Pop-Up Christmas Bar Serving Yuletide Drinks In Philly

PHILADELPHIA – Looking for Christmastime drinks and bites? Look no further than Philadelphia's pop-up bar Tinsel.

The aptly-named spot at 116 S. 12th St. will open Dec. 6 through New Year's Day, marking its second season after opening for a few weeks back in December 2017.

Hours are 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 2 p.m. to midnight Wednesday through Friday, noon to midnight on Saturdays, and noon to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

Tinsel is brought to you by the folks behind BRU Craft & Wurst, Cinder Copper & Lace, U-Bahn, Uptown Beer Garden, Kontrol and Finn McCool's Ale House

Tinsel will serve up themed drinks such as Let it Snow, white combines Jim Beam Double Oak spiced bourbon and maple syrup, and Through the Candy Cane Forest, made with vodka, peppermint schnapps, and white chocolate liqueur.

Tinsel will also have several beers on hand, most of which are in line with the Christmas theme, and wines.

One drink in particular stays very true to the holiday spirit. For $13 you can get the Canned Good cocktail, made with vodka or rum with cranberry and cinnamon, and $1 will be donated to MANNA.

Happy hour specials are available Monday through Friday 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. with $2 off select craft beer, Winter Wonderland cocktails and wine. Additionally, during Happy Hour, professional "mall" Santas will enjoy their first drink for free when they "drop down the chimney" in full Santa attire and show credentials. Mall Santas in full attire will drink for half off all other times.

A full list of drinks is featured below.

This year's iteration of the bar features a giant custom four foot tall chandeliers made from packages, icicles and ornaments, a nine-foot tall Gingerbread house, a Santa's throne perfect for selfies, and music curated with help from Mr. Christmas XPN's Robert Drake.

Tinsel will close the season with a special New Year's Eve Party and New Year's Day Celebration, but details on those events have not been released.

Cocktails

• Canned “Good”: Choice of Deep Eddy’s Vodka or Bacardi Cuatro with cranberry and cinnamon; served in a custom Tinsel custom soup can you can take home as a souvenir
• Rockin’ A Rye the Christmas Tree: Tree Northbound Rye, Luxardo Cherry, holiday spices
• Deck the Halls: Malfy Blood Orange Gin, St. Germain, sparkling water
• Holiday Sangria: Dekuyper Red Apple, white wine, cranberries
• Through the Candy Cane Forest: Pinnacle vodka, Dekuyper Peppermint Schnapps, white chocolate liqueur
• Gingerbread Man: Northbound Rye, housemade gingersnap syrup
• Classic Eggnog: Christian Brothers Brandy
• Let it Snow: Jim Beam Double Oak, maple syrup
• Thin Mint: Fernet Blanco, Borghetti Espresso Liqueur, Slushi
• Visions of Sugarplums: Served hot or cold, Red Bull Plum, cinnamon, Cruzan Spiced Rum
• Hot Chocolate: Choice of Stillhouse Mint Cocoa or Barcardi Coconut
• Hot Apple Cider: Choice of Barcardi Cuatro Rum & Dekuyper Red Apple or Evan Williams Honey Whiskey
• Hot Toddy: Jim Beam Toddy
• Tinsel’s Snow Globe: Grey Goose La Vanille, white cranberry; drink comes in Snow Globe with edible snow
• Maker’s Mark Stocking Shot: Maker’s Mark, whipped cream; custom glass stocking designed by CCG, dipped in signature red wax from Maker's Mark
• Neat X-Mas Ornament: Jim Beam, custom CCG ornament to take home for your tree

Draft Beer

• Tröegs Mad Elf
• Sly Fox Christmas Ale
• Sierra Celebration Ale
• 3 Philosophers Ommegan

Wine

• House Red Merlot
• House White Reisling

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