Westgate Lanes

Long gone are the days of fresh anything while you bowl it's all prefab food including microwave burgers with grill marks on them. BURP

loved this place fun fun fun

Extremely 90's bowling alley-ey... complete with outdated structure, decor, a ceiling Frodo could touch flat-footed, music and cafeteria food. I have never had fries that are less salted or more crinkle cut than theirs. Perfection.

Westgate lanes, for me, is a trip back to Junior High outings and to uncomfortable family get-togethers in a town so small our movies still cost $4.00 - the alternatives to which are either bowling or watching old people burn their tongues on coffee at the Whataburger. No, I don't know where your cat is or why your son won't call, Sir...

I love that Westgate is very family friendly. The place is always full of kiddos enjoying some family game time with their folks. We took our three year old and she totally rocked it... and maybe dented the floor. But like her mom, damage or not, she looked adorable doing it.

$3.00 domestics is always happy for me, and I didn't see that being advertised as a Happy Hour price. So that's nice.

I also totally won two of the games we played AND totally got a turkey. So while that awesomeness can only be attributed to Yours Truly, I'll throw a nod to Westgate Lanes for being part of that benchmark in my life. *kisses fist and points to the heavens*

As far as their lanes - 19 was having some technical difficulties that were immediately addressed by staff. Otherwise, they're well tended, slick, and unless a toddler has rolled a ball down them at the most god forsaken negative speed possible, they seem extremely even. Staff, by the way, is very considerate and may even appear hovering above your shoulder like some sort of bowling alley leprechaun to chuckle at your kid for sticking the ball between the gutter and the runner AGAIN before you have even noticed enough yourself to tell your kid what a disappointment they are. God, my kid sucks at bowling. Do they get better at things after 3?

They have tons of lanes, cheap drinks, horrible food, and exactly the environment you remember in bowling alleys as a kid minus indoor smoking. If you're prissy about bowling (whatever the hell that means) then maybe go to Main Event... but for me, location, cost and overall environment - I I dig it.