Forget courtside seats. In March 2026, a group of Chase Sapphire Reserve® cardholders got to eat a multi-course dinner on the Golden State Warriors’ home court at San Francisco’s Chase Center.
Chase invited me as a media guest to participate in the event.
What the evening looked like
The night began at the Chase Center’s JP Morgan Club, a lounge within the arena reserved for VIPs, where former Warriors players Festus Ezeli and Adonal Foyle mingled with guests.
Passed appetizers included fried quail topped with caviar and seared scallops.
The custom cocktail menu included Chase’s signature Sapphire Spritz, which is a fizzy, fruity cocktail. Then, guests were escorted to the court, which was decked out with floral arrangements, dining tables and Warriors trophies.
Courses included crab and the restaurant’s famous peanut milk.
After dessert, an acrobatic troupe performed aerial silk and hoop routines on equipment rigged above the court.
Guests left with a gift bag worth roughly the value of the ticket price: a Chase-branded L.L.Bean bag ($40), State Bird Provisions cookbook ($40), artisan salt ($16), Andytown Coffee ($16), a Nike jersey ($150) and custom engraved tongs. (I photographed the items for this story, but didn’t take them home.)
How to access events like this
If you have the Chase Sapphire Reserve®, you can use points or cash to book members-only experiences like Dinner on the Court — one of the card’s lesser-known benefits.
Tickets tend to sell out fast, so it’s helpful to log on before they go on sale.
For this event, tickets were $250 or 25,000 points apiece, meaning you’d get a value of 1 cent per point if you paid with rewards. Since SS values Chase Ultimate Rewards® points between 1 cent and 1.8 cents apiece, you might be better off paying cash and saving your points for higher-value redemptions.
Other similar experiences have included events like dinner on the stage of The Public Theater in New York City with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Upcoming events include VIP tickets to the 2026 PGA Championship. Tickets for these events range in price from around $100 to over $1,000.
One drawback: Actually snagging a ticket to this event was tough.
Tickets sold out the day they went on sale, and I heard from multiple friends who failed to get tickets. Chase only does this once a year, and there’s limited availability.
If you can nab a ticket, an experience like this might help to justify the Chase Sapphire Reserve®‘s premium annual fee of $795. But not every cardholder will be able to land a spot.
