08/16/09

300 is hot

by drumgirl1

how hot is it to go to a hip place that has great music, service at your lanes and bowling all rolled into one.

Love this place, can't wait to go back.

Man the reviews are not great..maybe they all had a bad day because I did not experience any of this. I guess you have good days and bad. The beer is acutally 4 and 5 dollars a bottle.

Going back sooooon!!!!!

• Pros: Love the atmosphere and service
• Cons: took a little time for lanes, but I guess it is popular

07/29/09

Sleek appearance takes a back seat to poor service

by CL1116

For some reason I keep giving this place a second chance. It's a central location for my friends to meet coming from all corners of Houston. It's newly remodeled and everything is in good shape. That's where it stops. I've been there on a Thursday night and granted it was busy but the wait time of an hour and fifteen minutes was ridiculous for 2 lanes. We waited at the bar only to be ignored most of the time or rudely asked what we wanted. The bartender would ask one person what they wanted and then turn around to get a drink instead of asking several people and consolidating his task. Then he wouldn't come by again for long periods of time (longer than normal, I go to packed bars and good bar tenders make rounds back and forth enough to make it tolerable, this was nothing like that). We decided to move to the tables by the bar and eat while we waited. One person in our group could not even get the bar tenders attention to close his tab so he joined us and asked our waitress to close it for him. It took 15 minutes before we were approached by waitstaff at the table. Place drink orders with them took an inordinate amount of time as well. We felt as though wait staff were walking around ignoring us and only socializing with each other. We finally got the call for our lanes and had continuous problems with the lane resetting each frame. To management's credit they did not charge us for our bowling. When we told the waitress at our lane we wanted to close out she said she could not split the tab. Fair enough, we didn't tell her from the start and I understand that can be difficult with a large group.

We went again on Tuesday night when it was practically dead at 7pm. We immediately got a lane but when the waitress finally came to get our order she said she couldn't put each couple on separate tabs and could not even run more than 2 credit cards for 1 bill. This is not a customer service oriented business.

I understand the style of the alley is to be more trendy but you can't even see the arrows on the lanes. They should put some kind of glow in the dark marks on them. I'm not even an avid bowler and that was annoying to me.

• Pros: Newly remodeled, games and music videos on big screens
• Cons: service, service

06/30/09

Don't 300

by dorun

I met a group there to go bowling of course. I was the first one there. I put our name on the list and the attendant said it would be 45 min. wait. I said wow that's a long time! When the group got there we realized we had 2 more than originally planned(Total 8). I went back to ask if it was ok if we added to more to the group and that we wanted to go ahead and 2 lanes instead of 1. The attendant said well, it will be one more hour wait for the second lane. But , you can go to the private bowling room and it's only $100/hr. I explained to the group, and evryone agreed it would faster to go in the VIP room. Everything seemed to work out fine. We had our own server for drinks and food. Just wish it would have cost a little less to go bowling. Never knew a bowling alley could be so upscale??

• Pros: Clean, lively, upscale bowling feeling
• Cons: Wait, Service at bar slow