Pitchers Sports Restaurant - Fort Collins, Colorado

Shelby W.

I want to preface this by saying Amy and all of the bar staff are AMAZING! We absolutely love everything they do for the bar on a busy Saturday night!

However, the karaoke DJ tonight made it a bit of a bummer for our group. We understand he has to follow the bar rules and requests from the staff. There is no question as to why karaoke was being shut down at 12:30ish. It was all good.

He had told 4 different singers they could go up and went back on his word due to timing and bar close. One of these singers was my friend who had tipped him a few moments before.

Bummer for sure but no big deal— that is until the DJ decided to take the tip and throw it back in the face of our friend. There was a polite way to hand the tip back (“I’m sorry we couldn’t get you up tonight, here is the tip back, save it for next time. Thanks for stopping in, hope to see you next week!”), but instead he threw it back at our friend in a very “f” you kind of way saying something to the effect of have it back I don’t need it. Just really unacceptable and rude to people just coming out for some fun.

Huge thanks to Amy tonight for helping us out! We love the bar staff and can’t praise them enough!

Lane

If you just want beer or whiskey it's a great choice. Be prepared to be ignored if you request something that takes any effort to make. Also, the main bartender is just a peach...

Edit* fair enough and understood. I wouldn't have written the review of it weren't for a few weeks ago when I ordered a Moscow Mule and the bartender roller her eyes and walked off. I thought maybe she was just busy and my drink would arrive shortly, but oh no. She collected her piss poor attitude and came back to let me know that "This is Pitchers, we do beer and shots here". Ok cool... understood. Thank goodness there's a gazillion other bars in the Fort, Pitchers will be better off when she does us all a favor and retires.

zzextras99

Pretty nice spot for pool, sports, karaoke some nights. The beer is decent, bar food definitely a step above most. Not a huge fan of the rule that everybody playing pool has to buy something - as it sort of punishes designated drivers. But if they've had problems before I suppose it makes sense. I'd also say, try to be specific when you open a tab, I've had a few experiences where they want to combine yours with your friends etc, and very often when they do that I wind up paying for drinks that the people on my tab didn't order. Maybe just pay as you go, that's going to be my strategy going forward.

Joey D.

The blonde bartender is the worst. Kicked me out for "fighting" even though I didn't throw a single punch, and chose to walk away from arguments out of respect for the establishment. How lame is that? I've been going here for over 20 years and the decor hasn't changed, and the bartenders have offered me drugs before so they should get off their soap box.

Joe B.

Disappointed with the Experience

Visited Pitcher's in Fort Collins and was extremely disappointed. The service was terrible—Katie, our server, was inattentive, rude, and seemed completely uninterested in making the experience enjoyable. To make matters worse, the restroom was in horrible condition—dirty, with no soap available. It’s unacceptable for a restaurant to overlook such basic hygiene essentials. This place clearly lacks proper management and care. I won’t be coming back

Susanne B.

We were staying in Windsor and wanted a place to karaoke. We found this place. It was really fun and the food was very good.

BeeHive P.

this is kind of a special review to write because of the history.

In the late 90s, I actually used to work at this bar, bringing entertainment once a week. After having about a three year run in the bar, it was time to move on and do other things.
My energy at the time was outgrowing the spot and the owner and I no longer saw eye to eye, and so we both moved past and moved on.

All good.

Even though all good, I never felt like going back to the bar because of that strange feeling where I just didn’t feel invited anymore so I never went back.

Fast-forward 2022.

My girlfriend and I love a good chicken wing. So we are always prancing around restaurants throughout NOCO finding the ones we like best.

She recommended Pitchers one day and I kind of frowned and just said “I don’t know if I wanna go in there,” she asked why, I gave her a little backstory and she told me to ‘get over it’ 😂 SHE WAS 💯 CORRECT.
So I did and we went.

The second we walked into the bar through the front doors. I immediately felt memories wash over me as the building has not changed since the 1990s and it really gave me a good laugh. A laugh of joy, the good times.

This place is classic, you’ve been to this bar throughout America, because if it’s well run, there’s one of these bars in every small town across the United States. Welcome to the Ft.Collins edition.

So, we walked in…
Almost like a scripted Hollywood movie, there were two seats at the bar right next to each other, empty, like they were waiting for us. For me and my girlfriend, this is our first choice of seating and we felt like we had just won the lottery.

The second we sat down, we were immediately greeted by a completely competent and good energy bartender.
We got set up with waters, our first cocktail and menus within moments.

To highlight how much of a good moment that was, they were really busy.

So onto the menu we go, and our choice was to stay within the focus of why we came, we wanted chicken wings. I wanted them straight-up, buffalo-hot, my girl likes to play with the flavors and she had the Asian buffalo rendition.

We threw our order in, again, mentioning that this was a very busy night, and our order came out in an extremely timely fashion, like there was nobody in front of us, like we were the only ones they were cooking for.

As someone who has worked at Washington Sports Bar and Grill for 15 years, I am very aware of what a good chicken wing taste like. Us Washingtons people were chicken wings snobs, and I’m fine with that 😂

The chicken wing at Pitchers, different from Washingtons, yet 10 out of 10 on point!
Meaty lil’ wings on a plate, I eat 5 and am actually getting full. You can get them with fries as well, which pairs perfectly. The buffalo sauce is 100% original to its core flavor, the tradition continues.

Pitchers, in my opinion has the best
straight-up wing in Fort Collins, Colorado.

So let’s add up the math.
The wings and french fries are on point and I give 10 out of 10.

The service is so incredibly good,
I give it an 11 out of 10.

Pitchers receives a newly reformed customer out of me, and a complete shining five star review!

Cheers to the bartenders and the staff who make this place what it is, the wings anre great and the service is better, so like I always say….

See ya at the bar.
Cheers!

Steve D.

Pitchers is a favorite of mine, pool hall, brewery and sports bar all in one. Pitchers has 10 pool tables on one side and a bunch of tables on the other.

Good food menu, music is typically a bit of club style though. Craft beer selection covers ipa and lagers, staff is friendly and attentive.

Finding parking in lot is never a problem. They do kareoke as well.