— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Today Grubstreet smacked down the rumors that Brooklyn Bowl was considering a move to Mission Street, getting word from BB's spokesman that the gossip was fantasy spurred from a conversation with a Mission building owner. However, just as our dreams of being able to bowl during the Dolores renovations were crushed, Tablehopper brought affirmative news that Mini Bar owners have secured an undisclosed space in the Mission with enough room for a bar, open kitchen, lounge, and six lanes:
[Mini Bar co-owner Sommer Peterson] explains the food concept they’re looking for: “Take the tired and bad-for-you bowling concession-style food and turn it on its head with quality ingredients and healthy options.” The design will be comfortable (no 60s kitsch) with warm furnishings and plush seating at the lanes. There will be a sunny outdoor patio for dining, which will also provide a generous area of covered bike parking. With only six lanes, the owners look forward to being a personal neighborhood business. They hope to launch in early Spring 2012.
Fuck ya! Someone fill that concession stand with organic deep-fried onion rings and seitan fish and chips!
Tablehopper also has a floor plan for the new bowling alley, so be sure to check that out.
Comments (12)
And tater tots.
What do you think is likely for the space? Cinema Latino?
One of my guesses is the building to the right of New Mission. A building permit application sign was posted there a couple of weeks ago.
When last I heard from Sommer and Molly about this they were looking at a space on 17th and South Van Ness. I’m not sure how that went, though, and I can’t think of any available spaces there off the top of my head. They’re still looking for investors so its not likely that the permit sign was theirs.
just watch, it’s gonna be overpriced, and packed, you’ll never go.
I cannot imagine the Marina will come to the Mission to go bowling on a Monday night. Not worried about it!
Tell them to add a couple of ping pong tables.
There’s currently two bowling alleys in the city, one of which kinda sucks, and one of which is hard to get to. This seems like an improvement.
Maybe it will be like Brooklyn Bowl (in Brooklyn) and have bands play WHILE you bowl in the blacklight (midnight bowling yo!).
That’s awesome!! Bringing back bowling to the Mission again!! But 6 lanes does seems alittle small.
Ping-pong tables are so wrong. You need @ air hockey tables. Aces.
Gotta be at least 50’ wide – lanes are 5’ each, so 30’ plus 20’ for the kitchen presuming that drawing’s to scale.
Also, the mezzanine is interesting.
How’s the Blue Macaw doing these days?
Or they could just reopen the old bowling alley that used to be next what would become the La Lengua Safeway. (Sorry, verb tenses imploded there.)