Updated March 19, 2025

March Madness 2025 is upon us. First Four is Tuesday/Wednesday, but starts in earnest on Thursday at noon.

Below are a list of spots to watch in DC

Only including places open for all (or virtually all) games. Italics is likely open for all games, but not yet confirmed

Navy Yard/The Wharf

• Walter’s Sports Bar – wings and beer bucket specials
• FanDuel Sportsbook at Audi Field –
• Solace Outpost –
• Atlas Navy Yard – 2 slices + soda ($10) or 2 slices + pint ($12) from Noon-3p
• Bluejacket – free 8 oz of draft Bluejacket For the Company Helles Lager each time upset + $18 Bluejacket double burger/fries/Lost Weekend IPA
• Tom’s Navy Yard
• The Green Turtle
• Mission Navy Yard –  $32 Tito’s lemonade pitchers, $6.25 Miller Lites, $12 loaded waffle fries. 

Penn Quarter/Chinatown/MVT

• Prost – HH specials (1/2 off Spaten drafts, $4 off house cocktails, $4 pretzel bites noon-6p Th/Fri 3/20-21)
• Penn Quarter Sports Tavern
• Penn Social – Modelo specials, free group reservations noon-5p Thu & Fri
• Astro Beer Hall –
• Proper 21
• Caesars Sportsbook at Capital One Arena / Guy Fieri’s DC Kitchen and Bar–
• OverUnder – (sportsbook suspended) $5 fireball shots $6 vodka lemonades, more daily specials
• Street Pizza – $1 wings (min of 6), $4 Peroni drafts ($15 pitchers), $9 aperol spritz, $20 buckets of 5 beers (Stella & Miller lite)

Dupont/Adams Morgan

• Madhatter- $4 Madhatter Light Draft, $5 Nutrls, $15 Madhatter Light Pitchers, $20 Bud Light Buckets, $25 Nutrl Buckets, $10 Food Specials
• Duffy’s Dupont
• The Admiral – $22 Michelob Ultra pitchers, $12 cheesesteak egg rolls. 
• The Blaguard

H Street/Capitol Hill/NoMa

• Dirty Water – Beat the buzzer ($1 Bud Light/fireball or $3 seltzers 11:30-12:30p, increasing $1 each each hour (12:30, 1:30, 2:30) + $100 open bar all weekend option
• Duffy’s Cap Hill East
• Union Pub –
• Shelter at The Roost
• Last Call – $20 Modelo buckets, $16 Miller High Life buckets, $30 Coors light 16 oz buckets, $15 Miller Lite pitcheres
• The Dome at Hi-Lawn – showing up to 4 games at a time on two 380″ screens in dome + game-time bucket specials and snacks.

Shaw/U Street

• Franklin Hall – $18 pitchers, $35 “Buzzer Beater Buckets” with five Buzzballz cocktails
• Ivy and Coney
• Stoney’s
• Sports and Social DC – (FanDuel sportsbook)
• Whitlow’s – 6 for $30 Corona/Modelo/Pacifico buckets

Cleveland Park/Woodley Park

• Cleveland Park Sports Bar & Grill –
• Duke’s Corner – normal Noon-7p HH

Columbia Heights / Petworth / Park View

• The Midlands – $5 beer specials and $10 combos

Foggy Bottom / Georgetown/Downtown/Glover Park

• Duke’s Grocery Foggy Bottom – normal Noon-7p HH
• The Bottom Line – $18 Miller Lite pitchers + $4 Miller Lite bottles + $7 Jameson shots + $8 Altos Margaritas + $10 Bottom line Hamburger 3 sliders (avail after 3p)