King Pins Trafford Palazzo

King Pins Trafford Palazzo markets itself as ‘the crown jewels of bowling’, but to be honest, they’re selling themselves short. It’s a right royal entertainment centre with bowling just one part of it.

There’s also duck pin bowling (which is great for kids), state-of-the-art ice-free curling, American pool, shuffleboard, a cricket batting cage, karaoke, ping pong and arcade games. The only thing missing is beer pong, and let’s face it, that’s rubbish anyway. Just drink beer and play ping pong. Simple.

Where King Pins really comes into its own is the focus on quality. Most places like this are good on fancy scoreboards and adrenaline thrills but just can’t get the food right. Presumably King Pins are no good on the kitchen side of things either but they’ve got some of Manchester’s best food traders looking after that for them.

In-between fending off ping ping onslaughts and laying down the law on the pool table, you can tuck in to pizza from PLY and Asian street food from Little Bao Boy whilst Royal Treats provide the donuts.

King Pins Trafford Palazzo is on the tram line – just get off at Barton Dock Road – so you can also make the most of their craft beer offering and try out the cocktails too.