Top Ten Broward-Palm Beach Sports Bars to Watch Football In

Kingshead Pub -  The Kingshead British Pub Sunrise is a small but cozy Tudor-style pub and restaurant with a friendly British and American staff. Offering more than 50 beers, ales, ciders, and stouts, the pub is a favorite of craft beer drinkers. The menu is composed of hearty classics such as authentic English pot pies and handmade Black Angus burgers (Royale with cheese). British favorites include beer-battered cod and hand-cut chips, Scotch eggs, cottage pie, and several other hard-to-find dishes. Many specialty items are imported from across the pond: Walkers English Crisps, Brandston pickles, and Heinz Baked Beans. If you want a slightly different setting to watch the game, this could be your place.

Po' boys and pigskin -- a great combo.

​Shuck-N-Dive Cajun Sports Cafe -  A bona fide taste of Mardi Gras in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Shuck-N-Dive serves the tastiest sauces -- the booze kind and the hot kind -- of Nawlins. From Abita to Turbodog, Big Easy brews complement the establishment's décor, which is as carnivalesque as a Mardi Gras parade float with its purple, green, and gold color scheme. Although the restaurant takes up most of the space -- the food is superb -- the bar is a great place to grab a seat, a beer, watch football -- go LSU! -- and chow down on a po' boy. (Please, just don't call it a poor boy.) No smoking allowed, but the food makes going outside every time you need your nic fix worth it.

Wowies Sports Grill - Do you love the bawdy locker-room vibe at Hooters but wonder why beautiful girls subject themselves to the garish orange getup, with support hose and high-top sneaks? (Hint: student loans) If so, then head to this sexy sports bar, where the dress code is often as hot as the wings coming out of the kitchen. With a staff decked out in corsets and short-shorts, you'd think the food was an afterthought -- but the menu is surprisingly lengthy, with dishes like chicken bruschetta, Gorgonzola-topped steak panini, steamed mussels, handmade zeppole dusted with powdered sugar, and a host of other inventive sandwiches and salads.

Yard House - Here's a rollicking spot for beer lovers. The chain restaurant from California, named for the yard-high glass originally created to serve stagecoach drivers, spurts more than 200 beers on tap -- the main draw. A unique system of chilled taps that run in long lines to the keg room keeps beers fresh and tasty -- and with a sampler option, hop-heads can try several at a sitting. The huge island bar with stools in the center of the room parallels the open kitchen, where American fusion dishes fly out the service windows. It's a busy, lively spot in the Downtown at the Gardens mall, with classic rock on the speakers day and night. A late-night in-the-biz crowd comes for an after-shift brew. Moviegoers and families can be found at early hours, noshing on burgers (don't miss the béarnaise sliders), sandwiches, personal pizzas, and a good salad selection. Even the kids' menu has healthful sides such as jasmine rice or a green salad. A special "gluten sensitive" menu also is available. It's value-priced too -- the reason you see so many regulars here.

500 beers + NFL = Heaven

​World of Beer - Less a sports bar than a beer lover's wet dream, World of Beer does have a cadre of flat screens positioned strategically around the bar and seating area so the 'Fins game is never far away. Besides: Where else can you drink from more than 500 beers and eat grub from nearly every restaurant in the Coconut Creek Promenade? Asian, pizza, burgers, Mexican -- it's all within reach at World of Beer.