Kingpin Bowling

The look: Dazzling Harbour views top off this funky bowling ally. Have a cocktail on one of the silver sofas or bring out your childish side playing in the video games area.
Feeling brave? Challenge someone to a game of indoor M9 Laser Skirmish.
The soundtrack: Thirty-five screens show modern classics clips and retro hits from Toni ‘Oh Mickey you’re so fine’ Basil to David Le Roth singing about those crazy California Girls.
Signature drink: ‘A Passion for Kingpin’ ($12) from this fully licensed bar - Belvedere and 42 below passion vodka, with dashes of angostura, passion fruit, orange, pineapple and guava juice.
The bar snacks: are seriously good. Your waiter will give even you ‘lane service’. Try the teriyaki chicken sushi rolls and the chicken and chilli wontons (from $39 per person, includes eight pieces of gourmet finger food, game of bowling and shoe hire).
Best for: Dates, mates and massive office shindigs.
Wow factor: Having a ball bowling! Twenty state of the art bowling lanes have nightly UV bowling (where everything glows in the dark).
If this bar were an animal it would be: A Christmas beetle – shiny, delightful and surprisingly cool.

By Kathy Buchanan

Address: Level 3, Harbourside Shopping Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Phone: 13 26 95
Open: Daily