With an ambience directed slightly more towards San Antonio’s working professionals than the anything goes mantra of Knockout (though there is a pool table and dartboard here too), Sparky’s Pub is a favoured after-work drinking spot in gay San Antonio. Should the hunger pangs hit, not only is there a menu of bar favourites, accompanied by a dose of drag at brunchtime on Sunday’s, but also that of Pups Pizza which shares the site. There’s also a number of pool tables and dartboards should you fancy a little friendly competition with the regulars and a backroom bar that’s opened up when it gets busier.
Modest in appearance (but not its everybody welcome philosophy), the front covered terrace may not be immediately alluring but leads into an interior of exposed brick fitted out with no less than 15 wall-mounted flatscreen televisions tuned to sports channels every night of the week. One of the newest gay bars on The Strip, when it opened its doors Knockout became the first LGBT+ sports bar anywhere in the city.
