To everyone all star lanes is under new management and will be doing upgrades and new food menu drink specials for example starting this Monday for Monday night football we will be having free hot dogs come watch football on the 72 inch screen
Maria A.
Gross!! This place is old, run down, and over priced..! The bowling balls are crappy and old! They overcharged us $12 on our bill, but they charged it after the fact so we didn't know it was even charged at the time. Don't go here. This place doesn't deserve our money for what they offer. Clean up your place buddy! So, I'm adding this update as a word of caution. I was reviewing my bank statement and discovered I was charged a $12 tip. I left a message and the owner was able to help me right away. He said the cashier added a $12 tip after fraudulently reprinting the sale and SIGNING MY HUSBAND'S signature!!! This is fraud and stealing. The owner said he was going to get in touch with the employee, but he seemed a little nonchalant about the entire thing. We canceled bank cards and spent the day trying to fix this mess!!! Don't patrón here!!!!
Devin K.
Hahaha I am actually laughing writing this review thinking about how TERRRRRIBLE this place is!! I don't need to speak on anything specific because it's bad from start to finish. Go throw rocks down a sidewalk & I promise you will have better lane conditions...
Deb T.
I now remember why I don't come to home on wall bowling alleys. The lighting is terrible, it smells funny, they require a $10 minimum on food, I paid $4 for a Modelo, and the damn air hockey table ate my change and the staff said they don't have a key to the machine!?! My friend almost went sideways over the lack of customer service that we finally got attention and someone came to fix the table. Note to self: spend money at Lucky Strike cause at least the drinks are good, the food is all right, and there's light.
Alheli H.
This place is horrible. Plain and simple. Horrible. The guy who checked us in had a bad attitude. He set us up in a lane where the ball would get stuck to come back to us. We asked for bumpers for a player and it didn't fully work. He was bothered because we interrupted his personal call because he had to show us how to bring the bumper up, which was supposed to come up on its own. He had the news on louder than the music. Overall bad experience. I should have stuck to my normal bowling place because this was not worth my money. I'm not coming back and I would not recommend it to anyone.
Bianca G.
Apparently, this place is closed. Parking gate still closed right now and it is way passed 3pm. Not a single person in sight; which is totally weird. Creepy voicemail on the business line since the phone line is going straight to message. This is terrible service and they should update their website!!
Nancy P.
This place was ok. The guy at the counter was nice. we arrived to this place at 11 pm so we bought an hour to bowl. We played and hour go back and midnight to the counter and we can't purchase another hour even though they close at 2 am on a Saturday that was lame. Wish he would have mentioned that when we first arrived. The place is outdated and needs to be cleaned I mean clean the area when the bowler leave there lane. Good decent food and beers are priced ok. Other than that it was ok nothing special.
Mathias K.
Maybe don't book a noise show knowing people are going to drive out to see it and then cancel it for being a noise show....
Cyrus J.
I have been here for three different parties for bowling and karaoke. It's a super fun place with reasonable prices. However, the staff leaves a lot to be desired. Upon our group's arrival the guy at the counter seemed overwhelmed and annoyed by the fact that he actually had to do some work. We got through that and when it came time for karaoke, the DJ apparently had her favorites, so not every one in our party who wanted to sing got to do it. I guess this is what they mean, when they say, "you get what you pay for".
Sumukh T.
