

Break a Sweat
Three generations of the Marino family, since 1947, serving up glow bowling, reasonably priced beer, and genuine no-dress-code energy on Commercial Drive.
Three generations of the Marino family have been running Grandview Lanes since 1947, which is the kind of fact that makes you trust a place before you've rolled a single ball. This Commercial Drive institution has five-pin and ten-pin both, vintage charm kept intact, and it is two minutes from the Broadway-Commercial SkyTrain so you have no excuse. After dark, head upstairs for glow bowling: blacklight lanes, loud music, and a bar selling reasonably priced beer, which is exactly what you need when your date just got a spare on their first try. Five-pin is a uniquely Canadian flavour of bowling chaos, so if neither of you has played before, wonderful, you are starting on equal footing. No reservation snobbery, no dress code, and when you're done you can roll straight out onto The Drive for tacos.