A slew of SoFlo restaurants open up across Oakland Park’s culinary art district

It takes a lot of neighborhoods to make up a city. Each of them are different. Each of them are worth checking out. Broward’s Oakland Park has a hip ‘hood that’s calling your name.

Folks are buzzing about Oakland Park’s culinary arts district. It’s filled with exotic eats, cool comfort foods — and a pinball-pizza paradise.

Dwight Slamp: “There’s no chain restaurants, it’s all cool, unique boutique properties.”

You get the best of both worlds at the Satellite Pinball Lounge and the Moon Pizza Pie.

Dwight Slamp: “Pinball on one side, pizza on the other.”

It’s all food, fun, and games.

Dwight Slamp: “When I opened this business, I was opening it because I was in love with pinball, and now my new passion is pizza. I mean, I still love pinball, but I focus on my pizza.”

You’ll focus on flipping the silver ball around the bumpers while you show the world that you’ve got game.

Dwight Slamp: “You can’t play pinball on your phone. You can play fake pinball on your phone, but real pinball is a real game with real mechanics.”

Lunch and dessert. Two different delights under one roof. That’s how it is at BMC Smash Burgers and FMS Creamery.

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