11th Street Bar has run as a traditional Irish pub on East 11th Street since 1997, a long-oak-bar room in the East Village that doubles as the official New York home of Liverpool FC supporters on match mornings.
The bar keeps Irish whiskey on tap and pours a full 20-ounce Guinness for nine dollars in vintage glasses, details The Infatuation and NYC Tourism both single out. On a Liverpool weekend the room opens early and fills with the New York Liverpool Supporters Club, which is the reservation it is best known for.
The room is a single long bar with worn wood, vintage Guinness glassware and football scarves rather than a wall of flat screens, which is part of why it reads as a pub first and a sports bar second. The back has space for the music sessions, and on a big Liverpool morning the whole room turns toward the screens that come out for the match.
Regulars on Google Maps and the soccer-bar guides describe a room that changes character through the week without losing its identity, and they point newcomers to the Sunday seisiún as the quieter way to see the bar at its best. The Liverpool allegiance is firm enough that match days draw a committed crowd, so the move for a first visit on a fixture weekend is to arrive before kickoff.
Outside the football calendar it works as a neighbourhood pub with live music five nights a week and a Sunday traditional Irish seisiún led by fiddler Tony DeMarco. The Infatuation files it as the rare East Village bar that is a soccer room, a music room and a quiet weekday pint all at once.
What to order: the 20-ounce Guinness it is built around, or a pour from the Irish whiskey list, with a pint of something local if you came for the music rather than the match. Pricing stays fair for the East Village, which is part of why regulars keep it on rotation.
The crowd shifts by the hour and the fixture list: Liverpool supporters early on match days, music regulars at night, and a low-key local crowd on a quiet afternoon. Best time to go is a weekend morning kickoff for the atmosphere or a Sunday night seisiún for the trad session.
Who it is for: soccer fans, Guinness drinkers, live Irish music regulars, and anyone who wants a real pub rather than a screen-lined sports barn. Who should skip it: a crowd after table service and cocktails, since this is a stand-at-the-bar pint room.
11th Street Bar matters as one of the East Village's last true football pubs, the kind of single-allegiance room that fills for a Premier League kickoff and empties into a music night by evening. For more screens and fixtures, see our guide to the best sports bars in New York, browse the full New York bar guide, or compare it across the citywide sports bars roundup. Nearby, Kettle of Fish in New York is the move for a Packers-and-pints crowd.
