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| - This bowling alley has been around forever, as in my mother used to do her league bowling here when I was a kid in the 70s. Within the last few years, new owners have taken over and turned it from just an old bowling alley into retro hipster heaven, especially on Friday and Saturday nights when live bands play. On my last visit there on a Friday night, there were dozens of twentysomethings standing in line to bowl, two separate shows going on (one upstairs and one downstairs), and a guy with a man-bun playing the piano in the barroom (which is separate from the show rooms). The decor is shabby chic - they peeled the walls and found old murals that look like they're from the 30s or 40s underneath and just left them, peely parts and all. Where there were no murals, they hung some local Cleveland-oriented art.
I don't bowl very often but they have booked some pretty good band shows and the vibe is a little more civilized than your usual divey show bar. One big plus, it has a kitchen that stays open LATE. Most of the music bars either don't serve food or close the food down around 11 or so, whereas this place serves up till midnight most nights and till 2 am on Saturday nights. The menu is limited - burgers, tacos and chicken primarily, although they do have a weekend brunch - but it's pretty good and beats fast food (if you can even find an open fast food place at midnight) and also beats having to drive to a late-night place and re-park. Fried chicken, a specialty of the house, is pretty good, although it's very uneven in quality from piece to piece and batch to batch. I ordered a 3-piece and one piece tasted great, the other two pieces were overdone and one of them noticeably saltier than the other two. I'd still get it again just in case the cook was having an off night.
The big band room has a LOT of comfortable seating along a wall where you can still see the band but be out of the main sight and sound line. There is also more comfortable seating and tables closer to the band, although people stand in front of you if you sit there. As an older person I would prefer to sit in a comfy seat and enjoy the sounds rather than stand up front in the band's face for 3 hours most of the time. So this is fine. My only small complaint is there is no bar in the band room and you have to walk out of the music area, across the lobby and to the bar room to get a drink, but that's not the end of the world.
Street parking is currently a little limited due to some huge construction going on across the street (which will further result in fewer parking spaces over there) but you can still find free parking on the side streets.
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