Parker Bohn III. Walter Ray Williams, Jr. Dave D'Entremont. All some of the all-stars in the history of professional bowling and all would never set foot in All Star Lanes! This is not a place to go to if you have any sense of bowling skill. My friend was in town visiting and, needing to kill time, I said, "Do you want to go to a dump bowling alley?" He was up for it and that is the best way to describe what it is and your experience at All Star Lanes. An hour of bowling on a Friday or Saturday is $34. A little pricy for what All Star Lanes is but a lot better than the outrageous prices of the ritzy, out of place Highland Park Bowl. In order to rent shoes, you have to provide them with one of your shoes that you are actually wearing. This is a sure sign of a safe and reasonable environment when there is "shoe collateral" involved. 5 minutes into our bowling experience, the balls jammed up on our lane. The employee went to un-jam them but then ultimately just moved us to another lane. Whatever. But this may irritate someone paying an hourly rate that at least 5 minutes got wasted on an employee casually trying to resolve an issue with these old machines. The bowling balls available to you are all messed up. It looks like everyone who ever used them took a knife and stabbed them. And, understanding the history of Eagle Rock, it's very possible that they have. The lanes are not oiled. My friend, a quality bowler, could not even figure out through 3 games how to be successful at bowling on these lanes. I however bowled a 165. In other words, All Star Lanes is a great place to turn people who absolutely suck at bowling inexplicably into All Stars! It was Friday night and, all of a sudden, the lights just turned off and laser bowling began. I checked my watch and it was 7:36 PM. Okay, so I guess just randomly at 7:36, it's time to start laser bowling? Laser bowling is usually reserved for a little later like 9:00 PM and, you know, with a round time figure like 9:00 PM. Maybe the employees operate on the Eastern Time Zone and heavy recreational drug use? You would think based off all of this that I'm really tearing into All Star Lanes so why the 3-star review? Well, I understand what All Star Lanes is and it has a hilarious charm to me. I can see where such charm might not be there for a lot of people. But when you walk in with the low expectations of experiencing a dumpy bowling alley and a lot of absurdity, All Star Lanes delivers. As I collected my second shoe back, the employee asked, "Did you have a fun time?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "Who won?" I proudly said, "Me," and laughed directly in my friend's face. This is the kind of arrogance in bowling you can feel at All Star Lanes As we left the alley, a band was playing in the restaurant area. The lights were on so you could see the audience and the lead singer was really trying to sell how into the song she was. It was absolutely hilarious to watch and entirely indicative of the crazed but charming experience of All Star Lanes where you can bowl well with the crappiest ball and pure garbage for shoes, shake your head at teenagers just straight up making out on the lanes or the pool tables behind you, and then see some band playing what seems like a hell gig but absolutely being into it. You can have it all at All Star Lanes! I'm sure I'll come back again at some point to bowl but this is not a place I intend on frequenting. I also would not eat or drink anything here for all the reasons I listed above. Hey now! You're an All Star! Get your game on! Go play!
Omg please please don't go here. Broken lane, no screen, 16 people in line to get shoes and return shoes. We just saw the checkout guy spray shoes and handle them then SERVE FOOD! What?!!!! Our lane had a pin half the time in the gutter but we couldn't get helps bc there was NO ONE THERE TO HELP! God treat your employees better. The worst.
Yer M.
Such a disappointment... as always. I love 2 blocks from all star lanes, and I would be here every night if this place were just a little better. I really don't care that it doesn't have the modern amenities of most bowling alleys. I don't care that there aren't enough chairs for more than 3 per lane. I don't even care that it smells of mildew. But the lanes are dirty and the pins setters never work. It costs the same to bowl here as it does at any premier lanes, and this place just sucks. I really wish it didn't, I want to love it, I can walk here, With My Ball! But it's just bad. And never going to get better. Although.... plenty of of street parking and the staff is SUPER helpful.
Glenn B.
Went yesterday (saturday night). A very lively 20 something crowd. There was a lot going on. A live hard core band in one room, karaoke in another, and I guess a Chinese restaurant is open earlier. This alley will remind you of the old school alleys from where you grow up. In fact, it probably has not been painted or had new balls ordered since then! This is not Lucky Strike or Highland Park bowl with upscale touches and high prices. The kind of big young guy working there was super friendly, the smaller guy less so. In sum, the balls are banged up, the monitors play random stuff and don't all work, the air hockey table took my money, the outside paint is wonderfully run down, but the price is right and we had a great time here.
Kim S.
I am surprised there are so many 1 star reviews. Came here on a Saturday night because we couldn't get any reservation at HLP bowl. We ended up getting into this "retro" "vintage" "looked-rundown-from-the-outside" All Star Lane with our friends. It was such a surprise. There are so many different rooms in this place: bowling, live music room, karaoke room, AND a Chinese restaurant! Full of surprise. It's so divey and crowded. Most of the customers are in their 20s-30s. It's certainly a hipster's spot. I honestly did not expect this, yet it turned our we had so much fun with much less money. This place is so COOL that they keep everything as the way they are. The neon sign outside, half of the bulbs are broken. They don't fix it. The TVs above the lanes, some stop working, they don't care. The air hockey never work and the machine doesn't get your money, they do nothing about it. It's literally everything was so broken but working in is own way that I couldn't help but laughing the whole night. We had so much fun here. I'd definitely take my friends here.
