Bars & Nightlife
10 Best Myrtle Beach Restaurants & Bars to Watch Football

Dave & Buster’s is the ultimate place to catch a football game. This sports bar, restaurant, and arcade, is located at Broadway at the Beach and is an upscale sports bar with a large wall full of HDTVs along with tons of seating perfect for viewing the game. While watching the game, dig into wings, burgers, ribs, appetizers, and tons of other delicious meal items, as well as beer and signature craft cocktails from the bar.

The Grumpy Monk is becoming a popular local chain, with locations in Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, and Carolina Forest. All three locations have plenty of TVs that will have football streaming on Saturdays and Sundays. Pick your closest location and head over for delicious food and cold beer, and take advantage of the gameday specials they run on weekends during the football season. The Grumpy Monk is owned by local Coastal Carolina University alumnus, so expect to find the CCU game on, as well as the USC and Clemson games and any other big games airing at the time.

With more large projection screens than anywhere else on the beach, this cavernous Broadway at the Beach bar is the perfect spot to catch pretty much any game. On Saturdays and Sunday throughout the fall you’ll find it filled with fans — including an especially large contingent of West Virginia University backers. There’s also food specials, pitchers of beer and drinks of all kinds. And if that waasn’t enough the OTHER half of the bar is an enormous arcade filled with every type of game you can imagine.

Fans of this popular sports bar chain know what they’re getting here. In fact it’s right in their slogan Wings. Beer. Sports.” There are few that do it better than these guys. There are two locations in Myrtle Beach, including in Carolina Forest near U.S. 501 and Carolina Forest Boulevard and in North Myrtle Beach at the Gator Hole shopping center off of U.S. 17.

Adjoining the locally-famous sandwich shop Dagwood’s, is Bumstead’s a classic sports pub with excellent food to match. Grab a sandwich with both hands because it’s stacked to the ceiling and wash it down with a wide range of domestics and imports. Big screen TVs carry all the big games, and each booth features their own TVs for those looking for a more intimate game experience. One word of warning to Dallas Cowboys fans – this is a Washington Redskins hangout so you might want to sneak out early if the Cowpokes are choking.

This English pub is THE place in Myrtle Beach for fans of the other football — a.k.a. soccer — but also serves as a perfectly good spot to catch the American version of the game. Located in Carolina Forest, it’s well away from the hustle and bustle of tourist traffic and there’s plenty to like including 28 TVs and more than two dozen beers available. But the pub is also famous for its grub, including appetizers such as the Beer-Battered Pickles and Brit Chips and main dishes like the monstrous Meatloaf Sandwich and Fish and Chips.

King Street Grill is located in The Market Common and serves as one of the main hubs for Steeler fans on the beach, playing home to the local Black & Gold club. Featuring a large bar area that’s literally wall-to-wall sports — it’s covered in a huge mural of a football stadium — it’s a great place to catch a game or just enjoy a meal with the family (they’ve got great sandwiches and salads).

For Pittsburgh Steelers fans on the Grand Strand, this hangout is the next best thing to a trip to Heinz Field. In fact, patrons even painted the bar black and gold following the Steelers’ last Super Bowl victory. Transplants and visitors from the Steel City flock to this North Myrtle Beach restaurant and bar to catch the game and experience the camaraderie they normally only get back in Pittsburgh, but fans of all teams are welcome. Cold beer and hot food, like the half-pound, hand-batted burgers that are char-grilled to perfection and melt in your mouth upon impact, are the only things that keep this crowd quiet, aside from a Steelers’ loss.

For those not acuainted with this southern chain restaurant, think of it like Buffalo Wild Wings on steroids. Everything’s bigger, brighter and better here from the size of the wings to the variety of sauces to the huge, well-lit dining room of the Barefoot Landing Location. With indoor and outdoor seating along the lake, this place has a great atmosphere and some of the best food on the beach. Whether it’s huge sampler platters of tasty wings, great chicken sandwiches and burgers or amazing appetizers, they’ve got it all. Football is a big draw here, with the North Myrtle Beach Browns Backers gathering here each Sunday — not to mention plenty of other NFL fans of all allegiances. When it comes to college, you’ll find plenty of USC, Clemson, Marshall and Ohio State fans lurking around.