Let me start this off by saying... I DONT EVEN BOWL ! Lol spare time is just a great place with…read moreeven better food. The bar set up is very nice along with all the craft beers they have on tap, the staff is always friendly and attentive not to mention the cook is the best and the food is always delicious !

Went to bowl a few games on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It is a great place. It is clean, well-lit,…read moreand really nice and cozy inside. It has 12 alleys in it. I love it and will definitely be back.

Stopped in for a couple games and had a blast! Great place with lots of games, yummy food, and…read morepleasant staff. Has the feel of an old school bowling alley and we love to see that in 2026!

Great time! Great service! Really good food. The lanes are pretty decent. Went before a football…read moregame and they played other NFL games while we bowled. Went on a Sunday for $6 per game day. When we left I noticed they had a full restaurant on the other side of the alley, which explains they extensive menu for a bowling alley...well beyond the typical pizza and wings. They had a HUGE screen in the restaurant with a bunch of other TV's so we will keep them in mind for watching the game. We had a blast!

Five star review for five star lanes. Cheap AF. Prolly won't be busy when you walk in, but that's a…read moregood thing. Only complaint is the smell of cheese outside.

From the owner: 18 Lane Bowling Alley & Sports Bar Drink Specials at our 12…read moreHigh Def TV Sports Bar Pool table Games, dartboard, much more to come

Great, clean place for bowling. Good food, inexpensive drinks. You can reserve lanes online. Highly…read morerecommend!

Food good food atmosphere bowling just all around "Cheers" atmosphere service was great. Alot of…read morework done to this facility and more to come I guess in 2025

This place is a hidden gem! Food is amazing and service is fantastic as well. Wife got the chicken…read morefinger Hoagie and I got wings. Love that they let you split a single order 5 & 5. 5 XXX Hot and 5 Mango Habenero. So perfectly cooked and sauced. Can't wait to go back for their fish fry. Pics look incredible. Juniors Corner at Cloverbank bowling lanes.

The kids enjoyed bowling; I enjoyed multiple flavors of wings. My favorite I think were the…read moreJuniors. Great wing presentation and taste that you frankly wouldn't expect at a bowling alley.

With all the craziness of CoVid going on in New York I wasn't sure AMF would be open…read more I called ahead to check( and missing the sound of Marys voice from our years of bowling when our oldest( who is 30 now)was 6) was answered by a man with no customer service skills stated they were open and it was first come first serve. We walked in and noticed a lot of open lanes, 2 customers in front of us and the man I spoke to on the phone trying to handle inputting their info. As we were next and I asked for a lane(one possibly not in the middle of people)I was cut off mid sentence and told "I'm letting you know you Will be in the middle of all those people" as he pointed to the left. I then finished my sentence saying "because my husband just had chemo and I was hoping we could be on the end". In the middle of my speaking he again said "No I'm letting you know you can't." Wow! No, sorry we're having tournaments or have reservations for parties or anything just continual snapping. I really wish Mary didn't retire-I'm sure she would never let an employee be so rude. (And yes I did call him a douche-usually I'm nicer but between me and my 2 sons he was rude so I felt it appropriate. I'm getting sick of people being rude to me all the time it's unacceptable!) Needless to say my husband stayed for about 20 minutes and left and me and the kids had a Great time anyway!

