Bond St.Asbury Park

Open until 1:30 a.m.

The bar top at Bond Street — bottles, a shot in a mason jar, and cash on the wood.

208 Bond St · Asbury Park · Noon to 1:30 a.m., every day

Asbury's OG dive bar.

Often imitated, never replicated.

Open

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01What this is

It isn't trying to reinvent
the dive bar.
It simply is one.

Every town worth visiting has an unforgettable dive bar. In Asbury Park, it's Bond Street.

Since 2010, we've been serving cold beer, classic bar food, and good company without the gimmicks. The burgers are simple, the beer is affordable, the music is loud and the atmosphere lands somewhere between your neighborhood bar and the best party in town.

Open daily from noon until 1:30 a.m., Bond Street is built on regulars, welcomes everyone, and has become a place people return to again and again, not because it's trying to be anything else, but because it's exactly what it is.

The Bond Street eye, hand-painted on a metal sign hung by chain over the sidewalk.
The signBond Street, looking up

02Beer & a shot

No cocktail program.
No garnish. Just this.

Beer comes first. Around here, every beer has its trusty sidekick.

A tall Miller High Life can beside a shot in a small mason jar on the bar.

High Beam

Miller High Life and a shot of Jim Beam. Champagne of beers? Now that's fancy.

Two Coronita bottles and a lime over a shot jar.

Tijuana Taxi

Corona and tequila. For those in the mood for adventure.

A can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beside a shot jar on the bar.

Dennis Hopper

PBR and a shot of thy finest house whiskey. Two American rockstars.

A settled pint of Guinness beside a shot jar.

The OG

Guinness and a shot of Fernet. The bartender's handshake.

03The board

A bartender pulling the A.P. Blonde tap, filling a mason jar at the brass tower.
A.P. BlondeMason jar, no ceremony

On draught

Guinness$7
Kane IPA$8
Birdsmouth$7
Allagash$7
A.P. Blonde$8
Modelo$5
Yuengling$4
Michelob Ultra$4

Bottles & cans

7 oz nips2 / $4 · 6 / $12
Stella · Heinekenask
High Life · Ciderask

Cash only at the bar

04Food

Burgers. Grilled cheese.
Two hot dogs in a basket.

The patty melt, cut and stacked, cheese pulling, pickle spear underneath.

Patty Melt$16

Bacon, fried onions, mushrooms, American cheese. The one people drive here for.

A burger on a brioche bun with lettuce, tomato and onion, pickle alongside.

The Burger$14

Lettuce, tomato, onion. Add cheese and bacon for special occasions.

A griddled American grilled cheese cut in half on butcher paper with a pickle spear.

Grilled Cheese$5

American on white. Five bucks will get you there.

Two hot dogs in a paper-lined basket, split and topped with mustard, relish and chopped onion.

Rippers$10

Two hot dogs. Zero regrets.

Also on the board

Chopped cheese, fried pickle chips, we threw a Hot Pocket in the fryer too (served with mustard.) Daily specials are always on the board. Stop by and see what's new.

Read the full menu Order online

05The Basement

There's always
something going on.

Friday and Saturday DJs. Hot Wax. Trivia. Sex Toy Bingo. The calendar changes, but there's usually a good reason to stop by.

Stay in the know

Coming up · August

Sat 1 DJ Caramel Thunder 9 pmThe Basement
Fri 7 DJ Moe Beatz 9 pmThe Basement
Sat 8 Jersey Shore Night 2.0 9 pmThe Basement

DJ Curtis Remarc

Wed 12 Trivia 8 pmCapitoline

Hosted by Tom Laing · prizes to the top two teams

Fri 14 DJ Partylord 9 pmThe Basement
Sat 15 DJ Wreck It Ralph 9 pmThe Basement
Wed 19 Hot Wax 8 pmBond Street

Thirty-minute all-vinyl sets, eleven DJs

Fri 21 DJ Partylord 9 pmThe Basement
Sat 22 DJ Tracker 9 pmThe Basement
Wed 26 Sex Toy Bingo 9 pmThe Basement

Hosted by Cu-Cum-Bear · free entry

Fri 28 DJ Spirito 9 pmThe Basement
Sat 29 DJ Caramel Thunder 9 pmThe Basement

06Block Party

Block
Party

10

Years running · Free · All welcome

Bond Street closed to traffic, packed shoulder to shoulder, a band playing at the far end.
The bar lit up at night with the street full of people outside.
The crowd under green stage light after dark.
Bond Street after dark during the block party, stage lights over the crowd.

2024

Black Flamingos · Electric Candlelight · The Mercury Brothers · Ribeye Bros.

2025 · 10th anniversary

Sunshine Spazz · DRKHRT · Dentist · Rachel Ana Dobken, with Hot Wax spinning vinyl between sets.

Next one

Saturday, September 12th. One p.m. to ten, ten bands, no cover, and Hot Wax spinning all day. Follow us on Instagram for the line-up as it lands.

07Gift cards

The Complex AP gift card — black, with Lotería's mermaid, the Bond Street eye and Capitoline's she-wolf printed in misregistered neon.

One card,
three rooms.

Spends here, at Capitoline, and at Lotería. Buy it in a minute, use it whenever — there's no expiry and nobody checks whose name is on it.

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