Main Event Entertainment

Came out on a Monday night to help a friend celebrate his son’s birthday. It had been a minutes since I’d been bowling, so we had a great time! Monday’s are call Monday Madness and you can purchase a $ 9.99 wrists band, included is unlimited bowling, laser tag and pool — not bad huh? Great date night move!
We seated ourselves and ordered food & beverages. My niece and I just had left applebee’s, so we only ordered an appetizer to share… we ordered a quesadilla stack (do not order this), it was horrible, the chicken was wet and tasteless the stack was soggy and just bad all the way around. My friend ordered a large pizza (about $ 19) and the some nachos, so I ate off of his plate a little… The chicken nachos were yummy, the pizza was good as well. My only complaint was the service… Our waitress was MIA, we had other people looking for her and trying to help us out — Do Better!!!
Being that it was so late, we only used the bands for bowling and the kids went to play games. All in all, everyone had a great time. This will be my son’s chill spot for the summer.
FYI: Pricey beverages 3.45
*Lots of parking
*Attched to a movie theater
*Full Bar
*Pool
*Arcade
*Bowling
*Lots of seating

This is the closest kid friendly place to my home. My son loves the laser tag and arcade games. I havent tried anything else so I can’t give a good review on the bowling. It decently pelriced and well kept. He has fun and thats usually the goal so I definitely recommend.

This is an amazingly fun place. Came to visit my kids and this has been a real fun place to enjoy time with them and let them be active while it’s raining. From the laser tag to the gravity course and all the fun arcade games to play. It’s a little expensive when your 8 year old decides to continuously do laser tag over and over and over and over and over. But when you leave someplace and everyone is exhausted and satisfied, one happy, and tired, dad am I.

A night of food, drinks, and bowling! But to top it off, Excellent service at the bar from a bartender name Rae!
Rae was really attentive, fast and pleasant!
I will come back again just for her!
Great job!

I guess this place is like one of the most family oriented hangout spots in Atlanta. This place is like a Dave and Buster’s but on steroids. They have an arcade area, bowling alley, laser tag, restaurant, pool tables, bar area, private seating for the restaurant, and they have the rope thing where you are strapped to a harness and what not… Food prices are not bad at all. Immediately, you walk through the door… it’s loud. There is music playing, kids running around and screaming, the clash of bowling balls hitting the pins, etc… it’s just madness. Once you walk through, there is a screen being projected onto the floor that is interactive. You can play a puzzle, air hockey, soccer, pop balloons, leap frog… it’s really for the kids, it’s amazing, I’ve never seen anything like this before. At the time, they had a special for 20 dollars for everything which included the laser tag, bowling, and the rope climbing activities, its just that there was a wait, which is to be expected on a Friday night. The food was really good. Someone at my table ordered the chicken nachos… they were delicious, white queso, grilled chicken breast, onions and green peppers… not spicy at all, really, really good. I ordered 2 adult beverages, and it allowed me to free…“free like bird, so I can fly far… far, far away from here” (Forrest Gump)…I also ordered their parmesan kettle chips. Everyone LOVED them, so I ordered another batch. Everyone else ate them before I did, again. The Menu itself was full of variety, there was a lot you could order from typical bar food like wings and fries, to steak and potatoes. Its just overall family oriented. I wish I would’ve purchased a wrist band and done some of the activities, but since we went at a later time, I didn’t think we would have enough time to do everything available… turns out I was wrong. When I go back to Atlanta, i’ll definitely write a better review of this place… Indy needs one, badly… this place was really worth it.

We took our 3 girls (9 – 12 years old) with us and arrived around noon on Saturday. Not to crowded.
If you just need to get off the couch and out the house: This is good place to go.
The games last about 3 minutes at $ 1.50 a shot, so bring some extra cash. Customer service is not great, but tolerable. Next time I’ll try the bar, and bowling.

