Pompilio's

Electric trolleys no longer click-clack past the front door, nor do stagnant spittoons rest beneath the bar’s front rail, but for over a century customers have been frequenting the establishment known, since 1933, as Pompilios.

This bar and restaurant combination at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Washington Avenue in Newport, Kentucky has hosted the full gamut of humankind: celebrities and the undiscovered, mobsters, bookies, and gamblers, (sports) players, birthday and funeral parties, slinky dancing girls and rotund cab-riding tourists from Cincinnati, the third shift on its way home in the morning and the late night lonely crowd headed wherever. The restaurants at this location have survived wars, Prohibition, raids, depressions, and a family of owners who simply ran out steam, the glitzy invasion of Hollywood movie makers, fires, and citywide utility breakdowns. There have been good times and bad, but six or seven days each week for years on end, Pompilios has been there for the hungry and the thirsty, the dating and dated.