Updated March 18, 2026

March Madness 2026 – NCAA Men’s Basketball Tourney – 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, including the afternoon games. These specials are sometimes only for the Thursday and Friday afternoon games.

Navy Yard/The Wharf/Anacostia

• Walter’s Sports Bar – wings and beer bucket specials
• Solace Outpost – $5 Artificial Light / Red Devils Lager, $10 Mango margaritas (all March long)
• Atlas Navy Yard – $11 for 2 slices + any standard draft pint. $6 select points
• Bluejacket – free 8 oz pour of Lost Weekend IPA w/ every upset, $10 lager/IPA liters, $18 burger/fries/Helles lager combo
• Tom’s Navy Yard
• The Green Turtle
• Mission Navy Yard –  food specials, $35 pitchers, $40 mix-and-match seltzer buckets
• Whitlow’s at the Wharf – food and drink specials
• Atlas Bridge District – $15 for single patty regular burger + standard pint, $6 select drafts

Penn Quarter/Chinatown/MVT

• Prost – HH 11a-6p Thu/Fri of tourney. MM specials: $5 off 1 liter Spaten drafts, $6 Nutrl cans, $10 pretzel knotchos
• Penn Quarter Sports Tavern
• Penn Social –
• Astro Beer Hall – $10 Narragansett + fireball combos, $15 Narragansett pitchers, $6 green tea shooteres
• Proper 21
• Caesars Sportsbook at Capital One Arena / Guy Fieri’s DC Kitchen and Bar–
• OverUnder – (sportsbook suspended) $5 fireball shots, $6 high noons $7 vodka lemonades, more daily specials (Thu: $7 martinis, $12 old fashioneds)
• Street Pizza/Street Burger – $1 wings (min of 6), $4 Peroni drafts
• Hall Pass Beer Hall – popup – $3 off most drinks til 7p first two days of tourney
• Pubkey – free bourbon shots for any buzzer beaters

Dupont/Adams Morgan

• Madhatter- $4 Madhatter light drafts/$16 pitchers, $5/$25 bucket Nutrls/Michelob Ultras
• The Admiral – $13 cheesesteak egg rolls, $13 smoked chicken nachos, $7 Miller LIte, $10 Tito’s Palomas
• The Blaguard
• Public Bar Live

H Street/Capitol Hill/NoMa

• Dirty Water –
• Union Pub –
• Shelter at The Roost
• Last Call –
• Tunnicliff’s
• Haven – $20 buckets of beer, $5 house shots, $8 house drinks
• The Big Board
• The Brig
• Trusty’s – $3 mystery beers

Shaw/U Street/14th Street

• Franklin Hall – $6 Bud Light cans ($25 buckets of 5)
• Ivy and Coney
• Stoney’s
• Upstate FTW at Sports and Social DC – (FanDuel sportsbook) – $25 deal (cheesy arancini, sandwich/salad, domestic bottle)
• Whitlow’s – $30 beer buckets, discounted food
• The Muni
• Jake’s Tavern – $13 pitchers of Miller Lite & Jake’s Lager

Cleveland Park/Woodley Park

• Cleveland Park Sports Bar & Grill –

Columbia Heights / Petworth / Park View

• The Midlands – $5 beer specials

Foggy Bottom / Georgetown/Downtown/Glover Park

• The Bottom Line –