Sports Bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn

The Beer Garage · Park Slope, Brooklyn · Updated October 2026

• 100% gluten-free kitchen (Park Slope)
• 8 minute walk from Barclays Center
• Rotating local craft taps
• Outdoor seating
• Open 7 days

The Beer Garage is a sports bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, built inside an actual converted garage at the corner of 5th Avenue and Douglass Street. The roll-up door opens onto a sidewalk counter in warm weather, there are televisions on the brick, and the entire kitchen at this Park Slope location is gluten-free. If you are deciding between our two rooms, the about section on our homepage introduces both.

Park Slope at a glance

Everything on this page applies to our sports bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, only. The West Village location in Manhattan is a separate room with a standard kitchen.

Address and opening hours

The Beer Garage Park Slope is at 148 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, on the corner of Douglass Street, and it is open seven days a week. The door you want is the one under the Beer Garage sign on the Douglass Street side.

Hours at the sports bar in Park Slope move for holidays and for the occasional private event, so call 718-576-3409 before a long trip. Kitchen close can run earlier than bar close on a quiet weeknight.

Happy hour and trivia. Our OpenTable listing, read September 28, 2026, gives the Park Slope happy hour as Monday to Thursday from 3:00 to 7:00 PM, with $1.50 oysters and clams and $7 draft beers, plus a free trivia night on Thursdays at 7:30 PM. Happy hour starts when the doors open on those days, so a 4:00 PM arrival still gets three hours of it. On the regular menu oysters and clams are $4 each, six at least, so the happy hour price is well under half.

That is the Park Slope happy hour only. Our West Village room prints its own happy hour menu with different prices, and its window is not published yet. For the times and prices at nineteen other bars around here, see our guide to happy hour in Park Slope.

Ours is one of four oyster happy hours in Park Slope at about $1.50 an oyster, and the days, hours and limits differ a lot between them. Our guide to the oyster happy hour in Park Slope lines them up side by side, along with the bars that charge full price.

Getting here from Barclays Center and the subway

The walk from the Atlantic Avenue and Barclays Center station to the sports bar in Park Slope at 148 5th Avenue takes about nine minutes. Every route below was measured on foot in Google Maps on September 14, 2026, door to door from the station to the bar.

The local mechanic worth knowing on an event night: the Atlantic Avenue side of the Barclays plaza is where the crowd collects, and 5th Avenue peels off the south corner of that intersection. Take the 5th Avenue exit rather than the Flatbush one and you are clear of the crush within a block, then it is a straight walk south to Douglass Street. Prospect Park, run by NYC Parks, is about a ten minute walk in the other direction.

What the room is like

Our sports bar in Park Slope is small, and that is the honest starting point. It is a converted auto garage: exposed brick, a corrugated metal bar front, chrome hubcaps and a working traffic light on the wall, a skylight, and a roll-up door that opens to the street when the weather allows. The room seats a neighborhood crowd rather than a stadium one.

Possible downside. On a big game night or when an event lets out at Barclays Center, the room fills fast and there is no large back area to absorb it. If you are bringing a group of more than six on a Saturday, call ahead or book through OpenTable rather than arriving and hoping. Bars closer to the arena on Flatbush Avenue have more square footage and more screens, and on a sold-out night that matters.

What is on the Park Slope menu

The kitchen at our sports bar in Park Slope serves bar food, and all of it is gluten-free. Wings, the burger, personal pizzas, fried pickles and mozzarella sticks come out of the same Park Slope kitchen with no separate gluten-free menu, because there is no other menu.

The full Park Slope menu is posted as a downloadable menu PDF. Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness.

Why the Park Slope kitchen is gluten-free

The kitchen at the Park Slope location is 100 per cent gluten-free, which means there is no gluten in that kitchen to cross-contact with in the first place. It is not a separate fryer or a substitute bun on request. It is the whole food program at this Brooklyn location.

Gluten-free at the Park Slope location means gluten-free in the sense set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling rule, 21 CFR 101.91, which sets a limit of less than 20 parts per million.

This page is not medical advice. If you have celiac disease, speak to the staff about your needs and use your own judgment, the same as you would anywhere.

More gluten-free guides from us: gluten-free food near Barclays Center, a sports bar with fully gluten-free food in Brooklyn, gluten-free sports bars in NYC and, for the beer question above, gluten-free beer and cider bars in NYC.

WILD, our gluten-free sister restaurant next door

The bottom of our Park Slope menu carries one line people ask about: “Looking for a full dinner? Ask us for our Wild menu!” WILD is our sister restaurant, directly next door at 148 5th Avenue with its own entrance on 5th Avenue, while the bar door is around the corner on Douglass Street. Both menus are headed 100% gluten-free, so a group can split between wings at the bar and a sit-down Italian dinner next door without either kitchen cooking with gluten.

The honest split: come to the bar for the game, wings and a beer, and book WILD for a proper sit-down dinner, a date or weekend brunch. WILD’s menu adds 20% gratuity for parties of six or more. WILD calls itself the only 100% gluten-free Italian restaurant in Brooklyn; we have not checked that claim against every kitchen in the borough, so for the other options see our guide to gluten-free restaurants in Park Slope.

Watching the game at our sports bar in Park Slope

The sports bar in Park Slope shows a full sports line-up on televisions mounted around the room, and the bar pours rotating craft beer sourced from New York breweries. Because the taps rotate, what is pouring changes week to week, so there is no fixed list worth printing here. For the fifteen bars nearby that do publish theirs, see our Park Slope craft beer guide.

