Draftkings Fantasy Sports Bar & Lounge

I guess this review will be right on par with everyone else’s [by the lack of stars]. Confused as to why it was so packed. We were told to seat ourselves, ok that’s fine. We found a few tables that were in a corner so decided to go more towards the center of the restaurant. Circled around a few seats that had a bunch of trash from the previous guests, so we just sat there and tried to minimize the mess for our server. That was the problem. 15 minutes later, no service. Made eye contact with 4 different servers and none of them had the wherewithal to serve my wife and I. No service, no money, no credit. Not going back.

The dogs are money — haven’t tried the rest of the menu. The food is a bit expensive, but you’re at a sports arena, so it comes with the territory, I guess. Really liked my house Margarita — had a few of them and they got me ready for the game.

***300^th Review***
In what used to be the old location of Team LA (fan store) is now the «Draft Kings» Sports Bar and Lounge. They have cocktails, beer and wine and a wider selection than you will find at the other interior Staples locations, though most of the beers are bottled to be accurate. And if you like your food sponsored /​prepared by «Draft Kings» while also being cajoled into signing up for /​playing «Draft Kings», while watching sports on TV’s showing programming sponsored by «Draft Kings», then this place is definitely for you.
Food wise, the 4 styles of gourmet hot dogs are a good choice if you’re craving that type of food. Much better than the sliders here, which are just OK. Chili cheese tots are equally good as the dogs, and a decent portion. Service from the kitchen is relatively efficient but wait staff gets easily mixed up, including bringing the wrong wine and ringing up the check incorrectly. Would go back if I wanted to meet friends for a drink inside and sit down before the game, even though some areas could use improvement.
3.14 ¹⁵⁹⁄₅ (but they don’t serve pie, just brownies and ice cream in a cone)

I can not believe they would serve this horrible food to people, I have had better food from street vendors. Just because of the fantastic location these guys know they have a revolving door of customers, someone could be using that location or opportunity to serve so much better food.

I would give this place a 0 if I could. Our bad for getting to the game too late. Food: horrible. Horrible. I’m sad that I even ate it. Microwaved sliders, chips and guacamole from a bag and all of our chops were brokenShame on our server for not sending them back or doing quality control. Not that hard to do good food and sooooo upset that we paid exorbitant prices for sh**! We would have been better off going to McDonald’s.
*Also, it says something when every guy in the place leaves food, and I’m not talking small guys…

The food was like a second grade lunch time. Tarter tots and cold sliders. Eat before you come and just have the drinks.

Stopped by the Draft Kings Bar and Lounge on October 31^st for beer and decided to grab food after we were there for a while. Drinks were fine… clean glasses, cold beer, etc. The drinks and the attentive service by the bartender are what prevented this from being a 1-​star review. Unfortunately, the food was not very good. We ordered the LA sliders and garlic tots. The sliders were a bit dry with meat that had a grey tint. The tots were made with what appeared to be garlic powder instead of fresh ingredients. After sampling both items, we paid out bill and left. Hopefully, they can improve the quality of their food.

One of the best hot dogs I’ve had.
I don’t think it’s getting a lot love from Unilocalers, or not yet known yet since they just launched.
It’s a East Coast style snappy hot dog, with special chili by Chef Josiah Citrin (Michelin-​rated chef) and a unique buttery bun. There’s other hot dogs to try on their menu.
One of the best chefs in the city help create these hot dogs for Dave’s Doghouse Dogs in Tempe and has brought it over to Angelenos to enjoy while at the Staples Center.
If you’re at the Staples Center, there aren’t that many exciting «food lover approved» choices to eat other than LudoBird at Staples Center.
I highly recommend a visit to DraftKings for a hot dog and tater tots to eat at DraftKings or to take back to your seat.
It’s a bit confusing once you walk it to order. I was directed to sit and a server would come and take my drink order. I thought they put my order in when I approached the register, but I misunderstood him and I waited a while for me food. They really need to change the way they seat people with a host or take orders since it was confusing to me.
I ordered soda water which they charged me $ 5 for — yikes. They could definitely improve their cocktail menu and craft beer list. Nothing really too exciting for me to want to order anything from their drink menu.
5 stars a for a tasty hot dog from a Michelin-​rated chef.

