All Star Lanes For Food And Families

SOMETIMES you have to put the upstarts in their place. You get these two sixteen year olds and a twelve year old and they think they can beat the old man at sport.

Ha. 

Not a chance of it.

Wise parenting is of course to rid them of any such notions very very quickly. Competition is everything.

Although...

Er...

I wasn't really thinking like that until the magic started to happen at All Star Lanes.

I was last to go. I'd chosen an easily manipulated 10 ball, I could have thrown it fifty yards it was so light. 

Strike first go. My turn again. And Strike. Third time up. Strike.

Apparently three strikes in a row is called a turkey. 

Jonathon (sic) gets three strikes

A turkey will never happen to me again but it felt good. I finished with a score over 160 which I'm told is just dandy. The boys didn't get anywhere near.

Perhaps the food had helped me. 

The All Star Lanes menu is a filler with flavour.

The food is massively enjoyable, finger-licking, Americana; optimistic and packed with satisfying bite and goo (descriptions with the pictures below).

For a family, the meal and the game, the whole occasion was a tremendous laugh; a grand day out despite the competitive dad. As we've said before at Confidential, All Star Lanes increases the attractiveness of the city to visitors and locals, gives tourism a boost. 

And come on folks. A turkey.

Read it and weep, bowler boys.

All Star Lanes drinks: rich, heavy, shakes, and a spicy as hell but invigorating Virgin Mary

All Star Lanes: Eggs Florentine (£7.5) delicious and vigorous

Bacon topped hamburger (£12) monster meal

All Star Lanes: fried chicken with a weirdly effective maple syrup (£10) that turned out to an absolute revelation

All Star Lanes: I will eat it all and go on to get a 'turkey' on the lanes

All Star Lanes menu

All Star Lanes

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