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xxxxxA throwback to an older era, Alleycats has been around in some form or other since its days as a private bowling club in the early 1900s. Still low-tech, bowlers are given pencil and paper scorecards to keep track of their score and their pins are only cleared and reset when they actually push a button to do so. There are no lane bumpers and the popularity and small size of the bowling alley -- only a dozen lanes with brightly blue and green lacquered wooden tables and cracking upholstery on their benches -- means that on evenings and weekends especially, wait times can get very long for a free lane.
xxxxxMost people opt to do their turn waiting in the adjoining cafe. Often noisy with the spillover from the adjacent lanes, the pizzeria looks more modern than the bowling alley itself. There's an industrial feel to the room's exposed architecture, solid blocky wood tables and benches, a long bar at one end with a very wide beer selection. The pizzas are all baked in full view of the dining room -- with a specialty in locally-grown organic flatbread pizza the dichotomy between the gourmet flatbread pizza and the old-fashioned alley alongside has made this locale a popular one with an unusual mix of company.
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| Notes & Trivia
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- The bowling alley has been around the neighborhood since just about forever, a longtime favorite hangout of blue-collar workers in the neighborhood.
- After the last zombie plague, the alley's longtime owners were killed. It was bought by a new company -- a pizzeria specializing in local & organic gourmet flatbread pizza. They kept half the bowling alley with its same aesthetic and converted the other half into the restaurant.
- The bar has a modest selection of liquor but mostly specializes in a really wide variety of craft beers, including many solid local brews.
- The strange mishmash of a place now draws just as strange a mishmash of crowds -- yuppies who bring their kids for 'healthy' pizza, hipsters attracted by the retro vibe, the same locals who've hung out here since just about forever, people who just want to bowl.
- Daytimes are the best time to come -- they don't take lane reservations, and by later in the evening the wait times can get up to an hour for a lane (thankfully, the perfect amount of time to grab a pizza!) though weekends get pretty nuts -- waits on a weekend night have been known to stretch up to three or four hours when it gets really busy.
- How much they tolerate obvious mutant presence here fluctuates heavily. During weekday daytimes when it is less busy, they tend to care less and though individual servers may not be friendly, mutants are more likely to get service. On weekend daytimes or early in the evenings when families with children are more likely to be present (and fretting parents more likely to voice complaints), they are known to turn mutants away more often than not. Once it gets late again they tend to grow more lax once more.
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| Alleycats
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| Neighborhood
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Little Italy
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| Type
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Bowling Alley, Pizzeria
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| Hours of Operation
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Su-W, 9a-Midnight; Th-Sa, 9a-3a
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Fickle
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