The 20 Best Sports Bars In NYC – New York
Most sports bars in New York City suck at being sports bars. They’re either frat houses filled with people who wish they were still in frats, normal bars with a couple of TVs and an ESPN subscription, or lounges where MBA alumni groups use games as an excuse to “grow their networks.” But there are some exceptions that take their sports seriously. These spots have lots of TVs and enough seating to ensure that you won’t be standing for four straight hours, and they show everything from the World Cup to college water polo.
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Alphabet City
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The Hairy Lemon is for the sort of people who block off their entire Saturdays during college football season. If you don’t understand this particular brand of devotion, we have no idea why you’re reading this guide. This bar has about 20 TVs, which take up almost every available inch of wall space, and you can order things like salmon tartare with sturgeon caviar and a nice bouillabaisse. Kidding, obviously. Get some wings, fries, and pints like everyone else and cheer on your favorite team (unless you’re from Boston, in which case just stay home).
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Financial District
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This sports bar chain has four locations around Manhattan, and the one in FiDi is in a huge space with plenty of TVs, but not so many that you’ll get sensory overload. Stout is the perfect place if you want a more civilized sports viewing experience with personal space. The ceiling looks like it’s about 20 feet tall, all the tables are situated pretty far apart, and the whole room is bathed in pleasant dim lighting. Although the focus here is on beers, you can get unlimited Bloody Marys, rum punch, screwdrivers, or mimosas for three hours ($33) on the weekends until 4pm. It just so happens that a lot of football is played in this country on Saturdays and Sundays before 4pm.
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Midtown
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The name of this place tells you everything you need to know. Located on 33rd between 5th and Madison, this bar has 40 taps from which you can serve yourself beer with a card that you load with money. That means less time trying to get a server’s attention and more time placing ill-advised sports bets. If you get hungry, you can order things like a club sandwich, fries, and wings. This spot is open until 2am, Thursday to Saturday, so it’s useful for those marathon night matches during the US Open.
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Bushwick
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The best seats at Claras are on the random couch in the back that’s positioned in front of a huge projector screen. If you’d rather not sit a few feet from whatever game you’re watching, you can also grab a booth or a table up front.
This Bushwick sports bar has plenty of room, and it’s filled with TVs, so you can watch multiple games at the same time. The halfway-divey space is filled with Christmas lights, and, for a place that looks like an off-campus frat house, all of the food is surprisingly good. Get some Buffalo wings and a fried chicken sandwich topped with bacon.
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Tribeca
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Buffalo wings are like different kinds of teleconferencing software—for something so common and seemingly straightforward, it’s amazing how often they just kind of suck. We don’t have the answer for how to fix that echo or mute the marketing team, but we can help with wings: Go to Mudville 9 in Tribeca. The meaty, not-too-crispy wings go well with towers of any of the 30 draft beers, and if you tell them what game you’re most interested in when you make a reservation, they’ll make sure it’s playing on the big screen nearest to your table.
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Harlem
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Harlem Tavern isn’t explicitly a sports bar, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great spot to watch your team. You should come here to watch games and drink pitchers of the many beers on tap, but just know that when you’re cursing at James Dolan for not pulling the trigger on a trade, there will probably be a family eating brunch at the table behind you. Mumble an apology, take a quick look at their selection of burgers, and then order one yourself.
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Lower East Side
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Don’t go to Hair Of The Dog and complain to us when an NYU undergrad chugs your mom’s pinot grigio thinking it’s lemon water. There’s nothing refined about this dark, crowded bar on the LES, but if you’re fine with that, then the abundance of big screens and projectors makes it a good place to watch sports.
They also have drink specials every day, so you can play some relatively cheap games of beer pong against a couple guys in Bengals jerseys taking it way too seriously.
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Chelsea
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Smithfield Hall is one of the best soccer bars in New York City. You can happily come to this huge spot in Chelsea wearing the Liverpool or Barcelona scarf you got during your semester abroad, but it’s also where you should go to watch a Dutch league match at 9am with crowds of people talking about the most promising prospects in the Ajax youth academy. There are a ton of TVs, and if you contact them ahead of time, they’ll almost always put whatever match you want to watch on at least one of them.
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East Village
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When a friend describes the way you choose to spend your Sundays as “black hole time,” you usually just tell them there’s nothing wrong with having a hobby.
