{"id":45602,"date":"2025-11-13T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:52:12","slug":"see-inside-the-massive-new-play-sporting-lounge-opening-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45602\/","title":{"rendered":"See Inside the Massive New PLAY Sporting Lounge Opening in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami has no shortage of bars where you can watch a game, but\u00a0PLAY Sporting Lounge is about to level up the entire concept.<\/p>\n

The\u00a012,000-square-foot hybrid of restaurant, nightlife spot, arcade and full-blown simulator playground is finally opening its flagship location at 3450 NW 83rd Avenue, Suite 145, this December, and it\u2019s aiming bigger than your typical sports bar. Think chef-driven seafood towers instead of sad nachos, craft cocktails instead of light beer in plastic cups and private sports simulator suites where you can play everything from golf to zombie dodgeball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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PLAY is the brainchild of founders Terry Lee and Adam Flierl. Their first iteration of the concept, PLA Sports Bar at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, turned into an unexpected hit despite opening on the eve of COVID shutdowns. That prototype helped shape what the Doral flagship will offer: a space that treats food, drinks and games with equal seriousness and cool vibes.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Courtesy of PLAY Sporting Lounge <\/p>\n

The Doral outpost is nearly three times larger than the original. There\u2019s a sprawling indoor\/outdoor bar pouring cocktails like Bramble Bliss and the lychee caipirinha, digital dart lanes, a patio with backyard games and\u00a060 TVs, making NFL Sunday feel like a sensory experiment. The simulator suites are fully customizable and even offer the choice to stream\u00a0movies\u00a0on site if you want to turn your night out into a private screening.<\/p>\n

But PLAY\u2019s biggest flex may be its menu, overseen by executive chef Manny Saavedra and corporate chef Justin Fields. This is not standard bar-food territory. Raw bar towers feature colossal crab, chimichurri oysters and tuna poke. There\u2019s truffled lobster pearl pasta, brisket street tacos and a double smash\u2019d burger that will probably end up all over Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nPhotography: Courtesy of PLAY Sporting Lounge <\/p>\n

PLAY also doubles as a community hub. Its PLA IT FORWARD Foundation supports underprivileged youth through sports, and even some cocktails benefit the nonprofit. The mission\u2014play, love, act\u2014shows up in everything from the staff culture to how the space is designed.<\/p>\n

With more than 300 seats spread across indoor, outdoor and private areas, PLAY Sporting Lounge is\u00a0poised to be\u00a0Doral\u2019s next go-to hangout, whether you\u2019re coming for the games, the cocktails, the food or to\u00a0hone your zombie-dodgeball skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has no shortage of bars where you can watch a game, but\u00a0PLAY Sporting Lounge is about to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2019,225,227,226,23281,687],"class_list":{"0":"post-45602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news","12":"tag-news-drinking","13":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45602","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=45602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}