Strike & Spare Bar & Grill

Had dinner with the family at Strike and Spare – and it was A-​ok. We ordered a turkey sandwich, burger, popcorn shrimp and Mac N Cheese. The turkey sandwich was great; huge portions and came with really good shoestring fries. My son was disappointed that the popcorn shrimp weren’t really popcorn shrimp – it was actually a plate of 8 fairly good sized fried shrimp. I think once he got past his initial disappointment he enjoyed his shrimp. My youngest son did NOT like his Mac n cheese. It was a big clump that looked like it was just boxed Mac n cheese that had been reheated. Luckily my turkey sandwich was plenty big enough to share with him. Overall it was a decent meal.

It’s been a five star place for me since I first was shown its quaint location by a fellow over heated raft guide in the late 90s. He told me they cook 20 – 30 turkeys a day. That might have been the heat exhaustion, but what I can say is that turkey is the ticket when you order your food here.
It is KNOWN for its large sandwiches. The turban (turkey and pastrami ruben) is my goto. I’ve had the jumbo (turkey stuffing and cranberries) Truly a second stomach kind of thing. I’ve had the ruben which was good but left me craving the turkey. And I’ve had the French dip. Which was good but again lacked the focus. My wife recently had the BLT which was blasphemy to me but it had all the right things in the right places. And a pile of bacon.
I can only speak for the bar seating and HAPPY HOUR 3−6pm which has good appetizer and drink specials. And truly frigid air conditioning. Which is a welcome thing in July and August.
The décor is bowling and classic old men in various post work attire everybody seems to know one another and are welcoming to outsiders.
Staff. Well it tends to change. And they have always been very nice. It must be an Idaho thing I love it !
To sum it up. If you goto Lewiston. And you like turkey. And big sandwiches goto strike and spare.
Done !!!

Good food for a good price. Surprisingly tucked away in a bowling alley. I would recommend a salad from this place and breakfast is always good. The portions are large for those hungry folks that are out there.

Don’t come here if you are expecting a lot of food. I spent $ 8.79 for a plastic bottle of orange juice, one biscuit with gravy, one egg barely cooked, and two paper-​thin slices of bacon. The waitress seemed a little embarrassed and offered me toast, which I declined, not being sure if I would be charged more. At this point I was considering where else I might eat for a second breakfast. The wait staff was nice, so they are the only reason I didn’t leave a one star rating.

I remember loving the HUGE sandwiches from here 25 years ago so we went while on a trip home this week. Quite a disappointment from what I remembered. Had a French dip and it had about as much roast beef as an Arby’s sandwich. Everything was OK, no more, no less. Sadly, no dessert either.

Great sandwich and fry sauce! Delicious «turben» which is a turkey reuben. It is thick wonderful bread with turkey, corned beef or pastrami, Swiss and sauerkraut. My first time getting some food to go for a bunch if us at work – everyone was happy with their food. The «whole» size sandwich is HUGE! So beware! Worth having leftovers!

I come here for a few simple reasons. Its all about atmosphere, turkey, and turkey.
Do you like the movie Kingpin? Yes? Then this is the place to go. This restaurant is bowling alley themed. It exists inside of a bowling alley. You can’t watch bowling from your booth while you eat. However you can see bowling memorabilia.
Do you like turkey? Yes? Then this is the place for you. They roast real turkeys here. You can have a real turkey diner everyday of the week. Turkey gravy, turkey soup, turkey sandwiches. This is turkey Mecca!

We were told by a local to come here and was told sandwiches are HUGE. Oh, how that was so true. I was craving some meatloaf but figured if portions are huge maybe do a half sandwich of it is ok. Luckily I was right. BUT it was still so big I couldn’t finish the fries I had that came with it. Very filling for just sandwiches and at least the day we went there it was really really empty. I think we were the only ones in there at the moment.

If you have not yet experienced THE best sandwich place in Clarkston/​Lewiston valley this is it! The turkey sandwich and the turkey soup are wonderful! Thick homemade bread & homemade noodles like grandma made are in the soup. Made fresh every day! I hear they go through four full turkeys a day! Also many other choices of sandwiches, and the pizza is raved about also (if I could just not have the turkey sandwich & soup I would get around to trying their pizza’s :-))

I’d like to give them 2 ½ stars instead of 3. They are not quite what they used to be.
This place used to be the bomb when it comes to sandwiches, I loved the Turben which was a Ruben made with shredded turkey. I have to say I wad sadly disappointed with my Turben last night. They barely put sauerkraut on it, could not detect any until I peeked under the bread and there were about 4 little strands. The turkey noodle soup is still the epitome of comfort food with huge wide homemade (I think) noodles in a thick almost turkey gravy broth. The sandwiches are still huge, one would feed my family. I’ll give them a try next time I come home, maybe they won’t be too stingy with the kraut… Or maybe I’ll just order extra.

OK now I have always known that Bowling Alleys usually has some damn good food, But DANG this place rocks the Sammich like no Bowling Alley I have ever been in before
So I am in Lewiston yesterday for work, and I have to take 10 hours off before I can start driving again, so I ask the guys there where I can get some good food, and Fast /​Chain Food is not a option !!
So they tell me the Strike and Spare is the place for a Damn good Sammich, that they cook the Turkeys every day and slice it up fresh, I am all about good fresh food
So I borrow a Pickup and head over to see what they have to offer, at first I was like wow look at these prices… $ 9 for a Half and $ 12 for a whole sammich, sounded kinda steep but I was like well I am here lets do it, I got a Whole Jumbo Turkey Sammich, and when they say Jumbo they mean it !!
this thing was good to go for Lunch and Dinner, I also got a cup of the Turkey Noodle Soup, oh yeah it was all so good, I had the sammich with some Onions added it really didn’t need anything else but next time I would like a little Mustard, and the second half was just as good for dinner as the first half was for lunch
I will be back for more I want to try the Cock and Bull, it’s Turkey and Roast Beef, that just sounds good together