Orton Pool Room

Nice place to go and play pool. Has lots of dif tables. Only wish the music they played was a little more pool bar relevant.

I learned something very interesting about Orton Pool Room on Sunday.
Many of you may have noticed that I am a wine lover. I can’t tolerate much beer second to the gluten, and I rarely drink hard liquor due to my lightweight status.
I have enjoyed shooting pool at Orton since I wrote my initial review. However, when I have requested wine, I have been told, «oh, we don’t have any behind the bar. I would have to walk across the way to get some, and I can’t leave my post.» Or something to that effect.
So, sometimes I have had water as my beverage. If I go on Sundays, they do have mimosas or individual bottles of sparking wine. But, I was never able to enjoy a glass of wine with my billiards game.
Until this past Sunday. When I asked if wine was available, Harrison the bartender said, «of course! I just have to go in this next room to get some.» He invited me to choose from the wines in this little room merely feet from the main bar. And, he served a very nice pour in a beautiful stemmed wine glass!
I am thinking that the other bartenders just didn’t want to bother to go into the other room that was oh so close by.
But, now I know. And, next time that I go to Orton for pool, ask for wine, and get the run around, I will say, «oh yes you can get wine for me. It is in that room, so chop chop!»
After all, I am the Duchess of Orton and royalty deserves wine!

This place has some of the best pool tables anywhere. They are well maintained, and the cues are straight (which is rare at most bars). The staff sweeps the tables often too, so they are always ready to go. Plus, free ping pong on a competition grade table, again a rarity. Saturdays are half price drafts, and tell me how many bars have a special like that on a weekend? Not many. Cool place, worth a visit.

This place was pretty cool. Was real slow during the day while we were there. Drinks were overpriced in my opinion. Service was good and free pool if your drinking. Has a very scary outdoor area I wouldn’t recommend hanging out there. Oldest pool hall in America.

They got beer, they got pool and they got dark dank atmosphere, what more could you want?

Better than it used to be. Best pool tables in town.

Orton’s is hands down my favorite bar in Wilmington. I always want to go there and I’ve never had a negative experience. It’s historic, haunted, dark, cool, and has plenty of room to spread out with your group. The bartenders are very attentive, will help you select if you aren’t sure what you want, and they make good drinks.
Local flavor abounds in here, it’s great fun to chat with the regulars and try your hand against them in a serious game of pool. It’s usually quiet enough to actually have a conversation with your group and the juke box is really good if you don’t want to hear them talk!
I may also mention that I Love New York Pizza is right across the street which is really, really convenient for grabbing a bite on your way home!

I’m not crazy about Orton’s, but for reasons not important, I always end up there.
It is probably the best pool hall in Wilmington. It is just a musty basement with a crappy beer selection and blue-​collar guys shooting pool, though. Karaōke there is fun.

So I usually hit up this pool room on a thursday night and theres only about one or two groups there at the same time. I’ve always enjoyed playing pool here because unlike other pool halls in the wilmington it has a large number of tables and your actually going to get to play instead of sitting around waiting for a table. The beers are average and the irish car bombs are lacking but the bar tender always tries to throw in a irish word here or there and it is amusing. Count your money when you get it back though. My only serious complaint is that the local ghost tours come down here and they turn off the music for them so the group can hear, which means all the money you just put in the box is now wasted. Boo

How much fun is this place? We were walking around waiting for a show at The Soap Box when we stumbled upon this underground pool hall. There were at least 7 or 8 pool tables, dart boards, tables, lots of tv’s. What a great place to just chill and hang out. There weren’t that many people in there, but I would assume that it can get rather smoky. And it was freezing! I’m sure they were just getting ready for the late night crowd, but come on. The air was on full blast.
Anyway, check out their website. They’re supposedly the oldest, continuously run pool hall in the US. Back to 1888 I believe.