Many this Sunday will be watching the Super Bowl from a couch. But if a bar stool is more your speed, with pro chefs and bartenders eager to serve, you’ve got about as many core options as an offensive coordinator.
New Haven’s most popular sports bar, The Trinity, is offering its usual screens galore—plus, I’m told, Miller Lite specials ($15 pitchers/$5 drafts), food specials (TBA) and an NFL jersey, probably a Patriots one, for raffle (get tickets by purchasing that Miller Lite).
Eighty Proof promises “the party of the year” with $3 drafts, $1 wings, Puerto Rican food specials (nodding to halftime performer Bad Bunny) and DJ Uptown Ric.
Similarly, Chacra promises a “next-level game day experience” powered by DJ Alpaka, with “massive LED screens, full stadium-style game sound [and] beer, shots, wings, guacamole and more food specials.”
With all eyes on its own “massive screen,” Riva (West Haven) offers a $25 buffet, game-time drink specials and “raffles and giveaways.”
Transilvania (East Haven) and La Lupa (North Haven, bar only) also promise buffet action, for $29 and $30, respectively.
The game starts at 6:30, but Diesel Lounge is encouraging people to come early—extremely early, with free appetizers from noon to 6 and “drink specials all day.” Also expect halftime raffle prizes including a big TV, coolers, gift cards and more.
Along with catering packages for home watch parties, Geronimo and Camacho Garage are offering dine-in guests their happy hour menus, usually only available on weekday afternoons, from 6 p.m. on.
Blue Tortuga, meanwhile, is selling $30 six-beer buckets and $1 wings for dine-in as well as takeout party trays.
If you want a smoke-filled room, the Owl Shop says they’ll be showing the game. But if you want fanfare and dinner, too, a BYOB watch party at Vanguard Cigar Club (Branford) offers an Italian-style meal ($10 for members, $25 for others) and a raffle.
If you want neither smoke nor fanfare, Barcade, Delaney’s, Duffy’s (West Haven) and Jack’s will have the game on, I’m told, but otherwise proceed with business as usual. Same goes for The Cannon, though usual business here means weekly live jazz, making it all but impossible to watch the game.
Of course, if you’d rather heed quartets than quarters, you know where to go.
Written by Dan Mims. Photographed by Monkey Business Images (Shutterstock). Readers are encouraged to check details before attending events.
