All Star Lanes Manchester

When it comes to bowling alleys, this brings memories of fun and arcade machines with monochrome blue pac man style graphics from the TV screens that represent the not required. balls and pencils would regularly hold that someone encouraged to ball and log in pencils are retrieving. how the things have changed since the good old days. technology has continued to move and the expectations of the younger have increased exponentially. Although I was only in the twenties, I still found the razzmatazz of the most many filials of all star lanes, which became used to this 80s child. flat screens with cartoon animations now replace the great chunky blue screens of pastness with catchphrase type graphics of truth teeth after a series of striks. a thing that has not changed is that I am still terrible at bowling, starting with three gardeners and with only one strike all the game. grow from hush puppies

Offering home-cooked food, freshly made cocktails from the bar, and none of the tacky fruit machines, it promised to be a more grown up experience.

Sport is bad enough on its own. When you factor in a uniform, quite frankly I’m out. I went through a brief spell of fashioning sportswear in my early teens (I call those dark times, ‘the chav years’ . Tracksuit bottoms were considered trendy AND comfortable, I was rarely seen without an ADIDAS jacket and once owned a pair of trainers so orange, they used to upset air traffic control signals. It is since this pair of footwear, that I made a promise to myself to never again wear a set of ugly shoes. This rule means it is simply impossible for me to go bowling. However, when the chaps at All Star Lanes sent me an invite to visit them for food and cocktails, I wrote a list to help me make the decision. It looked like this: Negatives: Breaking my ugly shoes rule. Positives: Food. Cocktails. Always trust a list, so I booked us in. All Star Lanes is already an established brand in London. They’ve moved to Deansgate to try and spread a little bit of the magic that is doing so well for the

We had a great time at All Star Lanes. The new menu is fantastic, the service was attentive and the drinks were pretty special too. I don't think either of us will be topping the bowling leader board any time soon though...

We went down to All Star Lanes as guest of head chef Ashley Clarke last week to check out some of the new menu. Here's a preview of our evening. *New menu item; BBQ Baby Back ribs. From the current menu; Blackened Salmon crushed cajun sweet potatoes chipotle sour cream. *New menu item; King Pin Burger. Bacon cheeseburger with a mac cheese croquette. *New menu item; Salt Beef Croquettes, dill pickle deli mustard. *New menu item; Blueberry Cheesecake jar, oreo cookie crumble.