We booked a lane ahead of time online for $30 for an hour. When we arrived, the staff was friendly and fairly attentive.
The atmosphere is really cool here, and the miniture bowling is a lot of fun. I have been there for a couple work parties and a few times with just friends. Staff seemed overwhelmed all times since it gets really busy. It is understandable.
For the party set up, it was a little awkward. I wouldn't recommend it for a party larger than 10 people.
Did the bowing as well. One waitress said we could have a prorated fee if we only wanted to do one game then we went to pay was a different story. Asked for manager she said rates are $15/half hour. Refused to work wth us. We bowled 1 game in ten min and then was told that's it. So $7.50 for the one game each. Terrible service top to bottom!!!!!! Go anywhere but here if you want quality service. Would give no stars if possible.
The mini bowling is an interesting concept. You keep your score on an iPad and one of the employees stands behind padding at the end of the lane, for the entire time you have the lane booked, to reset your pins for you. You play by standard bowling rules while rolling a 4lbs ball at the mini pins on a elevated lane. You can wear your street shoes while you play. (I'm not really sure how their pay system works, but you are supposed to tip both your pin setter and your server, which I found a little odd).
Overall, my party and I will be back - maybe on a busier night next time.
Had lots of fun doing some duck pin bowling! We made reservations online for bowling on a Friday night. The bowling set up was straight forward. They use iPads for score keeping. They had a fair beer selection and we had some appetizers while there. Wait staff was pretty good. Fun atmosphere. Don't forget to tip the kids setting up the pins!!
Food is basic bar food unless you get the food catered by the neighboring restaurant which is very good.
The food was good but a bit stingy with portions. (There were a number of gluten free options, which was nice).
We ordered a couple of apps and some drinks and started mini bowling. We had booked the lane got an hour, which was enough time for a party of 4 to bowl 2 games and eat our apps.
My party of 4 visited the Thirsty Duck on a Wednesday afternoon and it was basically empty - not surprising for the day and time.
Food came to table after about half hour wait and when it did it was cold.
Overall, I like the concept.
Thirsty Duck is a cool bar that features mini bowling, which frankly I prefer over real bowling. The employees were friendly and the food was good. The bowling was great. Only real negative was the beer selection was very substandard for this modern age of micro brews. There's a lot of major labels and only a couple of selections form places like Lakefront. Basically, go for the bowling, not for the beer.
Fun little bar/restaurant with mini bowling.
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