So excited to finally get a chance to do this. I'd heard about the Gingerline experience before, but their tickets are so darn hard to lay hands on. So, when Alex gave a couple of yelpers the opportunity to try them out, I threw as many hats in the ring as I could and was chosen for a 6pm slot on Tuesday. So much excitement to get into Version 2 of the Chambers of Flavour. When they send you your ticket, they ask you if you have any food allergies / intolerance. A friend with me had a shellfish allergy and she was well catered for during the experience. Now everything is kept super secret until the very end, including the location, until 4pm on the evening of. I received my text message at 4:30 and I just about managed to reach in time for my 6pm time slot. Thanks to the wonderful chaos of Oxford Street Station during evening rush hour in the midst of Christmas Shopping mania, making it a herculean effort to change lines. You have to reach on time, given their format, if you reach late, they won't be able to accommodate you in the next lot. This is not the WB studio and they only take a maximum of 16 people in at a time. So plan to be around the Liverpool Street / Islington area by 5pm, if you have an early slot. We were served a welcome alcoholic drink on arrival that was appreciated after the biting cold outside. A lovely machinist explained the concept to me and ran through a few rules (no photographs inside etc) The pre-experience space includes: - The bar which opens at 5pm. - A complimentary coat check where you can leave all bags and purses (recommended to leave your hands free during the experience) - Washrooms (best to use them here. There is one more opportunity mid way through the experience, but you will miss out a bit on the banter) - Seating space with tables. The bar had a nice variety of cocktails. Some could be consumed in the waiting area and there were 4 options that could be bottled for takeaway during the experience. (No other opportunity to buy drinks inside) They pack it in cooling bags and you can even choose a bottle of wine instead of cocktails. These drinks have to be paid for and are not covered in the ticket price. Prices are around 8-9 Pounds a glass. Mocktails too are available. The experience flows through a story, each phase takes you into a new space where you meet new characters, enjoy a nibble or a drink. Each room was equipped with water bottles, glasses and napkins. The performers were lovely, having so much fun. There's a lot of audience involvement at every stage. The food was much better than I expected (supper theater doesn't always have the best food, but ginger line has designed the experience around the food and that makes all the difference) Tips: 1. Leave everything at the coat check and leave your hands free. 2. Buy drinks at the bar, before you handover everything to the coat check. 3. Use washrooms at the start to maximise your experience inside. 4. Arrive early if you can. 5. Flat shoes and comfortable trousers/jeans make it easier to move around. 6. When you finally arrive, you may not be certain that you have found the right door and there's no one outside that you can check with. Just read the instructions carefully and you will know when you are at the right place. As you walk closer to the doors, you will hear some muted chatter. Have fun. I did love the experience and if I'm lucky enough to get tickets for the next one, I'd definitely return. read more

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Of course this gets a 5 star! Gingerline is the best immersive experience happening in London right now. But it's all very hush hush. The location is only revealed hours before the experience is due to start and there is a very strict no photography/reveal policy. For just ~£60 you get a 5 course meal, the best improv actors you will ever encounter, and the chance to jump, crawl and run your way into different dimensions. With chamber of secrets you move between different rooms/worlds each with their own storyline whereas with classic gingerline you experience one long storyline from start to finish. Both are equally as good! One welcome drink is always given at the start of any gingerline experience but any others will need to be purchased. With chamber of secrets you have to calculate how much you will consume in 2 hours as you will not be allowed to buy drinks during the experience. This was quite stifling for me as I drank 3/4 of my bottle in the first dimension and had to proportion the rest of my drinks for the next 4. I do wish there wasn't a photography ban because I want everyone to know exactly how amazing the different rooms/food in gingerline are but at the same time it is refreshing to get everyone interacting with each other and the actors instead of being face down on their phones so what do I know. Now the actors and actresses where downright amazing! They were extremely quick witted and answered any random questions our slightly/very drunk group threw at them with ease. They really make the experience. I would recommend gingerline to anyone! If you can get tickets that is.. they're always sold out! read more

