The Best Sports Grills in Florida & Georgia
In the last decade, there has been a real growth of sports grills, with more emphasis on providing a restaurant like environment, rather than just a bar. Families also enjoy patronizing these sports grills, because they come across as more child friendly than a traditional sports bar. There has been a real growth in the number of sports grills in Florida and Georgia in recent years.
In Tampa, for example, local sports grills include Prime Time and Winners. Prime Time offers the classic sports grill look, with lots of wood and brass, and numerous booths for seating, each featuring speakers that a patron can tune to listen to whatever sports event that they want to watch. It also features a large outside seating area. Beef O'Bradys is a family oriented sports grill that is based in Tampa, and has numerous locations there, and is several other as Orlando, Miami,and Atlanta. The menus at these sports grills include items such as salads, wraps, steaks, and a variety of pasta dishes that are more than just the usual sports bar fare of chicken wings, nachos and burgers.
Fox's Sports Grill, which has a location in Atlanta, offers a more upscale dining experience and atmosphere, described by the company as "urban chic." The Fox's Sports Grill even offers Sunday brunch, an extensive wine list, and menu items such as grilled salmon, crab cakes and lemon chicken pasta. But, the establishment doesn't scrimp on the latest technology for sports viewing, including walls of the latest plasma TVs for your viewing pleasure. Other popular sports grills in Atlanta include Jocks and Jills, Diggers, and Benchwarmers, all of which are similar in nature. with atmospheres that are closer to a restaurant than a bar.
Orlando features two top notch sports grills, NBA City and the ESPN club. NBA has been voted the Best Theme Restaurant in Orlando. NBA City is part of the Universal Studios City Walk. It offers an varied menu of above average fare, not to mention a veritable history of the NBA with a large collection of memorabilia. The ESPN Club features a live broadcast crew inside the complex, which is obviously not something many sports grills can boast of. ESPN is part of the Disney family, and as such offers a family friendly atmosphere and somewhat higher prices than the average sports grill.
Sports grills have definitely come a long way from their origins are corner bars with a TV set or two.
