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The Best Sports Bars In The United States, Ranked
The beer is flowing, burgers sizzling on the grill and the game is about to begin. It’s the kind of magic that happens when you combine your favorite games with a spot at your local sports bar.
6 Dive Bars You Need to Check Out in NoVA
Pull up a seat at the bar and enjoy a night of drinks, grub, and bar games.
20 Great Trivia Nights In and Around Arlington
Grab a pencil and a Bavarian pretzel at these rollicking eateries that are perking up weeknights.
Where to Watch March Madness
Catch the games on the big screen, and snag great deals on brews, pizza, wings and more.
Feast on These Super Bowl LVII Game-Day Specials
Whether you're looking for a watch party at a bar or hosting one of your own, we've got your snacks right here.
Where To Find Super Bowl Watch Parties And Takeout Specials
On Super Bowl Sunday this year, some transplanted Washingtonians will have a chance to tout their Los Angeles or Cincinnati street cred. No matter who you’re rooting for, here are some options for places to watch the game with other football fans — it won’t be just another night at the bar.
12 of the Absolute Best Sports Bars in DC
From over-the-top viewing destinations to rowdy sports bars.
Where to Watch Your Favorite NFL Football Teams Around DC
We've got a bar for (almost) every fan base, plus food and drink specials.
The best sports bars in the D.C. area
There’s no perfect sports bar. Some people want to watch the game on the biggest possible screen. Others want a bar with clear views of multiple TVs, which makes it easier to follow fantasy teams or March Madness brackets. And still others want a place where they can have a beer outside (if the weather cooperates) without missing a moment of the action. No matter which kind you’re seeking, our list of the area’s top sports bars provides options, ranging from enormous projection screens to bars known for specializing in a particular sport.
How to watch the World Cup with African beers, Icelandic hot dogs and Egyptian breakfasts
If you fell in love with soccer four years ago, this is going to be a very different World Cup. For the first time since 1986, the United States didn't qualify. Neither did the Netherlands, whose legion of orange-clad fans are a regular sight during soccer tournaments. Four-time winner Italy is staying home, as is the Republic of Ireland.
7 Sports Bars With Natitude
These local venues offer great deals when the Nats score.
The 10 Best Sports Bars in Virginia!
Looking for a spot to relax after a long week? Want to take in the game with your friends and a few brews? It can be hard to find a good sports bar where the atmosphere is perfect and the food worth the price of admission. Luckily, we’ve compiled 10 of the best across Virginia so you can spend more time cheering on your favorite team and less time searching for the next great watering hole.
Best DC area sports bar bracket 2017
WASHINGTON — It’s March, the madness is all around us, and it’s time once again for you to tell us which sports bar in the greater D.C. area is the best.
Here Are a Dozen Cheap Wing Specials in D.C.
Fill up and save money at these local spots.
World Cup 2014: Where to watch your favorite team
Washington a hub for international World Cup TV viewers
MANASSAS, Va. -- When Portugal scored early, patrons at the Espresso Portuguese American Grill here roared with delight, and two cooks burst through the kitchen's swinging doors to hug compatriots at the bar. Just as quickly, without waiting for replay, they danced back through the doors. Can't let the octopus overcook.
DC's first Metro bar map will direct you to beer
Guess what lovers and haters of WMATA: we’ve unsucked DC Metro like never before by replacing each stop with a watering hole. Our goal is to get you up that (perpetually broken!) escalator and onto a bar stool as quickly as possible. You can check out a blown-up version of our bar map here, plus the deets on every single line below.
Beat the Monday Blues: March Madness Edition
Check out one of these NoVA sports bars to catch all of the NCAA tourney action.
Where to watch college basketball at lunch today
The college basketball season is down to the wire. The ACC, Big East, Big Ten, SEC and AAC tournaments all feature early afternoon games over the next two days, and we expect many people – especially Maryland and Virginia fans – will have long lunch breaks on their schedules. To help you plan head, here are 10 places that will be open for noon games. (Just FYI: Cleveland Park Bar and Grill, Penn Social and Rhino Bar say they will open early for next week’s NCAA tournament games, but not this week's conference championships.)
Holy Chicken: Bonchon Arlington Sold 10,000 Wings on Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl XLVII may have been a dud of a game, but it was a hot night on the chicken-wing front. As Wingo’s owner Mike Arthur says, “Super Bowl is Christmas for the wings business.” For spots such as Bonchon in Arlington, the night brought record sales around 10,000. Want more proof that Washingtonians are obsessed with the crunchy snack? We break down the numbers.
Game On
Where can you go to watch sports around town? Here’s the lineup.
How to survive the impending Sriracha shortage
First: EVERYBODY PANIC. Due to an impending shutdown of the Irwindale, Calif. Huy Fong Foods, Inc. plant where Sriracha is produced, your days of dousing eggs, Korean tacos, pho or pretty much anything else in that spicy neon nectar of the gods may be numbered. The Atlantic is already predicting a black market for the rooster sauce, which could see shortages and an exponential price jump.
Top sports bars in the District, Maryland and Virginia
Most college football teams kick off their seasons this weekend (notably, Maryland takes on Navy and Virginia Tech challenges Boise State on Monday). And the NFL returns Thursday night. We've got detailed guides to the area's top sports bars and places to watch college games with alumni on goingoutguide.com. But here, I'm making it simple and picking six places to watch big games this season -- three for college, three for the pros.
Ramesh Chopra opens First Down Sports Bar & Grill in Ballston
Ramesh Chopra and his family, which has been in the local restaurant business for 15 years, have opened a new sports bar in Ballston and plan to open one twice as big in Manassas next year.