Best sports bar: Grotto Pizza

Fans from the Newark area can enjoy cheering their favorite teams to victory while downing Grotto's famous $2.25 25-ounce Bud Light and demolishing a large cheese pizza for $11.99, all while surrounded by 25 flat screen televisions. Grotto Pizza gives all the necessities a sports fan requires in order to enjoy any event.

When tickets to see your favorite team in the playoffs escape you, worry not, for every Grotto bar patron can count on catching the big game there. The popular sports bar and restaurant carries various cable packages, so all types of fans are attracted to the establishment. Their packages include the NFL Network, MLB Network and NBA Network, manager Russ Wiedenmann says.

"We make a big deal out of the games," Wiedenmann says. "But I also think our staff is what keeps people coming back too."

Wiedenmann says customers return because their staff gets to know each patron. Some bartenders already have beers poured by the time certain customers walk through the door.

Grotto Pizza also shows many sporting events that most other bars in the area would not even turn on, Wiedenmann says.

"A student came in here the other day asking for a college lacrosse game, which isn't a highly watched event in our restaurant," Wiedenmann says. "But we turned it on in perfect view from where he was sitting. We enjoy accommodating our customers with television selections versus their seating."

Another attraction is the half-priced appetizers and pizza during happy hour. Grotto also offers 16-ounce Coors Lights and Miller Lites between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. These are deals that would bring in customers of all lifestyles - from the typical college student on a budget to those who are ready to kick back and watch Lebron dunk on yet another victim.

Senior Matt Lopez says his Grotto sports bar experiences are always satisfying.

"Airing multiple games at once is always a plus for any bar," Lopez says. "But the mixture of cheap beer and fun environment is all you need."

So once your team has claimed victory (or perhaps to drown your sorrows if they haven't), make sure you do it at Grotto Pizza on Main. You'll laugh, you'll cry - good times will be had by all.

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