New York Magazine

An urban answer to the Wild West with beer pong and a nudie video game.

There's nary a collegiate cap in sight at this warm, unpretentious Upper East Side lounge.

A sports bar that's equal parts hometown clubhouse and out-of-town fan haven.

Since debuting as a lounge in 1951, this broken-in Irish cornerstone has grown into a comfortable, neighborhood niche in the sleepier stretches of Yorkville.

A congenial, casual, and (later at night) lively bar off-the-beaten path.

A trattoria-channeling Italian wine bar with over 100 wines by the glass and a futuristic back lounge.

A casual lounge with a mini-arcade that prompts impromptu PlayStation tournaments.

While not quite in keeping with the Thai kitchens, boutiques, and M.B.A. bars in its Upper East Side vicinity, this homey Irish pub wears its conspicuous nonstyle with pride.

Comfortably quirky neighborhood piano bar full of cabaret-loving regulars and singing staff.

The Bullpen is committed to its friendly sports-bar milieu.

If he likes his dates paired with Pinot, but you prefer coffee, compromise at this charming wine and coffee bar.

A standard food-and frill-free Irish bar a few blocks off the Upper East Side's well-beaten path.

This petite wine bar opens up a mature alternative to the Upper East Side pub crawl.

This Irish pub gathers an eclectic band of drifters like a street cart with Bud light and karaoke.

Post-game bombed Bombers and Ivy League alums collide at this Upper East Side baseball-centric Irish pub.

Find cheap beer, more screens than games, and a menu that extends beyond the standard fries, in this den of beveled wood and boys’-club booths.

Imported Belgian balls? This Upper East Side pool hall takes its game seriously.

As the flat screens on exposed brick suggest, this Irish pub doubles as a sports bar. What’s less expected is its status as a karaoke joint come Thursdays.

Manhattan can continue manufacturing one hot scene after another—Hughes and its weary roadhouse bonhomie will outlive them all.

Scope out a hottie foreign tourist and party like it's 1899.

This wooden sports bar is one of the busier weekend contenders along Second Avenue’s uptown stretch.

If you miss those bygone days of mucky bars that smell of stale beer, then Mad River is the place for you.

A traditional Irish pub—complete with a dark, wood-paneled interior, nine sports-blaring TVs, and a low-key crowd of usual suspects crowding the bar—in a neighborhood full of them.

Molly Pitchers is a traditionally minded Upper East Side institution with thumping rock and flat-screens.

A no-frills sports bar for embedded agents of Red Sox Nation.