In the Seaport, where the babies have good hair and the dogs have veneers, the socializing has gotten competitive

How many boozy adult playgrounds can one neighborhood take? In the Seaport, the question is gaining urgency as yet another “competitive socializing” venue opens.

You could spend an entire day doing a Seaport crawl – except instead of bars, you’d hopscotch from competitive socializing venue to competitive socializing venue, from Flight Club to Spin to F1 Arcade to Puttshackto Ballers to 5 Iron Golf, to Kings, doing shots with your groomsmen, sharing truffle fries with Zoom colleagues, dropping hundreds of dollars as you play mini-golf, simulator golf, pickleball, padel, ping pong, bowl a game, drive a racing car, throw a dart, lick hot honey ricotta off your fingers, pose with a cold brew espresso martini, check your ex’s Insta, until finally — when you long for nothing so much as an escape room — you Uber 10 feet to Remedy Place,a “social wellness club,” and drop $349 to have your VO2 Max assessed.