But after a day spent watching sports at The Grayson, you’ll understand where they’re coming from. This narrow East Village bar doesn’t get much natural light, and it has so many TVs playing so many games that time begins to feel like it stops with each challenge flag and TV timeout. It doesn’t, though, and you’ll leave with very little sense of where the last eight hours went.
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Astoria
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Break Bar is like an amusement park for adults. Instead of face painting and teacups that spin you around until you’re nauseous, this huge, industrial space in Astoria has pool and ping pong tables, mini bocce courts, and giant Connect 4. All the activities make it a great spot to day drink with a group, but this also happens to be one of the best sports bars in the city. There are pitchers of beer, great Buffalo wings, and TVs and projectors everywhere—including around the pool tables in case you feel like multitasking.
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Greenwich Village
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Blue Haven is a big space right on Houston Street, so it’s a useful option when you’re looking for a convenient meeting place to watch ACC football, or something actually worth your time, like ACC basketball. But it’d be a good place to watch games no matter the location. It always tends to be the right amount of crowded, there are lots of TVs including one that’s seven feet across, and the floor-to-ceiling windows provide healthy reminders that Duke winning again isn’t, in fact, the end of the world.
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For sporting events that are very important to us, we don’t like to be in particularly social situations. It’s awkward to scream profanity into our sweatshirts while someone’s friend of a friend talks about their kids, and all we really want is to focus on the game.
One of the best bars to do that without distraction is Standings in the East Village. It’s like a studio apartment in terms of its size, but with a few key differences. The whole space is covered in TVs, volume is always up, and high-quality beers are on tap.
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Upper West Side
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There are lots of places to watch sports on the Upper West Side, but most of them are either random pubs that show replays of Yankees games with subtitles, or they’re bright college bars that smell like spilled light beer. Blondies is an exception. There are a bunch of tables you can reserve ahead of time, TVs playing the biggest games, and some of the best Buffalo wings in the city.
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Hell’s Kitchen
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If you want to watch a game in Hell’s Kitchen, go to Scruffy Duffy’s. For a sports bar, this place actually smells pretty pleasant (like a nice candle from Target), and the space features a pool table, a few dart boards, and plenty of TVs.
Expect all of your typical cheesy Midtown pub decor like vintage beer signs and Irish souvenirs, and don’t leave without eating at least one order of Scruffy Duffy’s semi-famous Buffalo wings. They arrive crispy and absolutely doused in sauce.
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Upper West Side
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Whether you can’t find anyone else interested in watching preseason Padres games, or you don’t feel like listening to a friend talk about deleting dating apps again while the game’s on, keep Bodega 88 in mind. This Upper West Side spot is about the size of a small apartment, but it has big screens behind the bar and individual screens at every booth, so it’s perfect for flying solo. Order a strong caipirinha and some of the Latin-influenced bar food, like fried calamari with a Dominican honey glaze.
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Greenwich Village
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Reservoir is in the middle of NYU, it stays open until 2am every day, and it attracts plenty of students.
But it feels like less of an undergrad bar than other places showing sports in Greenwich Village. That’s partly because there are no beer pong tables, but it’s also because the focus here is on sports. (That’s especially true during Steelers games.) Most people use the long, dark space as a spot to get wings and beers while watching games rather than a place to go out.
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Brooklyn
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The Whiskey on Grand is part of the same group as Whiskey Town, The Whiskey Annex, and a bunch of other bars around the city with “whiskey” in their names. As you might imagine, they offer a bunch of whiskeys here, which can come in handy if you’re a Jets fan. This place has a long bar as well as a bunch of booths for big groups, and no matter where you’re sitting or standing, you’ll have a good view of the raised TVs behind the bar. There are also some games on hand in case some people in your group don’t feel like staring at TVs for seven hours straight.
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Greenpoint
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Keg & Lantern is where you should watch sports in Greenpoint, especially if you’re the kind of person who knows more about hops than Aaron Gordon. Not only does this place have lots of TVs and some very good Buffalo wings (which are $15 with a beer on Mondays), but it also serves several beers that are brewed on site.
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Gramercy
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The Gramercy location of Triona’s is near Stuy-Town and Kips Bay—two places with more Michigan grads than Morgan Stanley’s training program—which helps explain why this Irish pub identifies itself as a Michigan bar (as well as a place for Chicago sports fans). But whether you want to drink pitchers of light beer surrounded by people wearing “Buck The F*ckeyes” shirts or you’re just looking for a spot with lots of TVs and bar seating, Triona’s is one of the best sports bars in the neighborhood.
