These Halloween bars make for a frightfully fun night out around Philadelphia

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From spooky cocktails to frightfully delicious dishes, the Halloween season is great time for a night out around the city. https://6abc.com/post/fyi-philly-october-18-2025/18020085/
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>> the Red Room theater inside the Curtis
Center has been transformed.
>> My sisters putting the Sanderson sisters
center stage.
>> I think I'm coming alive again.
>> It's a kind of parody of the Hocus Pocus
movies.
>> My sisters and I will be performing
songs and dances.
>> Spooky season is so much fun for us.
>> It'll be just like the good old days.
>> Oh, the good
>> back in Salem.
>> It's an interactive show where guests
can make their own potion.
Mai,
>> there's Sarah's love potion.
>> Everyone is going to fall in love with
me when they make this drink.
>> Mary has a drink.
>> The crackling cauldron dust
>> and Winterfred's concoction tastes
better than it sounds.
>> Then the slime of a home.
>> The show lasts about 90 minutes.
>> Love to see people, of course, to make
them happy and set their life force.
Yeah. So very good.
>> Boom.
>> Happy Halloween.
>> Nightmare Before Christmas at Craftsman
Rose Saloon is bigger and better than
ever.
>> Everywhere you look, there is a
Instagram moment.
>> There's a list of carefully curated
cocktails.
>> The dragarita
>> that comes with vampire teeth and the
sangria is served with a ghostly jello
shot on top.
>> He moves a lot. The eight-legged sipper
is an old-fashioned with an edible
spiderweb and candy spiders on top. And
the blood bag is perfect for a happy
hour transfusion.
>> They flip this little tab down and it
just fills like that.
>> The food doubles down on the creativity.
>> The sandworm stromboli has pepperoni in
it.
>> Jack Skellington is carved into the
stuffed peppers and the smash burger is
a monster meal.
>> Frightfully delicious. The milkshakes
are a trick and a treat.
>> We have the body parts right there.
>> The scary movie shake has props and
candy and the graveyard is mint
chocolate chip ice cream with an RIP
cookie.
>> We want them to feel a full Halloween
experience.
>> This is just the start of the seasonal
fun for the Craftsman team.
>> This is through November 1st and we
immediately go into our Christmas popup.
>> Evil Genius is taking the evil part
seriously this fall.
>> The tap room of horrors. It's the first
time the Fishtown Brewery has gone full
fright mode.
>> The fully immersive experience.
>> The fog filled space is wallto-wall
creepiness.
>> Seven different sections throughout the
tap room itself.
>> There's a spooky hallway with clowns.
>> This is like a little nightmare circus.
>> An entire section devoted to dolls.
>> You have Annabelle. You have Chucky. You
have the nun.
>> And some of the scariest characters ever
invented.
>> This is the Kings of Fear section. All
the things that kind of haunt your
dreams
>> along with more than 250 scary movie
posters.
>> Our wall of horror.
>> The award-winning beers can come in
blood red.
>> We have a Black Widow margarita with
fresh blackberries.
>> And there are test tubes and syringes
filled with flavors.
>> We have our Jackal and Hide Jello shot.
>> The menu is packed with Munchable
favorites.
>> Gives you that kind of all-encompassing
experience when you go out with your
family. Cheers.
