Diamond Bowl & Billiards

Diamond Bowl & Billiards is a bowling and billiards entertainment venue with a full kitchen and bar at 218 N Osage St on Independence Square, operated by McClain Enterprises (McClain Restaurant Group, Ken & Cindy McClain).¹² It offers 8 bowling lanes, 8 pool tables, arcade games, electronic darts, 13 HD TVs, DJ nights, and a full lunch/dinner menu, making it the Square’s family-and-nightlife entertainment anchor.¹³

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Description

Diamond Bowl & Billiards is an entertainment venue on Independence Square combining 8 bowling lanes, 8 pool tables, arcade games, 2 electronic dart boards, and a selection of tabletop games with a full kitchen and bar.¹ The space runs 13 HD TVs for sporting events, hosts DJ nights (DJ Juice every Saturday), offers senior bowling, and posts happy hour specials Wednesday–Friday 4–6pm.¹ The kitchen serves a full lunch and dinner menu of shareable appetizers, burgers, chicken, salads, and shakes.³

Diamond Bowl is part of the McClain Enterprises portfolio on Independence Square. The KC Independent identifies it among the nine food-and-beverage concepts the McClains operate on the Square, and its menu carries McClain house brands — Polly’s Pop / “Polly-Q Pineapple BBQ Sauce” and the Mothercluckers fried-chicken line — that recur across the group’s properties.²³

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Ownership and history

Ownership

Period	Owner / Operator	Notes
(current)	McClain Restaurant Group (Ken & Cindy McClain)	Listed among the group’s nine food-and-beverage concepts on Independence Square.2

The McClains began revitalizing the Independence Square in 1998, starting with the former Katz Pharmacy building (now Ophelia’s), and grew the effort to roughly 15–18 businesses (“18 and counting”).² Cindy McClain, who grew up in Boulder, CO, is president of McClain Restaurant Group; the couple have family and church ties to Independence rather than being born-and-raised.² The venue’s founding/opening year under the McClain group is not confirmed in retrieved sources —.

Sibling McClain Square properties include clintons-soda-fountain, cafe-verona, square-pizza, up-dog, el-pico, courthouse-exchange, ophelias-restaurant-inn, main-street-coffee-house, and the parent mcclain-enterprises.

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Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-25 · Source: Official website menu page (accessed 2026-07-25, rendered via Firecrawl) · Confidence: High (verified per-item pricing)

Full lunch and dinner menu with appetizers, burgers, entrées, kids menu, desserts, and full bar. Happy hour Wed–Fri 4–6pm.

Splitters (Appetizers)

• Loaded Fries — $14.00⁴
• Hot Mess Nachos — $13.00⁴
• Basket of Fries — $7.00⁴
• Fried Pickle Chips — $8.00⁴
• Pretzels N Cheese — $13.00⁴
• Spinach Artichoke Dip — $8.00⁴
• Chicken Nugs (Mothercluckers with dip) — $13.00⁴
• Mini Corn Dogs (basket $10; side $7) — $7.00–$10.00⁴
• Cheese Quesadilla — $8.00⁴
• Trio Dip N Chips — $12.00⁴

Main Frame+

• Mothercluckers (hand-breaded or grilled chicken tenders with fries) — $15.00⁴
• DBB Cheeseburger (cheddar, lettuce, tomato, pink sauce, pickle, fries) — $15.00⁴
• Kingpin Burger (fries between patties, American cheese, fries) — $16.00⁴
• KC-Dilla Burger (blackened burger or chicken in cheese tortillas, fries) — $16.00⁴
• The Dude Burger (½ lb, bacon, Polly-Q Pineapple BBQ Sauce, pepper jack, onion rings) — $16.99⁴
• Chicken Bacon Ranchero (crispy fried chicken with bacon, honey mustard, fries) — $16.99⁴

Other Entrées

• Fiesta Salad — $15.00⁴
• Taco Trio (beef or chicken) — $12.00⁴

Desserts & Drinks

• Diamond Cinnamon Sugar Donuts (1 dz $5, 2 dz $10, 3 dz $15) — $5.00–$15.00⁴
• Shakes — $7.00⁴
• Specialty Shakes (PB Cup, M&M, Oreo Bits) — $9.00⁴
• Brownie Smash — $8.00⁴

Full current menu: https://www.diamond-bowl.com/menu

Links

• Official site: https://www.diamond-bowl.com/
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/diamond-bowl-and-billiards-independence

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Sources

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Disputes

None at this time.

Footnotes

1. Diamond Bowl & Billiards — official website. https://www.diamond-bowl.com/ — Confirms: name; 218 N Osage St, Independence, MO 64050; phone (816) 252-8003; hours (Mon–Tue closed, Wed–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat 11am–11:30pm, Sun 11am–7pm); 8 bowling lanes, 8 pool tables, arcade, 2 electronic dart boards, tabletop games, 13 HD TVs; DJ Juice Saturdays; senior bowling; happy hour Wed–Fri 4–6pm with well mixed drinks, domestic/import draft and bottle beer, pitchers, and pickle shots; full lunch/dinner menu. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. The Independent / KC Independent — “Palatable Pursuits: Trailblazer Cindy McClain.” https://kcindependent.com/palatable-pursuits-trailblazer-cindy-mcclain/ — Confirms: Diamond Bowl and Billiards is one of nine McClain food-and-beverage concepts; Cindy McClain is president of McClain Restaurant Group; McClains began Square revitalization in 1998 and grew it to 18+ businesses; Boulder/family-and-church-ties background. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. Diamond Bowl & Billiards — menu page. https://www.diamond-bowl.com/menu — Confirms: appetizer, entrée, and dessert/shake menu items and prices; Mothercluckers and Polly-Q Pineapple BBQ Sauce (McClain house brands). ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Diamond Bowl & Billiards — Official Menu — https://www.diamond-bowl.com/menu — accessed 2026-07-25, rendered via Firecrawl. Verified full menu pricing: appetizers $7–$14, entrees $12–$17, sliders $5, kids items $5.99–$6.29, desserts $5–$15; 50+ items. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²²