Nicoli's Grill and Sports Pub Review

1st time at Nicoli's! Friendly staff, good food, kids had a blast, and we didn't even experience the bowling or outdoor activities! We will be back soon!

They wouldnt bring me my ice cream bowl until I threatened to talk to the manager. Dont let your family come here

A "diamond in the rough". A bit of an obscure location. Attended a co-sponsored work event mid-week around Happy Hour. Was on the back patio in later part of winter :/.
PLENTY of heating elements to keep nice and warm. Service Team was incredibly friendly and accommodating (also fast with beverage service).
Inside there were SO MANY attractions, bowling video games, full bar, meeting rooms aplenty.

TBH, prior to this event had no idea this place existing in Lake Oswego, but I cannot wait to go back.
Keep up the great work Nicoli's."If you build it, they will come". :).

Surprisingly good burgers. Dozens of TVs showing all the popular games. The arcade area is separate from the dining area so the kids don't bother you.

Food was good big portion and it felt healthy even! Great place for a team get together or even just the family. Hope to return soon.

Food and service was grate. Really awesome atmosphere. Kid friendly also.

Amazing prices (especially at happy hour) the bartender, Rachel, is phenominal, drinks are good and strong, they have bowling and let you drink while bowling. It's amazing. I love it.

Went there for the first time today. Excellent service. Great food. Very clean. I had no complaint about m my experience there.

Went there a 2nd time. Amazing service. Alicia was terrific. Excellent. Going to be our Friday night spot. That says a lot.

I would point out that Alicia is an amazing bartender. Very attentive and always makes my drink perfect.

Great place for sports viewing. Plenty of activities for kids, families and large groups. Awesome intimate private meeting space upstairs for small to medium size groups. A real value overall!

The service was great and the menu was okay. It took kind of a long time to get our food and the appetizer came out when we were almost finished with our meal. Besides those things we had a great time like we normally do and my nieces always look forward to eating here when they stay at our house overnight.

I give it a 2 because the lanes were bad and they would broke almost every time and $9 for a game I'll rather go to a REAL bowling alley

Just fine. The pizza was ok, definitely not worth the price, but tasted good. The bowling lane was nice, but our group was too large for the space and we had 22 people. I would go here again (assuming the company pays, of course).

Staff is a little dull... but the kids had a blast and the food was very good.

Did not appreciate having to listen to and watch two small kids run around my table while the parents kept yelling at them from across the room.

We had the rehearsal dinner for our son's wedding in the skybox at Nicoli's. We live 4 hours away from Lake Oswego and I was uncomfortable planning the details that far away. I didn't want people to feel like they were attending a child's birthday party. The food was wonderful and the room looked great. Everything was perfect thanks to Jackie Ferrari, Nicoli's Event Coordinator. Jackie was always available either by phone or in person. She was open to any request I had and suggested several things that made the event a hit. Thank you Jackie

Love the chicken nachos, staff were super friendly and the prices are reasonable

The party room with 2 private lanes provided an awesome birthday party experience! The covered patio area in back is spacious and offers ample seating around fire pits, as well as a good view of the lawn game areas. The game room could use more actual arcade games, as it more closely resembles video lottery for kids than an arcade.

Lots of fun for friends and family! Whether it's drinks for the adults or an arcade for the kids, Nicoli's is great fun for everyone! Along with inexpensive food, and bowling. You'll find bocce ball as well as shuffle board!

The price of the food is ok. I like the fact that it's family friendly. They have a little bowling alley inside of this place, which I thought is pretty cool.

This place is great for all. It has bowling even private bowling for your own private party, the arcade has games for all ages too. There's a nice patio outside with a fire pit and an area for adults to eat, drink and watch sports on tv's throughout the facility.
It's our family getaway when we come to Oregon

A large place with friendly staff and a few rooms to reserve for private parties.

Lots to do: bowling, arcade, shuffle board, Bosche ball, fire place on deck. Good drinks, and great happy hour from 3 to 6pm.

Always a pleasure. Great options if you have kids, or if you're adult travelling solo. Not to mention a must have in your pocket for events! And not your typical bar fare....great food options.

