Ten Sports Grill

1302 Main Street
214.748.1010

Ten Sports Grill is not much unlike your local, dive bar – small, dark, and unremarkable. The bar can hold (including standing room) maybe 150 people. There aren’t 100 TVs showing every sporting event known to man. Instead, there is one large jumbo-screen and about eight other TVs posted throughout the bar. I counted only three different sporting matches being shown while I was there: Cowboys vs Colts (pre-season), a soccer match showcasing the uber-handsome (yet only moderately skilled) David Beckham, and something else that I can’t remember because clearly I didn’t find it relevant to my life. There are 3 or 4 large banquet tables in the center of the room, and various two and four-person tables scattered around them (all have seen better days). The chairs reminded me of those that were present in the banquet hall of my old Baptist church some twenty years ago – vinyl with really thin padding.

Located in downtown Dallas at the corner of Field and Main, the bar’s patrons were an interesting mix of downtown workers and “urbanites” that live on the south side of town. The crowd was loud and enthusiastic – most seemed to be serious sports fans. You could feel the pain in their groans at every incomplete pass, and revel in their cheers at every touchdown. Ten Sports Grill is not where you go to see and be seen; and perhaps that’s why it was voted as “best place to watch a game with a Maverick or a Cowboy” on citysearch.com. Professional athletes (and regular Joes and Janes) can go there and not be bothered with the pomp and circumstance of some other sports bars. I especially appreciated that, as a non-smoker in a room full of smokers, the air quality/ventilation was most excellent all things considered.

So if you’re a serious sports fan and for some reason your HD flat panel, big screen TV has died, then Ten Sports Grill is a fine substitute.

Tip: Thursday nights there are happy-hour drink specials all night long and all appetizers are 2 for $10.

http://www.tensportsgrill.com/