Been to Uptown Alley about half a dozen times so far. Several times meeting up with a small group of friends, and a couple times on a date night with my husband.
WELL...cannot speak on the bowling alley part since we haven't been able to get into a lane due to the wait times. But on the upside, we were able to get some good food and enjoy the company.
Highly recommend this as more of a "grown up" place to hang out if you want to eat too....there are LOTS of people there on any given night and food choices can get expensive (in addition to shelling out for video games) for kids (ours are 19, 15, 14 and 9).
Our favorite night to go is Thursday nights. From 1500 (3 pm) until 11 they have HALF-PRICED appetizers and $2 domestic drafts. My husband and I stopped in twice on thursday nights and had amazing service, not as busy as "usual" and we ordered (3) of their tasty appetizers and a couple beers a piece. It came out to $26...WOW! THe food was hot, fast and fresh. Bartender (Claudia) was very friendly and attentive.
We watched pre-season game on their wall of tvs and had a really nice date night (within a tight budget this is awesome!) NOTE: Thursday night is also Karaoke night which is cool if that's what you're there for, but you can hear the singing (howling in some cases) in the entire building so it kinda put a damper on trying to watch the game and catch whatever Olympics events we could see.....BUT we did hav a blast overall and it didn't dent the wallet! lol
Only negatives I see at this point are: limited and expensive food options for kids, forever waiting line for bowling (a bummer if that's what you came there for)---will have to update when I take the kids in for video games and paintball.....
Overall, a great place to hangout with friends or honey for a drink and a quick meal.....WE plan on being regulars (on thursdays)....especially after checking out a movie on date night!