Pins & Ales - Draper — Restaurant in Draper

I'm so happy we found a new "cosmic"-style bowling place to hit up aka somewhere that does "late night" (closed at 11pm the Saturday we went) bowling with decent music and black lights.

We arrived close 9pm to find out that they were offering unlimited bowling from 9p to close -- only for $11.99 each person! This cost included shoe rentals, too, I believe. We played some arcade games waiting for 9pm to hit. The virtual reality game looked cool, but I didn't get to play as one of the controllers was broken. My three friends said it was pretty intense and were freakin' out during the zombie round -- but they had fun. The arcade overall has some really good-looking, new games. There's also bumper cars and a mini golf course under black light to the left as you walk in. We didn't try either, but I wouldn't be opposed to in the future!

My BF and myself chose to go to the bar area which is in another room to the right when you walk in. THAT area is even better than the regular bowling area, but we had some minors with us, or else we would've bowled in there. The bartender was super friendly and helpful. This was the night I was first educated on the "Zion curtain" rule... huh. I guess if you can't "see" a drink be made in Utah, it doesn't exist? Besides that, drinks are reasonably-priced.

We got two lanes right at 9pm, no hidden fees or anything like that. Sweet couch-type seating. Music videos play on flat screens on the back wall above the lanes. COOL. Just wish the music was louder (the music seemed better and louder in the bar area). Plenty of ball options -- no issue there, which is surprising compared to my past experience. I was also happily surprised to find that the pizza and fries were really good! I mean for a bowling alley, damn good.

We had loads of fun playing for a couple hours. They shut down our last game before it finished ('cause we didn't know when they closed until it actually happened), but it actually saved me some money from a bet I was about to lose. I am...

This place started out pretty cool. We went to the bar section of the bowling alley. You can only drink at the bar section, unless you order your beer WHILE on the sober bowling section. Our bowling lane didn’t work right from the get go. About half way through, it broke completely. They moved us to another lane in the bar, then moved us to another lane in the sober section. But we couldn’t take our pitcher of beer because it’s illegal for some reason. So we had to either leave our beer or bowl. So we’re now sitting in the bar section of the bowling alley drinking our beer. Like animals trapped in a cage. They didn’t give us any refund on our bowling either.

EDIT: this was my second visit. The first pitcher of beer was very strange. Like someone dipped some jalapeños in it before serving. My bowling-forward friend also complained that the lanes weren’t oiled properly. I’m a straight shooter when it comes to bowling so I had no problems. The other pitchers after were great. We came on a Sunday, so there was a football game on. If you like football, you’ll like this. I don’t follow the sport, so it just felt loud and chaotic to me. There’s also an outdoor patio with the game on that had a powerful fire pit that was very much too hot for the distance the seating was. Overall, I’m gonna go up a star and give it 3 out of 5. Will update next...

We ordered food. wait was supposed to be 10-15 minutes instead we got our food 45 mins later, and it took us going up front and asking to bring our own food to the table that was just sitting in the kitchen are food was no longer warm after that wait. the chaser McKenzie apologized multiple times saying so sorry. she was amazing did the best job she could. as we stood in the over welling line waiting just to ask about our food we watched three employees walk into the kitchen and see the pilling up food and just walked out and continued just talking to other employees while the cashier was droning in customers and over flowing kitchen. by the time we got all our food and was back to our bowling lane we had missed an hour of our bowling time we paid quite a bit for. we asked to speak to manager and after a hour of waiting we were told he couldn't be bother to come out of his office. i finally called the and asked for the manager it took me calling him on the website before he could come see us. after he got there he didn't credit anything and didn't help the cashier he took our complaints and just walked off. Worst service i have ever had will never be going back. The cashier was amazing for doing all she could with a facility that couldn't help her complete the...