I wish they had better food and service. It's a great location with amazing patio and plenty of tv's. Kids love the games. For beers alone it's passable but steer clear of food.

It's really a great spot, tho the food is very mediocre.

I just called and spoke with "Jeff" he said for Blazer games they stay open till the game's over. Going to give it a try tonight check out their food and drinks. We'll see if they keep this 4-star rating.

Venue is great! One of the best patios ever. But, the food isn't spectacular. It's fine, but nothing to write home about. Great beer selection, though!

Great lace to bowl, nice out door seating. Food is top notch

The food service is really good, and the waitress was really nice! We come here all the time, and my kids really enjoy the arcade!

If you go bowling, they make you pay ahead of time for a certain amount of games, and if you don't end up playing all of the games you don't get your money back. They should let you know this beforehand or have you pay after you're done playing like every other bowling alley.

I liked it because it was lots of fun with my friends

Bar food spendy for what you get, service on the slow side and it was not busy at all

Cool place to meet your friends and everyone can bring their kids. Truly fun for the whole family. Pizza and drinks are good too!

Had a great time bowling with the family! Nice place for parties also. Can easily see the games on big screens. Something for everyone.

Nice atmosphere but really expensive. $13.20 for two beers. $5 to play shuffleboard.

Nicoli's is a pretty cool spot. The pizza was good (the Nicoli's house pie especially) and we had a good time bowling. We went fairly early in the day, so it's hard to say what the vibe is like, but it's a great place for a work event or birthday party.

friendly helpful staff. Pizza was good and salad. They had bowling, shuffle board, bocci ball, and a ton of arcade games. I will definitely go back.

Rude service staff - arrived around 9pm, we weren t aware that they closed at 10:30 on a Friday night and had just received fresh drinks. Went outside around 10:30 to sit by their fire pit and 4 minutes later someone came out and turned off the fire. 7 minutes later someone else just turned the lights off on us.

I try not to judge because I ve been a server before but it was completely rude and poorly handled. The place was almost empty on a Friday night and now I understand why. Will not be coming back.

Food is decent, service is good. The bowling is priced nearly twice the price of anywhere else in town though.

The service was terrible, they didn t ask what drinks I wanted and didn t have a welcoming presence. Awful service and highly don t recommend. Most unprofessional place I have ever eaten at

Grandkids love the bowling and game room. Very family friendly

Great facility! But we had a poor server. She forgot our drinks constantly. No refills.

Good food, bowling in comfort and games for the kids. Great family place.

Being a sports bar and grill I'd think you'd be open later otherwise great experience

Have come here for work events for the past few years and always had an enjoyable experience. Would recommend for work events, happy hour or just generally good atmosphere. Bowling alley is pretty neat too.

Not from the area so have only been there once, with that said this place was OK for our first visit. Cool layout with plenty to do. The bowling lanes are pretty sick and the food was great. The service was alright.

It's a great, family oriented sports pub. Their 1/2 pound happy hour cheeseburgers are only $6! And that includes fries!

Went there once for happy hour. The HH cheeseburger is an excellent deal. The pint of bacon was excellent as well. Comfortable atmosphere, plenty of TVs for the sports lovers. Good service, no complaints.

Good beer, good food, helpful staff, thank you for an enjoyable evening

The staff...... AMAZING!!! Summer Kids Bowl for free?? Amazing!!! 50 TV's and outdoor seating.... yes, amazing!! A fire pit, Corn hole and shuffle board, games and bowling???? I think yes!! Oh wait, hold my beer.... watch this!!

The bowling was fun, get a whole taco salad, not a half, and the tator tots were served hot! No dessert menu, soft serve vanilla ice cream only.

We visited this establishment for the first time under the new owners on Monday night (Dec 2nd) for our daughter's 21st birthday. We really wanted to like this place as we live nearby and think it's a great idea. The last 2 attempts under different names/owners didn't work for several reasons. We were hopeful these guys could make this attempt work but based on Monday night we have serious doubts.