Steve Japan 4.
Honestly, I challenge anyone to find a better Karaoke bar inside of an abandoned Chinese restaurant that's part of a bowling alley. Here's why I love All Star Lanes: A few months ago I was here on a date. The girl had previously warned me that she just got out of the hospital for a suicide attempt and was bi-polar schizophrenic. Hey, nobody's perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So we're having a good time, as you do when you're at All Star Lanes for Karaoke. We're singing and dancing and drinking and really having a blast, when my date turns to me and says; "This is the best night of my life, I'm having so much fun, thank you so much for showing me this place!" Less than 1 minute later, she slashed her wrists with a broken glass and started bleeding out on the dance floor. Janet, the noble bartender, hopped over the bar and started applying pressure to the wounds with her bar towel while I called 911. We got my date into the ambulance and were off to the hospital, where she was treated and released that night. We did not go on a 2nd date. I didn't show my face at All Star for a bit after that, but after taking a few weeks off karaoke, I finally returned, and sure enough it was like I had never left. Janet was pouring stiff drinks, the regulars were drinking tall beers and enjoying watching the hipster dance party that was in full effect while a tattoo'd goth babe sang Whitney Houston, and all was right in the world. I order a drink from the bar, and apologize to Janet for "my friend that got out of control a few weeks ago". I was met with a quizzical look and a "Huh?", to which I followed up with, "Y'know, the girl we had to call an ambulance for". Janet pondered this for a moment, and then nodded, "Oh. Yea. The redhead." Suicide girl was a brunette. I told Janet this information, and she racked her brain a bit. "Hmmm. I must've been thinking of someone else." F*** yea Janet. F*** yea All Star Lanes. You don't even remember that a girl tried to off herself and you had to hold her in your arms while she bled all over this very bar a mere 20 feet from where we're standing right now and that was less than 3 weeks ago holy s*** I love this place even more than I already did.
To everyone all star lanes is under new management and will be doing upgrades and new food menu drink specials for example starting this Monday for Monday night football we will be having free hot dogs come watch football on the 72 inch screen
Gross!! This place is old, run down, and over priced..! The bowling balls are crappy and old! They overcharged us $12 on our bill, but they charged it after the fact so we didn't know it was even charged at the time. Don't go here. This place doesn't deserve our money for what they offer. Clean up your place buddy! So, I'm adding this update as a word of caution. I was reviewing my bank statement and discovered I was charged a $12 tip. I left a message and the owner was able to help me right away. He said the cashier added a $12 tip after fraudulently reprinting the sale and SIGNING MY HUSBAND'S signature!!! This is fraud and stealing. The owner said he was going to get in touch with the employee, but he seemed a little nonchalant about the entire thing. We canceled bank cards and spent the day trying to fix this mess!!! Don't patrón here!!!!
Hahaha I am actually laughing writing this review thinking about how TERRRRRIBLE this place is!! I don't need to speak on anything specific because it's bad from start to finish. Go throw rocks down a sidewalk & I promise you will have better lane conditions...
I now remember why I don't come to home on wall bowling alleys. The lighting is terrible, it smells funny, they require a $10 minimum on food, I paid $4 for a Modelo, and the damn air hockey table ate my change and the staff said they don't have a key to the machine!?! My friend almost went sideways over the lack of customer service that we finally got attention and someone came to fix the table. Note to self: spend money at Lucky Strike cause at least the drinks are good, the food is all right, and there's light.
This place is horrible. Plain and simple. Horrible. The guy who checked us in had a bad attitude. He set us up in a lane where the ball would get stuck to come back to us. We asked for bumpers for a player and it didn't fully work. He was bothered because we interrupted his personal call because he had to show us how to bring the bumper up, which was supposed to come up on its own. He had the news on louder than the music. Overall bad experience. I should have stuck to my normal bowling place because this was not worth my money. I'm not coming back and I would not recommend it to anyone.
