{"id":388199,"date":"2026-09-02T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388199\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:26:09","slug":"game-night-glow-up-inside-miami-ironside-house-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388199\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game Night\u2019 glow up \u2014 Inside Miami Ironside House of Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 On any given Tuesday night, Miami Ironside <\/a>turns into one big game room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronside House of Games<\/a>\u201d is taking Tuesdays off the bench, drawing people from across South Florida for an evening built around a simple idea: Put down the phone, pull up a chair and play.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can just meet people, have fun, have a drink and by 11 o\u2019clock some great friends are made,\u201d said Gomeh Saias, the fractional chief marketing officer with Miami Ironside. <\/p>\n

Game Night begins at 6 p.m. every Tuesday at Ironside Cafe Bistro and it\u2019s open to the public.<\/p>\n

Mahjong classes are held in one space and open chess play is held in another. All throughout the gardens and cafe you\u2019ll find more games \u2014 everything from Candy Land to backgammon, and Catan to Guess Who. The event has evolved and grown over time.<\/p>\n

Check out Miami Ironside\u2019s Instagram page by clicking here. <\/a><\/p>\n

To sign up for the Board Game Night at Miami Ironside, click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it started off as just a few people playing backgammon and then it built its way up into 150 people on a given Tuesday,\u201d said Saias. \u201cPeople just showing up, the collection of games started to grow, the type of personalities. It just became this melting pot, which was so representative of Miami to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami Ironside is a sprawling creative community in Miami\u2019s Upper Eastside, home to restaurants, businesses and spaces that host a variety of cultural, recreational and wellness activities.<\/p>\n

The Tuesday programming extends beyond traditional board games on game night. <\/p>\n

It draws in people from south Kendall up through West Palm Beach for a weeknight hangout.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman connection doesn\u2019t generally happen in very loud environments where you can barely see or talk to each other,\u201d said Saias. \u201cIt was a way for Ironside to bridge that gap and bring back the authentic, old-school Miami where you can just show up as you were and that\u2019s really the spirit of Ironside.\u201d<\/p>\n

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