If you are coming specifically for one game, call 718-576-3409 and ask whether it will be on and whether the sound will be up. We would rather tell you honestly on the phone than have you walk over for a game we are not carrying. Private parties and watch parties at the Park Slope location are booked through the contact section on our homepage.

Game-by-game guides for this room: where to watch NFL football in Park Slope, where to watch NHL hockey in Park Slope and where to watch UFC in Park Slope. For the rest of the borough, see where to watch NFL football in Brooklyn, where to watch NHL hockey in Brooklyn and where to watch UFC in Brooklyn. Going to a Nets game first? See our list of bars near Barclays Center for a Nets game. To compare us with the other sports bars in the neighborhood, see best sports bar in Park Slope.

Private parties and group bookings in Park Slope

Two group packages for the sports bar in Park Slope are printed on our booking listing on PartyPlace, read September 28, 2026: a classic reservation of two hours for 6 to 15 guests with no minimum spend, and a full buyout of four hours for 20 to 60 guests from a $1,000 minimum spend. Requests on the listing come to us to approve; emailing BeerGarageBK@gmail.com or calling 718-576-3409 works just as well.

Because the room closes at 10:00 PM Sunday to Thursday and 11:00 PM on Friday and Saturday, a four-hour buyout should start by 6:00 PM or 7:00 PM. The listing prints two capacity figures, 8 to 50 in its header and 20 to 60 in the buyout package; until that is corrected, treat 50 as the safe ceiling. For how these terms compare with thirteen neighboring bars, see our guide to a good bar for a group birthday in Park Slope.

Frequently asked questions

Is The Beer Garage in Park Slope gluten-free?

The kitchen at the Park Slope location is 100 per cent gluten-free, so every food item served there is gluten-free. The bar is a separate matter, because most beer is brewed from barley or wheat. Ask the Park Slope bartender which gluten-free beer, cider or seltzer is available on the day you visit.

What are the hours at The Beer Garage Park Slope?

The Park Slope location is open Monday to Thursday from 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET, Friday from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM ET, Saturday from 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM ET, and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET. Hours were confirmed against the Google Business Profile on September 14, 2026.

How far is The Beer Garage from Barclays Center?

The Beer Garage Park Slope is about a nine minute walk from the Atlantic Avenue and Barclays Center station, roughly 0.4 mile south on 5th Avenue. Taking the 5th Avenue exit rather than the Flatbush Avenue exit keeps you out of the event crowd.

Does The Beer Garage Park Slope take reservations?

Yes. Reservations for the Park Slope location are accepted through OpenTable, and the booking link appears on the Google listing. For a group larger than six, or for a private event, call 718-576-3409 or email BeerGarageBK@gmail.com instead of booking online.

Is there outdoor seating at the Park Slope location?

Yes. The Park Slope location has a sidewalk counter along the front of the building, and the roll-up garage door opens to the street in good weather. Outdoor seating is listed as an attribute on the Park Slope Google Business Profile.

Can I order The Beer Garage Park Slope for delivery?

Yes. The Park Slope location offers dine in, curbside pickup and delivery, and online orders go through Seamless. Everything ordered from the Park Slope kitchen is gluten-free, since that kitchen does not prepare any other kind of food.

Can I book The Beer Garage Park Slope for a private party?

Yes. Our PartyPlace listing, read September 28, 2026, prints a two-hour classic reservation for 6 to 15 guests with no minimum and a four-hour full buyout for 20 to 60 guests from a $1,000 minimum spend. Email BeerGarageBK@gmail.com or call 718-576-3409 with the date and headcount; buyouts should start by 6:00 PM on weeknights and Sundays or 7:00 PM on Fridays and Saturdays, since the bar closes at 10:00 or 11:00 PM.

Does The Beer Garage in Park Slope have a happy hour?

Yes. Our OpenTable listing, read September 28, 2026, gives it as Monday to Thursday from 3:00 to 7:00 PM, with $1.50 oysters and clams and $7 draft beers, and a free trivia night on Thursdays at 7:30 PM. That is the Park Slope location at 148 5th Avenue only; our West Village room runs its own happy hour menu.

What is the WILD menu at The Beer Garage Park Slope?

WILD is our sister restaurant, directly next door at 148 5th Avenue with its entrance on 5th Avenue. Its menu is headed 100% gluten-free and serves Italian food, with pizzas from $20, pastas from $20 and a 16 oz NY strip at $42, per its dinner menu read October 7, 2026. The bottom of our Park Slope menu says to ask us for the WILD menu if you want a full dinner; call WILD at 347-987-4525 to book.

Is the fried food at The Beer Garage Park Slope gluten-free?

Yes. The Park Slope menu is headed 100% gluten-free, and that covers the fried pickles, calamari, mozzarella sticks, chicken tenders, fried shrimp and fries as well as the wings, burger and pizzas. Beer is the exception, because most beer is brewed from barley or wheat, so ask the bartender which gluten-free beer, cider or seltzer is pouring.

Sources and references

• The Beer Garage Park Slope Google Business Profile, read September 14, 2026 (address, phone, hours, attributes, reservations).
• The Beer Garage on OpenTable, the listing’s own description (happy hour and trivia) and hours, read September 28, 2026.
• beergarageny.com footer and Park Slope menu PDF, read September 14, 2026 (hours and prices); every menu item re-read September 25, 2026, and the PDF confirmed unchanged since July 17, 2026 on October 8, 2026.
• WILD Park Slope website and dinner menu PDF, read October 7, 2026 (hours, phone, prices).
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 21 CFR 101.91, gluten-free labeling rule.
• Walking times measured in Google Maps on September 14, 2026. Subway lines per the MTA.

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