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Pin-Up Bowl
Pin-Up Bowl: Where bowling meets a stylish lounge and creative cocktails.
3.5
Arts & Entertainment
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Pin-Up Bowl: Where bowling meets a stylish lounge and creative cocktails.
Pin-Up Bowl in St. Louis blends bowling with a chic lounge atmosphere and a lively bar. Guests praise friendly staff and an extensive cocktail menu, with Olivia noted for attentive bartending. A typical visit features 3 games with shoes for about $22, plus pizzas, though some reviews mention cash-only payments and occasional lane oil or service hiccups. A social, welcoming spot for groups.
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Retro-style lanes available for casual play, group events, and reservations with shoe rental included.
Extensive menu of creative cocktails and drinks served by knowledgeable bartenders in a lounge setting.
Delicious options like pizzas and snacks to enjoy while bowling or socializing.
Perfect for parties, corporate events, and gatherings with lane reservations and group packages.
Comfortable seating near front windows for relaxing and chatting with friends.
Overall rating
Michael Jones
It tries to be a bowling alley with a lounge and did neither quite well. The bowling shoes were sticky on the bottom, the TV screens bounced light off the lanes so you couldn't see arrows, and the pin system would either add pins or not count any of them. 2/3 of the time someone got a strike, we had to manually enter it and then change to the next bowler because the system only counted it as 8 while the lane reset. The cocktails were alright. When ordering any of the signature ones, the bartender kept looking at the board to see what was in it. For $60/hr per lane and $15/cocktail, I expected more from both.
michael meyer
Let me use the restroom without paying while I was actively near the brim.
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Dusty Wallace
Bruce InCharlotte
Much fun here with our team outing, about one hundred adults spread across the space and settling into two hours of their unlimited package, which turned out to be a surprisingly good deal and an easy way to keep everyone entertained without overthinking anything. Pin‑Up Bowl is a small bowling alley with only eight lanes, a big bar, and plenty of seating, and once our leader confirmed the credit card the whole thing kicked into gear with free drinks flowing right away, draft beers and a few cans and bottles and rail liquors, so I grabbed a beer while others went straight for rum and cokes or vodka and cranberry and the like. The food never stopped coming, trays of toasted ravioli and chicken tenders and pizza arriving again and again, and even with ten minutes left in the unlimited window the kitchen was still sending things out, which made the whole setup feel generous rather than timed or stingy. As for the bowling, it worked well enough for a place that has probably been running nonstop for years. Even though I haven't bowled in twenty years I still managed a respectable 125, which felt like a small personal victory. The machinery had the occasional hiccup, nothing dramatic, just the usual quirks you expect in an older alley, like the lane next to us needing to edit their scores a couple of times or a ball getting stuck in the back or a pin landing in the gutter that someone had to kick down manually, all of it adding to the lived‑in charm rather than taking away from the night. It's a neat spot on Delmar, easygoing and unpretentious, and our whole group had a great time, the kind of outing that works because the place doesn't try too hard and instead just lets people relax, bowl a little, eat a lot, and enjoy themselves.
Lina Joo
The bowling alley is small and not great, but the food is delicious. The pizza wasn't great, but the nachos were really good.
