JB’s Sports Bar & Restaurant
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Specialty: Sports Bar
Review Highlight – “JB’s is the ULTIMATE sports bar in Orlando… the best food, awesome service – the friendliest staff of any sports bar, and a fun group of people to watch the games with! I highly recommend JB’s as THE PLACE to watch any sporting event.” “I have never seen a bar like this in my life. Everywhere you look there is a game going on, and the food is amazing… delicious. I would recommend this place to anyone who is visiting or living in Orlando.” Vote at citysearch.com - The #1 Online Guide. JB's Sports Restaurant in Orlando Florida is Rated number one sports bar in Central Florida, with the largest screens in the area, having all the games on all the time on 48 flat-screens, High Definition screens, and regular TVs throughout the whole bar and on the outside patios for smokers, some as large as 18 feet. Extensive menu and sports, capable of showing 30 different games at the same time!!!! Definitely the place for hard-core sporting types. There is no game that JB's cannot get, including all boxing events!!! Seating capacity of 300 featuring five different viewing areas, including the "sky box" on the 2nd floor ideal for private parties and special events.JB's Sports Restaurant also has darts, pool tables, poker nights, wings, a friendly staff, a jukebox, and a package store on the premises. You should pretty much just be able to board up the windows and brick up the doors and let the sports fanatic in you tough it out for the rest of the NFL Season, March Madness, Nascar, World Cup, World Series, etc... JB's Sports Restaurant regularly hosts special events for big games ranging from football to boxing matches to UFC. Hours are dependent on the broadcast times so, call ahead for information.

If that wasn't enough JB’s Sports Bar & Restaurant also has a side Liquor store attached to the establishment.

By George DiazIt’s Sunday afternoon and you ae starring at your new big-screen TV, clicker firming in grasp. NFL or NBA? You make the call. Bucs and the Jets? Click. Raptors-Grizzlies? Click. Start Trek rerun? Zap. Bruce Springsteen’s cable-bashing anthem “57 channels (and nothin’ on)” begins to echo in your head.Audible! Time for a road trip. Sports bar, anyone? A smorgasbord of sports is easily accessible to fans in central Florida who are frustrated by limitation at home. As the Orlando magic approach the season-opener tonight against the Washington bullets, couch potatoes who find the resolve to leave home can embrace a Shaqless lineup on a big screen, boo and hiss as you-know-who steps onto center stage at the Los Angeles Forum, or watch the Chicago bulls begin their “Drive for Five” at the Fleet Center. Whatever your game, whatever your team, chances are that a total sports bar will accommodate your whims, offering a high-tech menu of games catering to individual preferences. Armed with 62 phoned-in nominations from Sentinel readers and a company-approved expense account (YES!), we went in search of the quintessential sports bar. We weren’t looking for places that stick up a few 19-inch Panasonics and claim to be a sports bar. We weren’t looking for a social/singles bar filled with yuppie yahoos who sport casual interests in the games people play. We wanted to be mesmerized by sports! A football, basketball, baseball, hockey feeding frenzy, even if it means rubbing elbows with an obnoxious New Yawker or Happy ‘Nole. (All braves fans can go away for a while). We wanted TV screens. A solid variety of prime-time programming, (no rodeo or body building, please). A mix of burgers, chicken sandwiches and appetizers. A memorabilia collection would be a nice halftime distraction. And just as importantly, an “attitude” that epitomizes sports and not a happy-hour mood.We were not disappointed. A recent Sunday afternoon at JB’s reflected it typical frenzied ambience. Dallas fans cheered while their ‘boys stomped on the Miami Dolphins, leaving dismayed fish fans wondering if another season of mediocrity is inevitable.

For others, mediocrity would be a blessing. Dainius Marijosious, 25, joined a handful of buddies watching the New York Jets-Arizona Cardinals game on a smaller screen. Marijosious is a Jets fan, which means he has a tolerance for pain. Lots of pain. His T-shirt bears a cynical acronym: Just End The Season. “I like this place,” he said. “They keep it dark. Its not flashy like Front Row.”