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Ten ranked New Orleans bars for watching the game, from Irish Channel pubs and a German club to brewery taprooms, with Saints, LSU and soccer tips.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
New Orleans watches the game in black and gold. The Saints set the Sunday calendar, LSU owns the fall Saturdays, and the rooms that matter are the neighborhood ones. The city skews toward Irish bars, German clubs and brewery taprooms rather than big-box sports halls, so the best game day rooms here are local first and loud second.
We ranked these ten on the on disk bar guides our editors keep for the city, then cross checked each against independent local sources for game day fit. The Irish Channel pubs and French Quarter dives carry the Saints crowd, and the taprooms turn their screens to the slate on a Sunday.
Every venue below links to its full barsforKings profile. Use them to check hours, the room and what to order before you set out for a kickoff.
These are the local rooms that fill for a Saints Sunday. They run on neighborhood loyalty, late hours and the headline game rather than a wall of screens.
How we picked
Match the room to the day. For a Saints Sunday with the locals, Erin Rose and Parasol's are the neighborhood calls, with Sidney's the cheap, quiet option. For a group with room to spread out, NOLA Brewing and Urban South lead the taprooms, and Deutsches Haus is the soccer pick. The common thread here is local first. New Orleans watches the game in its own bars, not a big-box hall.
Every bar on this list links to its full barsforKings profile and was cross checked against at least one independent local guide before publishing. We ranked on the game day specifics that matter in New Orleans: the crowd, the neighborhood, the hours and how the room handles a Saints Sunday. We exclude venues we could not verify as open. For the method behind every game day guide, see our pillar guide to watching the game. Last reviewed June 3, 2026 .
Tom covers American sports bars from the French Quarter to the neighborhoods, and has watched the Saints and an LSU Saturday across the biggest rooms in New Orleans. His game day ranking weighs the screen count and feeds first, then the crowd, then how a room handles a Saints Sunday.
Last reviewed 2026-06-03 · The editors recheck hours and closures against current local coverage.