The Pour House is the kind of neighborhood sports bar that does not oversell itself, and near Lower Greenville that restraint is exactly the appeal.
The Pour House sits on Skillman Street near the Lakewood Shopping Center, a short hop off Lower Greenville. The official site counts 20 beers on tap, 4 projection screens, and 8 TVs, which is a tight, honest setup rather than a wall of fifty screens. For a bartender who came up working neighborhood rooms, that hardware is plenty when the bar knows how to point it at the right games.
The room
This is a classic corner sports bar built around its bar and its booths, with the four projection screens carrying the main events and the eight TVs filling the side angles. The bad-seat test passes because the projection screens are large enough to read from anywhere in the room, so a back booth still holds a clean line to the game. It runs neighborhood-quiet on weekday afternoons and fills for Cowboys Sundays and big college slates.
What to order
The kitchen leans on burgers, and the bar's reputation rides on them, backed by freshly made pizza and wings cooked to order. Drink off the 20 taps, which mix local Texas brewers with national microbrews, and skip the cocktail list because this is a beer-and-a-burger room. Weekend brunch runs Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2pm, which makes it a reliable early option for international kickoffs. The tap list rotates often enough that a regular can find something new without losing the standbys, and the pizza is the order for a table splitting plates across a long afternoon. At the $$ price level, two pints and a burger is the whole play.
The crowd and best time to go
Hours run 11am to midnight on weekdays and to 2am on Friday and Saturday, with the same 11am open on Sunday. The crowd is Lakewood and Lower Greenville locals, a steady lunch-and-game daytime set, and a louder weekend night crowd. Come for a weekend brunch kickoff or a weekday afternoon game when the booths are open and the room stays calm.
What regulars say
Reviewers on Yelp, where The Pour House sits in the Sports Bars category, and on Tripadvisor point to the burgers, the tap list, and the easy neighborhood feel, with the usual notes about a small room filling up on big game days. The recurring advice is to come early when the Cowboys are on.
Who it is for
The Pour House is for the Lakewood or Lower Greenville local who wants a burger and a game without the crowds of a megabar, and for the fan who would rather watch from a booth than a packed rail. Skip it if you want fifty screens and a rooftop, because this is a smaller, steadier room than that.
The verdict
The Pour House wins on the basics done right. The first is the kitchen, where the burgers carry the room and the wings and pizza back them up. The second is the format, where four projection screens and a tight tap list cover a game without the noise of a stadium-sized bar. The honest caveat is size, because a small room fills fast on a Cowboys Sunday, so timing matters. Arrive early, take a booth, work the 20 taps, and it delivers a clean neighborhood watch. For a bigger Greenville room with two patios, compare Stan's Blue Note up the avenue.
For the rest of the city's game-day options, see our guide to the best sports bars in Dallas and the wider sports bars by occasion. The full local scene is mapped in the Dallas bar guide.
Sources: The Pour House official site (2026); Yelp reviews; Tripadvisor; dallasites101 guide.
