Bully's Restaurant & Pub - Lancaster County, PA

Bully's Restaurant & Pub, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was built in 1903 by A.G. Beattie as a hotel-tavern for the thriving mill and railroad town of Columbia. First named the "Union Hotel" it provided warm, clean rooms upstairs and food and drink downstairs for the transient railroad and mill workers. The tavern became a popular spot to have a drink, get a bite to eat, or play a round of pool.

By prohibition, Ernest Schlotthauer was the owner, the locals nicknamed the place "Piney's." It is rumored that he even made his own moonshine here.

Ernest's step-son, Raymond Kitch took control of the establishment in the 1960's and once again the name changed — this time to "Kitch's." Raymond's family lived upstairs and his children still remember running around the upstairs hallways, playing and visiting the men who rented rooms. Downstairs, men would sit for hours, drinking and talking while using the long narrow spittoon that ran the length of the bar and rubbing nickels into its ever deepening grooves.

The tavern was renovated in the late 1980's to a full service restaurant and bar. It was renamed "Bully's" after Theodore Roosevelt, President at the time the tavern was built, who coined a favorite adjective of the time, "bully", as in "Have a bully day!" So by all means, have a "bully time" at our restaurant.