New owners post Covid are doing a lot to make it a destination location and expanding. The pizza is surprisingly good, definitely an option we forget about. The food ordering area is more of just a bar area that gets a little rowdy families are vest served to stay in the bowling portion Honestly in a lot of ways this place is like a time capsule, operating and living like life was in the 80s and 90s. Parties available at a good value, we have probably been to 5 parties in the past 5 years. read more

Great food. Just order your burger medium well if you don't want blazing pink. (Medium gets you raw pink all but the crust).

This review is based mainly on the food served at the local bowling alley in Peterborough. Bowling Acres offers good family fun locally with12 lanes of candlepin bowling, arcade games, skeeball, birthday party area, and a cozy grill & bar section. A string of bowling is $3.50. The grill counter offerings include sandwiches, subs, chili, fried foods, snacks, pizza, steak tips, and Pepsi fountain drinks (self serve). Specials are offered here. The food prices are pretty reasonable, most food items under $10 with tax included in the prices. The pizza here at Bowling Acres was voted best pizza in town for two years in a row. The bar area has a cozy atmosphere with a good view of the action on the lanes. There's seating for about 15 people, (seating at the bar and high top table seating) with 2 big HDTVs. There are 8 beers on tap and numerous bottled beers on hand. Select 55 drafts are $2 in the bar. This is definitely a townie bar where the staff and customers know each other very well. I stopped in here to take a break from driving the 101 across NH. I ordered a Small Fries ($2) and a Small Chicken Pesto Pizza ($6 on special) for the road. The food was ready in about 15 minutes. The fries were decent, the typical frozen fries (3/8" cut) deep fried really hot and salted. However, I was very pleasantly surprised the 10" Chicken Pesto Pizza was really good, which was loaded with pesto, oil, grilled chicken strips, and cheese on a good crust, firm outside and soft inside, great flavors overall. I did not expect to find great pizza served at a small town bowling alley, hehe. The Chicken Pesto Pizza gets an affirmative A plus in my book! read more

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We were visiting the area and were looking for a distraction. We are avid bowlers but had never tried candlepin bowling. The proprietor was very friendly and explain all the rules of the game and how to score it. The lanes were very well maintained, and the crowd had a real hometown feel to it. We highly recommend giving them a try. read more

A fun place for all ages. Friendly staff and good food too. Love that you keep your own scores too. So many bowling places have automated score keeping. read more

The best thing here are they burgers. Tony does an awesome job.I think they have the best burgers in the area- Keene included. They have a double burger known as the George burger here that is almost impossible to finish. The pizza is highly edible, I think I like the calzones better than the pizza here. This is kind of like the Cheers of Peterbrough. Just beer and wine. They have picnic tables in the back that you can smoke and drink at. Candlepin bowling, and they have leagues there too. read more

This place is great. Its basically frozen in time somewhere around the end of the Cold War.. Food is great, epic burgers and chicken wings (get the "t" sauce if you know what I mean) and decent pizza. The bar part is small and cozy with nice wooden booths and multiple TVs. There are also big windows looking out onto the lanes so you can watch people bowl and make them feel self conscious. They have a decent draft selection, usually with a couple nice craft brews like Founders all-day. Clientele is more likely buying bud light though. All the local cops eat here so be prepared for an aroma of bacon. Bowling is fun, candlepin is hard though! If you can roll a hundred you are pretty good. I would wash your hands after you bowl though because its pretty gross when you think about the balls your handling. Overall I say, check it out!... PS try the pepperoni and bottle cap pizza (true story) and play corn hole out back read more

A great place to knock some pins. And grab some grub. Very friendly staff. Great place to bring the family!

I've visited Bowling Acres twice in the last 3 years and both times it has been a horrible experience. First time, waited at the desk for 15 minutes for someone to come over so I could pay for our bowling and the second time, the young woman working had an attitude and paid more attention to her cell phone than customers. The arcade is a joke, many of the machine not working and eating money, and of course the employee at the desk had the attitude of not caring. Next time I will drive the extra 5 minutes to Milford to a better maintained and staff candepin bowling alley. read more

Best burger around! Hands down! Actually comes how you ordered it. And to top it off you can eat to the soothing sounds for candle pin bowling. A hidden surprise in Peterborough, you'd never expect that this little stop was the stop to be but it is! read more

One of the best cheese steaks I've ever eaten.... And I've eaten a few. Great bunch working the grill too. Next time we'll have to bowl as well since we just came for the amazing cheese steaks. read more

I love this grille! The pizza is amazing I don't know what the other review is talking about. Literally, I come here just for the pizza sometimes. We also really enjoys the "T-sauce" wings so definitely try those out!!! read more

I absolutely love this place. The grille always has delicious food from pizzas to subs to burgers, Tony does a great job maintaining a variety of delicious food on the menu. Their steak and cheese is the best I've had and their burgers are big and juicy. The pizza is also some of the best I've ever eaten. I've never been close to disappointed coming here which is often. read more

Definitely needs remodeling. Having a place to bowl with family and friends close by would be a great way to spend an evening. I think the place has potential to expand and become more popular if they could update both their interior and exterior (outside especially, I think their appearance is unwelcoming for those who haven't been in it already.) read more

I have no complaints at all pizza is great quality I like Rick and Diane's but all together I prefer bowling acres pizza and food it's amazing Brian you should go back and try it again read more

I love this bowling alley. Small but quite cozy. The service is good and the staff is really friendly. Bowling is pretty cheap at $4.00 a string, and shoe rentals are decent at $2 for kids and $3 for adults. They offer specials for the bowling as well, and there's glow bowling on Friday nights. They do birthday parties there, too. There's an arcade in the back, and all of the machines take quarters (not tokens, although they call them tokens) and a lot of them will give you tickets, which you can redeem at the counter for a number of prizes. The games get rotated frequently, which is nice. The attached bar/restaurant is excellent as well. Their pizza is awesome. You can order pizza before you arrive and pick it up so that you can eat while you bowl. All in all, great place, I would definitely recommend! read more

This place won "Best pizza in Peterborough" for the last 2 years, at least. I have had many pizzas there. They are consistently yummy!! You can get 2 large cheese pizzas for $20. I have tried pizza at every location in town, these folks have the best!! Try them out, you too will be impressed!!! read more