Housed in a building with a Prohibition past, this downtown favorite calls itself the city’s oldest bar. It’s a sports fan’s hotspot with complimentary shuttle service to all Red Wings, Lions, and Tigers games. The kitchen serves up bar food staples like wings, quesadillas, hot dogs, and burgers.

This longtime hockey bar on the west side of downtown Detroit recently changed hands and underwent a renovation. The updated menu features options like cheeseburgers, cheesesteaks, and chicken tenders. Anchor Bar serves specials on game days and offers a free shuttle to the ballpark and stadiums across town with a $10 purchase.

This sprawling Corktown bar is popular with sports fans thanks to its lengthy beer list, extensive pub food menu, and flat-screen TVs. Choose from options like corned beef egg rolls or the McShane burger with caramelized onions, cheddar, mushrooms, and bacon. Then hop on the bar shuttle to Ford Field for the Lions’ games. On weekends, there’s brunch.

Located inside the MGM Grand, TAP sports bar offers a relaxed dining atmosphere in a pub dedicated to sports. From top to bottom, TAP is decorated in memorabilia and offers 60 flat-screen TVs, so you’ll be hard-pressed to miss a touchdown. The restaurant tends to fill up quickly on big game days, so get there early.

True to its name, the Detroiter has served locals for decades. Stop in for a few beers or one of its famous burgers before the game and grab a free shuttle to Comerica Park, Little Caesars Arena, or Ford Field.

A few blocks from Ford Field, the Lions VIP Tailgate is a spacious hangout that opened in September 2021 in the former space of Punch Bowl Social bar, restaurant, and bowling alley. For a flat fee, fans can get access to an open bar, a buffet, pre-game TV broadcasts, gaming stations, and a DJ.

Grab a seat at the long bar. The narrow restaurant and whiskey bar features plenty of TVs and a casual atmosphere for sampling beverages with plates of fish and chips and four-cheese macaroni.

The Greektown-area outpost of Farmington favorite Basement Burger Bar is popular with sports fans grabbing a bite before a game or tuning in on TV. Whether customers are in the mood for a straight-forward cheeseburger or a bison patty piled high with barbecue sauce and onion straws, this place has a burger to suit the occasion.

Cass Corridor holdout Harry's Bar is a favorite meeting point for sports fans headed downtown. The spot boasts a full bar and a menu with choices ranging from jalapeño popper egg rolls to Reuben sandwiches. The TVs are always tuned to the current match and Harry’s shuttle service ferries fans to the major Detroit arenas during home games. There’s also a weekend brunch.

An old-school destination for whiskey and sports, Thomas Magee's is Eastern Market's answer to the sports bar genre. Follow all the local professional teams on the bar's ample TV screens plus Liverpool soccer, Spartans football, and more. Want to know what’s on the TV here? Follow the lineup is on the bar’s website.

This sports bar and grill offers four sizes of old-school burgers, including a towering 32-ounce sandwich that can be easily split between three or four hungry friends. Other favorites at this bar, which serves a diverse clientele, include the steak bites served with fries and thick slices of Texas toast.

Art and Jake’s is a sports bar with upscale eats typically not found in a sports bar. Sure, there’s burgers, nachos, and wings, but ribeye steak, baby back ribs, and Mediterranean salmon are served. Flat-screen TVs are everywhere you look — on the walls, bar, and are even on some tabletops. The bar and grill also has locations in Washington and Shelby Township.