The popular Stroudsburg pub is taking over the former Renegade Winery location…
Some restaurant and bar transitions arrive with theatrics; others simply make sense the moment you hear them. Signature Brewery & Saloon (Stroudsburg, PA) taking over the former Renegade Winery spot at 600 Main Street falls squarely into the latter. The move, announced directly by Signature in a series of Instagram posts, wasn’t subtle: “We’re officially moving to 600 Main St!! Renovations underway.”
The basics are clear. Signature, which has built a steady presence a few doors down at 564 Main, is preparing to shift its operation into one of downtown Stroudsburg’s most recognizable corners. Renovation work is visibly underway. The timeline and seating plan are still TBD, and the future of the current 564 Main Street location hasn’t been publicly detailed, but all signs point to a full relocation rather than a second taproom.
It’s a move that fits both where Signature is headed and where downtown Stroudsburg is going.
What Signature does well…
Signature Brewery & Saloon has always been easy to understand: good beer, unfussy bar food, and built-in entertainment. Plenty of bars try to offer all three. Few stay as consistent as this one.
The Alamo Kitchen keeps things streamlined. Fries and onion rings. Wings with classic sauces. Burgers that focus on execution rather than novelty. Taco Tuesday means actual $2 tacos. There are Texas Dogs, a pulled-pork sandwich, and the kind of nachos that never seem to stop coming out of the kitchen during busy nights.
Nothing is flashy for its own sake. It’s food built for a night of conversation, darts, live music, and a couple of house brews. As downtown has added more tasting rooms and specialty concepts, Signature has remained firmly on the other end of the spectrum: approachable, familiar, and reliably energetic.
The beer list mirrors that philosophy. Signature brews a range of house beers, all designed for drinkability rather than shock value, an Imperial IPA rounded out with vanilla and oats, a citrus-forward New England IPA, a crowd-pleasing local lager, a crisp Mexican-style lager, and a fruit-punch kettle sour that leans playful. Add in rotating stouts, wheats, ciders, and seltzers, and nothing on the board requires a decoder ring.
The rest of the drinks program reinforces that accessibility: Blue Ridge wines, popular PA cans, the $2 “Lasso Shot,” and a cocktail menu designed for volume and fun.
Signature isn’t a place you go to study anything. You go because it’s easy to settle in.
Why 600 Main makes sense…
The corner of 600 Main has always been shaped by the moment. Longtime residents still associate the building with its former identity as the flagship J.J. Newberry five-and-dime. Decades later, Renegade Winery transformed it into a downtown tasting room with a lived-in stage and a steady calendar of music and events.
When Renegade closed at the end of November, before announcing its move to Mount Pocono as Grange Valley Estate Winery, it left behind a space already proven to work for gathering, eating, lingering, and listening. The windows, the footprint, the visibility: they’re all built for a business that thrives on casual foot traffic and nighttime energy.
The surprise wasn’t that someone moved in. It’s that it happened so quickly.
And Signature doesn’t have to reinvent the building to make it work. It needs a stage, a bar, some seating, and room for the programming that already defines its identity: open mic nights, karaoke, live music, line dancing, trivia. Whether axe-throwing or the smash room make the jump remains unknown, but Signature has shown it can draw a crowd with or without the extras.
More importantly, 600 Main gives the business something new: a marquee corner with visibility from both directions of Main Street, and a natural link to Sherman Theater crowds before and after shows.
A downtown still in motion…
Downtown Stroudsburg has quietly become one of the densest beverage corridors in the region. Within a short walk of 600 Main, you’ll find RAW Urban Winery, Stonehaüs Meadery, Newberry’s Yard of Ale, and a collection of restaurants that depend heavily on Sherman Theater traffic.
With Renegade’s departure from Main Street, the wine-bar category now falls largely to RAW and Stonehaüs. That opens space for something different to fill the corner spot, not a replacement, but a complement.
Signature brings energy, scale, and a broader audience. Its presence will shift the nighttime rhythm of the block and likely become an easy pre- or post-show stop for groups looking for food, drinks, and something to do. It also pushes Main Street further toward the bustling mix of breweries, wineries, meaderies, and bars that has been emerging over the past several years.
This move doesn’t reinvent downtown Stroudsburg. It just clarifies what it’s becoming.
And for a building that has spent more than a century adapting to whatever the moment demanded, Signature Brewery & Saloon is simply the next chapter, one that feels built to last.
