Andover Lanes

We have an ongoing birthday bowling tournament and Andover Lanes never disappoints! We were all in one area, but people were moving around alot, lots of food and drink orders... everyone was happy with the efficient service and the food was great!! Overall, VERY impressed with how the staff accommodated and handled our extremely large party! Thanks for the fun night, we will be back!

This is my go-to place to play bingo (and pull tabs) with my daughter who lives in the area. It's quite popular and I always make sure to arrive early to get a "good seat." On my latest visit we sat at the bar in hopes of getting better service. There was only one server on duty (along with the bartender) who showed up just about when the bingo started. The staff and bingo crew were all very friendly. We ordered beers and food. They don't have a huge variety of beers, but they do have a couple IPA's on tap to choose from. The food is fine with some interesting appetizers, but it's not why we go there. It was our lucky day and we won a small amount on a bingo and $$$ on the pull tabs.

I love taking my kids here for bowling. The food is great. The servers are super friendly.

Andover Lanes is a large bowling alley with a bar & grille called "The Guild" - 3.5 stars.I've driven by a million times but this was my first visit. I stopped in for food and to check out the bowling alley. It's a big place but if you've never been here before it's a little tricky to find. You can't see it very well from the main road. They're located next to the theater and behind Willy McCoy's.I'd say my food was average bar fare - 3 stars. The food came out quickly but it wasn't anything special, standard bar & grille stuff. I wasn't impressed by the "Wagyu" beef. It was just an average over cooked burger.On the day I stopped in, the customer service was 2 stars. Despite being really slow with hardly any customers, I had to get the staff's attention to get service several times. It seemed like nearly all the employees were super bored and more interested in gossiping with each other or messing around with their cell phones rather than helping customers. There also seemed to be a herd of elderly regulars in the restaurant. The staff appeared to be more interested in each other and in the neighborhood regulars rather than the new guy (me). The only exception was the pro-shop with 2 older dudes, super professional and friendly. The bowling alley is large, clean, bright, and cheery. They have 24 lanes. I'd say the whole bowling alley thing is pretty cool, a solid 4 stars.I'm averaging everything out to 3.5 stars.On the bar & grille side they also have pull tabs (of course) and bingo on certain nights. On the bowling alley side they also have a pro-shop, a shoe/bowling ball counter (of course), a food & beverage counter, vending machines, and last but not least, a pretty big arcade area. The large Jurassic Park machine looked particularly cool - big & bad - fun if you like being chased by dinosaurs. Oh, they also have one pool table if that's your thing.I don't hate it and I don't love it. Overall, it's okay.-Maxx

Came here for Bar Bingo and the Meat Raffle. We didn't win anything, but we still had fun! Our waitress was AMAZING. She had great recommendations (I think her name was Emily, I meant to write it down, but forgot.). I got the potstickers which were very good and the tater tots were perfectly crispy. We got a pizza for the table, which was also delicious. We ate so fast I only got a picture of half of the pizza. This is a fun place to come with friends to play bingo or just hang out.

Have lived in Andover for 20+ years. I've visited Andover lanes multiple times over the years, after tonight I would be hard pressed to return.Pre-paid bowling reservation where Andover Lanes front of house was so mismanaged we waited 20 minutes after pointing out we were here for an individual to finally show up to give kids shoes.Stopped down to order drinks and a pizza was informed the kitchen was 1.5 to 2 hours backed up. I asked the server to explain in her view what was causing the concerns tonight. She mentioned they were about 5 people short across the business. I asked if the 5 people existed on payroll and would have they been willing to come in. Her answer was yes, but bad planning on her managers part.Very evident by the chaos tonight that the manager should be looking for a new job. The place was an utter disaster.

Food is bad, gyro meat on a steak salad...? Just not worth it to eat here. Service is impossible both in the bar and at the lanes. No sense of urgency and they need more staff. More often than not there is nobody at the counter to get you a lane and it takes forever for anybody to show up.

We started bowling at 6:30, the waitress never came after 40 mins so I went to the counter to order food and drinks. The boneless wings came after 10 minutes and were pink in the middle. Brought them back and then they never brought new ones. Then they tried charging me for them. No discount on my 50$ tab either. Worst experience with servers and food at this place ever. All they said "well sorry". Never coming back.

Do not try to play Bingo here when they have special events!!! We arrived 1/2 hour after the doors were open and many of the tables were covered with belongings yet no one was seated there. We asked around for any available seats and none were available. Bingo staff said they were not going to add any more tables or utilize the empty seating in the bowling area. An hour before Bingo started (after being there for almost an hour) we left and went home. It was handled horribly. People come when the doors open and drop their stuff at the tables they leave and come back when Bingo starts. They lost future visits from our group!

We've been to this place a few times over the years and it's never been great but never been notably bad either. Until tonight anyway. We arrived at 9:20 and waited 10 minutes to be helped to purchase our bowling and get shoes. Annoying but fine. We got our shoes on and started our game. At about 9:50 we went to go order food but were directed to the bar because the concession counter was closed. We ordered a couple drinks and an order of cheese curds with marinara and ranch. Paid and while the bartender was making drinks started making remarks about how his night was going to be worse with a food order going in before kitchen close at 10. Mind you, we didn't see any signage or anything notifying us of this. We debated cancelling but at that point we figured it would've just led to wasted food. Fast forward 10 minutes food comes out but missing one marinara. Again, we just figured ranch is fine but it tasted funky so I went up to get the marinara we had ordered. The woman visibly and audibly annoyed went in the back and took a noticeably long time to return. When she did she appeared with an opened Heinz marinara sauce cup (normally served sealed like any garden variety condiment cup). I found this odd. Sat down and it was exceptionally runny and looked off. So I went and asked for a second sealed one from the bartender and sure enough something was added (my guess is saliva) to the first cup. Absolutely disgusting.