Apparently, this place is closed. Parking gate still closed right now and it is way passed 3pm. Not a single person in sight; which is totally weird. Creepy voicemail on the business line since the phone line is going straight to message. This is terrible service and they should update their website!!
This place was ok. The guy at the counter was nice. we arrived to this place at 11 pm so we bought an hour to bowl. We played and hour go back and midnight to the counter and we can't purchase another hour even though they close at 2 am on a Saturday that was lame. Wish he would have mentioned that when we first arrived. The place is outdated and needs to be cleaned I mean clean the area when the bowler leave there lane. Good decent food and beers are priced ok. Other than that it was ok nothing special.
Maybe don't book a noise show knowing people are going to drive out to see it and then cancel it for being a noise show....
I have been here for three different parties for bowling and karaoke. It's a super fun place with reasonable prices. However, the staff leaves a lot to be desired. Upon our group's arrival the guy at the counter seemed overwhelmed and annoyed by the fact that he actually had to do some work. We got through that and when it came time for karaoke, the DJ apparently had her favorites, so not every one in our party who wanted to sing got to do it. I guess this is what they mean, when they say, "you get what you pay for".
Parker Bohn III. Walter Ray Williams, Jr. Dave D'Entremont. All some of the all-stars in the history of professional bowling and all would never set foot in All Star Lanes! This is not a place to go to if you have any sense of bowling skill. My friend was in town visiting and, needing to kill time, I said, "Do you want to go to a dump bowling alley?" He was up for it and that is the best way to describe what it is and your experience at All Star Lanes. An hour of bowling on a Friday or Saturday is $34. A little pricy for what All Star Lanes is but a lot better than the outrageous prices of the ritzy, out of place Highland Park Bowl. In order to rent shoes, you have to provide them with one of your shoes that you are actually wearing. This is a sure sign of a safe and reasonable environment when there is "shoe collateral" involved. 5 minutes into our bowling experience, the balls jammed up on our lane. The employee went to un-jam them but then ultimately just moved us to another lane. Whatever. But this may irritate someone paying an hourly rate that at least 5 minutes got wasted on an employee casually trying to resolve an issue with these old machines. The bowling balls available to you are all messed up. It looks like everyone who ever used them took a knife and stabbed them. And, understanding the history of Eagle Rock, it's very possible that they have. The lanes are not oiled. My friend, a quality bowler, could not even figure out through 3 games how to be successful at bowling on these lanes. I however bowled a 165. In other words, All Star Lanes is a great place to turn people who absolutely suck at bowling inexplicably into All Stars! It was Friday night and, all of a sudden, the lights just turned off and laser bowling began. I checked my watch and it was 7:36 PM. Okay, so I guess just randomly at 7:36, it's time to start laser bowling? Laser bowling is usually reserved for a little later like 9:00 PM and, you know, with a round time figure like 9:00 PM. Maybe the employees operate on the Eastern Time Zone and heavy recreational drug use? You would think based off all of this that I'm really tearing into All Star Lanes so why the 3-star review? Well, I understand what All Star Lanes is and it has a hilarious charm to me. I can see where such charm might not be there for a lot of people. But when you walk in with the low expectations of experiencing a dumpy bowling alley and a lot of absurdity, All Star Lanes delivers. As I collected my second shoe back, the employee asked, "Did you have a fun time?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "Who won?" I proudly said, "Me," and laughed directly in my friend's face. This is the kind of arrogance in bowling you can feel at All Star Lanes As we left the alley, a band was playing in the restaurant area. The lights were on so you could see the audience and the lead singer was really trying to sell how into the song she was. It was absolutely hilarious to watch and entirely indicative of the crazed but charming experience of All Star Lanes where you can bowl well with the crappiest ball and pure garbage for shoes, shake your head at teenagers just straight up making out on the lanes or the pool tables behind you, and then see some band playing what seems like a hell gig but absolutely being into it. You can have it all at All Star Lanes! I'm sure I'll come back again at some point to bowl but this is not a place I intend on frequenting. I also would not eat or drink anything here for all the reasons I listed above. Hey now! You're an All Star! Get your game on! Go play!
