{"id":320758,"date":"2026-06-26T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:06:09","slug":"playa-bowls-to-open-restaurant-in-tampas-channel-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320758\/","title":{"rendered":"Playa Bowls to open restaurant in Tampa&#8217;s Channel District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Playa Bowls is planning a Tampa <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/restaurants\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"27\" title=\"Restaurants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restaurant<\/a> in the Channel District, bringing the national a\u00e7a\u00ed bowl chain to East Madison Street as it continues expanding across Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Plans submitted to the City of Tampa show a 1,135-square-foot Playa Bowls restaurant at 1244 E. Madison St., where vacant ground-floor space at the Inscription apartment community would be converted into a quick-service restaurant with seating for 14 customers. The interior renovation includes a new kitchen and dining area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The restaurant would occupy <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/retail-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Retail\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retail<\/a> space across from Madison Street Park in a neighborhood that combines apartment communities, offices and entertainment venues, including Water Street, Sparkman Wharf and Benchmark International Arena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The location places the restaurant within one of downtown Tampa\u2019s busiest concentrations of residents, workers and visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Playa Bowls operates hundreds of franchised locations nationwide and has expanded across Florida in recent years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The permit applications do not identify an opening date, and the company has not publicly announced the downtown Tampa location.<\/p>\n<p>  Read More Tampa Bay Business News<\/p>\n<p>\n    Explore the latest Tampa Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/category\/business-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"16\" title=\"business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a> news, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/real-estate\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Real Estate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">real estate<\/a> deals, development projects, executive moves and company updates shaping the region.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playa Bowls is planning a Tampa restaurant in the Channel District, bringing the national a\u00e7a\u00ed bowl chain to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-320758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}