Best Sports Bars in Naples

Part of a Florida-wide chain, this is the first Duffy's to have arrived on the gulf coast in 2015. Wings and burgers are the winners here. Its wings come in about 80 different varieties when you multiply the different flavors by choice of boneless and traditional, hand-breaded or naked. The menu, however, is as extensive as the variety of sports that airs on more than 100 TV sets. Starters include flatbreads, mini-tacos, Tex-Mex, chili and dips. Choose your main course from specialties such as baby back ribs and coconut shrimp, pasta such as shrimp scampi and chicken mac 'n' cheese, sandwiches including tarragon chicken salad and New York Reuben, or burgers such as the Hangover Burger with pepper-crusted bacon and a fried egg.

Named for the street behind Boston's Fenway Park that many a pub and bar call home, Lansdowne Street's loyalty to the Boston Red Sox, who play their spring training games in Fort Myers, is blatant. Outside, a courtyard with a fire pit has street signs indicating the intersection of Lansdowne Street and Yawkey. Inside, Boston memorabilia, including a Green Monster scoreboard, decorate the space around the handsome bar. More than a dozen craft beers on tap, including Bonita Springs' own Momentum, and a long list of bottled and canned brews make this a beer lover's paradise. Besides Boston favorites - "clam chowda" and lobster roll, the food menu lists pages of sandwiches, burgers and paninis paired with beers.

Not your average dimly lit sports bar, this one sports walls of windows that lighten up its interior. Clean and inviting, it boasts more than 30 TVs, 100 tequilas and 100 craft beers. Score! Pizza is the mainstay of the food menu, along with other sports bar staples such as wings, chili and American comfort food. Friday nights bring karaoke starting at 9 p.m. Live music entertains from 5 to 8 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. Also on Saturday nights, Ladies Night offers drink specials. Daily happy hour discounts $1 off all beer, $5 off cocktails and house wines and 20 percent off appetizers.

This has an obvious appeal to Boston expats, snowbirds and tourists. It's not the only sports bar in the region that packs in Boston fans, thanks to the close proximity of the Boston Red Sox spring training facility in Fort Myers. The true bar-flies populate the outdoor bar and beer garden, indoor is for people who want to order off the extensive menu while they drink their beer and watch the game. Of course, there's New England clam chowder on the menu, plus a slew of bar food dishes such as wings and burgers. The white truffle mac and cheese and chicken pot pie are signatures. Nearly 50 different beers on tap and in bottles earn the place the "beer" in its name, including three rotating draft beers.

It most likely has the best natural view of any Naples area sports bar, overlooking Naples Bay in Bayfront Place shopping and entertainment complex. But despite its 130 inch HD TV and vast complement of other flat screens, its identity extends beyond the confines of a sports bar. Its Wednesday trivia nights spark a different type of team competition, live and cocktail fueled. Signature drinks include Strawberry Basil Lemonade made with organic vodka and the Tavern Rum Bucket with three types of rum. In the food department, redemption dishes for the near sotted include Fatty Patty Melt with honey-roasted onions, Cuban Sliders and ribs.

Located at the base of the Apollo Condominium complex and adjacent to the access for South Marco Beach, it has the proper casual beach bar feel. It actually has two bars. The outdoor bamboo bar serves guests who prefer drinking and dining al fresco. But keep a close watch on your food: Seagulls like to zip through and help themselves. There's access to Sunset Grille right from the beach, so it attracts a lot of hungry, thirsty beachers. Inside where it's cooler, the other bar encompasses sports televisions. Most people come for finger food, sandwiches, burgers and seafood baskets, but the menu also tackles seafood, ribs and pasta.

On the lobby floor at Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort in Bonita Springs, you will find one of the area's most upscale sports bars in a clubby, intimate setting that spills out onto two patios overlooking the resort's stunning fountain feature. A handsome billiard table occupies one of the patios and 60-inch TVs broadcast. Inside, a bank of 48-inch televisions surround the space above the circular bar. Highly suitable to the sports fan who wants to watch the game in relative quiet, martini in hand, Mangrove Bar scores a touchdown. The bar opens at 3 p.m. daily and serves a select menu of munchies such as flatbreads or conch fritters until midnight.

Named in honor of the late stadium for the New England Patriots, this East Naples bar comes as no surprise in its devotion to New England teams. The sheer number of TVs may come as a surprise - there are even individual TVs set into some of the booths. The taverns motto - "Wicked Food, Killer Cocktails, and Awesome Service" - doesn't lie. The long two-sided menu lists regional specialties such as New England clam chowder, Lobsterman Casserole, Lobstah Salad Roll, grinders, "Vermonsta" loaded nachos, cod 'n' chips, Ipswich clam roll and Boston baked scrod. The rest is typical pub fare - wings, pizza, burgers and chili plus salads, steaks and wraps. No real surprises in the beer department - mostly domestics and typical imports. A spinoff bar was set to open in Bonita Springs in September 2019.

You need not be a Green Bay Packers or Florida State University Seminoles fan to enter, but duly note that you will be in the minority here, where Packers and 'Noles memorabilia hang in between dozens of sport TVs. The two indoor and one outdoor bars pour more than 12 draft beers alone. Pelican Larry's, which has a spinoff in East and North Naples, wins awards for its raw bar and chicken wings. It is also proud of its seven varieties of burgers, sliders, fried baskets, Neapolitan pizza, grouper Reuben, Philly cheesesteak and spicy taco queso dip. The three seating areas are spacious but crowded when the big games air.

You do not have to be a Boston Red Sox fan to enter and enjoy, but if you are here to cheer on the Yankees, you may want to turn around. A spinoff of Lansdowne Street in Bonita Springs, it even recreates the Green Monster scoreboard inside, where a mounted moose head wearing a Red Sox hat greets you at the door above the fireplace. A beautiful wood bar with more than a dozen tap handles fills the dimly lit pub. If you prefer a lighter atmosphere, head for the courtyard. It doesn't have as many sports TVs as the bar, but it has some. The long list of craft beers includes a good showing of Florida brews. Its long menu of sandwiches and bar noshes is equally impressive. In fact, it is known as much for its food as its bar scene.