DC’s Sports Bars

Last Updated: November 1, 2021

There’s still plenty of sports bars in DC, self-proclaimed or otherwise, as the list below evidences.

Self-Proclaimed (via name or explicit marketing)

Navy Yard

  • Walter’s Sports Bar (30+ TVs, 220″ TV, 8 outdoor)
  • The Big Stick (12 TVs)
  • Stadium Sports Bar (roughly 12 TVs)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (at least 30 TVs)
  • Bullpen (seasonal outdoor lot bar)

Penn Quarter/Chinatown

  • Penn Quarter Sports Tavern (35 TVs, several outdoors)
  • Penn Social (14 TVs includes 1 264″ projection TV, 9 120″ screens)
  • Proper 21 (18 TVs)
  • President’s Sports Bar (Renaissance Hotel)

Dupont

  • Lucky Bar (25 TVs, including 3 big screens)
  • Public Bar Live (48 TVs, including 4 on outdoor rooftop)
  • McClellan’s Sports Bar (Hilton) (15 TVs)

Adams Morgan

  • The Game Sports Pub (14 TVs)
  • Pitchers / A League of Her Own (19 TVs)

H Street/Capitol Hill

  • Dirty Water (17 TVs, including outdoor TVs)
  • The Ugly Mug/Valor Brew Pub (at least 10 TVs)

Shaw/U Street

  • High Velocity (Marriott Marquis) (36 TVs)
  • Nellie’s Sports Bar (around 11 TVs, some outdoor)
  • The District Sports Bar (7 TVs)

Cleveland Park / Tenleytown

  • Cleveland Park Sports Bar & Grill (over 40 TVs, some outdoor)

Columbia Heights / Petworth

  • Lou’s City Bar (24 TVs including 140″ projector, 3 outdoor)

Lots of TVs / Often Feels Like Sports Bar For Certain Events

Capitol Hill 

  • Union Pub (27 TVs)
  • The Brig Beer Garden (10 TV plus 1 300″ projection after-dark, outdoors)
  • Hamilton’s (at least 7 TVs)
  • Irish Times (10 TVs)

Navy Yard

  • Mission Navy Yard (at least 10 TVs)

H Street

  • Biergarten Haus (20 TVs, almost all outdoor)
  • The Queen Vic (soccer) (9 TVs including 1 projection screen)
  • The Big Board (5 TVs)
  • H Street Country Club (15 TVs including 4 on roof) (currently closed)

Dupont

  • 1831 Bar & Lounge (at least 6 TVs)
  • The Board Room (9 TVs)
  • Madhatter (at least 10 TVs)
  • The Admiral (at least 18 TVs, at least 3 outside)
  • Across the Pond (11 TVs including 1 projection screen, at least 1 outdoor TV)

Penn Quarter / Chinatown

  • Irish Channel (soccer) (9 TVs)
  • Rocket Bar (at least 10 TVs)
  • Yard House (at least 15 TVs)

Shaw / U Street / Logan Circle

  • Ivy and Coney (around 8-9 TVs) (at least 4 outdoor tvs)
  • Solly’s (around 9 TVs) (currently outdoors only)
  • Sudhouse (around 4-5 TVs)
  • Stoney’s (around 8 TVs)
  • Exile’s (around 7 TVs)
  • Franklin Hall (8 70″ TVs)

Downtown

  • Blackfinn (at least 10 TVs)

Columbia Heights

  • The Midlands Beer Garden (at least 6-7 TVs)

Adams Morgan

  • The Blaguard (8 TVs)

Georgetown / Foggy Bottom / Glover Park

  • Church Hall (17 TVs)
  • Stoney’s on L (at least 7 TVs) (currently not open)
  • Wingo’s Glover Park (around 4 TVs)

Cleveland Park/Tenleytown

  • Nanny O’Brien’s (at least 7 TVs including 1 projector)