By the title of this post you are probably asking yourself, how can you put bowling alley and bar in the same Seattle bar and nightclub review? Well, if you've ever been to the Garage, Seattle's hottest bowling alley slash bar slash pool room, you will know exactly why. As this initial picture suggests, the Garage is a great place to have some beers and throw a heavy ball at some pins.We decided to rock out the Garage on a Saturday night after watching the Huskies lose yet another game. After going to Murphy's Irish Pub in Wallingford a few days earlier, we needed something to get the heart racing a little. What better to get you all pumped up than to do a little bowling? Little did I know the Garage would provide just what the doctor ordered.
Located at 1134 Broadway Ave in Seattle, just east of what I would consider to be downtown Seattle (east of I-5), the Garage is a beast of a place teeming with pool tables, bowling alleys, food, drinks, and tons of fun people. From the outside it looks pretty cool - like a bowling alley should look, and though the inside is clean, it looks the way the lead guitarist from an alternative/rock band would decorate it (Mike McCready, the lead guitarist of Pearl Jam, owns the place - if you don't consider what they do to be alternative/rock music, don't get mad, I was just doing my best on the fly). It's a little beat up, casual but with an air of "I meant to do this on purpose." I thought it was great.
Once we got inside we immediately wanted to start bowling... and found out there was a 3 1/2 hour wait! As with almost everything in life, however, money talks. Fifty bucks got us literally to the front of the line (I highly recommend trying this - when they say three and a half hours, they are not kidding). Once in an alley, though, you can bowl to your hearts content. There were four of us, and we bowled for about two hours. While bowling there was a waitress coming around all the time. She brought us all the food and drinks we could handle, and if that wasn't enough, there was a bar just kitty corner to our alley. I was in heaven.One of my primary indications of how good a Seattle bar is (aside from how much fun I actually have) is how long it takes to get a drink. It isn't good for the bar or the patrons if it takes forever to get a drink. Thankfully, the Garage had beverages out quickly, cold and ready to drink.
And one other thing I wanted to mention about this place - the music. It wasn't live, but while we were bowling at least 15 songs came on where all my friends and I looked at each other and said "this song is amazing!" We are late 20s early 30 somethings to give you some context, and the jams were coming from all genres of music.
If you couldn't tell, my review of Seattle bar and bowling alley the Garage is a favorable one. If you don't have anything to do on any night of the week, don't hesitate to head down there and get a couple frames in. It won't disappoint!
*All images on this site come from the Garage website.
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