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Bronx
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When there are no games to watch, most sports bars feel like Santa’s workshop in July but with less eggnog and more Fireball. Even though Bronx Alehouse is a good spot to watch games (lots of TVs, plenty of seating), it’s just as pleasant when the TVs are off. That’s because this big bar in Kingsbridge has a very good beer selection and bar food like a burger topped with pulled port that make it worth seeking out for lunch or dinner anytime.
Gym Sportsbar reviews, photos – Chelsea – New York
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A genuine sports bar in the heart of Chelsea
If the real gym’s too crowded, leave your manly Daisy Dukes and tank on and grab a beer with the other gym bunnies. You’ll never miss the game at this Chelsea favorite (in every sense of the word).
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Heroness
Over a year agoLoves it
Great place for afternoon beer or dates
After walking on the High Lines (please do it) this was the perfect place for cold beer and enjoy a break on late afternoon. You get a beer token in the happy hour. Very nice and WiFi for those who need it. -
Lanceisgay
Over a year agoLoves it
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i love masturbating for guys in the sauna -
regis1980be
Over a year agoI go there with pleasure!
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Tigerbob2011
Over a year agoLoves it
great clientel
people who come here are good-looking and interesting to talk too and the bartenders are great.
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Alanogray1214
Over a year agoHates it
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res_ident
Over a year agoLoves it
The Cheers of Chelsea…
A nice neighborhood bar with many regulars and enough sports team meetings and new traffic to keep things fresh. Very active happy hour, and busy on Fridays and Saturday evenings as well as Sunday “tea”. Drink specials nearly every night. -
bw7322
Over a year agoLoves it
Pretty good atmosphere. Smoking Lounge
The drinks were moderately priced, and the crowd was pretty friendly. They have a smoking patio which I definitely appreciated, and which is why I am giving 4 stars instead of 3. -
jimbo901
Over a year agoLoves it
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Come on a saturday -
MSlant
Over a year agoHates it
Myslant
I don’t recommend this place. The Bar’s management opposes any display of affectionate behavior among the patrons. To wit, my buddy was asked by the management to stop giving me a foot rub (the sneakers were off but the socks remained on). It should be noted that this is not an upscale establishment where more discreet conduct would be expected. It is, rather, a no-frills, casual attire, smallish neighborhood gay bar. So, after we finished our drinks and were on our way out of the bar, I stopped before the exit and confronted the apparently not-so-intelligent, middle aged, heavy set, Irish looking door person who followed up on the request made to my buddy by a bar hand. I told him that he has a bad attitude. His response was that “this is a sports bar.” Presumably, his concept of a sports bar is one that should be patronized only by heterosexual males whose sole purpose is to watch and discuss sports. I told him how incredibly ridiculous and out-of-touch with reality his comment was, that my buddy’s and my behavior was benign compared to other acts of affection commonly engaged in by patrons in gay bars, that his bad attitude does not make business sense (not only losing my business but that of friends who would meet me there) and that we will never patronize that bar again.
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Tazz602
Over a year agoLoves it
True Sports Bar
True sports bar for the gay man – lots of TVs showing various games, a wide variety of men, into sports, who play sports (and look it) or just like the casual down to earth atmosphere. No attitude men and friendly people. I had a great time here and met some new people that I continued seeing for the rest of my trip. -
Archie3212
Over a year agoLoves it
THE GYM
MY PARTNER AND I MUST VISIT THIS BAR! -
jasonvincik
Over a year agoM-F 2-for-1 drinks 4 p.m.-9 p.m.; SAT-SUN $3 Beer 1-9 p.m.; Specials after 9 p.m.: SUN $3 well; MON $4 Long Island Iced Tea; TUE $4 Coronas/Margaritas; WED $2.50 Bud/Bud Light bottles; THU $5 Absolut
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T.Lo
Over a year agoPerfect for a Sunday funday.
Drinks are strong!!
