Top 5 Valley Sports Bars

🔥 Top 10 Valley Sports Bars

It’s a low bar, folks. Literally.

Let’s be real: the bar for being a good sports bar in Arizona is lower than Kyler Murray behind his O-line. All we want are the basics:

Cold beer (not just in the name — looking at you, Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers… more like Lukewarm Beer & Sad Fries)
At least one edible menu item — preferably wings. Maybe pizza if you’re classy.
Some waitress eye candy — We lost a lot of good women to old town bottlegirl status, IG and only fans, but can we at least get a solid 8 from time to time?
And FOR THE LOVE OF FORMER-PHOENIX SUNS GLORY, PLAY THE LOCAL DAMN TEAMS ON TV.
We get it, transplant Terry. You just moved from Chicago. But it’s ASU vs Texas in the playoffs — this ain’t the time to ask for the Bulls game.

Anyway, here’s the list:

🥇 1. JT’s Bar and Grill

This is the Mecca of Valley sports bars. Not joking — JT’s wings are national treasure level. Fried and grilled. Medium and/ or the works is the move here.

Vibe: A glorious mix of degenerates, Arcadia bros, old rich guys in flip flops, and possibly the governor (not joking). Unofficial 19^th hole for Arizona Country Club. Probably sitting next to a guy worth $50M and you’d never know it.
Seating capacity: Approximately 7. If you get a walkway seat, wear pads.
Waitstaff: Same two ladies since the Larry Fitzgerald era.
TVs? Local teams only — or you can get the hell out.
Bonus: Touchtunes jukebox = elite power move if you want to hijack the vibe remotely.

🥈 2. Zipps Sports Grill

The OG Valley chain. Some locations are great, some feel like you walked into a Costco food court. But the wings and focaccia? Still undefeated.

Order: Golden medium + pepper jack focaccia. That’s it.
Drinks: Happy Hour used to be $3 for a beer bigger than your head. Now? $9 Zipparitas, but we adjust.
Downside: 46 TVs, not a single local game on. You will have to politely reintroduce your waitress to the concept of “home team.”

🥉 3. Twin Peaks

This could’ve been #1 a decade ago. Back when the beer was 32°, and the waitresses were too hot to make eye contact with.

Now? Mostly tatted West Valley moms with vape breaks.
But the beer temp? Still colder than a D-backs crowd in May.
Pro move: They are rocking game audio. They even switch it to music during commercials, which is elite bar etiquette.
Food: Mid, but you’ll survive on beer that’s so perfectly chilled there are icebergs floating on top.

The Lodge (Tempe)

Hidden in a Tempe corner near Sun Devil Stadium, this is a certified pregame gem.

Warning: They host Iowa State watch parties. Your red-and-gold confusion will be valid.
Wings slap.
Vibe is chill, but don’t expect bottle girls — this isn’t Old Town.
Walkable to the game… if you’re cool with rolling the dice on a $40 pedicab ride after.

Crown Public House

Right next to Footprint and Chase Field.

Translation: The best place to pregaming for a Suns/D-backs game because it’s the only place.
Food: Better than stadium food by a country mile.
TVs: They have to show local games — they’re 100 feet away.
Docked points for also hosting soccer nerds at 6AM, but we’ll let it slide.

❌ NOT ON THE LIST:

Any place that turns into a club after 8PM. If the waitress is offering bottle service with sparklers mid-Suns game, it’s not a sports bar — it’s a trap.

💀 Honorable Mentions:

K O’Donnell’s – Great for fantasy drafts and pretending you’re not in north Scottsdale.
The Bar – Ironically named, perfectly divey.
Trevor’s Cigar Lounge – Cigars, TV’s and the #1 pizza in Arizona.
T-Bird Tavern – Feels like an old bar in a movie where someone definitely starts a bar fight after a Coyotes goal.

Final Thoughts:

Arizona might not have the deepest bench when it comes to sports bars, but when you find the good ones — with cold beer, spicy wings, and local teams on TV — they feel like home.

Now if we could just get one of them to not play Creed when the Cardinals go down two touchdowns in the first quarter.