AMF Lancaster Lanes in Depew is a nearly perfect case study in corporate enshittification: the slow…read moreprocess by which a perfectly understandable neighborhood institution gets standardized, "reimagined," aggressively monetized, and transformed into a more expensive, less satisfying imitation of itself. First, the geography. It is called Lancaster Lanes, but it is in Depew, which is partly in Lancaster and partly in Cheektowaga, along that Transit Road continuum where municipal boundaries become theoretical and every location is described relative to a Tops, Tim Hortons, former Kmart, or restaurant that used to be something else. This is Western New York. We understand it. A national corporation never will. A bowling alley should be one of civilization's simplest institutions. You enter. There are lanes. You rent shoes. You bowl badly. You order beer and wings. One person who claims not to have bowled in fifteen years inexplicably scores 180. A child wanders into your approach. An elderly league bowler silently judges your technique. The model has worked for decades. It requires no disruption. But corporate America cannot encounter a functioning institution without asking how it might be made shittier through innovation. Someone looked at this bowling alley and did not see a community gathering place. He saw an "under-monetized location-based entertainment asset." He saw customers occupying space without being adequately extracted from. He saw people sharing one pitcher of beer and realized shareholder value was being destroyed. Thus, bowling becomes an "experience." The snack bar becomes "lane-side dining." Turning off the lights and activating ultraviolet fixtures becomes a premium event. A birthday becomes a tiered entertainment package. The website speaks like a Las Vegas nightclub, even though the destination is a cinder-block building in Depew surrounded by six months of accumulated parking-lot salt. Corporate enshittification always follows the same formula: cut staffing until one employee is doing four jobs, raise prices to fund none of those jobs, impose centralized systems that make simple decisions impossible, and use cheerful branding to suggest that deterioration is modernization. The employee working the desk, snack bar, birthday party, and lane malfunction simultaneously is not the problem. That employee is a hostage. You can end up trying to accomplish the ancient task of paying money to bowl while feeling like you are negotiating a telecommunications contract. How many people? How long? Shoes included? Did you reserve online? Is this a peak period? Would you like a package? Would you like to create an account? Would you like to receive promotional emails? No. I want to throw a fourteen-pound ball at ten pins. I do not want to establish a relationship with the bowling alley. I do not want an app, personalized offers, or an email tomorrow saying, "You left three pins standing, but your next visit could be a strike!" I want the anonymity once inherent in low-stakes public recreation. The food follows the same pattern. Bowling food should be gloriously unambitious: hot, salty, structurally stable, and edible with one hand between frames. Pizza, wings, fries, burgers, chicken fingers. Nobody needs a chef's vision. Nobody needs a drizzle. The snack bar should sell a cheeseburger called "Cheeseburger," not a "signature lane-side dining experience" assembled from the same ingredients but priced like it attended graduate school. This is Western New York. We know bar food. You cannot put twelve damp nachos in a miniature metal basket, add three adjectives to the menu description, and expect us to be dazzled. Then there is the lighting. Corporate entertainment executives apparently decided that visible carpeting and recognizable human faces are incompatible with fun. Therefore, everything must glow blue and purple while music videos flash above the pins at a volume that prevents conversation. Regular bowling is insufficiently monetizable, so they turn off the lights, activate fixtures purchased during the Black Eyed Peas era, call it "cosmic," and charge more for the same lane. Nothing says premium entertainment like being unable to see the finger holes in the ball. The saddest part is that a real neighborhood bowling alley remains trapped underneath all the corporate lacquer. League bowlers still arrive with bags resembling sensitive medical equipment. Families still bring children. Friends still insult each other's form. People still celebrate accidental strikes with wildly disproportionate enthusiasm. The community keeps trying to use the place as a community bowling alley while the corporation tries to convert it into a monetized entertainment ecosystem.

Excellent atmosphere. Very intimate for a birthday party. The lanes were clean. We tried to get…read morefood/drink service at our table and no one came to help. That was the only d

Downtown bowling with a luxury feel!…read more My department at work hosted a retreat for us at 500 Pearl, and rented out the Spare Room for us to have some fun after. I've always wanted to check it out, so it was a real treat! The alley itself is on the smaller side, but it's decorated very nicely and has an arcade attached. There's a bar too which is always a plus! We ate dinner there - pizza and various appetizers. The chicken finger pizza was incredible, and I snagged a chicken wing egg roll as well, which was just as decadent. It's not cheap to bowl here. There's definitely more affordable options, so I don't think I'd necessarily list the Spare Room as a top choice if I were to have a bowling get-together in the future. But it was really neat, and if you do get the chance to experience it, you should take it. All in all, The Spare Room is a nice addition to 500 Pearl and Downtown Buffalo as a whole. I don't bowl often, but when I do, I love for it to be a unique, yummy experience. Let's not talk about what I bowled though.

We love playing billiards!!! I've been coming here for years with my friends and families and…read morealways have a great time

Here's what I like: TONS of pinball machines, darts and pool…read moretables. All affordable to play Lots of cold beer options Fun atmosphere First visit to the new arcade area: They had a ton of games and the employee behind the counter was super kind and patient with my kids. I think there was a birthday party going on. Nobody could really confirm if we were allowed to play so we stayed. Games were brutally short and expensive. I cannot recommend bringing young kids here. Not that a pool hall is necessarily where they should be to begin with. I wish they had an unlimited play option. Awesome hangout spot or place to bring a date. Leave the little kids at home.

One thing about Dave & Busters is that you can depend on it to be open late. The food and drinks…read moreare okay and the game play is also decent. Overall I feel like this js someplace you'd come when you want to have a little late night fun bc you're not ready to go in the house yet.

they didn't have the drink. I wanted, then came back and told me that they didn't have the food I…read morewanted. Took 10 years to explain the token thing. when it should've only took five minutes. The

The service was great. Has a great bar and tavle and lane service. The food is good. Has that old…read morefashioned bowling feeling.

Came here for open bowling and had a good experience. It's a little dated inside but there are lots…read moreof lanes, a bar, food, and some arcade games. Prices were great too, and our family had fun, so we'll be back!