When all of your friends are seeing people at the same time or you have seven college friends in town, rather than just grab dinner together, head to The Painted Duck for duckpin bowling and shuffleboard. Your friend’s boyfriend can show off his oddly elegant bowling form and everyone can split much better food than you’d ever expect to find at a bowling alley, like housemade cracker jacks, duck fat fries, and whiskey glazed turkey legs.

Heidi Geldhauser