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Well reviewing this one is a challenge! A key aspect of Gingerline is the secrecy surrounding it so I'm going to try to tell you why you should go without actually telling you anything about it... So Gingerline is an immersive theatrical dining experience which comes up ever so often with a different experience. This time around is Chambers of Flavour 2.0. As the name suggests, guests enter different 'chambers' where they are served a different course: amuse-bouche, appetizer, palate cleanser, main and dessert, with a story told along the way. The food is good, there are some interesting and unusual flavour combinations but they all work brilliantly. They were also very accommodating to dietary requirements if given enough notice. The performances were fantastic and there is plenty of audience interaction needed - I was 'the doctor' - not so great for me given how shy I am! But the majority of the group loved it. The sets are impressive, with so much attention to detail. The ticket includes the food and the experience, but not drinks - although there are jugs of water in each chamber. You order your drinks to take in from the bar at the start - but there's only one opportunity to do this. Cocktails were on the high end at £8 for a single serving, £15 for a double and you could get triples, quadruples etc too. Served in bottles, you're given a little bag to carry them around in. I would definitely recommend Gingerline, and will go again! read more

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Woooooow! This place was super unique, how can you get more than entertainment, food, and alcohol! What can really get better? Though, the place was a little hidden, but coincidentally even the walk there really matched the theme. I would not like to say too much because I would not like to spoil it, but this place was extremely fun. All I can say is that the entertainment is unforgettable, they literally take you through a journey and super interactive. Personally, that's whats fun about entertainment is when you are able to interact with them. Not only that, they are super accommodative with the fact that my friend is a vegetarian who is unable to eat garlic and onion and for us being vegetarian. The experience is definitely unforgettable and is something that I would highly recommend my friends and family go to. Oh and another interesting thing is that throughout the process of the food, you get to order your alcohol first and the bar is fully stocked with multiple different alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks. read more

Chambers of Flavour was definitely an experience and the highlight of my London trip! Of course this place deserves the full 5 stars! Reservations are definitely needed and you won't know where the location is until the day of! We received a text with the address and walked to an alley to get here. Let me tell you, this is everything I would not have expected! We were escorted upstairs and their staff was already in character. This 5 course meal dinner experience moves you from one room to another and has a story and actors/actresses! It really felt like murder mystery dinner on another level. The food was amazing! They were even able to accommodate our friend that was vegetarian no onion/garlic which by the way they incorporated into their skit. So amazing and talented! I highly recommend this to everyone who is going to London. Squeeze this into your schedule, you won't be disappointed! read more

It has taken me an inexcusable whole month to write this review, but I'm doing it anyway because people need to know how absolutely awesome "Chamber of Flavours V2" is! Immersive, silly and fun with tasty food and an overall entertaining experience. The reason for the lost star is that I don't think the vegetarian experience quite matches the non-veggie one in terms of food, but I do have to put my hands up and say that I did not give much notice of my alternative culinary choices (I told them on the morning of the day I was partaking in the evening experience). Though it was disappointing that they still included a type of food that I don't eat at one stage of the experience, even after clarifying my position on said food. I would recommend letting them know as early as possible about the specifics of your dietary requirements and I am sure they will make every effort to accommodate. Aside from that; the welcome drink was delicious, the actors and action were incredible, the drinks (which you pre-order before entering the experience) were tasty (except annoyingly the lid kept coming off my vessel, so be careful!), and the attention to detail was precise! I would recommend it to anyone who wants something a bit different of an evening :) read more

