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| - My co-workers and I visit Park Lanes quite often for lunch and usually enjoy it! They have a very interesting menu like gourmet salads, big burgers, BBQ, flatbreads and all kinds of different sandwiches to choose from. Not your typical, average bowling alley fare at all.
On this visit I had the Soup, Salad and Fritter option on their menu. You get a choice of soup, today it happened to be a Tomato and Blue Cheese soup, a small House Salad (which is still pretty decent in size) and 3 Jalapeno Fritters. The presentation alone was awesome as you can see from my picture! I would have to say, the salad was the best part of the whole meal. Just a simple house salad with carrots, tomatoes, onions and I chose the Herb-Shallot Vinaigrette. The soup was ok; I just don't think Tomato and Blue Cheese go very well together in soup form....but that's my opinion. The consistency of the soup was right on for a tomato soup and I loved the grilled cheese crouton! Nice touch! Unfortunately, the fritters did not impress me much. They were very crumbly, and didn't have much flavor. You only got flavor of the jalapeno in you bit into a chunk, and there wasn't very many of them. I think a fritter is well executed if it has a salty/sweet tone and more of a chewy texture. I loved the idea of them but these were very forgettable.
My co-worker had the Grandma's Salad and loved it! I've also had it before and it is delicious! The smoked Gouda and smoked turkey breast really make that salad! My other co-worker had some sort of Chicken Sandwich with melted cheese on it and he also liked it. I'm sorry I didn't get them name of the sandwich.
All in all, the new 10 Park Lanes is a great place to go for some good bowling and awesome food! I believe it to be much better than those trendy bowling places that you see in big cities and Uptown and much easier to get to!
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