US Midwest & Sports Bars Editor
Tom edits the US Midwest and sports-bar desk at barsforKings from Chicago. He grades a sports bar on the things that decide a game day: sightlines from the bad seats, whether the sound is on the right feed, and how fast the second round arrives at kickoff.
He has spent years in the corner bars of Chicago and Detroit, the honky-tonks of Nashville, and the patios of Austin. His view is that the best sports bar and the best dive bar are often the same room, and that neither needs to be fancy to be great.
Tom reviews every sports-bar and dive-bar entry on the site and runs the game-day guides.
Sightlines, sound, screens, and how a bar handles a full house at kickoff.
The honest corner rooms where the welcome and the price do the work.
Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Austin, and Kansas City, Tom's home turf.
The bars a city actually drinks in, away from the downtown strip.
Tom Callahan has written and reviewed 135 guides for barsforKings. A selection of recent work: