Pizza, Tiki Drinks and Turtle-Era Fun at Casey Jones

A large New York-style slice and a cold drink make an easy opening move at Casey Jones, the Broadway bar where pizza shares billing with Ninja Turtles-inspired artwork, arcade screens and late-night music. It is a grown-up hangout with a playful streak, aimed less at formal dinner than at settling in with friends, catching a game or extending a casual night out.

The turtle connection is expressed through the room rather than presented as a big-ticket attraction. A prominent mural and artwork behind the bar give the place an immediate visual identity, with nostalgic pop-culture details carrying through the décor. The mood borrows from the Saturday-morning-cartoon era, but the setting is firmly bar-forward.

Casey Jones is a 21-and-over venue, so this is not a children’s destination in pizza-parlor clothing. Adults can come for a quick bite, a date, a round of drinks or a loose group gathering where nobody has to agree on just one activity.

Pizza is the food anchor here. Casey Jones serves large New York-style slices along with whole-pizza-style bar food, giving the menu a useful flexibility: a single slice can cover a quick meal, while a larger order works when a table has been talking and drinking for a while.

The generous slice size matters. This is the foldable, substantial sort of pizza associated with New York-style service, rather than a dainty appetizer cut into little squares. One slice can be enough when the goal is simply to get something warm and satisfying alongside a drink.

Garlic knots deserve their own order. They are the natural companion to a slice, useful for sharing and well suited to a bar table where people may be arriving at different times. A pizza-and-knots spread keeps things simple without making the food an afterthought.

The menu also has a little attitude about toppings. Casey Jones maintains a house rule against ranch and pineapple on its pizza. It is a small, amusing declaration of allegiance in a place that already knows exactly which corner of pop culture it wants to inhabit.

Although pizza is a major reason to stop in, Casey Jones operates primarily as a bar rather than a conventional full-service restaurant. Orders are placed at the bar, then the evening can take its own direction from there.

The drinks menu is substantial, with a tap list for beer drinkers and themed tiki-style drinks for anyone wanting a more colorful route. The turtle tiki drink fits neatly into the room’s visual language without requiring every order to become a costume-party prop.

There is also an in-house pickle shot, an appropriately briny option for a bar that does not mind having a little fun with its menu. It makes an easy punctuation mark between a slice and another round, especially when a group is in a celebratory mood.

Behind the bar, the mural and surrounding art keep the counter from reading as generic nightlife décor. You may come in hungry, but the room gives plenty to look at while waiting on a slice or deciding between a beer and something tiki-styled.

A small arcade area adds another reason not to rush out after eating. Several arcade cabinets and an emulator console loaded with older games offer a compact dose of button-mashing nostalgia, closer to a bar-side diversion than an enormous game room.

That scale suits the place. You can play a little, hand the controls to somebody else, and return to the conversation without making the night revolve around an all-evening arcade commitment. The games work especially well for a group that needs something to do while deciding on the next drink.

Televisions showing sports provide a different kind of screen time. On game days, the pizza, tap list and TVs give Casey Jones an easy sports-bar dimension, while the cartoons-and-arcade personality keeps the room from becoming interchangeable with every other place showing the score.

As the evening develops, DJs and music become a more visible piece of the atmosphere. Some nights leave room for dancing, shifting the energy beyond the usual slice-and-a-pint routine.

That makes Casey Jones useful for the in-between occasions that do not need much planning: a casual date that should not feel overly serious, a birthday-adjacent group outing, or a meet-up where some people want pizza and others mostly want a drink. The food gives everyone a starting point, and the room offers enough distractions to keep the conversation moving.

The visual theme helps without demanding that anyone be deeply invested in the reference. A person who remembers the characters can enjoy the nods, while a person who simply wants a big slice, garlic knots and a lively bar still has a perfectly good reason to be there.

On Broadway, Casey Jones makes sense as a place to drop into rather than a formal, drawn-out dining destination. Order at the bar, claim a seat, and build the visit around the parts that sound good that night: pizza, taps, tiki drinks, sports, old-school games or music.

The appeal is in that mix. A slice keeps the evening grounded, the mural gives it personality, and the arcade cabinets offer one more excuse to linger before heading on.