Jd & Meyers Best Friends

They now serve food at the pub since the edgewater is gone. Lots of choices on the menu. Burger was really good and so were the chicken fingers. Everything was really fresh.

This place is the best dive around. They have awesome food and ridiculously cheap drinks (although it’s cash only). The service is awesome, and you can always meet some fun characters sitting at the bar :)

other than the lame angry short brunette (5 foot 110 lb) LOSER from Manchester at the pool table w/​the snooty dyed– blondish gf, it’s GREAT
Avoid that little moron who takes your quarters and insists you play pool w/​HIS table that he walked away from (to smoke) and you’re good to go
Arty knew how to calm the idiot and make us happy so we enjoyed our outing at this place, as we always did.
Thank you to the entire staff, we love your fries

i didn’t think mexican could get worst than the Edgewater or Acapulcos, but alas it can. The waitress let me customize my order and helped me save $ on guac by adding it to my boyfriends order (he got it free I would have had to pay). But man was this some bad food. The place was pretty dumpy looking too.

Okay, I liked Edge Water in Salem. I was so sad to see them leave. It left this big gapping hole for mexican food. So, I made the trek from Salem to Gloucester to come, to what I thought was the original Edge Water. The menu was pretty close to the same, but the food was not. The staff, took their sweet time coming to our table (it was us, two people, and one other table, EMPTY RESTAURANT). The food, was watery… really it was a soupy mess, I got burritos, watery is not what you want.
Not going back…

I would recommend this bar to anyone looking to spend a depressing evening with some highly disturbing characters. What is the most depressing aspect of this bar? Great question. Let’s start with the clientele. Most people in J.D. and Meyers Best Friends, Inc. drive a monster truck and wear their work boots out on a Saturday night. How about the environs? Truly appalling by any standard. And the service? This is the one true bright spot, as Arty the One Man Party shines in his role as ringmaster of this circus. But overall, you are better off drinking at home, by yourself.

Kudos to Sita on this review.
Not only are the life-​size cardboard models sexy, you should see the bartender. Arty is quite the lady’s man. — poors a mean drink, too.
But don’t ask for a drink after closing time… Arty is not only easy on the eyes, but a stickler to following the law… and don’t try and pour yourself a drink either, as you will get tossed.
Finally, upon leaving, don’t forget to watch out «for the men in blue» as you head to the Old Timer’s Tavern for a good old fashioned bar fight.

A gem, this one. Nicest bartender around — they serve a weird drink called the «Bombsicle» that comes out of a bong… I’ve never tried it — probably tastes like bong, i mean bomb. There are life-​size «sexy» cardboard models with bikinis on, inflated toy trucks hanging from the ceiling, keno at every table — what more could you ask for? The building itself is like an airplane hangar — one of those «build it in 3 days» type places, and it works… Very high ceilings, 2 pool tables, an internet jukebox, way way way too many plasma tvs, and a projector so you can watch a 40 foot Manny (on special occasions). There are some very interesting characters that hang out here as well. It’s usually not very crowded — except around the holidays/​big games, I think. Keep in mind the bar time is 20 minutes faster than «real-​time.» A weird sports «dive» for the Magnolia crowd. Check it out (not by yourself, however — go with a group no smaller than 3, it’ll be more fun that way).
Oh yeah — and the name — how can you beat that? Who doesn’t want to go to a place called «JD & Meyers: Best Friends?» Totally Rad.