Kings Lincoln Park

Love this place! I have not been disappointed yet. I like going on week days because it’s not as crowded and they have bowling specials. This visit we came on a Tuesday and the special is $ 2 bowl.

I came first time for my birthday (Friday). The staff was recovering from a party and still manage give great customer service. THAT IS AWESOME… MY DAY WAS MADE WITH FREE chocolate dessert. THANX FOR MAKING MY B DAY AWESOME!!! 31 BABY… LOL. smh
Thanx staff… Don’t work to hard

This is a great place to relax and have some fun. With over 25 Tv’s you are sure to catch your favorite sport fame. The ambience is casual but classy. They boast of having the longest bar in Chicago (I think that’s debateable). Their drinks are amazing I tried their Primo-​jito, a pinapple flavored mojito. I also tried the adult version of their Shake of the week, a Chocolate Carame Coffee flavored shake with a shot of Vanilla Vodka and Bailey’s per Eduardo’s recommendation. Eduardo my bartender was very knowledgeable about the menu and the drinks, he explained everything in detail and offered me the Pizza and Shake of the week. Later on, after seeing how much I loved their pineapple variation, he made a special coconut flavored Mojito which was not in the menu. Service was definately on point. With 16 bowling lanes, 4 pool tables, air hockey, foosball, and shuffleboard, you are bound to find something fun to pass the time. Will be coming back soon since they have great specials most of the week. Mondays they have an industry night. $ 2 Tuesdays. All you can bowl on Wednesdays. Ladies Night on Thursdays, and Sunday Funday specials. I have to point out that these specials usually start after 9pm. But who doesn’t like a little late night fun once in a while? I know I do.

Love it! Great place to casually watch a game, hang, bowl, shoot some pool and eat really good food with awesome servers!!! Ask for Amber or Dio. Justice is awesome!!! She should be a manager!!! Seriously, a great time.

Great atmosphere, huge space, very accomodating waitstaff, excellent food– the Apple Rasin Chicken Salad Sandwich is outstanding. You’ll never be bored here– D.J., bowling, people watching, pool tables and more. Food and fun!

A FUN time can be had by ALL!
The music was just a decibel too loud to speak in conversational tones.
We had GREAT pizza @MAX & LEO’s and bowled a few games as we sipped signature drinks from the bar. Try The Dude!!!

Went here today for the first time and had a blast! Sunday Funday is a great deal that consists of all-​you-​can-​bowl and table games for $ 22. That includes shoe rental and a $ 5 off coupon for food. We had so much fun. The environment is like cosmic bowling but for adults. Children are allowed but not past 7 and it didn’t seem like too many were there to begin with. I hope you like 90s jams because Kings was serving them up like it was 1999. Totally helping me get into my bowling groove. It was awesome being able to play as many games as we wanted without feeling pressured to leave. We even played a left-​handed game just for fun. I scored a 33 but let’s not talk about that. The only downside was that our «waitress» took our drink order and literally never game back. We had to go re-​order our drinks at the bar when we realized we would probably never see her again. Other than that, you can count on us bringing our A-​Game next Sunday.

Definitely NOT what I expected. They were preparing the stone oven so we weren’t able to order for 25 minutes. We were about to leave and they recommended we go on over to the back of the restaurant because they had food there.
OMG! The food was impeccable!
The service was amazing. We had 2 managers stop by to ask whether we were fine and dandy and the waiter was too cool. That brother was soooo attentive and engaging. The service was like to die for.
Now let us get to the food. I am a foodie til the cows come home. I LOVE EATING OUT! I LIVE FOR IT!
First I ordered an appetizer. I chose the nachos. We didn’t want to get beef or chicken on it because we wanted to leave room for our entrees. But I tell ya! There were plenty for the 3 of us with some left over to boot! It was sooo good. That nacho plate had jalapenos, melted jack and cheddar cheeses, olives, pico de gallo loaded with sour cream. It wasn’t your run of the mill nachos, I tell ya!
My Queen Mother order the beets and apples salad with the baby arugula, gorgonzola, candied walnuts & cranberry poppy seed vinaigrette. She was ecstatic!
I threw down on the Spinach and Strawberry salad with mandarin oranges, feta, avocado, sliced almonds, chia seeds and honey orange vinaigrette. There was nothing left in that bowl when I got through with it. Tasty!
Entrees:
My brother got the burger with the Cajun fries. I was like borrrrinnnng. LOL. He enjoyed it. I grabbed some of his fries and they were delish!
Mother chose the House-​Smoked Baby Back Ribs with fries, coleslaw & griddled cornbread. She LOVED IT! Succulent flavors! Tender meat and the sauce … well she didn’t stop eating.
I went the other direction and ordered the Caribbean Jerk-​Shrimp Tacos. It had pineapple-​mango salsa, stredded kale, creamy avocado sauce and pico de gallo served with a hefty side of southwestern brown rice with a cheese sauce and flavors that had me going through oral orgasms. LOL!
Mother had 2 glasses of Moscato and I had 2 glasses of the Primo-​Jito (Pineapple Rum, Fresh Lime Juice, Pineapple Juice, Fresh Mint, Mint Syrup and Ginger Beer. YUM! YUM!
Thank you Kings! You made my Mother’s Day treat for Mom simply the BEST!

