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    Beech Grove Bowl

    3.7 (45 reviews)
    Open Open 24 hours
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Gotta love bowling carpet
    Kristin U.

    Beech Grove Bowl is the kind of place where "everybody knows your name." You want the Cheers of bowling alleys, start going to Beech Grove Bowl. This place is unassuming. It's an older building and there's not a lot of flair like you see in some places that try to be trendy. But Beech Grove Bowl has heart. More than that, they have everything you need--12 lanes, plenty of good food and drinks, music, and arcade games. And they're open (normally) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... which blows my mind. You could literally go bowl whenever you want to! You want claw machines? They've got claw machines. You want to play some 90s pop while you bowl? You can select on the touchscreen "jukebox." You want to play the world's largest PAC-Man? That's here, too. Wanna bowl with your toddler? They have shoes that will fit their tiny feet, bumpers, and "slides" they can push the ball down. Looking for an adult league or youth bowling program? They've got you covered! It's an older building, but they've done some renovating. My only complaint is there's a bit of a (musty?) smell inside. They do have gluten free pizza crust, so that's a huge plus in my book! My fam loves the calzones and slushies. They even have Dip'N'Dots now. Basically, this is a community place with a lot to offer if you give it a chance. I think you'll see that when you stop by.

    P C.

    Very old. Lanes were uneven and pins were attached to wires. Our lane had lots of problems with locking up. Food was good thank goodness! If you live in the neighborhood, I can see why people spend time there on the weekends. It's close. It's familiar. There are only 12 lanes. We were there for my daughter's 21st birthday and I was embarrassed once everyone showed up. But, it worked out and we made the best of it.

    Glow N dark table
    Ashley D.

    I ended up going to the Beech Grove Bowl on Saturday night January 23rd. Since, there's nothing to do in the city every bowling of that night was sold out. I remember I called bowling alleys as far North as Noblesville which was sold out. I made out there at 8pm, and my wait time was 30mins. Everyone, that went to Beech Grove Bowl only bowled two games, the bowling alley is 24hrs, yet they made sure everyone was able to bowl which was why the limit was two games. The bowling alley is small, goes up to twelve lanes, the front entrance there's no stairs so it's accessible to everyone including if you use a wheelchair, or other devices. Beech Grove Bowl does have a small game room area, they do sell food as well as drinks. You do have to wear your masks coming in, and leaving the bowling alley. I noticed while bowling there were a lot of ppl not wearing their masks. At night the bowling alley glows in the dark, and when bowling it changes to a piano that actually makes noises when the bowling ball is rowing. A little fun fact about Beech Grove Bowl is that it's been open for 24hrs since 1948.

    Peter P.

    This is not a full review because I stopped in to bowl a couple games to kill time while my dog was at the vet a few blocks away. I was the only person there besides the guy at the counter so I didn't really get the full experience with a packed house. I appreciate that the whole house is non-smoking. I can't believe it's open 24 hours. There must not be a lot to do in Beech Grove at 2 AM if they can afford to stay open all the time. I've heard the pizza is pretty good here so I'll have to come back and try it sometime. Warning: Bowler-speak ahead! The lanes are extremely slick and go long, so come prepared. You may need to bake your ball (or buy a new one) to get any kind of back-end reaction.

    All Meats
    Jessica C.

    It all tasted basic and as expected so that wasn't a let down, but although I live like 5 min or less from location and it was delivered early by DoorDash, everything pretty much arrived cold! The warmest thing was the cheese sauce. The pizza was loaded with meat, the crust soft but edges crispy which I liked. The bosco stick was buttered and topped with Parmesan. It was cold enough though that there was No pull to the cheese inside. The cauliflower was roasted perfectly, still had chew, and topped generously with cheese sauce and lots of bacon! The Mac and cheese bites were dry and didn't have any creamy cheese in them, but the flavor was there. Based on the situation I would say everything had been sitting out precooked for awhile not even under a warmer. Honestly I would order again just because it's local and the flavors were there, I would highly encourage they improve on items being warm at the very least! I have been to the location prior to Covid and it was nice and clean. I believe we had the cheese bread which was really good, at least that's what sticks out in my memory!

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    Ashley S.

    This place was a hole in the wall bowling alley. I was a little nervous walking in - felt like I was walking into a saloon (tumbleweed.... tumbleweed) but it was really cute and I think I enjoyed this more than the large commercial bowling alleys. We went on a Wednesday evening (after 8pm) $2 games, $2 shoes. So the price was awesome! We double dated with my brother and his girlfriend and I had been watching YouTube videos all day on how to bowl better and scored the lowest score. So that made me so sad - seeing as the losing couple had to pay for the winning couple :( Anyways I ordered the mini donuts - they were pretty good. We also played a few video games and called it a night. My only complaint was that our pins had to reset 3-4 times and it's a manual re-set so the workers there had to walk to the back and get everything in order before we could bowl again - so that stunk (pee-u). Other than that overall 4-star experience!

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