Gingerline is an amazing food / immersive theatre experience. Gingerline is done so well from the décor, food and the immersive experiences that you get from the actors/actresses. Once tickets are released for there new event / themed pop up tickets sell out within minutes. The very first one we went to was a Lost Garden experience. This was held at London Bridge we went through a door in the back street near London Bridge and we entered into a magical garden full of plants, fake butterflies, birds and bees. We sat at our dedicated table with two other customers and was greeted by many different characters (actors/actresses) throughout our meal one being a bee keeper telling us about his bees and showing us his bees. At certain interval moments you will hear a story or see some sort of act being played out. We had a fish pond soup, guinea fowl main meal and a citrus type dessert with honey. The Secret Island was the second one we attended and again did not disappoint. This was held in Hoxton this time around. We entered under a very low tunnel via a make shift push boat into the world of Singapore. We firstly entered into a forest with a man that lived in the forest and he told us all about his life and the tiger that stalked the forest. The canapés was hanging in balls in the trees which we had to pick off. Next room was a Singaporian cafe which we was given crab rolls by a very excitable chef that kept on hitting his plastic crabs, next stop was onto a living room were we met our pretend Auntie and niece which was all very comical and we was served chicken curry. Next stop onto a boat harbour which we drunk a cocktail out of plastic bags whilst a odd man with a hat danced around watching us all drink. The last room was like a futuristic nightclub which was we was then given a pannacotta dessert. The nightclub dancer was so amusing with his antics and dancing. Just had to be seen to be believed. For both past events check out Gingerlines website for a video example and photos. The latest one The Chambers of Flavours is very different to the past events that Gingerline has put on and in my opinion even better than the other two fantastic events and even more immersive. I am not allowed as to say what happens as it is still on at present so us Gingerliners have to keep it a SECRET but it is definitely one not to missed so if you can get hold of the tickets which are like gold dust I highly recommend. So if you love immersive events, food and want to be wowed then book if you can !!!! read more

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You might have heard of the immersive gastronomic endeavours staged by the Gingerline, a troop of so-called "clandestine dining adventurers", or you might know absolutely nothing about it. In August 2010, The Gingerline experiences began as theatrical nomadic feasts in secret locations dotted along East London's Overground line; on tube maps, Londoners know that the Overground is designated by the colour orange - hence the moniker. Past productions were shrouded by a veil of secrecy and seemed to disappear into thin air before you could snap up a ticket, leaving only legendary word of mouth behind that never seemed to abate. In the salad days, you would occasionally bump into someone who had been and maintained their oath of silence diligently. But the Gingerline has gotten bigger and now lingers in one spot long enough to make attendance possible, provided you have fast enough fingers to buy a ticket on the date of their release online. To date, the Gingerline has manifested itself in three incarnations: The classic Gingerline, the Chamber of Flavour and The Institute of Flavourology. In the past year, I was fortunate enough to be whisked away on a culinary adventure with the first two variations of Gingerline, including the classic Gingerline, which unfolds across a single parallel reality, and the Chambers of Flavour V1, which guided guests across several dimensions. Despite being a weathered Gingerline diner, I was still desperate to get on board the Chambers of Flavour V2, a reboot of the first staging. Although I was savvy with the loose concept, I still went in with the same sense of overwhelming wonder, anticipation and hunger as I did my first time. And I wasn't disappointed. I perhaps knew what to expect in terms of the overarching structure of the event, but I still had absolutely no concept of what universes we would stumble through. Version 2 is an entirely fresh adventure that is just as thrilling, mesmerising and enchanting as the first version. There was no overlapping or repetition and every surprise was genuine and relished. Without going into too much detail, every diner passes through five realities, one room where each course of a lavish feast is served. Guests travel through a machine to experience gateways of inter-dimensional gastronomy. Basically, guests always show up at tea time, no matter what the reality. If that all of that seems a bit obtuse, I do apologise. But you are better going into Gingerline with absolutely no expectations or comprehension of what you're embarking upon. Know only that with your ticket, you will get a delectable meal and the best and most engaging theatre that you can find anywhere in London. You'll interact with your hosts and will have one of the most memorable and fantastic escapades of your life. All you need to know is after who've purchased your ticket - and you've already done that, right? - you confirm you dietary requirements with the organisers (and the do an excellent job of catering to all allergies and diets). On the day of your experience, at around 4pm, you receive a text that reveals the secret location. Then it's a matter of showing up on your designated arrival time and stepping inside the glorious, mystic world of Gingerline. If you get nothing else out of this review, take this: please just buy a ticket and see for yourself. You can thank me later. read more