Only came here for some rounds of pool and drinks, but the service overall was pretty good.
There are lots of pool tables, I think 10+, and all of them are pay by the hour. These are bar tables, but they are pretty well maintained and they provide both 8 and 9 ball racks.
The drinks are fairly priced and the liquor is poured heavy. Overall, a pretty good price for a night of pool and drinks.

Somehow my company decided they wanted to switch our bowling league here. Mind you we were already bowling at another Brunswick facility with no problems. They bought into the hype. The ambiance was great, food was great from what they said (I didn’t order anything). The guys could not get their pitchers of beer and the drinks were okay… maybe we need to go to the bar ourselves and order the next time.
Ugghhhh, this is the worst. We are not serious league bowlers but we expect certain things to happen. We go to socialize and bowl, it is our weekly outing to have fun on the company, okay? We have all ranges of bowlers in our league. 1^st change was that we had to have 4 people instead of 3 people to a team. Then we discover that we can not change the names of the people on the team once they have been added… so this means that those who are substitutes will still have to bowl under the original persons name. Really? At the old spot, we could change out the names so that everyone’s statistics would be their own. Speaking of stats, we were able to keep up with our scores and the 1^st week of bowling determined our handicap. The handicap was preset for us when we got there???
Clearly this is not your typical league bowling. The lanes do not swap, you stay on your same lane the entire 3 games. You have to wait for the lane next to you finish up their game before you can move on even though you are not sharing lanes while you bowl. We had to figure that out for ourselves because NO ONE we asked on the staff could tell us why our lane was not giving us the option to move on. Ummm. you do work here right? Again, clearly they have not had any serious league bowling and not saying that we are pro bowlers but we know what is supposed to happen.
Needless to say we are counting down the weeks at this place… miss me with ambiance and cushiony seats. I did like the big screen TV’s but I came to bowl, drink and have fun.

The only reason I am doing 4 stars is because the service. I went on Monday Night Madness. And I was definitely mad at first bc I had to speak w a manager before being serviced at the billiard area and waiting for service for 15 mins too long. Once serviced we didnt get an official waiter but a lead game attendant bc they were short staffed that night. He was great but he went ghost too many times and forgot our request. Which I couldn’t stay too mad at this point bc he wasn’t an official server and I understand being short staffed is always a possibility when a bunch of kids are employed somewhere (no shade). FYI ALL THE SERVERS WEAR BLACK & WHITE. He had a blue shirt on, so thats how you know the difference.
The Food/​Drinks– was great for a entertainment spot. The kid’s menu is open to adults as well. The loaded tator tots are 85% loaded w cheese (prepare yourself). The alcoholic drinks are REALLY GOOD! I was surprised how strong they were for the price. My favorite is the Tennessee Honey — reminds of an iced tea w a nice hint of mint its great! My friend had the Mango tea and it literally taste like mango orange juice (NO GO).
The Scene– Its good as well bc the ceilings are high and the games are spaced out compared to Dave & Busters. Its not super dark and its not super bright perfect lighting if you ask me.
The Games– Laser tag is only 15 mins (same for Gravity Rope). Laser tag was really fun though. Pool was my favorite since I love to play lol. The tables are very big, nice, and clean. We couldn’t bowl bc the wait was 3 hours long 0₀ so if you want to bowl on Monday get there early and not at 9:30 lol.
The service– It was OKAY and GOOD at times. Some of the workers were pleasant than others but the ones that were pleasant made the experience much better and worth it.
I am fan bc my full experience despite the OKAY service. Great place for kids night, date night, and to hang w friends (pretty cool for all ages)

I so wanted this place to be nice. It’s nice but the service sucks terribly! A child came up to the counter asking if they had seen his momma; obviously lost. Cashier said no and kept on working? I had to tell her the poor kid was lost and needed help before she decided to do anything. The teens working here are clueless and lazy. They walk past dirty tables and will not clean them. You have to ask them to clean your table. The bathrooms are atrocious. A bartender named «Jojo» or «Jolo», was eating fruit (melon) that she bought from Publix with her hand while making drinks; so not clean! She did just come and apologize b/​c I complained to another bartender. She says she pregnant and hungry so I guess that’s okay?
Adults should come on a school night.

