Jewel City Bowl

Superbowl Sunday. In many people this day stirs desire to watch gifted professional athletes compete at the highest level of football. For the Bandit and Crew desires were stirred in an altogether different direction. Instead, our team broke from the proverbial huddle and descended on Jewel City Bowl.

Entrance to this majestic bowling gem reveals a sparkling clean, colorful, and superbly maintained alley. As our eyes adjusted from the bright SoCal daylight, huge pastel-like graphics of bowling balls and pins “exploring the jungle and having adventures” revealed themselves on the far wall. Flashbacks of mind-bending college activities immediately glitted through this Bandit’s mind.

With Miley Cyrus's “Party in the USA” doing something quite distracting in the background our crew chose the $28 p/hr all-you-can-bowl deal. The positive spin on this deal being Jewel City prorates the 2nd (or 3rd) hour. If you have 4 people and are bowling 2 or more games the hourly rate with the pro-rated extra hour is the cost-effective choice.

On to the bowling, where W, and his crazy-right-hook-curveball, took home high-game honors banging down 125 pins. Kit-Kat posted a solid 117, while Smudge and I spent the game in the gutter. Calamity joined for the next round and we found ourselves comfortably situated around the cozy restaurant booths situated at each lane.

Other enticing elements of Jewel City include the “Java Hut” with what appeared decent grade coffee, an espresso maker (yes, really!), and a fancy professional coffee grinder, a solid pro shop with good selection plus lockers for use (not quite Buffalo ’66 style but this is Glendale), and best of all, $12 pitchers of beer. What to avoid: the sweet potato fries which arrived with an inexplicable white cheese topping and the unsavory reheated frozen pizza.

And if you enjoy Karaoke or Rock Band then Tuesday or Wednesday are your nights to visit. Also, free game(s) available if you fill out a little form on the Jewel City website.

Our rubdown: great alley, especially for families and kids; adults looking for clean, wholesome, and well-priced bowling will find themselves equally satisfied.

Jewel City Bowl
www.jewelcitybowl.com
135 S. Glendale Ave
Glendale, CA 91205
(818) 243-1188