Brooklyn Bowl, Even Bloomberg thinks a $13 Milkshake is Too Much
Bloomberg.com’s Ryan Sutton has just done the Brooklyn Bowl thing over in Williamsburg and gave it mixed results – he, like many of us, couldn’t help but get the sticker shock. Let’s see, $13 for a whiskey milkshake, $30-$50 for a bowling lane, $4 shoe rentals, yeah that would add up. He wasn’t too impressed with the Blue Ribbon chicken either, says he:
It’s semi-famous for fried chicken even though it shouldn’t be, at least not here, where it’s under-salted and dry, with a crumbly, insubstantial crust.
Of course, anyone bowling a 154 should be concentrating on other things besides the food. If you’re headed to Brooklyn Bowl, bring lots of cash or a hot credit card, don’t forget the socks, and if you’re feeling the munchies we recommend the fries, which even Ryan likes. If chicken is your thing, it’s still Brooklyn and we wouldn’t tell if you stuffed a bodega bird into your jacket pocket – it’ll cost you a fraction of the Blue Ribbon and we guarantee it won’t be “under-salted”.
photo: Brooklyn Bowl, credit: Adam Macchia
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I just don’t understand all this talk of this place being that expensive. All the alleys in the city are considerably more expensive, Bowlmore and Lucky Strike are 90 – 100$ an hour. I’ve been to both, and there is no comparison. The service alone–not to mention a line up of live music rivaling any venue in town–is worth it.