My friend Brian and I have been planning for some time now to have meet-up at one of our favorite bars, Barcade. This is not only one of the best bars in existence, but one of the best named bars out there. What else would you call an arcade that has a bar? Brian has a few names he came up with, but none are quite as good as the original.

Hence my disappointment to hear the name of the next bar the owner is opening up in my neighborhood. It's a bar with an old school bowling lane in it. Sounds brilliant to me, as the bowling lanes in New York are either exorbitantly expensive or hidden in remote parts of southern Brooklyn. But what does he call it? The Gutter. Of all the options, that is what he goes for? Heck, I can think of a better name. I will see if I can do that right now.

Other possible names for the bowling bar, The Gutter:

Whisky Lanes
The Alley
4-7 Split and Sip
The Tipping Pin
Bowled Over
The 300
Down and Out
Strike and Spare

That's all the ones I can think of right now. I'd love to hear if you have any better ideas.