restaurantMystery Diners · Season 9, Episode 1 · Aired February 4, 2015
Corbin Bowling Center
Tarzana, California
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show. It trades today as Corbin Bowl.
On the show
Season 9, Episode 1 · February 4, 2015 · bowling alley (with food service)
food-sales discrepancy/comp'd-food sting; no separate snack-bar name given in the synopsis
What happened after
Known locally as Corbin Bowl; still operating with regular hours and recent promotions.
What happened on the show
Bryan Alpert was seeing food-sales gaps and rowdy-crowd complaints at his Tarzana bowling center, so he called Charles Stiles. By the later seasons the format had grown to include a private investigator, and here Eliot works the case alongside a single mystery diner, Kendall, posing as a bartender. As aired, a manager had been filming a wild customer named Waleed on the promise that the videos would boost the alley, even after Waleed threw a bowling ball through a bartender's car window, while the bartender comped his crew food off the books and Waleed's gang cursed families off the lanes and hijacked the public-address system. The confrontation has Bryan banning the gang and firing the manager and bartender. Because Mystery Diners was later accused of scripting its confrontations, this bowling-alley sting is best read as broadcast rather than as documented event.
After the cameras left
The alley is still rolling, none the worse for the episode. Known locally as Corbin Bowl, it keeps regular hours and posts current promotions at 19616 Ventura Boulevard, a late-2025 promo the freshest sign in our 2026 pass, at medium confidence. A neighborhood bowling center that appeared on a crisis show simply kept its lanes open, its survival the ordinary kind rather than a rescue. The rowdy-crowd drama made an episode; the business itself was never in real doubt.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.