If you love bingo then this is the place to go!…read more This is a lively place, with a good atmosphere where you're guaranteed to have a good time. There's lots of refreshments available too.

Gala club at Basildon is a large friendly bingo hall with hot food and a bar available. The bar…read morearea has a nice feel and the bar staff are efficient and friendly. When I go to this club I usually get there early and make a afternoon of night of it. The bingo is priced up with different deals on certain days of the week. Sometimes there is an all in ticket price. I personally prefer to go on days that aren't all in as I'm not quick enough to do a strip of 6 at the same time. The decor is a little dated, but the atmosphere makes up for that. They have recently put in some wizard machines for people who the machines to do the work. There is party bingo and a fruit machine area.

A good night out here they do do quite a few special nigths and some time they do a stamp card…read morepromotion You so many times get your card stamped then when you have enough stamps they give you a gift, there is a bar and a cafe ,also they do have there own car park which is staffed most of the time

I thought a night of bingo would be a fun thing to do with some friends on a Tuesday night but how…read morewrong could I have been. After rounding up a possie of four gals we headed down to the bingo hall in Hackney Road to get our tickets, which were around £10, pretty pricey if you ask me. we found ourselves a little table and some markers and the bingo man started calling out numbers at a pace that took us a while to get used to. On the break we got talking to a lady who told us she had been coming to bingo ever since she was 17 and once won £5,000 which was pretty impressive. But for us this was not a fun experience as it made us all so competitive and left us feeling a little deflated when we won nothing. The people here seemed a little jaded as well so perhaps not the most uplifting of places in the world to spend your free time.

Mecca-lecca high mecca-hiney-ho! 2, two on its own, stars...maybe 2.3 if that was a bingo number…read more.. Mecca bingo RULES if you are a slightly bitter local retiree who is in it to win it with a booklet of bingo games and a hot highlighter pen. Go national! For first timers wanted to play a little bingo, have a few drinks, check out the 'living retro' scene, it's not exactly what you'd expect. Pretty much a retirement home meets Denny's meets a shady gambling arena with the brightest fluorescent lights possible. Worth going once maybe, just for the late-night game (which is only 3 pounds instead of 10). Cheers for the cheap beers - 2 pounds...and if you're looking for hangover food before 10pm everything on the menu is less than 4 quid. Expect similar to less quality. But everything fried tastes better in a mecca bingo hall! And please, don't expect to win. And if you do, expect to face hostile grannies ready to pounce on your next inkling of a 'full house.'

great place to go for a night out with the girls or on your own. atmosphere is relaxed. the staff…read moreare friendly. theres a cafe which serves hot food, tea and coffee etc. the food of which is lovely and quite cheap too. there is also a bar for your alcoholic beverages. plus u could win some money, whats not to love lol

This place is great. They've done a considerable amount of renovations in the recent months and the…read morerestaurant is now found on the first floor in the front of the building. The bar at the top floor was closed when I went last but it seems like they'll keep the bar there for night events. For this visit, I went to the restaurant and the service was exceptional. The dining room was also very nice and very new (you can even make out the faint smell of fresh paint). The food, though a little pricey for lunch, was delicious. I started off with the salmon and eggs and that was some of the best I've had. I then went on to the steak and chips and that was really good too. Parts of the steak were a little chewy but I guess every cut it different. They cooked my steak just the way I like it, medium-rear. I will update my review once I come back and see what the night scene looks like.

I was lucky enough to be taken for lunch here recently…read more Century is very unassuming from the outside, just a plain door on a noisy road. Once inside you feel better instantly, even though you have to walk up a flight of stairs before being greeted. Being used to the hyper-professional and over-friendly service at The Hospital Club, I was a bit taken aback by two staff members who shared the lift and completely ignored me when I got lost. Oh well, perhaps it was too obvious I didn't belong Well, lunch more than made up for the rocky start. The famous roof terrace was covered up as it wasn't quite warm enough to brave the elements. Food was lovely, and so was the wine.

Refreshments available for those who want it. Bingo is not played much, especially in east London…read morean most people who go to Gala bingo in Stratford seem to of the older generation. If you are under 40, there's not much fun to be had here - especially with people's busy lifestyles, though if you do want to go with the kids you will probably feel most welcome as they always look for new members. Pay per play or get a membership card for bigger saving. Enjoy Gala Bingo! P.S. The staff are friendly for the record and they have good facilities.

