AMF Bowl-O-Drome Lanes

This bowling ally should be called bowl o drama, because as soon as we come and pay for our two games both three players we get people, to both side of us saying, «don’t bowl when we are bowling, you have to Waite for us, then you bowl» then they come and say «you know curtesy», alright we request our money back because we already in a bad mood, and the manager says we can’t have our money back, that he can credit us for a gam… We just want to get away from these people and therefor ask for another lane… There are two lanes open, where people are playing hoping they might give us better people skills and we still get turned down… Great now we stuck with grumpy ass people, and we still have to endure coming back to see if we get the same service! We left by the way no way we were staying there

Who doesn’t enjoy a night out of drunk bowling with friends. At around 930 pm saturday night we came here with a group of 8. For shoes and two rounds of bowling just under $ 20, its not too bad. But we did need to wait around 20 — 30 minutes for a lane to open up, which I didn’t mind. They have a bar and a few beers on tap (including Goose IPA) with an area you can lounge while waiting. My friends and I just got a pitcher of beer and chilled while we waited.
Apparently they recently remodeled the place, but I can’t recall what it used to look like before. At night, it’s like midnight bowling — dark with fluorescent lights. We got two lanes, but one of them had bumpers up that we never asked for so called for help and they got rid of the bumpers soon after. Halfway through our game for some reason there was some sort of error with the system so we couldn’t bowl for quite some time. We called for help through the machine and went up to the front desk a couple times, but no one came for a long time. So my only negative comment is based on their service. But to be honest I feel like it’s a similar situation where ever you go for bowling on a weekend.

Horrible place to come, first we ordered a burger I bit into it… OMG it was raw, I took it back to them and they said «oh we serve them medium rate.» Uh no it was raw!!. Oh the restrooms, are horrible! There is an out of order sign in the toilet that has been there for the past month. And a hole in the floor of one of the stalls. And don’t let me get started on the horrible conditions of the lane. Bowl here at your own risk

This place may appear to be remodeled, but the management on the other hand has not.
I have never been so upset and lost my sense of control than I did last night. My group and I were enjoying our first hour or so of bowling until our sensor began to malfunction and did not track our scores correctly. Staff moved us over to the next lane and the sensor on that lane proceeded to malfunction. Frustrated on staff telling us to move again, we kindly asked for some sort of compensation. The front desk member at the time, Jesse, was very attentive and respectful and willingly said he would send a manager to our lane to discuss the issue and compensation.
Ten minutes pass and a manager is yet to attend to us whilst the sensor on our, yet again, switched lane is still not working. At this point, my friends and I are aggravated by the lack of attention and customer service.
We finish up and all head to the front desk to express our dissatisfaction. The assistant manager named KIBEN is finally on scene and before even allowing us to talk accuses my friends and I of «gambling and bowling the ball through our legs.» If we were bowling through our legs why would we care about the sensor not picking up our correct score? If we were bowling through our legs why would our highest score be a 170 and lowest a 120? As for the gambling, we played a side game of receiving a card every time one bowls a strike or a spare. A game in which probably every bowling team plays or has played before. Walk into Gable House Friday night during team bowling and I guarantee you every team is playing this «gambling» game as well.
As if that’s not enough to boil your blood, when I personally vocalize my frustration, Kiben rolls his eyes and completely elopes and walks away as I am talking. He proceeded to continue this pattern of walking away mid sentence with each person of my group.
I have never been treated so poorly by a staff member of a business before, let alone an (assistant) MANAGER.
We did not receive any discount or reimbursement just free games for «next time» in which there will be no next time. Kiben also shrugged his shoulders and showed absolute ZERO care that we said we would not be returning to his bowling alley.
Kiben lacks empathy, professionalism, manners, ethics, and ability to successfully manage a company. I was so disrespected as not only a customer, but a woman. He yelled in my face and screamed «I gave your friend free games for next time!» He acted as if that was supposed to solve everything and make him manager of the year.
This rant is not a plea for anything in return, just simply bringing attention to a very important matter regarding AMF bowling and their management’s lack of morality.

Dirty! The place is just disgusting. I know it’s a bowling alley, but they serve food and drinks so l would expect a certain level of cleanliness.
What ever you do don’t use the bathroom there!! If you do, you might catch something. Last year sometime they painted the bathrooms black in an attempt to hide how dirty it is. But the paint can’t hide the urine smell! There has been a ‘slip fall cone’ on the toilet in the Women’s bathroom for over two months. Classy!
How does management expect bowlers to drink, then bowl for a couple of hours? They don’t provide usable bathrooms?