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Omg please please don't go here. Broken lane, no screen, 16 people in line to get shoes and return shoes. We just saw the checkout guy spray shoes and handle them then SERVE FOOD! What?!!!! Our lane had a pin half the time in the gutter but we couldn't get helps bc there was NO ONE THERE TO HELP! God treat your employees better. The worst.
Such a disappointment... as always. I love 2 blocks from all star lanes, and I would be here every night if this place were just a little better. I really don't care that it doesn't have the modern amenities of most bowling alleys. I don't care that there aren't enough chairs for more than 3 per lane. I don't even care that it smells of mildew. But the lanes are dirty and the pins setters never work. It costs the same to bowl here as it does at any premier lanes, and this place just sucks. I really wish it didn't, I want to love it, I can walk here, With My Ball! But it's just bad. And never going to get better. Although.... plenty of of street parking and the staff is SUPER helpful.
Went yesterday (saturday night). A very lively 20 something crowd. There was a lot going on. A live hard core band in one room, karaoke in another, and I guess a Chinese restaurant is open earlier. This alley will remind you of the old school alleys from where you grow up. In fact, it probably has not been painted or had new balls ordered since then! This is not Lucky Strike or Highland Park bowl with upscale touches and high prices. The kind of big young guy working there was super friendly, the smaller guy less so. In sum, the balls are banged up, the monitors play random stuff and don't all work, the air hockey table took my money, the outside paint is wonderfully run down, but the price is right and we had a great time here.
I am surprised there are so many 1 star reviews. Came here on a Saturday night because we couldn't get any reservation at HLP bowl. We ended up getting into this "retro" "vintage" "looked-rundown-from-the-outside" All Star Lane with our friends. It was such a surprise. There are so many different rooms in this place: bowling, live music room, karaoke room, AND a Chinese restaurant! Full of surprise. It's so divey and crowded. Most of the customers are in their 20s-30s. It's certainly a hipster's spot. I honestly did not expect this, yet it turned our we had so much fun with much less money. This place is so COOL that they keep everything as the way they are. The neon sign outside, half of the bulbs are broken. They don't fix it. The TVs above the lanes, some stop working, they don't care. The air hockey never work and the machine doesn't get your money, they do nothing about it. It's literally everything was so broken but working in is own way that I couldn't help but laughing the whole night. We had so much fun here. I'd definitely take my friends here.
Honestly, I challenge anyone to find a better Karaoke bar inside of an abandoned Chinese restaurant that's part of a bowling alley. Here's why I love All Star Lanes: A few months ago I was here on a date. The girl had previously warned me that she just got out of the hospital for a suicide attempt and was bi-polar schizophrenic. Hey, nobody's perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So we're having a good time, as you do when you're at All Star Lanes for Karaoke. We're singing and dancing and drinking and really having a blast, when my date turns to me and says; "This is the best night of my life, I'm having so much fun, thank you so much for showing me this place!" Less than 1 minute later, she slashed her wrists with a broken glass and started bleeding out on the dance floor. Janet, the noble bartender, hopped over the bar and started applying pressure to the wounds with her bar towel while I called 911. We got my date into the ambulance and were off to the hospital, where she was treated and released that night. We did not go on a 2nd date. I didn't show my face at All Star for a bit after that, but after taking a few weeks off karaoke, I finally returned, and sure enough it was like I had never left. Janet was pouring stiff drinks, the regulars were drinking tall beers and enjoying watching the hipster dance party that was in full effect while a tattoo'd goth babe sang Whitney Houston, and all was right in the world. I order a drink from the bar, and apologize to Janet for "my friend that got out of control a few weeks ago". I was met with a quizzical look and a "Huh?", to which I followed up with, "Y'know, the girl we had to call an ambulance for". Janet pondered this for a moment, and then nodded, "Oh. Yea. The redhead." Suicide girl was a brunette. I told Janet this information, and she racked her brain a bit. "Hmmm. I must've been thinking of someone else." F*** yea Janet. F*** yea All Star Lanes. You don't even remember that a girl tried to off herself and you had to hold her in your arms while she bled all over this very bar a mere 20 feet from where we're standing right now and that was less than 3 weeks ago holy s*** I love this place even more than I already did.