It’s Christmas, our families didn’t come into town so it’s officially me, the hubby and our friends. We open our gifts, cook, eat, watch the basketball games then decide to head out to catch a movie (because we assumed that would be the only place open on Christmas).
We decide on the AMC on Cobb parkway, but as we got closer, found out that the movie we wanted to see was sold out. Odd. Oh well, we decide to go next door to Main Event. Only 1 out of the 4 of us had ever been there so we were actually excited to be checking it out. To our surprise, the place was packed… on Christmas! And not with other couples with no children obligations or out of town relatives to entertain either. This place was packed with kids and teens! Millions (exaggerating) of kids running everywhere! And teens! Teens who were on dates and looking like they snuck a change a clothes with them bcus they knew mama wasn’t having it. I know I sound like the old lady in the room but we were really that shocked that so many people were here on a holiday that… I mean… it’s Christmas.
So anyway, enough ranting. We go to the front desk which is almost directly in front of the entrance. The line is short but when it was our turn to be seen, all of the kids — ahem– teens… excuse me, employees, stood at the desk talking to each other. They looked at us like we were wrong for waiting on them to ask us if we needed help or something. So after almost a full 60 seconds of them staring at us and us staring at them, we finally ask how long the wait was for bowling. «An hour and a half.» Ok we ask if we could play pool. «You have to ask over there *points to other side of the room*» ok, how about laser tag? Do we pay for that here? «No you have to go down to that section.»
The entire time this exchange is going on, one of the guys at the next register is whispering into this girl’s ear as if she isn’t even speaking to us ‘the customer’. We get fed up and walk away to figure it all out on our own. At this point I’m already taking mental notes for my Unilocal review.
That was really the low of the entire night. The remainder of the night was more annoying than poor customer service. Went to the bar, asked about the pool table, they told us to come back in 15 minutes. Went downstairs to laser tag, paid for a session, then was told to wait 15 min (even though they were letting a group in). We wait, get in, have fun even with no direction from yet again, the kids in charge. After that, we head back to the bar. A couple leaves, we snag their pool table and play a few games.
This place is ok. I’m not a fan of the front desk teens who clearly weren’t interested in working, and the plethora of kids running round and bumping into everyone after 9pm on Christmas night. Maybe my expectations were too high based on what I’ve heard about Main Event but I highly doubt we will ever come back. I was under the impression that this was more of Dave & busters type of deal (which isn’t much better), but instead it felt like you were thrown into a upscaled chuck e cheese and over charged to play the adult games. 3 stars for the decent pool tables and the enjoyable laser tag. But the employees have to fix their attitudes or just hire adults to run the area. Sorry.

This is exactly the place we were looking for… non– smoking facility that allows all ages. Upon walking in, it smells clean, has nice upbeat music playing, TVs everywhere! The bowling looks awesome, we played pool and found out that after 10:00pm it’s FREE!!!
What a treat! They have a pretty good bar with food menu, good looking salad and a LaBella’s Pizza restaurant in here. Arcade games with a Winners Choice ticket exchange full of neat gifts for the younger kids.
The pool tables are nice. Safe place, great area, hassle free service… no one comes around and bugs ya. It’s a place where adults can go and play as kids. Older aged people here @10:00pm. No loud people, very good crowd. Handicapped accessible. Very large place! Opened plan. They even have 5 air hockey tables!
Very family oriented.
Loved it! Had a great time…
Would definitely come back.

This place is ok, however I rarely visit venues at night due to crowds as to wait times for drinks, food, or bowling. Nice place to go but again be aware of the time you go which will dictate your service.

Nice way to spend family time with a 12 yr old. We did the 2 hours of unlimited gaming for $ 9.95 it was more than enough time only catch is no tickets but we all know we spend too much just to get tickets for junk so this is good for us. Bowling, pool, bar, pizza and resteraunt. Only played games can’t speak to food.