I usually visit twice a week for the last two months with no issues. They play a good assortment of music.

A pretty nice facility overall. Staff is very attentive with your needs. If you do bring your own bowling ball it might get a few nicks. The wax on the lanes is pretty good for the amount of bowlers they run through. Easy to use control panels for setting up the games and calling for food service. Monitors are also easy to read.
The updated menu is a lot better than the previous. Good selection of different items from appetizers, wings, gourmet burgers, fries, hand-​tossed pizza, hot dogs, salads and sandwiches. Good selection of alcoholic drinks to choose from. Frequently they are out of items near the end of the night.
I ordered the Gotham City Burger Dog. Hamburger meat rolled into the shape of a hot dog and covered with grilled onions and mustard. It was really yummy. It also comes with french fries.

Had a fun night for my birthday! Cosmic bowling I love it! Love the lighting and cool customer service that night. Will make another trip to do it again!!!

I haven’t stepped foot in here for about 20 years. Remodel is nice with a 70s retro theme. There’s a bar, table service restaurant, pool tables, and mini arcade. More than half the lanes were available around 8:00 on a Saturday night. The mixed drinks were weak. The bathroom is filthy and needs to be cleaned up more often. They play hip hop and R&B music and the music videos on the screens above the lanes, which was good to keep the crowd hyped up and entertained.

Bad hours, dirty bathrooms and outrageous prices for the area. Customer service. not sure if they know what that is. Despite the remodel, u can’t put a fat chick in a designer dress. Just doesnt fit/​work well, which is exactly what happened here.

Since the remodeling, this place has definitely gained some stripes from me, with the whole «LUCKY STRIKES» feel for a nicer and more lenient structure!
It’s have nice family outing, Sunday is a great day to go because after 6pm you can bowl for 2 hours unlimited for $ 8 (tax included) and the shoes are $ 5
I love the glow in the dark side!!! I love the lounge feel and the bar area, they also have a pool table as well as a small arcade area!
Our waitress Kia was nice and not shy at all, she gave us great pointers about the food and drink choices.
NOW!!! Based on the LOOK of this place, YOU WOULD THINK THE FOOD WOULD BE GOURMET/​UP TO PAR WITH STYLE OF THE BOWLING ALLEY.
However, we ordered the Alley Sampler (I think that’s the name) and the Loaded Fries.
When we received our food, the nachos was the most disappointing, it was maybe about 7 chips with sprinkles of cheese, 5 cut tomatoes, and a teaspoon of cheese sauce lol I’m so serious!!!
The cheese sauce they use for the nachos, is the same sauce that was used for out loaded fries which DEFINITELY DID NOT MIX!!!
Everything else on the platter was satisfying, chicken strips, wings, mozzarella sticks, and fried green beans (and no you can not substitute them) we tried! But they weren’t that bad!
The platter was about $ 20 plus tax, it should have been $ 10-​$ 15! It’s good to feed a family of 3 (2 adults and 1 7yr old)
I SWEAR I REALLY WANTED TO RATE IT A 3 because of the food, YIKES!
But since I’m looking at the whole point of FUN… it’s definitely worth to go bowling!
Next time I’ll try a burger
Have fun bowling!!!

I enjoyed my experience. The customer service wasn’t all that great. They were not rudy or anything — slow. There was simple things like: if you see there’s a line and only one person at the register — maybe have a 2^nd person open. makes sense to me.
When the air hockey machine needed assistance from staff, it took a while (more than 5 minutes) each time — it seems like there was only one person who could do anything.
I would still recommend and return.

TUESDAY $ 2 BOWLING
If I’d live in Torrance I’d come here every 2^nd day.
Some other bowling places might be more up to date, newer and overall a better feel. But you don’t have to go with the flow. The service was nice and fast. We had no problem getting our shoes and $ 2? HELL YES

If you’ve been to an AMF before, this one isn’t too different. I went on a Saturday afternoon, and there were plenty of lanes open, which is a plus. The servers came around and we were able to order food and drinks pretty quickly.
The lane malfunctioned terribly. We had a 2 hour limit on our lane, and the pins didn’t reset, or reset incorrectly, 3 separate times. It ate up about 15 – 20 min of the allotted time, which we didn’t get back. I don’t mind the total time as much, since 2 hours is quite a long time, but it was just annoying to have to stop our game for 10 min at a time.
The food was so-​so, but I guess that should be expected from a bowling alley.
Their summer deal looks great, and honestly I am probably going to get it. For $ 26.99, you get 3 free games a day from May until September.
Overall, I would come back again.

