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• Madison G.
• Seattle, WA, USA

3/27/2012 3 Check-ins Here

Call me a fatty, but this review is mainly based on their restaurant and food. :)

I know most people go to bowling alleys to bowl. Myself on the other hand, I go to eat. If there food wasn't as great as it is, I'd probably have no reason to come here at all.

Let's just be realistic - After reading my review and wanting to try out their food, you're probably going to be extremely turned off if you go here on a Friday or Saturday night. There's going to be dirty tables that don't get wiped down or cleaned until 5 minutes after you've sat there and a bunch of obnoxious drunk people around you. Good luck getting a waitress to drop off menus or take your order within 5-10 minutes of you sitting there, as well. I know you're probably thinking, "Okay... So why would I bother going here?" Well, try their salt and pepper wings and then you'll see why service doesn't matter. I mean, there's a lot of other items on the menu that you can try, but the wings alone keep my family and I coming back week after week.

The food here is AMAZING. Yes, it looks like a little shady being that the place is your typical dirty bowling alley, but if it helps to know, I've never gotten sick or found a hair in my food. :) lol

As far as bowling goes, all I can say from experience is if you're looking for cheap bowling, you need to come here instead of some where else, such as West Seattle Bowling Alley. The prices are much better here.

Again... I know my review was a fat girl post, but hey. That's what I am. So, please.. Try the wings for me, okay? I promise you'll love 'em!

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• Nathan H.
• Seattle, WA, USA

12/29/2011

Pro:
Good food
Cheap beer
Decent lanes

Con: Terrible Atmosphere
Their nightly specials are a scam (more details below)
You may get stabbed

I've been to Roxbury lanes a few times, and had mixed feelings. The food is good, and if you play your cards right, you may save a buck over west seattle bowl... but thats as much of a gamble as any of the table games.

Every time you walk in, you get the sense that everyone around you has given up on life. The place is a dive... not in the good way.  To say the place hasn't been maintained is an understatement.

The food has been great every time. I had some General Tzo's chicken that was crispy and delicious. The drink specials can also be good.

AVOID FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS! They have Rockin bowl. But they don't play the usual classic rock, metal, or really any other type of rock music. They play the shittiest XM radio rock station with  whiny no name neu metal bands. The music itself was making the group I was with have a terrible time. And to top it off, the pricing was the biggest scam I've ever seen at a bowling alley. It was $10 per hour... per person.

Bowling alleys can either charge by the game per person, or by the hour per lane. No other bowling alley would charge $10 per hour per person on the same lane. Roxbury had 6 of us crammed on one lane paying a combined $60 per hour! And this was considered a deal!?! They didn't even offer us two lanes!!!

Other nightly specials seem good, but you have to pay attention. Such as the monday night $10/person all you can bowl sounds great! Until you notice it only goes for 2.5 hours from 9:30 to midnight. If you have more than two people with you, you will likely spend more on this special... not less. Be sure to study their website and the "Bowling is Back" offers.

OVERALL:
Unless its sunday... you're much better off at West Seattle Bowl. Whoever runs the place needs to change their Friday and Saturday night bowling if they ever want us coming back.

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• Siamen M.
• Kent, WA, USA

5/12/2012

Food here is awesome.  Seems like everything they bring out from the kitchen are great!  If you like fried chicken wings, they have one of the better one there.  They may not be the cleaness bowling alley, but the price is decent and staff are friendly.  I like to bowl there more than the big bowling alley that has no atmostphere of a classic bowling alley should be.

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• Amber N.
• Sacto girl in Seattle
• Seattle, WA, USA

11/18/2011 Purchased a Yelp Deal 1 Check-in Here

I happened to be perusing Yelp one rainy Sunday and came across the deal to get $55 worth of bowling for $25!  So, I grabbed my family members and off we went!  Roxbury is your pretty standard bowling alley, but, what do you expect?  The place has a casino attached to it.  All in all, I had a great time with my family and by the time we left, the rain had stopped.

We had 2 lanes to ourselves, and we took advantage of the Family Special on Sunday (see their website for details).  We ordered food, it was a bit on the spendy side, but the good ol' FRIED FOOD went right along with the grungy-ness of Roxbury.

At the end of the day, I WOULD have paid $50, but, instead I paid $25 for a day of fun!  There were 5 of us bowling and we played probably 4 games each.  Quite honestly, there were 3 kids in my and they didn't notice a thing about the smell or look of the place, they just knew they had a BLAST bowling!