Bars and Restaurants with Live Music

Here’s a suggested list of local bars and restaurants in and around Fort Lauderdale where you can enjoy live music on most weekends and sometimes during the week too.

Cheers

Cheers Restaurant and Bar in Sunrise has live music, sports, karaoke, Beer Pong, Corn-hole, Flip-Cup, Jumbo-Jenga and Adult Twister, trivia, bingo, NFL, football, basketball, baseball, boxing, great food, ITB specials and more fun things to do every night of the week. Fort Lauderdale location is best known for its' late night ITB crowd.

Premier Billiards Sports Club

Located on the corner of Wiles and University, Premier Billiards Sports Club is a Pool Hall, Sports Bar and Live Entertainment Venue all rolled into one. Live Bands and DJ every weekend.  Drink specials every day, 15 Pool Tables, 4 Dart Boards, Large Screen TV's and more!

Packy's Sports Pub

Food & Drink Specials Every Day! Live Bands Every Friday & Saturday! There's always something happening at Packy's Sports Pub in Lighthouse Point! Located 1 mile north of Sample Road on the East side of US1 • Non-smoking venue with free parking and great Irish fare.

Shooters Waterfront

Shooters Waterfront is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Watch the boats cruise by at the most scenic weekend brunch in Fort Lauderdale every Saturday and Sunday. Set a tranquil tone for the weekend with live music and a Caribbean vibe at the outdoor Tiki bar or in the chic waterside lounge area.

Galuppi's 

A full service restaurant and banquet room with breathtaking views of water fountains and sunsets on the Pompano Beach golf course greens. Covered Patio bar is a favorite place to eat and enjoy fresh air and live music on weekends.

Brendan's Sports Pub

Friendly, local neighborhood pub, with pool tables, dart boards, weekly karaoke and live music in a non-smoking bar with late-nite kitchen too.  Brendan's is located along Federal Highway midway between Atlantic Blvd and McNab Rd.

Fishtales Restaurant & Nightclub

A restaurant, bar and nightclub all rolled into one! Located just north of Oakland Park Blvd off A1A, Fishtales serves a complete menu of seafood and grilled specialties for lunch or dinner. A local favorite in North Beach Fort Lauderdale, "Fishtales on 33rd" offers a full liquor bar with live entertainment every night of the week.

Tailgators Sports Bar & Grille

Why go anywhere else when you’ve got a friendly neighborhood bar and grill with great food, service, live music, karaoke, full liquor bar, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner 7 days a week with a super large screen and stage plus large screens on every wall to catch your favorite sports, a pool table and more!

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North Broward 

Tailgators Sports Bar & Grille 1825 W. Hillsboro Blvd. Deerfield Beach

Deerfield Beach
JB’s on the Beach (restaurant on the beach)
Kahuna Bar & Grill (dive bar with small stage across the street from the beach)
Oceans 234 (restaurant on the beach)
St Pat’s Irish Pub (new! Formerly American Rock Bar & Grill)
Tailgators Sports Bar & Grille (new! Large Stage & screens, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner menu)

Lighthouse Point
Packy’s Sports Pub * ( Sports bar & Irish menu restaurant)

Coconut Creek
Nectar Lounge at Seminole Coconut Creek Casino
NYY Legends Lounge (Casino)
Sunset Grill (outdoor cafe at Casino)
World of Beer (at the Promenade)

Margate
O’Malley’s Sports Bar

Coral Springs
American Craft Kitchen & Taproom (Formerly The Brass Tap)
JD’s Lounge (Smoking Permitted, Local Neighborhood Bar)
Premier Billiards & Sports Club * (large stage and pool hall with 15 tables)
Tavolino Della Nonna (Upscale Italian Restaurant with Jazz Lounge)

Pompano Beach
26 Degrees Brewing Co.
Brendan’s Sports Pub * (non smoking, pool & dart leagues)
BrewFish Bar & Grill
Briny Irish Pub (Irish pub by the beach)
Chit Chats (Closed May, 2018)

Galuppi’s * (Banquet hall and outdoor covered patio-bar with stage overlooking Golf Course)

Mickey’s (Biker friendly Tiki Bar)
RIPs Sports Bar (Inside Diamond Strikes Bowling Alley)

Central and West Broward

Fort Lauderdale (North Beach/East-Side)
33rd Street Wine Bar
Blue Jean Blues (Jazz & Blues 7 days a week)
Dive Bar (Corner of  NE 33rd and A1A)
Fishtales Restaurant & Nightclub * (on 33rd street, seafood specialty & bar, Live music 7 days a week)

Kelly Brothers Irish Pub

Murphy’s Tavern
Park & Ocean (inside Hugh Taylor Birch State Park)
Shooters Waterfront* (dock your boat or watch them float by on intracoastal)

Fort Lauderdale (South Beach)
The Elbo Room (bar on the corner of A1A and Las Olas)
Lulu’s Bait Shack (restaurant/bar)

Fort Lauderdale (Downtown)
Original Fat Cats (bar with late-nite entertainment)
The Poor House  (next door to America’s Backyard)
Bar Stache 1920’s Drinking Den (speakeasy located behind Revolution Live)
Tarpon River Brewing (Craft Beer and Pub Food)
The Balcony (Two Story New Orleans Style Restaurant)

Fort Lauderdale (West of the Beach)Cheers Fort Lauderdale  *(open till 4am)
Xtreme Action Park (Go Kart Racing, Ropes Course, Escape Room, etc…)

Tamarac/Lauderhill
Jo Baby (Formerly Rosy Baby, Louisiana cuisine)

South Broward 

Dania Beach (near Fort Lauderdale International Airport)
Dania Beach Bar & Grill (closed)
The Casino at Dania Beach (re-opened January 2016)
The Field (Authentic Irish Restaurant-Pub)
Flossie’s Bar & Grill  (biker friendly)
Historic Dockers Restaurant & Pub (Seafood & Grill specialty)
Jimbo’s Sandbar (patio restaurant-cafe/bar)
Marina-84 Sports Bar & Grill * (Large screens indoors and outdoor patio)

The Portly Pig Gastropub (Closed June 2019)

Davie
Big Dawgs II and Big Dawgs III
Cagney’s Saloon * (biker friendly, live music almost every day)

Hollywood
5 o’Clock Somewhere Bar & Grill (across from Margaritaville Resort)
Bogart’s American Kitchen (in Cooper City)
Hard Rock Cafe (Restaurant inside Seminole Hard Rock Casino near hotel lobby)
Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Restaurant  (inside Margaritaville Resort)
Mickey Byrnes (Irish Pub, downtown Hollywood)
Seminole Hard Rock Casino (many venues closed due to construction of new hotel)
Shenanigans (sports-bar & restaurant, near TY-Park)
Whiskey Tango (Closed July 2, 2019)