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We love when people come and eat and drink with us and we love it even more when they enjoy themselves. But if you've got a blog, enjoy our company and food and beer AND you want to write about us, we'll bro-hug like awkward friends. Cereally.

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It's been a good couple of weeks for Philadelphia. The Flyers are doing great, the Phil's are on a roll, the Kimmel is out of debt, we're keeping The Gross Clinic in Philly, hell, we even voted OUT a guy under federal investigation. Now if I could just get a fucking win in Quizzo...

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While you were getting busy in your "Marriage Bed" at the compound or being bitter and shooting guns, we were having a blast with Quizzo. I mean, sure the pope gets to wear an awesome cap and gets carted around in a fancy bullet proof thing, but is seeing an ex-Nazi in a mu mu chit-chat at a stadium worth getting worked up over? My hungover blahg after the jump...

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In our first year of existence, we've been voted the trendiest by Fox News, the best nightlife spot by Yelp and even had a shout out to our bathrooms by City Paper and now Philly Weekly voted us in the top 50 bars in the city. We only got to 41 but shit, we've only been open for a year. I don't know about you, but that calls for a drink or 6. Cheers!

Adding to our list of ever-growing accolades, praise and other forms of exaltation and glorification; we won the Philly Yelper's Award for Best of Nightlife. Thanks to all the Yelpers for your reviews and business and you are more than welcomed back for another Yelp Happy Hour, just as long as we get great reviews. Haha, just kidding...but really...I'm not.

This New Years you can celebrate in one of two ways. You can go to a bar that will charge an enormous cover, feed you well drinks and shrimp cocktails to make you forget you dropped $50 to get into a bar that is normally free, give you a glass of champagne at midnight and send you home to cry yourself to sleep, or, you can come to National Mechanics where there is no cover, our great everyday deals and all your friends. So ring in the New Year with us, your friends and no stupid cover. We'll be setting trends all night.

SPECIALS!!!!

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In our tireless effort to bring all things good your way, National Mechanics presents The Miracle Fruit!!!

Maybe you've heard about them on NPR, in the Wall Street Journal or even Wikipedia. The small berry fools your taste buds into thinking all things sour taste as sweet as sugar. It's pretty amazing, imagine eating lemons that taste like lemonade or Guinness that tastes like a milkshake...

Come by and try our Miracle Berry sampler. For $10, while our short supplies last, you'll get one Miracle Fruit, a sampler of sour fruits and a drink of your choice. You'll be impressed, I swear... Again, we don't have a lot of these, they're only available for a limited time only, as supplies last.

"an oasis of punk-rockish unpretentiousness..."

"... succeeding magnificently at being what the website describes as: 'A place designed with real folks in mind and molded by time, our hands and the hands of many before us...'"

The Philadelphia Weekly has a review of National Mechanics in their current issue.

All around good guy "Mike" deserves a round of applause, he stole two of our infamous pint glasses, but, wait, that's not why he deserves it.

Details after the jump.

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