Mindbender VR Bar and Restaurant will Bring New York Pizza and Virtual Reality to Tyrone

A new pizza joint and virtual reality bar is headed to Tyrone. Mindbender VR Bar and Restaurant is slated to open in the South Hampton Village shopping center, at 1496 GA 74 North.

The restaurant and bar will specialize in New York-style pizza and virtual reality games. Co-owner Tisa Kilpatrick says, as New York natives, she and her husband, Victor Kilpatrick, wanted to combine their love of New York with their other interests to create a unique new space for good food and fun games.

“My husband’s love for New York pizza and my love for technology is really what brought the concept about,” says Kilpatrick, who also owns Covington’s Up Top Slice N Ice. “Along with pizza and a bar, we’ll offer lots of virtual reality games, from cooking games to zombie games, and everything in between.”

Mindbender will feature six or seven different pods, where groups or individuals can order drinks and food, and can choose from a list of virtual reality games to play.

Kilpatrick hopes that Mindbender will be open by September, so you should be able to head there this fall for some VR fun and a New York slice. But if you’re going to eat a New York slice in a restaurant owned by two native New Yorkers, you should know the proper way to do it, first: fold the slice in half, and always, always finish the crust.