All the comforts of home await you - friends, great craft beer and FOOD.

During the 1800’s in historic Ellicott City, the small stone building located at the corner of the parking lot on Main Street and Ellicott Mills drive was the original Howard County Court House. Our Building, which is now the Judge’s Bench, was a small “Mom and Pop” grocery store. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, the hot and exhausted judges would come across the street and enjoy cold beverages on benches in the shade outside the grocery store. This is how our location became known as “The Judge’s Bench.”

We’re open every day till 2:00 a.m. except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Call us at 410-465- 3497

Daily Draught Beer Menu update at foot of page!

JOIN US ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY.  WASH DOWN YOUR BANGERS & MASH WITH O’HARA’S IRISH STOUT AND HARPOON CELTIC ALE! (Hey, we’re 62.5% Irish anyway).

SAVE THE DATE!   APRIL 2nd  will be our 3rd Anniversary!  We will be partying with the excellent Heavy Seas crew, featuring the return of the zymurlogical masterpiece, Big D I.P.A., in a lovely gravity-fed firkin on the end of our bar.  We’ll tap the delicious concoction at 5 o’clock.  Join us!

SPECIALS AND $5.99 MENU

MONDAYS ONLY: $5.99 CHICKEN or BEEF QUESADILLA, sautéed onions, Monterey jack, cheddar, salsa, sour cream.
Happy Hour All Night Long!

TUESDAYS ONLY: $5.99  GRILLED CHEESE
$2 Dollar Night (domestic bottles and most imports and some liquor)

WEDNESDAYS ONLY: $5.99 8OZ ANGUS BURGER, lettuce, tomato
Add toppings $0.35 each, fried onions, jalapenos, salsa, ranch dressing, buffalo sauce, bbq sauce, Swiss, American, provolone or cheddar cheese. Bacon $0.95
$1.50 Domestic Bottles and $5.25 for All Bombs

THURSDAYS ONLY: $5.99 WINGS (8), tossed in mild, regular, hot, inferno, old bay, honey bbq, or Gen. Tso sauce with celery and bleu cheese or ranch. Ladies Night! Drink & Beer Specials! Shooter Specials!

SUNDAY:  Happy Hour open to close!

TUESDAY,  MARCH 9,  2010

TODAY’S DRAUGHT LINEUP (as of 4:00pm - changes constantly as kegs kick).

Unibroue Trois Pistoles
Tupper’s Hop Pocket Ale
Stoudt’s Gold Lager
Heavy Seas Loose Cannon
Kronenbourg
Victory St. Victorious
Blue Point Hoptical Illusion
Otter Creek Quercus Vitis Humulus
Heavy Seas Siren Noire
Oskar Blues Old Chub
Avery The Czar
He’Brew Jewbelation 13
Sierra Nevada Glissade
Starr Hill Jomo Lager
Allagash Curieux
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Dogfish Head Fort