We had a private party here with my job & it was amazing! Every staff member was really sweet and our waitress, Victoria, was always on top of things. Not to mention it seemed like the food/​drinks came out only a few minutes after we ordered them. Definitely would recommend the pizza. all the one’s we had tasted great!

My family and friends attended King Bowl last Saturday for his 3^rd birthday. We had some extremely busy children with us and the staff still managed to be patient and accommodating. I also met a manager named Reema and all I have to say is wow! Please give her a raise or a bonus or something! I will continue to come to King with my family and friends and we thank you for the hospitality!

This new place is a fantastic welcome to the area. As a fan of bowling the lanes are taken care of well (the pin action did not agree but that more on me). It is a fun place at a good location and their service is exemplary. If you get Shaun as your server then you are lucky. Great music, atmosphere, staff, service, specials so you should go.

This was my 2^nd visit to Kings Lincoln Park and I was just as pleased as my first visit. During my first trip to Kings I went with a group of friends from my Crossfit Gym on a Saturday night. It was really packed, played good music, had lot of entertainment with bowling, pool and even air hockey. Just an all around great atmosphere to have a good time with friends/​family. Just recently went to Kings Lincoln Park this past Good Friday to catch some of the NCAA March Madness Games and had a wonderful time! They had a really amazing deal you couldn’t beat 32oz beers with a 10 inch specialty pizza ($ 3 extra to upgrade to premium beer). I decided to get a 32oz Laguinta’s and the specialty pizza called the Pig, which turned out to be the best decision ever! Rovy the manager was pretty awesome and constantly checking on us/​making sure we were having a good time and making sure the bartenders were taking care of us (he was even so kind to get us some shots on the house). Went to the bar at 6:30 pm and enjoyed myself so much I didn’t even notice at 12:30 am I had been there for 6 hours! Great staff, great food and just an all around awesome atmosphere to be! Kings has definitely become one of those frequent go to spots of mine after this past weekend!

Some context: I was invited as a +1 of my partner to a group birthday activity thing. My understanding is that we had rented two hours of unlimited bowling and shoes and that some food would be provided, but I probably wasn’t getting all of the information I would have had if I had booked this myself.
What I got was about 45 minutes of bowling because I arrived 20 minutes late and because both of our lanes would inexplicably stop letting at least half of the players bowl a full ten frames. They claimed that we only paid for a single game per person, but that didn’t jive with what we were seeing. They tried to «fix» it later, but only reset the scores of three of the 12 people who were playing… so some people had to start over again and others couldn’t play. They never figured out what the problem was, didn’t reduce the cost, and didn’t seem particularly invested in making sure we actually had a chance to bowl.
As an additional part of this package, each person was supposed to get one free drink — they didn’t tell us this as we were ordering from the bar. So we ended up paying for drinks that should have been included.
The cherry on this was that each person ended up paying about $ 60 each for lanes that didn’t work, alcoholic drinks that were not provided, and sub-​par customer service. If I had been the person organizing this, I would have argued that we didn’t get the full two hours of bowling, nor unlimited bowling. It’s impossible to verify costs or package details on their website because they conveniently don’t list pricing anywhere.
I will never return to this place. Ever. Seriously. What a ripoff.

No one was polite in the front end, acted as though they were giving us a favor when we’re paying to bowl. And very unpleasant bowling staff that 5 minutes after our last game ended literally kicked us out of our lane and started clearing all of our drinks that we weren’t finished with all while there were 4 lanes open at this time that could have been used if they were busy. We would have gladly moved to bar to finish if asked nicely. Would be 0 stars but the bartenders were great

I signed up for Unilocal just to review this place. We got there and six lanes were open. Awesome! Well, played two people two games in thirty mins. They informed us a party was to arrive at 4pm. We had two additional friends come in 15 mins after we arrived and the front desk refused to add them to our lane. It was still one hour and forty five mins until 4:00pm. They refused to let us continue to play until their blocked out time of one hour before the party arrived. Seems like you need a new business Moto. We offered to pay for an additional four people to play and said we’d quit at 3pm. Nope! Sad thing is we live in the neighborhood and would have been returning customers. No thanks! Need to get some better help at your front desk.

