The best bottomless brunch in London. It’s a bold statement I know. Because as we all know, Londoners like a bottomless brunch, so there is an abundance of these bads boys all over the capital.
But honestly, I think Four Thieves in Clapham has the best one.
I’m talking about Boogaloo Stu’s Bottomless Bingo Brunch.
Yep, go on, read that again.
Boogaloo Stu.
Bottomless.
Bingo.
Brunch.
You already know it’s good, right?
We headed to Four Thieves at the weekend for Josh’s 30th birthday celebrations. We actually spent the whole weekend in London with our very best pals. We’d been to a gig on the Friday night and danced the night away to 50’s and 60’s music at Joe’s Bar in Camden (another place I totally recommend visiting by the way) so were all pretty hungover. But Josh had requested a bottomless brunch and an arcade bar for the Saturday. He really likes food, booze and retro games.
So Four Thieves pub was kinda perfect. It had a bottomless brunch downstairs and an arcade upstairs. Let’s do this.
So as you’ll probably know if you frequent London brunches, bottomless drinks normally last 1.5-2 hours at these kind of things. But here? 3 HOURS OF UNLIMITED MIMOSAS AND BLOODY MARYS.
Holy smokes. So far so good.
And because this brunch is known for it’s entertainment I hadn’t really expected much of the food. But my vegetarian breakfast was off the chain. So good. And I’m pretty sure the rest of my party were loving the food too.
Plus, there’s a lil buffet bit where you can go up and have as much toast, tea and coffee as you like. So you 100% feel full, y’know? Really getting your money’s worth here, folks.
Now for the good stuff.
So we arrived at 11.30am, ate our brunch, drank all the mimosas and then at 12.30pm the entertainment starts and out struts Boogaloo Stu, a pink-jumpsuit-clad drag queen that looks like he stepped right out of the Capitol of Hunger Games. With one of those bingo balls spinners in hand. YAAASSS.
Boogaloo Stu kicked things off by going around the room and asking what people were celebrating, as well as cracking some lude jokes. The best kind. And then we played bingo!
But not normal bingo.
This is 18+ rated bingo.
So it’s a right giggle after 4856 mimosas.
In between rounds of bingo there are also fun games. Kind of like hen do’ games. Like walk-across-the-stage-with-a-penny-between-your-butt-cheeks-and-drop-it-in-a-glass kind of games.
As well as a lot of dancing! Boogaloo Stu plays some right bangers and it was fun to jump up and dance to Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody then sit back down and play dirty bingo. There was even a conga line at one point that went outside and around the building and back to the makeshift dance floor.
The day ended with a drawing competition on the back of our bingo slips – a self-portrait pornographic sketch (I came runner up) – as well as learning a full dance routine to Lady Gaga’s The Edge Of Glory.
It was fucking fantastic.
I was worried the guys wouldn’t be into it but literally all my friends had the best time. Oh and did I mention it’s £30 a head? Bloody affordable when you think a lot of London bottomless brunches are in the £40 region and don’t include all this fun.
But wait, remember how I said there was an arcade upstairs?
Well after brunch – it ended about 2.30pm – we headed upstairs with a bottle of prosecco in hand, ready to have even more fun. And boy did we.
There are retro games up here like skee ball and shooting games and even dance machine (aka my childhood). But there are also some really extra games. Like a massive remote control car race track!
I also had a go at one of the VR games which I liked way more than I though I would. It was actually awesome.
Outfit: T-Shirt and Trousers by Joanie Clothing
Throw in Plonk mini golf and a very addictive GIF photo booth and we all had such a good time. Like we literally spent all day here. We even stayed for dinner in the main pub – I had the butternut squash and cauliflower chilli and it was amazingly good.
(But that could have been because I was about 72 bottles of prosecco in.)
Oh and there’s even an escape room here but obviously we didn’t really have the mental capacity to do it at this point.
It was so fun, buddy. You HAVE to go if you’re in London because it was definitely an experience!
What’s your favourite bottomless brunch in London?
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