About St Philip's Inn
St. Philip's Inn on Upper Mt Vernon Road in Evansville, Indiana is a Vanderburgh County neighborhood bar on the west side of the city, and the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich here gets called the best in the Tri-State area by local regulars who have done the comparison work across southwestern Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois.
The tenderloin is thick, juicy, and full of flavor without being enormous in diameter. A reviewer who tried it described it simply as really good, which is the correct review for a tenderloin that executes the fundamentals well without overreaching. The menu beyond the tenderloin covers stromboli, wings, and fried chicken, which signals a kitchen with genuine range. The bar is a neighborhood institution, and the remodeled interior gives the Inn a comfortable, welcoming feel.
St. Philip's Inn runs Tuesday through Saturday and is closed Sunday and Monday, which means it is a midweek-through-weekend destination rather than an all-day-every-day stop. The Upper Mt Vernon Road location is on the far west side of Evansville in a residential corridor that does not see much tourist traffic, which makes it the kind of place locals know and visitors have to find intentionally.
For anyone building an Evansville tenderloin itinerary beyond the obvious stops on the east side, St. Philip's Inn at 11200 Upper Mt Vernon Rd is the west side neighborhood bar with a tenderloin that earns Tri-State bragging rights from the people who go there regularly.