, and around fourteen taps that lean toward craft breweries from the surrounding region rather than the same national handles you find everywhere. The raw bar is treated as a feature in its own right, with oysters, clams, mussels, and steamed shellfish alongside a from-scratch kitchen menu. It reads as a place built for both a quick beer with friends and a full sit-down seafood spread.
The kitchen here keeps later hours than most, which is part of why it works after an evening event or a late game. Beyond the screens and the shellfish, the regional beer list is genuinely worth reading instead of defaulting to a usual order, and the game room gives groups something to do between innings. It sits on Old West Chocolate Avenue, an easy stop when you are already moving between Hershey attractions and the highway. It is the kind of late-night, something-for-everyone room that travelers and locals both end up returning to.
Open daily as of our last check, with weekday hours running late into the evening and Friday and Saturday service stretching to about 2 AM; the kitchen keeps notably late hours. Days and times shift around events, so call ahead or check thepennhotel.com to confirm current hours before a special trip.
Penn Hotel Sports & Raw Bar is in Hershey, PA. The map shows both pins — Penn Hotel Sports & Raw Bar and our shop in Grantville — so you can see exactly where it sits relative to us.
It is genuinely both. Raw bar offerings like oysters, clams, mussels, and steamed shellfish are a core part of the menu, served right alongside the bar food, the TVs, and the game room. Availability of specific items can vary, so it is worth confirming the current raw bar selection by phone or on their site.
The tap list runs roughly fourteen handles with a regional craft focus, favoring breweries from the surrounding area over the usual national labels, and it rotates. If a particular brewery or style matters to you, check their current list before heading over.
Yes. Beyond the bank of TVs, there is a game room with darts, Golden Tee, and vintage shuffleboard, which makes it a full-evening stop even when nothing big is on. Larger groups may want to arrive earlier to claim a spot near the screens during a popular game.
The kitchen keeps later hours than many area spots, which makes it a practical option after an evening event in Hershey. Closing times shift between weekdays and weekends and can change around events, so confirm current hours before counting on a late meal.
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Penn Hotel Sports & Raw Bar is an independent local business we feature in our guide; we are not affiliated with it. Details come from the business and public sources and were accurate at the time of writing, so please confirm current hours before visiting.