Update. Went to Main Event on a rainy Saturday night, the worst idea. This place was so busy! My main goal was to bowl and play pool; yet, there was a 2 ½ hour wait for bowling and no free pool tables. So, instead of calling it a wasted trip (nobody drives 25 minutes for no reason) we decided to have some drinks and eat.
We were initially told the wait to be seated to dine was 30 minutes. Thirty minutes passed and we weren’t called. We were told they needed additional time to clean since they were short staffed; another fifteen minute wait.
We decided on chicken nachos. They came out cold! The waitress noted she wondered if the staff had warmed them properly because the plate didn’t feel hot, and assured us she would have the kitchen staff make a new batch. Nachos come out again, barely lukewarm! Now, the waitress says she can’t take food off tabs unless the manager approves. We certainly requested his presence!
The manager sat down and chatted with us. It was getting late and I’m sure he was abused with complaints. He was surprised that though we had a complaint, we weren’t rude or ratchet with it! That tells you what he endured that night, which he mentioned Saturday was the busiest night. He did take the food off our tab, and offered that we nibble or snack on the nachos anyway. Sir, I don’t want any cold nachos; I’m just happy I don’t have to pay for food I’m not eating and there’s a Taco Mac next door I can go to at 1230 AM!
I was disappointed because my first visit on a Monday, which was much less busy, I had a good experience. This particular Saturday visit was a total waste of time, didn’t accomplish anything accept for waiting around.

This is a good place to have a birthday party for your teens and kids. You can eat pizza, have a drink play pool, go bowling and play lots of games. To me it’s like a larger version of Dave & Busters. The price is not so bad as well.
I would recommend this please to my friends and family.

If you are OCD about planning, you’re going to have a better time than most. Thankfully, I prepared ahead of time and had a really good first experience there for my birthday.
After seeing this big, shiny place with its games and sounds during a movie date to the AMC upstairs, I decided I had to come back here one weekend with a group. Ended up getting a Summer Fun Pass ($ 16-​$ 19 depending on day/​time, plus tax, and I believe plus shoe rental if you’re bowling), which lets you have unlimited bowling, laser tag, billiards, and gravity ropes. «Unlimited» sounds good, but you have to keep in mind how many realistic sessions you’re going to get in. Who really bowls for more than 1 – 2 hours? And the wait times (more later) will prevent you from getting back to back to back sessions of anything.
Bowling: Having heard of the dreadful wait times, I showed up an hour early to reserve a bowling lane. This was around 6:30pm on a Sunday. It was still quite busy overall, but not packed like Saturday night. I was able to reserve a lane without any problem after buying a summer pass for myself. And sure enough, an hour later, I got my lane easily. Their system works by reserving lanes by 1-​hour blocks. If your party wants to add on another hour, let them know as early as you can. There’s a convenient timer on your bowling monitor letting you know how much time is left. Speaking of monitors, I was impressed with the technology. Sure we’ve all done the giving yourself nicknames, but now you can add photos by each bowler? I’ll take it. The lanes, the seating area, and the bowling balls were clean. I was impressed with the variety of sizes of balls, as well as the additional option for finger hole size.
Laser Tag: Reservations for this was a little more complicated. They would not allow me to reserve a block ahead of time unless all members of my party were present. So we came back here after everyone was done bowling, and had to wait 30 minutes for the first available slot. I believe each game is separated into 15-​minute blocks. The actual game is about 10 mins, and you get a few minutes before and after for instruction and leaving the play area. As for the playing itself, it was very fun! The guns seem pretty accurate, make cool sounds when you fire and when you get hit. You work up a good sweat after running around and going between the two levels. It can be a bit chaotic because you walk in there and will be randomly assigned a color (red v. blue) once the game starts. You can’t really pick teams. I should also add that they will fill each 15-​minute block with as many people as they can, so you’ll definitely end up playing with strangers. We were lucky enough to only wait 15 minutes for a second game, but this will depend on the time you visit and how busy it is.
Gravity Ropes: Nope. Never got to enjoy this because there was hour plus wait for it. I suppose part of it is because there’s a lot of set up required for each person’s harness.
Billiards: Well, if you wait long enough, you can find an open table. According to their website, it’s free to play during happy hours (basically NOT from 7pm-​10pm everyday, and NOT available on Fridays and Saturdays, period). There’s also one shuffleboard table that was mostly open as well. It was fun and chill way to pass the time waiting.
Games: Nope, didn’t get to enjoy these either. The fun pass doesn’t include any money to play arcade games. You have to buy a separate pass for that. There was a good assortment of racing, shooter, and other games. But I wouldn’t say they had as much a variety as Dave & Buster’s. No old school type arcade games either.
Food: There’s a few seating options. 1) The bar is nice and clean, TVs readily available if you want to watch anything. I personally feel it’s a bit too loud to enjoy a sporting event, too much distraction going on around you. My girlfriend ordered a sandwich, but it didn’t look that impressive. Just like it was microwaved, and the chips that came with it had zero crunch. I’m not expecting much here, but give us –something– for an entrée! 2) There’s also a general seating area, with waiter service I believe. 3) Finally, there’s a corner area for La Bella’s Pizza, which is more of a grab and go deal. Sadly, I still had to wait 10 minutes for a pizza slice because it was all sold out at the time. Pizza was solid, and not bad for $ 4. I would suggest possibly coming down here for a quick bite if you want to avoid overpriced food at the theater upstairs.
All in all, there’s potential for fun here, but you have to either plan, get lucky, or both. I think the fun pass needs to have at least a few dollars of games included in the package to be worth the value. The crowding and wait times can also be nuts if you come at peak hours, so it’s not going to feel like a special experience at all when you have teenagers cutting up a few few away from you, and you can’t hear think.

