Dallas-Fort Worth Sports Bars From Burnt Orange Nation

In true hookem' horns fashion the writers in Big D and beyond have come through in a  big way with sports bar recommendations from all over the Dallas-Fort Worth Region!

UTtailgaters really brought it with this review of Fort Worth:

Cowtown’s allowed to play, too, right?

If I’m at a sports bar, I want to watch sports. So I’m looking for:
1. Good TV set-up (quality, quantity, layout)
2. Competent staff…I’m sick to death of missing part of a game because the idiot manager doesn’t know the difference between ESPN and ESPN2. 
3. Everything else (prices, food, beer selection, scenery) are all nice to haves

1. Woody’s Tavern - It’s out of the way for all you Dallasites, located in SW Fort Worth. But it’s my #1 sports bar for the following:

• Tons of TVs, 5 proj screens. More importantly, people that know how to work them. Rest assured, you will NEVER find Judge Judy showing on 4 ignored TVs while College Football Saturday is in full swing.
• This is the site where the infamous drunk Dirk and Steve Nash photos were taken. Look em up.
• When the Mavs made their Finals run, I had about as good a time at Woody’s as I’ve had at any bar, any time. It felt as close as possible to actually being at the game.
• No food menu. Beer selection is mostly big domestics, but you can enjoy a St. Arnolds, Rahr, or Real Ale offering. Some decent Texas beer representation. If you want to order in a pizza, they don’t care.
• When the sports are over, Woody’s features decent local/Texas live acts on weekends, skewing towards the country genre.

2. The Pour House - When Pour House moved from downtown FW to West 7th, they upgraded everything from the old spot. Great TV setup, etc.

However, it doesn’t really feel like a sports bar anymore. Kinda clubby. The place was awesome for World Cup, but if your particular game runs well into Friday or Saturday night, you’ll be pushing your way through the hair gelled Affliction mob to get out of there.

No tap beer offered at Pour House. Bottles, mostly domestics and some macromicros. Menu is above average sports bar food.

3. 7th Haven - If you’re at the Pour House you may as well check out the bars all around that area. From Pour House you’ll see 7th Haven across the street. Doesn’t look like a sports bar, especially when you walk in. But it has 3 nice large screens right above the bar. And one out on the patio if the game’s in the evening. If you don’t need to watch 100 games at once, this is an underrated spot.

For the Super Bowl, this bar was the self-appointed home bar of Steeler fans. They flew in Iron City and everything. I haven’t forgiven them yet, but somebody had to make those jerks feel at home. I guess.

It may not be a sports bar, but the last time I was there, my buddy asked for a PBR. The waitress grabbed the remote, and switched one TV to PBR…Professional Bull Riding, on FSSW. He simply wanted a Pabst. True story. She was a little embarrassed. However, I was amazed that she knew that a) Bull riding was even on at that time and b) That she knew on which channel to find it.

Hopkins Horn shares his memories of Uptown:

It's been a few years since I live in Dallas, so, I type this without even knowing if the bar still exists, but I liked watching games at McKinney Avenue Tavern (MAT) in Uptown. Fun place without being Uptown-pretentious, and I’ll always remember it as the place I was buying compete strangers shots in the late hours of January 3, 2006.

Christies, also in Uptown, was pretty good as well.

UT Fanatic gives us the scoop on Flower Mound:

Z Bar and Grill in Flower Mound is a great spot for games. 10-12 beers on tap. Very good menu (really good sandwiches). Great site lines to the TVs . Many alumni/fan groups in the area meet there quite bit. i.e. Texas Exes, TCU Alum, Buckeye Alum, Steeler Nation, Bo Sox/Yankee Fan Groups, etc. Talented and good looking bartenders and waitresses. They also have live bands on Fridays and Saturday nights that kick up after the games finish (Kind of turns into a Cougar Den at this point. If you’re into that sort of thing :). Most spots in the area are non-smoking these days, and this is no exception so that’s nice. No smoke billowing up in your view in front of the TV. If I can help set anything up feel free to email me. I’ve been going to this place for years and will let the owner know.

There are many more after the jump, so keep reading to get a great view of where to go and how to get there in DFW:

Zamm likes:

They do show sports on the 5 TVs at the Lakewood landing, but it’s hardly a sports bar. It’s an “upscale dive” (their words) and has astonishingly good food, all things considered. Was my home bar for many, many years before I became domesticated. Mostly a hipster crowd, but there was some genuine fervor during the ALCS and World Series.

Longhornfan7628 had this to say:

The Flying Saucer is actually a pretty decent place. There’s one in Addison and one in Garland (by Bass Pro) on Lake Ray Hubbard.

BoddickerIsClutch brought it with this post: (We keep it real on Sports Bar Nation)

Wizards (Tom mexico's Review) is ok if you dont mind smokers. The waitresses are scantily clad which is usually a good thing, but sometimes a bad thing.

Three Sheets is a sweet bar that has some TVs in the back area. Not really a sports bar per say though, but good pizza.

Theres always the Pluckers in old town, if you want a &^%$#'er version of the Pluckers on Burnet.

Humperdinks bar area is actually pretty good to watch sports at, though the chain-brewpub idea is much better done by BJ’s (waaaaaaaaaay better beer), their sports bar area is better at (Humper) Dinks.

Thats all I can think of, I normally bar to drink, not watch sports.

Then again there is Lakewood's First and 10. Only went there once, to see a Cowboys game.

Place was packed, very local bar feel, average age well over 30 so not the SMU crowd.

Whole place was into the game, was a great time. Dont know what its like without the Cowboys on though.

Tishdoobiest is a huge Pluckers fan:

3 Pluckers in DFW to choose from (in order of sports watching excellence):

1. - Arlington Heights location
2. - Grapevine location (114 & Main-ish)
3. - Lovers & Greenville (Old Town)
   Great food, Big beers, and lots of large HD TVs

Here are some Recommendations and insights from Hookem4life84:

Fox Sports Grill (Plano) – Yes, it’s a chain and I’m not a big fan of the place, but for a big game the atmosphere is pretty cool inside. The openness of the place allows for optimal viewing of the projection screen and many flats screens, along with the fake breasted Plano women who walk by. I sat among the A&M/LSU fans for the Cotton Bowl and the place was rocking. I really only suggest this place if the SBN reps will be in town on a night like the Final Four, any other random night it sort of sucks.

The Londoner Pub (Addison, Frisco, Uptown)- Huge selection of beer and great place to watch soccer. It’s really not a bad place at all to grab dinner, drink random beers like you’re a beer snob, and watch any sort of game.

The MAT (Uptown)- As Hopkins Horn suggested used to be a pretty good place, not sure if it still is. The problem is if you plan on watching a game that ends after 9pm, it will get too crowded. I know a lot of people who have better success watching afternoon games there.