We planned to have our birthday party there but ended up cancelling the reservation before we actually knew that we were going to continue to have the party there. After having about 20 guest show up. Our Server ANTHONY C. was the best. He paid so much attention to detail with our party I would recommend this place to everyone I know. Even after we weren’t sitting at his table, we were at the lanes bowling he continued to help us. If you are going to go there I would recommend you have ANTHONY C. as your server he takes care of everything. When I tell you he was on point with our drinks, foods, utensils, napkins, etc. anything we needed he was there. He provided great service even when my party didn’t show up all together and had to take our orders one by one. I can honestly tell you his personality, character, humor, and sense of respect to the customer was AWESOME!!! I do mean AWESOME!!! Thank you so much Kings and our server ANTHONY C. you made my 30^th birthday wonderful and would recommend it to anyone and everyone. Everything was wonderful your patience for my party exceeded anything that I was expecting and I set that standard pretty darn high. Thank you so much again ANTHONY C. The food was wonderful as well lol. But I would definitely do it again. And hopefully I will have a server that is as great as ANTHONY C.

The service was on point and I was really impressed. I usually don’t expect much from establishments like this, but the service I received was as good as a steakhouse downtown. My server Sean did a great job recommending food, specials, drinks, and asking us if it was our first time visiting. Sean and his manager gave us our first drink on the house for being our first time there. Manager stop by our table several times to make sure everything was going smooth. They had a corporate event going on at the same time. So they did a very good job not forgetting us and always being one step ahead of the game. We didn’t bowl, but Sean still gave us enough information for the future. If there’s one area of opportunity it’s the front of the house. I was a little clueless at first, but then again they had a private event that was just ending. I recommend this place if you’re trying to grab a quick bite, beers, watch some sports, and maybe a quick game of bowling before going to the movies.

Had a blast! Great atmosphere. Very good appetizers. Fun crowd. The usual crew of myself, my wife and three of her female friends. Everyone had a wonderful time. Though all of our group is 100% hetero one of the reasons we had so much was the large group of «gay truckers» that befriended us. Seemed like all of them were named Jason — and all of them could dance like a young Michael Jackson. High fives were called «ass fives!» and did not involve hands but two butts. Loud, lively, gang of gay maniacs — thanks for a hilarious night and as you all shouted with each downed shot «Fry my brain, warm my ass!».

If you go on the weekends get there at 11am as it fills up with family’s by 11:30. Pizza is good

I am surprised that there are very little negative reviews. I find that high suspected. Anyway, I am giving my review as an experienced person In customer service:
1. Me and one friend went and told the doorman this is our first visit. All he said was «have fun». Didn’t ask us what we wanted to do and direct us to it. So we wondered around (passing several employees who also didn’t speak to us)
2. Finally I asked the bartender (after ten minutes of wondering around) and he told us we had to go all the way back to the front to get on a list. So we sat down and I did that.
3. While waiting we ordered drinks and food, when our lane was finally ready I went back and was told I needed my cc BUT WAIT I was told by the bartender I needed to give him my cc for a tab. So now I had to go back to the bar get my cc and go back to the front and pay for my lane. Oh WAIT! I forgot to mention that the manager wouldn’t help the «one» designated person taking the reservations take reservations which made the wait to wait even longer. And when we first got there we had passed this spot when there was no one there but when I was finally directed back to that spot the line was 6 deep.
3. Anyway, returning to the bar I was told to close my tab and was asked reopen a new one with the waitress if once I started bowling and wanted another drink
4. The food was expensive and cold by the time we got our lane, put in our shoes on and figured out how to start the game. *thanks the the ppl next to us that explained how to even put our names in.
5. I want to point out that the one star I am giving is solely for the DJ. He was fun, engaging and played great music.
I will have to check to see if my review stays on this site.

Great food. Great drinks. Great games: bowling, pool, and shuffle board. You can’t ask for anything else to have a fantastic night. Come soon and come often.

Had a great time at Kings Lincoln Park! The food was fantastic, especially the appetizers. All you can bowl for $ 8(special only) is unbeatable anywhere in Chicago. Wait staff and bartenders are very friendly and conversational. Plan on coming back very soon. Looks like a cool spot for corporate events as well.

Went bowling here and although the wait was an hour long for a lane it was super nice and had really great food. I can see where this place could get really crowded but the eat then bowl package seems to be a pretty decent deal.
We’ll definitely be back for both food, bowling, air hockey, and shuffleboard.

This is an amazing place and it should be viewed as much as an elegant restaurant and bar as a bowling establishment!
There are 16 lanes and having opening on Halloween of 2015 it is brand spanking new! So the scoreboards are the most modern of electronic ease, the shoes are therapeutically soft, and the food is out of the world incredible! Can you say «date night»?
I tried a quite a few of the appetizers and the pizza is thin crust and personal size. Needless to say everything I sampled I wanted more of. The kitchen is an actual kitchen and not your typical bowling alley grill. Even if you don’t like to bowl, the food is worth making an evening of!
I highly recommend this place. It’s great!

