Arch Street Tavern

Arch Street Tavern is a bar in Hartford, Connecticut. It operates as an event venue with a spacious outdoor patio, hosting live music and private functions including small weddings and fundraisers. The tavern serves a menu of salads, handhelds and other tavern fare, with sauces that include buffalo, BBQ, teriyaki, honey BBQ and cajun dry rub. Its signature item is a hand cut corned beef sandwich with sauerkraut, melted swiss and Russian dressing on grilled rye, alongside a hand cut corned beef and swiss on rye, a burger topped with American cheese, lettuce and tomato, a house-created never-frozen burger with lettuce, tomato and house made Arch sauce, and a BLT on rye, white or wheat toast. Salads come with mixed greens, tomato, onion, cheddar jack cheese and buffalo tenders with blue cheese dressing, with grilled chicken or burger available as additions. Handhelds are served with tavern chips, with fries or coleslaw available as additions. It holds a rating of 4.30.

The tavern occupies a building with its own history. The Hartford Brick Carriage Factory was built on the site in 1895 and manufactured buggies and carriages there until the automobile brought that business to an end roughly twenty years later. The building later served as a firehouse and a truck body shop before the tavern opened in 1978. Arch Street itself is one of Hartford's earliest streets, and the area around it was settled in the 1600s at the junction of the Connecticut River and the Little River, which is now the Whitehead Highway. The Reverend Thomas Hooker, known as the Father of Connecticut, lived on Arch Street very near the tavern's present site, and the Little River once carried barges bringing supplies into the young city.

The tavern sits on Arch Street in the Front Street Entertainment District, across from the Connecticut Convention Center and seconds from Route 91. UConn Hartford is about 75 metres away, and the UCONN Hartford Library is roughly 155 metres from the door. The Major John Caldwell Memorial Bridge is about 133 metres away and the Major Thomas Y. Seymour Memorial Bridge about 168 metres, with Columbus Boulevard and Pulaski Mall both around 170 metres from the tavern.

Its rating reflects positive feedback from the customers who have reviewed it.