33 Elmwood — Restaurant in Westbrook

I typically do not write reviews, however I just walked out of the place and figured I would comment on my experience. It is super loud but I understood since it is a bowling alley. We were sitting at the bar and The service was also super slow, but they were busy so I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.

We got our appetizers and they were very small and expensive but tasted decent.

Once we got our meals no one had come back to check on us at the bar to see how we liked the food. My salad was terrible, I had only one bite and couldnt stomach the dressing they had put on the salad.

My boyfriends burger was basically a hockey puck and extremely over cooked to the point it had visible shrunken in size.

His french fries also tasted like hot eggs, which was also not great.

I feel like our experience could have been better if we could have gotten someone's attention about our order or if someone had asked how we liked the food. I most likely will not be coming back again. I have tried this place 2 times and can say that each time our experience...

Last month was my Birthday, so my boyfriend and I tried this place out for the very first time to celebrate. We had dinner first and then did a round of bowling when we were finished eating. I had the brisket which was fantastic, the potatoes it was sitting on were cold, but I honestly didn't care. I was later told that it was the first slab of a new recipe. He had the pizza and he said that it was really great. They have 4 lanes of candle pin bowling and I think about 10 more lanes of regular bowling - we did candle pin and had so much fun. It was late on a Sunday so we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We did not check out the outside portion of this place, but it is definitely set up to handle large crowds. We are bringing our (mixed) family of 7 here next weekend for my sons 10th birthday, we thing the 5 kids ages 7 through 20 will all think...

I had a hard time deciding between four and five stars for 33 Elmwood. Compared to the bowling alleys I grew up with this is clearly a fantastic experience on every front. The building is cleaner and modern, the food has actual effort put into it, they've even added bocce and cornhole.

However, I feel like I have to take into account that none of the food items or cocktails we tried were all that great (even though we had high hopes after reading through the menu). It's clearly a huge step forward from the days of the grimy cigarette-filled bowling alleys from my childhood. I'd totally come back here again for a great time bowling and would absolutely get a beer and some appetizers with it but I don't think I'll be ordering more of their larger format meals...