New Jersey may be the Garden State, but it is also home to the Devils, Nets, Titans, CardSharks, and the New Jersey Pride sports teams. The state is home to many sports fanatics, who enjoy combining their love of the game with a meal or a night out. Luckily, fans can get their fill of both at sports bars located throughout the state. Sports bars offer food, drinks, games on television, and often diversions such as table games and live entertainment. Throughout New Jersey, you can catch your favorite game on TV while enjoying an entree, cold beverage, or sweet dessert.
Sports fans can visit five locations of PJ Whelihan's Pub in New Jersey; the Cherry Hill location is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Start off with an appetizer such as pot stickers, cheeseburger sliders, chili, or southwest egg rolls. Entrees include fish and chips, salmon, crab cakes, rack of ribs, and tuna steak. Lighter options include sandwiches (grilled veggie, chicken steak, tuna melt, grilled Reuben), salads, wings, burgers, and buffalo shrimp with seven sauces. The dessert menu offers chocolate peanut butter pie, cheesecake, apple pie, and a chocolate brownie. PJ Whelihan's offers a full bar, plus daily specials such as discounted domestic drafts on Saturday and a manager's pick special on Wednesday. Enjoy nightly entertainment such as live music and DJs. You can even participate in the bar's draft pick challenges, watch sports on television, and enjoy beer specials during the games. Casual attire.
PJ Whelihan's Pub
1854 E. Marlton Pike
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
856-424-8844
pjspub.com
The bar may be named the Big Apple Sports Palace, but its home is Bayonne, New Jersey. Catch a game on one of 30 televisions (three big screens) or enjoy live music every Thursday night, plus a DJ on Fridays and Saturdays. Big Apple has an outdoor tiki deck for enjoying beverages on seasonal evenings. Game enthusiasts may play shuffleboard, pool, darts, and pinball. A full bar of beer, wine, cocktails, and specialty mixed drinks is available. Big Apple serves a full menu as well, including entrees such as veal Marsala, chicken parmigiana, shrimp scampi, and a chicken fajita wrap. A rotating menu of specials is also available every Thursday through Saturday evening. Desserts include cannoli, tiramisu, tartufo, and cheesecake. The Big Apple Sports Palace is open every day for lunch, dinner, and late night cocktails; attire is casual.
Big Apple Sports Palace
412-414 Broadway
Bayonne, NJ 07002
201-858-1075
bigapplesportspalace.com
Sports enthusiasts may appreciate the unique, late-night atmosphere of the 40/40 Club, open every Friday and Saturday night from dinner through early morning hours in Atlantic City. Relax on comfortable couches with large pillows while watching a movie-theater-size screen showing the latest games and matches. The sports bar also has a cognac room and three VIP rooms, plus pool tables. Enjoy decorations such as autographed jerseys from players who wear the number 40. The bar's extensive drink menu includes wine, champagne by the bottle, alcohol by the bottle, and specialty martini drinks. Food is also available, such as appetizers (shrimp cocktail, chicken fingers, shrimp empanadas), sandwiches (Philly cheesesteak, vegetarian wrap), salads, entrees (catfish fingers, grilled eggplant, crab cakes) and dessert. Attire is upscale; business casual to elegant.
The 40/40 Club
2120 Atlantic Avenue
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
609-449-4040
ac.the4040club.com