THis may be the Dave & Buster’s killer right here. Unless D&B somewhat up the road places a movie theatre, Most people will probably use this option as their entertainment package. Movie theatre upstairs (remodeled AMC), sports bar across the parking lot (Taco Mac). Really though, how are you to compete. Place is very spacious. Bowling alley is clean, flat screen monitors. Double floor laser tag. Plenty of pool tables, arcade games. Up to date bar area. Plenty of dining booths. I’m really trying to understand why people are knocking this place. Great Great options for the kids and adults with fun at heart. Back in the old days, the parking here was enough but now it is a popular destination and can be limited on the weekend. And it gets busy. I believe they are understaffed it seems where the long lines to get things such as food or beverages. Overall, love the concept and it will definitely reap the benefits on pkwy
Grade: B

Main Event Entertainment is located in the shopping center with the AMC movie theater. It’s actually located in the floor underneath AMC, I believe. Main Event is on the first floor. Inside of Main Event, bowling section and lanes are on the left and the laser tag, arcade games, kitchen, bar, pool tables, and shuffleboard are on your right. I like how new everything looked and it’s all clean. It’s very inviting and I can see myself running around to try out all the games like a kid.
I went to Main Event Entertainment for a company outing on weekday after work. It wasn’t busy at all so there were lots of parking spaces available on the two deck parking lot. Our company had booked a buffet of a taco bar, chips, and boneless wings. We also each got two drink tickets that would be redeemable at the bar in front of the kitchen. The one thing that kept me from giving Main Event Entertainment was that they were not done setting up the buffet until 30 minutes after the scheduled time. I don’t know why they were behind schedule. The food is okay and pretty standard to how a gaming and arcade place would be like. I would consider Main Event’s direct competitor to be Dave & Buster’s especially since there is a Dave & Buster’s in the next exit. They are very similar except Main Event is newer.
Overall, I do see myself returning in the future to try out their bowling lanes and for a place to hangout with co-​workers after work. I like that they have a detailed drink and cocktail menu. I like their bar.