I highly recommend Kings Lincoln Park for a kid’s birthday party. We just had my son’s 10^th birthday there, and had a phenomenal experience overall. It began with Amy, the Events Coordinator, who did a great job in setting up our party and communicating with us. She was very organized, responsive and easy to work with. I appreciated that she followed up with me after the party to make sure everything went well. The actual party was great. The kids had fun time bowling, eating pizza, and playing in the arcade area. Kings’ 4-​way air hockey game was an added bonus– the boys loved it! We saw a party of girls enjoying those games as well. Our party waiter/​point person, Anthony, really made the party– he was so attentive, nice and accommodating. I felt like he was there for us and I could come to him with anything (and I did). I really appreciated the fact that Kings had someone assigned to us. My son loved the party and his friends had a great time, and that’s really all that mattered at the end of the day.

I wanted to go tonight so called ahead.
The genius who answered the phone told me there’s a wait list to bowl, but refused to tell me how long the wait list is. Not even an estimate.
Also she would not tell me how many people were on the wait list.
«It’s best to just come in, and spend some money in our other areas while you wait»
Completely unprofessional.
I’ll go somewhere else.

Dylan our server was great! It was a great time with amazing food and is an awesome new addition to the neighborood!

We had a BLAST! The food was great, drinks amazing but best of all the service was FANTASTIC! Our server Dylan took such good care of us and made sure we not only had everything we needed but that we were having a good time. It was nice that the management came over and chatted with us and made sure we were good. We will definitely be back.

I have to give this place 5 because from our first day we came here was the first weekend they opened up and have had amazing service from our first server Dylon that is a amazing server that was always on top of what we needed. With great service came the delicious food and drinks that was brought to us, just made the night even better enjoying great food with great service.
I am a resident from Indiana that drives pass at least 10 different bowling alleys but we choose KINGS to be the place to come have fun with our friends and family.
The management have always been great on this new location and having a great atmosphere.

Went with some friends for a few hours of gaming and bowling. You enter through a woodburning pizza place and in the back you will find the doors to the cavernous bar/​bowling/​pool hall alley that is Kings Bowl. Probably about 20 very nice lanes that are set up for eating and drinking and the scoring is computerized. There are a couple of beautiful shuffle board tables, pool tables, foosball and a very uniqe 4 person square air hockey table. The bar is immense and the selection of beers and booze is impressive. I must admit, I did not eat any food this time but will most definately try it next time I go which will be soon.
Our server Frank was terrific, explaining the rules of shuffleboard and showing us a couple of techniques for pushing the pucks. Drinks came swiftly and he checked regularly to make sure we had plenty to drink.
Go there now as it is not crazy busy… Yet. I suspect it will be very soon because this place is cool.
**My one complaint is an issue that needs addressing in my opinion. To bowl or game you need to check in at bowling counter to get your shoes, pool balls, etc. Pretty much like any bowling alley, however, they require that you leave a credit card. That’s fine but I had to collect my card, check out and pay for bowling and then had to track down my server to pay the bar tab. I asked why I couldnt pay for everything once, the young lady implied that there isnt a system that would do that. Too complex she said, that was a dubious response. Anyway, they need to make it easier for you to spend your money… Anyway, thats it. I will be back!

Kings Lincoln Park opened recently and I had the pleasure of attending their industry night. Everyone and there mother was there! Thank goodness it was a nice night out cause we were outside for a while. I’m sure this isn’t like a typical night.
Once inside the food and drinks were flowing! This was a free event, so I’m not sure what the prices are like. My favortie food item would have to be the Mac and Cheese bites or the Buffalo Wing wontons. Wait… the Pizza was good as well!!! The pizza they serve up front are specialiy pizzas. Definitely a lot to choose from and what’s even better is you can take it to go!
Now as for the bowling the set up is really cool! There’a a bar in the middle, bowling lanes (think cosmic bowling style), and even pool tables in the back. Definitely a great place for adults. At night it’s 21+ and in the day time you can bring the family.
This bowling alley is on the upscale side. Think Lucky Strikes or Pinstripes. Great place for all occasions and would be a great place to host a party or work event. Parking garages are next door, but really close by the red line for those taking public transportion. Welcome to the neighborhood Kings!

KINGS is the fourth longest bar in the country. It also has several bowling lanes. For the food I had Buffalo Wontons, Fried Mac & Cheese Bites which are there specialty items. I also had Habanero and Sesame Ginger Chicken Wings, Four Cheese Pizza, a Classic Slider w/​Maple Dijon Sauce. The Buffalo Wontons was the ones that stuck out and I really liked and also the Maple Dijon Sauce. For dessert I had a Cannoli that was very good. The Four Cheese Pizza was too salty but it was still good. The food was great!