SYRACUSE — All-Star Alley & Tavern — a casual-dining restaurant offering bowling, games, and live music — has moved into the space that Revolutions previously occupied at Destiny USA. The venue was scheduled to hold a “soft opening” during Memorial Day weekend with a grand-opening event planned for June 9, says Matthew Johnson, All-Star’s general […]
SYRACUSE — All-Star Alley & Tavern — a casual-dining restaurant offering bowling, games, and live music — has moved into the space that Revolutions previously occupied at Destiny USA.
The venue was scheduled to hold a “soft opening” during Memorial Day weekend with a grand-opening event planned for June 9, says Matthew Johnson, All-Star’s general manager. He spoke with CNYBJ on May 23.
The 55,000-square-foot facility will have televisions with “all major collegiate and professional sporting events,” Destiny USA said in a news release issued May 1.
The business will operate on the third level of Destiny USA’s Canyon area.
Agoura Hills, California–based Trifecta Management Group (TMG), a dining and entertainment venue-management firm, is managing All-Star Alley & Tavern.
All-Star represents Trifecta’s first entry into the New York market, says Johnson.
All-Star Alley & Tavern was working to fill more than 100 positions, and as of May 23, had hired about 90 of the employees it needed, according to Johnson.
“We have enough people to make sure we’re staffing the restaurant,” he adds.
As of May 23, crews had been preparing the space for about eight weeks.
DeWitt–based All Wall Builders, LLC handled the space-preparation work for the establishment.
Johnson says he doesn’t know what the cost was to prepare the space for operation.
Johnson, a Trifecta employee, is a Solvay native who has been working in the restaurant business for 20 years.
He previously worked at the TGI Friday’s location at Destiny USA, he says.
“We have a lot of control over what we do [at All-Star], so if we’re trying to do something and it doesn’t work, we can do something different,” he says.
Trifecta, he contends, is more concerned about what works in the Syracuse community.
“We do in this restaurant what we feel is best for the market and can help the community and really be a unique place for people to go,” says Johnson.
About All-Star
All-Star Alley & Tavern will offer “made-from-scratch” dining, two bars, “private VIP” areas, billiard tables, arcade games with a prize store, and televised sporting events, with more than 40 high-definition television sets throughout the establishment, and 24 Brunswick bowling lanes, “designed for all types of bowlers,” per the release.
The bowling lanes will have “all the latest in the modern-day bowling experience,” including 15-foot projection screens, couches, black light party-bowling experience, “state-of-the-art” scoring system and gutter bumpers for beginners.
The venue will have private spaces and can host events for guests up to 1,000 for corporate events, “teambuilding,” sports banquets, wedding parties, reunions, and other social events.