Last weekend my co-​workers and I decided to have our going away party here at Main Event Entertainment, this place is located right down the street from Akers Mill Shopping Center off Cobb Parkway. Above Main Event is the AMC Parkway Pointe 15.
[ * Parking * ]
Parking here is horrible on the weekends, especially because of the movie theatre upstairs. If you come here I would highly suggest parking either in the underground parking lot or parking on the opposite side of Main Event where the Pier 1 Imports is located, there is parking on that side. All of the parking spaces in front of the movies/​main event gets full early.
[ * Games * ]
This place is HUGE, it looks like it is the size of a Wally World. The environment really reminds me of a Dave & Busters or Jillian’s. They have lots of games to play, just look at the pictures to get an idea.
At this location they have arcade, bowling, laser tag, billiards/​shuffleboard and gravity ropes, which is basically walking up above near the ceiling on a plank, so it requires excellent balancing skills.
The arcade games are anywhere from $ 1.00 to $ 5.00, from observing all of the games here, the average price was about $ 1.50 to $ 2.00, so those visiting Main Events, expect to spend some serious money if you plan on spending a few hours here. The laser tag here is a lot of fun, the cost is $ 8 during peak days/​hours and lasts for about 10 minutes.
[ * Bar * ]
The bar here is nice, however don’t get a margarita here. One of my friends ordered one, so I had to have a sip and it was definitely made with finest call sweet and sour drink mix, or something very similar. That is not how a margarita is made, coming from someone who has literally made at least 50,000 margarita’s as a mixologist. Here it is probably created with a 1oz pour of tequila and 6−8oz of sweet and sour mix. Fresh lime juice, simple syrup, grandma???
[ * Service * ]
The service here was not as terrible as other reviews have pointed out. However, I will break it down.
While here I only had a Coke that took literally 30 – 40 minutes for one refill. Another friend ordered two bud lights from the server and that took 20 minutes. Seriously? Bud lights do not even require a bottle opener, like most domestics, they have easy twist off caps. The bartender only has to hand the server the bottle. As a rule of thumb, if you want to get your drinks fast, ALWAYS get them from the bar.
Another friend ordered a hamburger while another had a chicken sandwich. When they came to the table, the one who ordered the hamburger received the chicken sandwich, with the hamburger side, and the one who ordered the chicken sandwich, received the hamburger with the others side. Not a big deal, but they came about 10 minutes apart, so we requested the manager who came promptly.
The manager, Paul did come out to our table right away and made sure everything was improved. Unlike the other reviews, where people complained about managers, Paul was very professional and did us right. Although other managers who I did see around the establishment, did not appear as friendly. Paul might have been the general manager and he waited until we received everything we ordered.
Our server was Tamica and she was friendly, although she did seem a bit overwhelmed. Of course to be quite honest, this place is so packed, it is probably the norm here.
[ * Bowling * ]
We really wanted to bowl while here and although we arrived at 8:30pm, they were booked until close, which is at 2am. So if you plan on coming here to bowl on a weekend that is probably not going to happen.
[ * Laser Tag * ]
As previous mentioned, Laser tag is $ 8 and lasts for about 10 minutes. You pay, stay in line and wait till the doors open here and enter the waiting room. During this time, guests watch a brief movie that discusses how to play, this introduction movie is about 5 minutes, and then players enter the combat room where teams (red/​blue) hide out or walk around to shoot their opponent. This is definitely a lot fun and a great way to take part in some form of physical activity.
[ * Crowd * ]
This place is packed, especially with young kids and teenagers (which explains why they have a few police officers roaming around in the establishment). I cannot believe that some parents actually allow their 6 – 8 year old children to stay up past 10pm, but they do, even past midnight. The majority of the teenagers start to leave at midnight, so if you plan on playing pool or shuffleboard, you should arrive at midnight as the crowd starts to narrow down.
[ * Summary * ]
Overall, this is a fun place to hangout, I just wish I could give this place a higher rating, but because we were not able to go bowling, and due to the long wait times for food and drinks, I can only give this an okay rating, being three stars, that is the rational of my rating.
[Review #255] (Fourteenth Review of 2015)