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That huge sports bar All Star is slated to open August 8, so that’s another potential spot.

Cheers, Boyce

It’s a reminder of just how relatively poorly served we are for sports bars in this town.

Your only conspicuous omission is Sangria, which is an utterly charmless basement/sub-basement bar on Lucky Street, next to White Rabbit. It has so-so food, it’s fairly inexpensive, and it has a foreign satellite feed and two big projection screens. It’s primarily a football bar, though, so it may show pre-season warm-up games in preference to the Olympics.

They’re going to try to project satellite TV on the wall opposite the deck at Saddle Cantina. Decent picture, but I’m not sure how well the sound will work – and I suspect they risk getting themselves shut down, since that would be kind of ‘outside entertainment’.

The old Zoo bar down by Houhai, now renamed Zoom, is trying to position itself as a sports bar; they have a decent-sized screen, but no foreign satellite, I don’t think. A cheap option, with a pleasant view of the lake, if you don’t mind trying to enjoy your Olympics on CCTV5.

During the last football World Cup they put up a huge outdoor screen on the altar in Ritan Park, and the whole of that central circular enclosure was turned into a slightly upscale night-market, with lots of foreign bars and restaurants running food and drink stalls. That was great. I don’t think there’s anything similar happening this summer, though – probably not “secure” enough.