Offering a 21+ dance club inside a bowling alley is an intriguing idea. It's about time we combine bowling, the most drinking-conducive of the pseudo-sports (fishing and golf a close second), with the glamour and class of clubbing. Roll a few games, suck down a couple beers and hit the dance floor still wearing those rented shoes.

A subset of Paradise Village Bowl, Bull Market is not the mozzarella stick-serving, pin-jockey sort of dive bar typically found in bowling alleys. The interior of Bull Market was remodeled last year and now features flat screen TVs, a dimly-lit dance floor and a projection room complete with a freshly upholstered couch. Everything is polished and new.

Many of Bull Market's patrons move freely from the club to the bowling alley. The lanes (unlike the club) are teaming with both sexes. A wise bull might bowl a couple games, strike up a conversation with a pretty heifer  and invite her to Bull Market for an after-bowling graze on the dance floor grass. The alley is the destination's true draw.  Bull Market is just a convenient afterthought.    

Bull Market/Paradise Village Bowl

Open 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.
$5 cover Friday-Saturday with DJ Sideways
12505 Pacific Ave. S., Tacoma
253.537.6012