Reader’s Choice

Crew

To borrow an intimidating one-word preamble from Lou Piniella, look: Most fans have a favorite place to watch their favorite teams. There are Cubs bars and White Sox bars on both ends of town, and almost every Chicago bar becomes a Bears bar on Sundays in the fall. That’s not what this is about. But if you have as much of an aversion to macho sports posturing as I do, the best place to watch a game is Crew, the Uptown gay sports bar. It has excellent sight lines to view the numerous wide-screen, high-def TVs, which are usually tuned to an array of events, not all on one station, there are 68 beers on offer, and the playfully named food (two-fisted burger, threesome grilled cheese) is better than your average sports-bar fare. Best of all, there’s a distinct lack of louts exchanging chest bumps. As Sarah Connor said of the Terminator as a father figure in T2, in an insane world, it is the sanest choice. 4804 N. Broadway, 773-784-2739, worldsgreatestbar.com. —Ted Cox

Readers’ Choice

Joe’s Sports Bar and the Globe Pub (tie)

940 W. Weed, 312-337-3486, joesbar.com; 1934 W. Irving Park, 773-871-3757, theglobepub.com.

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