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Is Bryant-Lake Bowl Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 4 Minneapolis, Minnesota

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Bryant-Lake Bowl is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's own website offers online takeout ordering, and Wikipedia's article on Bryant-Lake Bowl, revised 2026-08-30, describes it in the present tense as an operating bowling alley, restaurant, bar, and theater. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis on the "Totally Unexpected" episode, aired 2008-08-18, as one of the local spots featured on that episode. Bryant-Lake Bowl, nicknamed BLB, is a bowling alley, restaurant, bar, and 90-seat theater in Minneapolis's Uptown neighborhood at 810 West Lake Street. According to Wikipedia, the building was originally a garage, converted to a bowling alley in 1936; Bill Drouches bought it in 1959, and Kim Bartmann bought the business in 1993, adding the restaurant and converting the game room into the theater.

Wikipedia, revised 2026-08-30, reports that Bartmann sold Bryant-Lake Bowl to longtime employee Erica Gilbert in 2018 and describes the venue as a host of the annual Minnesota Fringe Festival and known for its Cheap Date Night specials. The business's own website, bryantlakebowl.com, offers an "Order Takeout" feature alongside sections for bowling, theater, and events, consistent with continued operation.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 4

Episode 6
Aired
Title: Totally Unexpected · What was featured: food, drinks, and entertainment at a bowling-alley venue
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. bryantlakebowl.com https://www.bryantlakebowl.com/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant-Lake_Bowl
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