Barstool Sports, a popular sports and pop culture website, opens Barstool Scottsdale sports bar in the former Two Brothers Brewing & Taphouse building in Old Town Scottsdale at 9 p.m. tonight.
The space: The 8,700-square-foot building near the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Drinkwater has a 1,700-square-foot patio along Scottsdale Road.
- The building housed Two Brothers from 2015-19 but has been vacant since. Before Two Brothers, it was Saddle Ranch.
The menu: A surprisingly small selection of mostly appetizers.
The company: Dave Portnoy founded Barstool as a print publication in Milton, Mass., in 2003 and launched its website in 2007.
- Besides numerous blogs, podcasts, and web shows, it expanded into sports betting in 2020 with its Barstool Sportsbook app.
- Barstool debuted its first sports bar in Chicago in January and opened another in Philadelphia in March.
Did you know? Barstool Sports is the sponsor of college football’s Arizona Bowl, which is played Dec. 31 in Tucson.
Open: 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Saturday-Sunday.