We (8 of us) arrived and sat down to prepare to bowl. First thing we found after arriving was that we literally had to go and get a waitperson to help us order food & drinks. The place was virtually empty and we were a party of 8...that shouldn't happen. Once we did that we found the waitperson to be very nice and attentive. We ordered nachos, pizzas and fries and drinks. Nachos are good for a few minutes and then the overwhelming amount of black bean water turns them to paste. Pizzas are OK but nothing special for the high cost and the crust was far too soft. Fries were fine although not a lot of them for the price. Still they were the best thing we ordered (sadly :-)

The absolute worst part of the evening, and frankly why we came to this place instead of a number of other restaurants where the food would have been far superior was the bowling. The lanes we had were malfunctioning all evening long. Both lanes had issues but the second one from the patio wall rendered the bowling part of our evening worthless. We would be sitting there and the machine would reset as if someone just rolled a ball, but no one had. We would roll a ball and the bar would come down before the ball got to the pins. The score system would skip someone entirely. In other words, we were just rolling balls...scoring was not happening and people weren't even able to bowl in turn. We mentioned these issues to the staff who offered to move us but once you've started a game and have food and beverages spread all over one area it's just not worth the hassle of starting over somewhere else. Later, when the kids quit bowling they went to use a coupon to purchase tokens/change for video games but after 5 minutes they came back because they couldn't locate anyone at the counters to take their money for tokens!

While we did not allow these issues to ruin our daughter's 21st birthday, it certainly wasn't the evening we had hoped for. I was surprised the staff had the guts to actually charge us for the bowling portion after we had complained of the malfunctions at least 5 times! We paid anyway and left. I wasn't going to post a review on Yelp but after sending the owners a nice email to provide customer feedback (3 weeks ago) and not receiving even a canned reply I can only assume no one cares there and I feel other potential customers should be warned.

This place was a ghost town on a night when it should have been busy with Monday Night Football and all. We were actually the only group bowling all night and it made us wonder if it wasn't due to the same things we observed, marginal food & non-operational bowling allies. We really wanted to like this place but for these reasons we won't be back. If you have an event planned I'd pass on this as place as an option.

Has an arcade room, as well as 4 bowling lanes. Great food and great service at the bar

Went there today, June 28, 2018, thirsty and hungry to wait out the 5:00 traffic. Seated ourselves in the cool roomy bar area and..........was completely ignored by the bartender and two employees that walked through. Left and drove through the traffic still thirsty and hungry to come to our favorite bar and grill in Oregon Cityscape. We were greeted promptly and had a wonderful meal.

Fantastic food, TV showing sports everywhere, bowling, arcade, private rooms.

Country Fried Chicken was overcooked. Other than that this place has a good vibe and layout.

What a fun place. So much to do for the entire family. Great friendly service too

Wow. Don't come here, at least if you have anything to do with your day, or feel like getting served. Inattentive, forgetful wait staff and well over an hour to get a beer and a so-so pizza. Took nearly as long to settle the tab... just awful.

Just what I feal a sport's bar should be like. They had a bowling ally, a game room with prize tickets, a shuffle board table, an lots of sports memorabilia. I liked how they have a special VIP room with jerseys and photos of local athletes from Oregon.

A great sports bar that suffers from being hidden away. Big screens everywhere, great beer selection, very good food. On top of that, there's an arcade for the kids, a bowling alley, and outdoor games on the patio. A unique place that definitely deserves a look for a family night out.

Good food, nice pricing and great for large parties

Service was horrible. We ordered a pizza which was said to be their specialty. That was horrible and had hardly any toppings on it. The arcade is neglected with some of the machines not working, the claw machine empty, and even the change machine didn't work. Looks like it is just a good sports bar if that's all you're looking for. I don't recommend anything other than drinks and the TV's here.

A great place for food and fun at your favorite sporting events. Our alumni group enjoys our weekly viewings during football season. Food and drinks are great and service is awesome!

A great place to share with friends and family, there are games for children and also for adults, food ufff, great ... Recommended

Nice Sports bar... Great place for a father and Son night out...... (kid friendly)
Or for a night out with your adult friends... Wide open seating wth two separate bowling alleys.. Gaming area for family fun.... Tried the MEAT pizza was good... Sports Atmosphere... Plenty of Tv's to watch your favorite Hockey Game Or other Sports.... Attentive staff... Banquet Rooms available...