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dude01
Over a year agoHates it
well it’s a bar….
if yer a sports fan and ya wanna see sports, go to a sports bar. if ya wanna see gym bunnies that try to talk sports while talking about what the quarterback’s packin in his jockstrap, this place is for you. not really impressed with the times i’ve gone. staff are adequate but some have some attitude (ya find this in any bar). maybe for ny this is a sports bar.
off the ‘gay’ sports bars i’ve been too, have yet to find one that is true a sports bar. go to a straight sports bar is ya wanna watch a game. go here is just looking for a hookup. -
musicman013
Over a year agoLoves it
excellent hangout spot
This is a great place. The bartenders are friendly, the mix of crowd is excellent. The layout/design of the place is cool. Downstairs is also great when open. My favorite NYC bar. Boxers may have more TVs, but Gym Bar has a better vibe.
The Bar’s management opposes any display of affectionate behavior among the patrons. To wit, my buddy was asked by the management to stop giving me a foot rub (the sneakers were off but the socks remained on). It should be noted that this is not an upscale establishment where more discreet conduct would be expected. It is, rather, a no-frills, casual attire, smallish neighborhood gay bar. So, after we finished our drinks and were on our way out of the bar, I stopped before the exit and confronted the apparently not-so-intelligent, middle aged, heavy set, Irish looking door person who followed up on the request made to my buddy by a bar hand. I told him that he has a bad attitude. His response was that “this is a sports bar.” Presumably, his concept of a sports bar is one that should be patronized only by heterosexual males whose sole purpose is to watch and discuss sports. I told him how incredibly ridiculous and out-of-touch with reality his comment was, that my buddy’s and my behavior was benign compared to other acts of affection commonly engaged in by patrons in gay bars, that his bad attitude does not make business sense (not only losing my business but that of friends who would meet me there) and that we will never patronize that bar again.
Drinks are strong!!
Downstairs is also great when open. My favorite NYC bar. Boxers may have more TVs, but Gym Bar has a better vibe.
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Sports bar Chelsea – reviews, photos, prices, telephone and address – Entertainment – Makhachkala
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Today there are many options where and how to relax after a long day at work. But nothing soothes as a pleasant aroma and mild taste of a hookah, rhythmic breathing and soaring clouds of smoke.
At the Chelsea Sports Bar, you can feel free from worldly worries for a while and get a taste of life. Alone with yourself or in a pleasant company – the atmosphere of the lounge will envelop you and take you to the world of pleasure. The sports bar is located at the address: Republic of Dagestan, Kaspiysk, Abdulmanapova, 4/7.
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Restaurant CHELSEA GastroPub (Chelsea GastroPub) in Moscow – reviews, photos, prices, menus, online table reservation, phone number and address, official website
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Chelsea gastropub has an English atmosphere: this is the theme of the institution – the British way of life.
The classic interior in soothing colors is decorated with drawings and engravings reminiscent of the good old England with its stately houses, cozy parks and squares and the unique flavor of cities and estates. Even modern plasma screens broadcasting football look like a tribute to the general British love for the sport. It is not surprising that in Chelsea one can so often hear English speech – both businesslike and jokingly friendly.
Britain is an empire, and the traditions of British cuisine are inseparable from the gastronomic features of its colonies. Therefore, the menu of the gastropub includes not only traditional British dishes, but also colonial delights from around the world. Classics of British cuisine – hearty Irish chowder soup, “pork chop” – grilled pork loin with a potato side dish, a must in all English fish & chips establishments (in the chef’s version – tempura dorado fillet with branded potato chips and Pesto sauce) ). For lovers of a solid meat meal, there are several types of grilled steaks (from classic ribeye and chateaubriand to Chelsea Loin from premium marbled beef and Skert steak from diaphragm).
Want something lighter? Then you should try Gordon’s signature salad with avocado and shrimp, garnished with baked parmesan chips, turkey souvlaki skewers or grilled sea bream garnished with sautéed vegetables. Despite the fact that British cuisine has a very modest fame, the dishes in the gastropub are a tribute not only to traditions, but also to the spirit of modernity, which is so vividly felt in London.
Since Chelsea is open 24/7, there is a separate breakfast menu. You can have breakfast – which is especially nice – from midnight to noon. And in the breakfast menu there is not only the traditional “oatmeal, sir”, but also eggs “Benedict”, which are rare for Moscow restaurants.
And – the title of the pub obliges! – the bar card became the pride of the institution. The choice of whiskey from all over the world is especially impressive: you can count more than 120 names! Good English and Irish beer also attracts – a drink with which watching a football match acquires a special flavor.