2^nd time being here! We’re from Temecula but when we visit our cousins we like to come by and have some fun!
We didn’t know which package to buy either the single game or the 2 hour unlimited and we got the single but we played the first game in 15min we didn’t want to leave. So went back to cashier Jasmine she was super helpful and asked the manager Herman and at first he was hesitant but saw that we wanted to just have fun and he was so patient and nice to us didn’t give us a hard time about and helped us out right away! We stayed for 2 hours and played 6 games w my fiancé and had a great night!
The music was awesome one hit after the other mix of pop, hip hop and old & new school!
They had black lights which were cool added a little fun glow to our clothes! The music which played also played the videos on a couple big screens which were cool!
On the monitors they were showing deals too which were pretty good on Tuesday after 9pm I think they offer $ 2 nights so $ 2 games, beers & shoes and Thursday college night $ 11 unlimited games!
Def worth coming huge space, bathrooms were clean and staff was helpful and nice!
Thanks AMF for making our usually laid back fri night into a chill fun memory!

The alley is great! It’s spacious and pretty new. The downside are the bartenders. We sat through two shifts if the same thing. The bartenders refuse to acknowledge you and let you stand there without a hello or hang on a sec.
As soon as I wrote this our lane started to malfunction every frame. We were told to make up for our inconvenience we would get one free game. Instead we got coupons for buy one get one free. Why would we want to buy so much inconvenience?!? Every frame for 6 frames we needed technical assistance

All the looks of a modern bowling alley, but beyond that, this place is a dud.
I’ve been here a handful of times since the remodel, and well I appreciate the new look, these lanes and the service is not up to par. I’ve gone for the 2 hour bowling deal, and each and every time I always end up wasting a good 15 minutes in total because the lanes have gotten stuck. Not cool when you’re paying for time.
As far as the service goes, its is slow or no service at all. My last visit here, I bowled for 2 hours and not once did a server come to take drink/​food orders. Instead she visited the same lane continuously and disregarded all the others. The menus are new and flashy, but what’s the point if you can’t place an order? And you cannot order food from the bar area, only drinks. At 1 and a ½ hours in, I went to the front desk and asked if they could send a server to our lane. Still no one came and no drinks or food were ordered.
I think I’ll drive a little further to Gable House next time.

Had my daughter’s birthday party here and let me say everyone had the best time! From the smallest child to the oldest and everyone in between!!! The General Manager Herman was amazing! !!! Truly helpful and accommodating in ever way!!! He ensured not only the birthday girl had a blast but everyone as well! Our server Tiffany was really great! Made sure we all had everything we needed. Ultimately, everyone said what an awesome time they had and what a perfect location for a party! !!!
Highly recommend this location!!! Cosmic bowling available, arcades, pool table, clean, newly remodeled, bar, big screen tv’s (yes, they put the playoff game on with no hesitation) ! Delicious pizza!
Thank you Jennifer E. For your Unilocal review!

They have a large, free parking lot. The spaces were very tight. We walked in expecting to find a mainly Asian crowd, since it was Torrance. I was one of two Asian people in the entire PACKED place. Almost everyone else was African American.
The employee behind the counter was very nice. I was irate, since I called ahead of time to make sure we should come in. He informed me that Leagues had ALL of the lanes (Thursday night) except for 2 open lanes, and that there was a 1 hour wait. I was pissed, since I had called earlier. After driving 20 minutes to get there, the hubby and I decided to stay. Our lane opened up after 40 minutes. We just chit chatted and watched the leagues till then.
I am happy we stayed because we had a great time the next hour. The shoes were brand new and in great shape. The lanes were nice, and the pins set up quickly. I am impressed at how much better the bowling alley technology has improved in the last decade. Our «neighbors» were very nice even though they were hardcore leaguers, and we were happy to break 100.
All in all, I had a good time. I have not gone bowling in almost a decade. I would have given this place 4 stars if I did not have to wait for so long after calling prior to my arrival. At least the gentleman behind the counter was gracious with my annoyance, and he did accommodate us quickly.

I live down the street from this alley. Every time I’ve been I enjoyed it.
They have an amazing deal on Sunday, where you basically pay a flat fee for unlimited bowling. I think that’s fantastic.
The lanes are well lit and clean. The scoring is automatic. They even tell you how fast you bowled each ball. A good selection of balls to bowl with. The bar is open facing the lanes, so you can walk right up and grab a drink, then roll back to your spot. There’s also an air hockey table near the front, which is fun!
I like this bowling alley for sure. A hidden gem.