Granada Cinema/Gala Bingo Hall 50 Mitcham Road, Tooting,…read moreSW17; 020 8672 5717 Open Mon - Sat 10:30am -11pm; Sun noon -11pm. Admission Members only; membership is free to anyone over 18. Transport Tooting Broadway tube. Chartres Cathedral meets Liberace Now, alas, a bingo hall, this was the first cinema in the UK to be listed as Grade I - the most rigorous preservation order a building can get. From the outside, the tall, square building doesn't look all that special, give or take a few columns; on the inside, it looks like Chartres Cathedral if it had been designed by Liberace. Opened in 1931, this palace to entertainment was commissioned by Sidney Bernstein, an exiled white Russian who later founded Granada TV, and designed by Fyodor Fyodorovich Kommisarzhevsky, a Russian director and set designer briefly married to actress Peggy Ashcroft. The heavily gilded foyer is lined with Gothic mirrors and fake leaded windows, punctuated by a pair of sweeping marble staircases. But all this is relatively restrained: the auditorium inspired by its namesake, the Alhambra Palace in Granada - is where Kommisarzhevsky went bananas. Under a coffered ceiling are cathedral porches, heraldic symbols, and glass chandeliers, now partly obscured by the bingo lighting and screens. The decoration intensifies as you approach the stage. All around the auditorium are arches filled with murals of troubadours and wimpled damsels - but underneath all this medieval madness, the bingo fans play on, eyes fixed on the cards. The combination feels like a weird incarnation of a themed Vegas casino deep in South London. In its day, the Granada was the only suburban cinema in London to have its own 20-piece orchestra. The glamorous usherettes wore gold silk blouses with blue slacks, pill box hats, blue cloaks over one shoulder, and white gloves, while the doormen wore a blue uniform with brass buttons, peaked caps, and gold epaulets. On its anniversary, the cinema would serve every customer a slice of cake wheeled in from the baker next door, it weighed over a ton. Over 2,000 people were turned away on opening night, and over three million viewers came to the pictures here every year. However, the arrival of the television sent audience numbers into a tailspin, and the cinema closed in 1973. It was revived as a bingo hall in 1991. You need to be a member to visit, though membership is free. Call the Granada for details. more details in 'Secret London an unusual guide' oublished by http://www.jonglezpublishing.com

I'm really not a fan of Hackney at all. In my 6/7 years in London town I've visited Hackney three…read moretimes and unless there is a good reason, I'm not interested in visiting this borough at all. However, there is a shining beacon of light in this grubby little place - the Hackney Empire. This place features a variety of music and comedy performances. The venue itself is really beautiful. It's draped in red and gold and the stage and sound are absolutely superb. I really love this venue, shame it's in Hackney but, still, a great place for comedy and music...

By far the most exciting building in Hackney Central. It would be hard to miss it as the 'Hackney…read moreEmpire' sign is erected on the side of the building, standing out like Hackney's saw thumb. Hosting a variety of events from such fields as music, dance, comedy and family entertainment, it is sure to have something for everyone. I went to see a band there a while ago, and the interior of the theatre blew me away. I always thought it would be nice to go, and it is great to know such a culturally rich theatre exists in Hackney. I obtained 'Orthello' tickets for a young persons rate of 5 pounds. I suggest trying to get your hands on some, as seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company perform at Hackney Empire will be magical.

Oh come on, gang, only one review for the Mecca Bingo in Camden?! I know I'm not the only one who…read morehas walked past this place, seen the crowd smoking outside, and thought "I want to go in there someday, either to gamble or to die." My office used to be located right nearby and after months of badgering co-workers, we got a group together to go. We first had tequila shots at a nearby pub. For luck and for confidence. I'm not going to lie, it is bright in there and there are some depressing characters at times. But everyone is friendly as long as you are quiet during the games themselves. The biggest secret about the bingo hall? CHEAP BEER. Seriously £3 pints or under. Cheap drinks all around. CHEAP BEER IN CAMDEN TOWN. This is not a thing that typically happens. I have so much fun playing bingo with my friends that we've since gone back, and I am definitely going to arrange another outing. Both times we've visited, it cost about £7/person to play games for 2+ hours. Absolutely love it. Take a chance. Do it. It's so fun.

I wouldn't exactly say that going to bingo is among my favourite things to do but if someone else…read moresuggests something then I'm not one to turn it down. Went here once standard bingo hall crack really and I didn't win anything.

Mecca bingo is a really large bingo hall in Grays. When I first went to go to bingo I thought I…read morewould be the youngest person there. But in fact there is a wide range of ages. I even dragged my husband there a few times! They have a small cafe area where they do hot food, and the food is not bad. They also have a bar area. You have to be signed in by a member or be a member yourself to enter the building. There are lots of cash machines there as well if you dont want to join in the bingo. Certain nights they have special discounts which they send you in the post. There is a small car park situated behind the bingo hall, or there is street parking in the road which is free after 6.30pm.

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