Best Sports Bar
2011 FinalistBarney's Beanery
1351 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 656-5777
Much as it pains us to admit it, this chain of large, garish bars turns out to be a pretty damn fine place to watch a game. There are so many TVs that it looks like someone told Xzibit and the folks at West Coast Customs that they liked TVs and let them loose in a Best Buy. There are TVs at your table, in the bathrooms, on the ceiling, and plenty of other places that you would never look. There's a miniature movie theater that has about eight TVs in it, which sometimes show the same thing and sometimes don't. We were actually disappointed to see that our pint glass didn't have a TV in the bottom for mid-chug viewing. As you might expect the crowd is radically different depending on which location you visit, from the students in Westwood to the business bros in Old Town Pasadena, but wherever you are in this city, you can rest easy knowing you're not too far from a great place to have a beer and watch the game. Just don't try to go on a non-game weekend if you value your sanity.
Source:
LA Weekly
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