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“We’re not going to go crazy, but we’ll have an expanded menu. “As a beer guy, I’m excited that we’ll have a proper-sized beer cooler,” he says. With regard to food and drink, Galvin says to expect “cool new stuff” alongside familiar favorites. Specifically, the expanded TILT will go from 25 machines to around 40. “More machines, more room for people to lounge and hang out. “I’ve always wanted to grow and expand,” he says. The timeline is “pretty fluid,” and he anticipates TILT-which will soon be rebranded as LITT Pinball Bar for undisclosed legal reasons-will be up ‘n’ running at 2021 Hennepin Ave. The team behind TILT scored the property for $700,000, though Galvin estimates it’ll take more than a week to bring it back to life. “You could have it up and operating in less than a week,” broker Jeff Salzbrun with Commercial Equities Group told us. In December, Racket broke news that the 10,000-square-foot building was available for $1 million. Lyle’s closed permanently in early 2021, after going dark for about a year due to COVID lockdown measures. 8975 Park Blvd N, Seminole.Ĭontact Christopher Spata at Follow on Twitter.Late last Friday, the owners of TILT Pinball Bar finally revealed “the worst-kept secret” in the service industry, according to co-owner John Galvin: The Minneapolis bar will be moving from its current Whittier location and into the iconic Liquor Lyle’s space at Hennepin & Franklin. They’ll also have food - hot dogs, pizza, pizza rolls and the like. The idea is for the whole place to be family friendly, but with possibly later hours for the bar depending on demand. It’s a mix of video games and classic ticket redemption machines, and the owners are very proud to point out that they run on metal tokens and spit out paper tickets - no cards here - and the prize redemption counter features a mix of stuff that will appeal to both adults and children. The other half is an old-school arcade, featuring many coin-operated games salvaged from defunct arcades and other places around Tampa Bay that were phasing them out. One half of the space is a bar, with dart boards and some more adult-oriented video games. Co-owner Ricky Ricardo Zayas said they plan to work with NerdBrew to bring lots of cosplay events, workshops and trivia games to the bar. They’ll also serve as the showroom for a local company that restores pinball machines, so all the playable games will also be purchasable.

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Expect lots of pop-culture memorabilia, old-school movie trailers projected on the walls and some arcade machines of the era. The space that was formerly Ybor City’s Liquid nightclub is being turned into a bar dedicated to ’80s and ’90s nostalgia. They also plan to devote some TVs to e-sports.

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They’ll have a range of beer and wine, plus food catered by a local food truck. That will make it the only Tampa Bay bar devoted to modern console gaming.

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They will have a few arcade games and pinball machines, but when it opens (they’re shooting for mid-August), the coolest feature will be that you can pay $5 to rent a controller, bring it to any open TV and play new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games. The owners of Reboot Dunedin have spent nearly a year turning their space into a cyberpunk oasis with serious Blade Runner vibes, from the red, glowing sign that spells out “Reboot” in Mandarin by the bathrooms, to the weathered-looking wooden bar in a space illuminated by futuristic, circular LED lights.

They have about 30 beers, mostly from Florida breweries in cans and bottles, plus coffee and teas. There are no televisions, “no sports, no news, no YouTube videos,” because, Burke said, “We really want people to interact and engage.” The bar was built in the back, so you can chill on their blue velvet couch and get away from the gaming noise. One wall is lined with 15 arcade machines (Metal Slug 6, Double Dragon and Aliens), the other is lined with 10 pinball machines (from 1975’s 300 to 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean), and they all take quarters, no cards, no tokens.

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Married owners Lauren Patrick, a self-described serial entrepreneur and beer connoisseur, and Michael Burke, a pinball enthusiast who builds and restores arcade and pinball machines, collaborated on a space that proudly advertises itself as both “dimly lit” and, more jokingly, “dark and sexy.” They keep it simple. Clearwater finally has its own video game bar, and it’s definitely giving us old-school arcade vibes.

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