There's a world of difference between the same staid regular sports bars and those with an appetite for collegiate competition.
The décor is clean and sharp but still has all the character of your favorite neighborhood restaurant and drinking establishment. Wood trim walls are adorned with mounted fish, nautical charts and prints to cast a seafaring look that is both warm and welcoming.
587 3rd AveBrother Jimmy's grew from a sort of Southern expatriate community, hungry for homestyle, regional cuisine and a place to watch local college teams like Duke and the UM Terps fight it out. By 1996, the idea had become so popular that the restaurant became a chain, first with an Up...
181 Lexington Ave (31st Street)While this upscale Irish pub—with a massive collection of sports-filled TVs; standard visual fare for sure in the midtown bar set—may want to sanitize its image by removing "Hooker" from its name, we're here to remind you.
7 East 36th StreetThe Gray Mare sticks the landing between dive bar and cocktail lounge. Offering delicious gastropub fare, cozy cocktails and cold beer.
61 2nd Ave (Between Third and Fourth Sts.)A truly college-level bar.
1442 3rd AveSpiffy upscale three-level sports bar serving typical pub fare along with new American cuisine with an Asian twist. Popular brunch spot, and known for its cool rooftop bar area. Roughly a bazillion TVs and enthusiastic crowds - on off sporting nights just the boys trying to meet ...
411 3rd Ave (East 29th Street)The Hill feels like the kitschy future postulated in Back To The Future 2, and it's a safe bet that the patrons who gather there to watch the 25 HD TVs worth of sports wish they had Biff's Sports Almanac.
416 3rd AveA sports bar & gastropub destination in Midtown Manhattan with dozens of high definition flat screen televisions showing every sporting event from around the world. With over 25 rotating draught beers and countless more options by the bottle, The Playwright prides itself on ...
27 West 35th Street (bet. 5th and 6th Aves)Holy cubic footage: the Ainsworth packs tons of TVs, wings, and sports lovers into its six-large square feet of space.
122 W 26th StThe focus here is on football, and not that odd egg shaped thing that yanks like to toss around (thus the term "tosser"), indeed, it is the round thing that Brazilians kick around in a manner that Englishmen envy. And this is a club of sorts. That meets at a bar of sort...
6 West 33rd StreetA good menu and some serious shot selections make this casual-comme-classy joint a big hit with the Chelsea crowd.
757 6th AveNamed for the "father of the cocktail," Professor Thom's offers a huge 41-foot bar and nearly twenty flat screen televisions for college and professional sports.
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