Super greasy, over priced food. You don’t get your bang for your buck. You also don’t get refills on drinks. My friend and I ordered the garlic tater tots. I also got the Dave’s Dog. The tots were good but extremely greasy as was the hot dog which comes in in folded slice of potato bread that looks like it had been dipped in a vat of grease. Do yourself a favor, skip this place and if you must eat inside Staples, find somewhere else.

Located at the space formerly occupied by the TeamLA store within Staples Center is the DraftKings Sports Bar & Lounge. Prime real estate near the main entrance and all of the statues.
Nice big screens and computer monitors to watch sports. Very eager staff that takes your orders. There are a fairly good amount of stool chairs but the place fills up pretty quickly.
I decided to order all four of their gourmet hot dogs. It took a little while for me to get my food when there was a little confusion at the pass to which table they should be delivered to. They might need to assign areas for the waitresses instead of the overlapping coverage. They had also brought me an extra Dave’s Dog instead of the Cowboy Dog. I had to put in another to get my Cowboy Dog.
Dave’s Dog is hot dog topped with relish, mustard and onions. Very tasty but my least favorite of the four variations. The Mac N’ Cheese uses three cheeses and a small amount of bacon bits with mustard. The California Dog is a dog with chili and onions. My favorite is the Cowboy Dog. The Cowboy is topped with baked beans and onions. The common denominator for all these dogs are they all include yellow mustard and the nice buns. The buns are reminiscent of my favorite Sizzler cheese toast. Yummy.
The alcohol is measured so you might need to double (shot) up. I started with a Hennessy and Coke and finished with a Malibu Rum Hurricane. Both were very good.

We are LA Kings season ticket holders and were excited that there was finally a place to sit and eat at Staples Center. We went last night for the first time and we were so disappointed. First off, we thought it was going to be more sports bar food, but they had weird limited choices with strange ingredients. We just wanted plain old sliders with American cheese, but the waitress said we had to order them «as is» and they would not change anything. The cheese on the burger was weird and made it taste terrible. The meat tasted terrible and was cold. Why tater tots? Why not french fries? Whoever chose this menu has horrible taste. Don’t try to be different and fancy. These are sports fans eating here. I had ordered a margarita from the bar outside near CPK, and it was great. I had brought it into Draft Kings and when I was done, I ordered another from our waitress. All I said was «margarita on the rocks» she came back 5 minutes later and said she forgot what I ordered and asked again. When it finally came, it was horrible. It almost tasted like there was Sprite mixed in with it. It was really weird. I didn’t drink it and she took it off the bill. My daughter ordered an iced tea and when she brought it, my daughter asked for some Splenda sweetener but the waitress said they didn’t have any sweetener at all. What restaurant serves tea with nothing to put in it? Then the waitress came back and said they only had sugar cubes. Who uses sugar cubes anymore? So strange. The place is cool inside but the food is worse than concessions. Another annoying thing was the people walking around asking if we wanted to sign up for Fantasy Sports. Please leave me alone while I’m eating. Thank you. We won’t be going back.

My wife and I are LA Kings season seat holders and have always desired for a better variety of food to be offered at Staples. So, when we saw the new option offered this year, we got really excited. The Draftkings Fantasy Sport Bar is very cool to walk into and the staff is very professional and friendly! Unfortunately the food and drinks leave lot’s to be desired. They have a very simple and few choice menu! We ordered the Jalapeño Avocado Burger Sliders, Pulled Chicken Sliders and Garlic Potato Tots with drinks, Cadillac Margaritas! Incidentally, this was our second visit there, but first time for food.
Unfortunately, the burger sliders were extremely cold, the meat was almost inedible, the avocado slice were small and easily fell out of the sliders and onto the floor, the tater tots, were nothing more than frozen brand deep fried and sprinkled with garlic dust, had similar stuff at fast food venues. The chicken sliders were actually decent, however it would have been much better if it was pulled pork and not the easier to make version substituted by chicken. Lastly on both visits we ordered the Cadillac Margaritas, but to our amazement, we were charged two different prices for the same drink. The first time we purchased it was much better made and cheaper, the second time around it was not as tasty and much more expensive. Though the staff tried to figure out how we were being charged, they only admitted way over charging us after viewing our receipt from our last visit! Who knows what we may pay next time! Not sure I will go in again, I may just go back to our favorite bartender at the open bar!