Off the fields and away from stadiums, sports bars offer drink specials, bar food, and often camaraderie when city apartments are just too small. No matter which sports team is your favorite, here’s a guide to some of the best sports bars across the city.
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The Best Sports Bars in NYC
Beers, cocktails, nachos, wings, and more — with plenty of TVs for sports fans
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
The Best Sports Bars in NYC
Beers, cocktails, nachos, wings, and more — with plenty of TVs for sports fans
Off the fields and away from stadiums, sports bars offer drink specials, bar food, and often camaraderie when city apartments are just too small. No matter which sports team is your favorite, here’s a guide to some of the best sports bars across the city.
Harlem Tavern
While not a typical sports bar, Harlem Tavern is a good spot for dining out or watching a game. It has many screens showcasing a variety of sports alongside lunch, brunch, and dinner. Try the codfish po’boy or chicken and waffles or drop by for its weekday happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. which includes a $10 cocktail of the day, $8 select red and white wines, $9 sangria, $7 mixed drinks, and $6 select beer drafts.
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A good neighborhood tavern with fine brews, good wings, free popcorn, and 10 TVs: Look for a menu of burgers, reubens, Texas toast, wings, giant pretzels, chili, and fish-and-chips.
Blondies
Blondie’s is an Upper West Side institution that is frequented by football fans rooting for Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern University, Penn State, and University of Oklahoma. It’s also a spot for soccer and this year’s Olympic Games. The staff here is friendly, and they’ll play any game requested. It’s also a top wing spot in the city.
The Supply House
Sports fans of all stripes will delight in the many games that play on Supply House’s plentiful screens. The large space has plenty of standing room and tall tables up front near the bar, as well as booths and table service toward the back. The food here is a step above, with a standout fried chicken sandwich, good salads, and crisp wings.
Sweet Spot
With its ample lounge seating and an impressive single malt selection, Sweet Spot is a solid spot for enjoying a game with a large group of friends. There are also cocktails, nearly 20 beers on tap, and beer and wine deals during happy hours to pair with strip steaks, wagyu burgers with rosemary truffle fries, and more. The 7,000-square-foot space features over 40 TVs.
Treadwell Park
With locations here and in Battery Park, the staff at both locations show as many sports games as possible multiple TVs. Besides the competitions broadcasted around the bar, there are several games including ping pong, pinball, and board games; the Downtown spot even has skeeball.
Treadwell Park
Hoi Polloi NYC
There’s a jumbo screen in this vast beer hall in the new Tangram Mall. Open since November, Hoi Polloi features BOGO beers Sunday to Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. and $6 wings. Beer flights are $15 to $20. For food, look for chopped salad, rice balls, jerk chicken, brats, and kebabs.
Pilsener Haus & Biergarten
Pilsner Haus is a massive Hoboken beer hall on a side street with plenty of bar seating, communal tables, mugs of suds, and wurst options. It’s a great place to watch a game, with dozens of TVs and a room full of fans.
Versa
Big-screen TVs line the main dining room and the rooftop bar, where there are views of the Empire State Building. The menu features breakfast, lunch, and dinner items like bar food share plates, sandwiches and salads, flatbreads, and more.
Overlook
This bar and restaurant near Grand Central Terminal is the place to be for Chicago Bears fans. The venue has 30 or so high-def TVs and two giant Jumbotrons on an open air roof deck. Home to NYC’s largest Chicago Bears den, Overlook Lounge sports a special Chicago Bears-themed menu including Italian beef sandwiches and Chicago-style hot dogs.
Mustang Harry's
A decades-old sports bar near MSG and Penn Station, Mustang Harry’s run by Irish brothers, Ian and Niall Conroy, serves food like candied bacon and disco fries or turkey French dip or corned beef sandwiches. Kitchen is open until midnight most days except Sunday when it closes at 10:30 p.m. The two-story bar has 16 TVs and plenty of character.
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Gym Sportsbar
At this two-level sports gay bar in Chelsea, there’s a two-for-one happy hour deal on weekdays from 4 to 8 p.m. with certain beverages at special prices each night until closing. A Sunday funday special also offers price breaks on drinks.
Turnmill Bar
This spot features happy hours ($5 or $6 brews, cheap drinks), super affordable meals with items like mozzarella sticks, chicken tenders, nachos, and an array of sandwiches well under $20.
Boca Juniors Argentine Steakhouse
Boca Juniors is an Argentinian steakhouse that doubles as a sports bar serving sangria. Named after the Argentinian soccer club of the same name, and outfitted in its blue and yellow colors, when the team is playing on the bar’s several screens, the customers go wild with people standing on the tables and twirling team umbrellas.
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Standings
An East Village sports bar since 2005, Standings is a (mostly) standing bar decked out with floor-to-ceiling NY sports paraphernalia. If you’re looking for a small local place filled with big crowd energy, this is it.
Rocco’s Sports and Recreation
Rocco’s is a sports bar for modern bros. It opened last year in Noho from the same owners as the Manhattan bars the Garret and Bandits. You can watch a game with nachos and a pulled pork sandwich, or go for something more refined, like vegan queso and mushroom Po’ boy. For drinks, there are cocktails (around $18 each), plus micheladas and boilermakers. The bar has lots of seating, and two custom basketball machines in the back.
Rocco’s Sports and Recreation
Clara’s
Clara’s is a great neighborhood spot to catch games at the bar or in the back on the projector screen. Drink specials include $1 off wine and select draft brews from 3 to 6 p.m., while the food menu offers a roster of cauliflower bites, fried calamari, tater tots, fish-and-chips, tacos, sandwiches, wings, and fries.
Lou’s Athletic Club
The team behind Brooklyn’s hippest new bars — Twins Lounge and Carousel — have come to be known for cultivating casual spaces with plenty of atmosphere and style. Lou’s Athletic Club is their take on a sports bar, outfitted with a television for sports, and a photo booth for fun, without the bro-y vibes.
Brooklyn Public House
With locations in Fort Greene and Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Public House feels like a vintage saloon and is a great spot to watch any game, including soccer. In addition to standard pub fare, there’s beef stew, bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie, and fish-and-chips. It is also home to one of the city’s best happy hour deals; daily from 5 to 7 p.m. onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and jalapeño poppers from $3.50 to $8.
Fulton Ale House
Tin ceilings and a cozy bar frame this seven-year-old spot from Diana King and Mike Sheehan, who are originally from Buffalo, so, naturally, it’s a haven for Bills’ fans. The restaurant offers indoor and outdoor seating as well as reservations for parties of six or more for game days; table seating is limited: This is truly a bar. Food is supplied by the Wheelhouse in Bushwick.
Chuzo Culture
This newly-opened spot looks like many sports bars, but its Ecuadorian street food makes it worth a visit. Like any good sports bar, Chuzo Culture serves wings, but it also has several dishes that qualify as a full meal, including llapingacho, crispy potato cakes served with a peanut sauce; rotisserie chicken with basil sauce; green plantain empanadas; and encebollado, a tomato-based broth with hunks of tuna.
Chuzo Culture
