Penny Lane in Nottingham

Not one to really leave bad reviews. Came in a few weeks ago, was really looking forward to it but what was absolutely disgusted. Ordered a pint and was shocked at the price, and said "How much?!" In a joking way. I was told by the young lass behind the bar "If ya don't like it you can always go to spoons"... anyway, took the drink, it was absolutely awful so took it back, the girl.smelt it and openly said "yeah the lines need doing" I work behind a bar myself and wouldn't dream of treating customers like this. I was given a bottle as a replacement for the pint (obviously the bottles were less money) I couldn't be bothered to argue anymore. Took the bottle, drank it and left. Never, ever again. So disappointed 😞

Food it absolutely delicious and not to mention how quick it came reasonable prices good entertainment at the arcade and staff are very friendly strongly recommended

Lovely food, quick service. Staff are very friendly. Reasonable prices. Range of fun arcade games. All in all a great place to come for a meal and some fun at the arcade with family.

Arcade needs updating old alot not working

Floor and carpets very sticky .. food ok but rushed. Two fights inside when I was there. No security response. So we left.

Wow what a waste of time if you want to enjoy time out with people don't come here we have visited twice now and even midday with 8 staff on the bar we still had a 45 min wait for service. The drinks are massively over priced compared to all other cocktail bars in Nottingham the arcade machines are all 1 pound ago which is ok if you have had a few pints but a family day out have food a drink and play games you will be disappointed go for nice food in a restaurant of choice then if you want arcades visit the corner house arcade its 300% better or try montys bar in trinity square 1 out of 5 stars

Didn't have any food and left after the worst espresso martinis I've had in a bar. The place looks a lot of fun and people were having a great time all around so don't be put off, unless you fancy an espresso martini.

Great place to catch up with friends and enjoy some retro entertainments!

Went for a Christmas work do recently, all the staff were incredibly patient and polite whilst dodging and weaving to provide everyone food and the team behind the bar were very friendly and enthusiastic. I cannot rate the team enough at all! Fantastic people they have there! I've given a 4 instead of a 5 because their pricing is similar to similar central London places. I hope those high prices are passed onto staff wages because I'd give them 5 for that, but it still would be out of my pay bracket to go there on a weekend.

Great fun. Amazing attentive staff for the Xmas party. The buffet food was good all the team enjoyed.

Brilliant environment for office private party.

The gaming area at the back is so much fun! Great cocktails, as well. 🍸

Spot on service from Jack - very good entertainment on the racing reindeer!

This review is solely for the cocktails as we didn't order any food. I found this place whilst searching for places doing happy hour. These guys do 2-for-1 cocktails before 9pm, Sun to Thur. The cocktails were great, I'd come back again as I'd like try everything else on the cocktail menu. The place is a great vibe, lots of people having fun in the arcade space situated at the back.

Actually don’t waste your money. You buy loads of tokens just to waste them on machines that don’t work. Drinks are hugely overpriced for something you only get four sips out of. Everyone in there is willing to start a fight, especially white men in suits.

70% of the bloody games didn’t work

Nipped in for my mates stag do it was epic and all the staff are bang on. We will all be back again soon so I can defend my camel racing title cheers 😎.

Popped in for some lunch with 2 kids. We ordered via the app with no issues, drinks were brought over quickly. Food was no longer than a 10min wait from ordering. They do a special children's offer with a main meal, drink, desert & 3 game tokens for £4.95. Great choice of food, quick & easy meals which were very tasty. Great selection of arcade type games with token prices being quite reasonable.

Went for cocktails atmosphere was buzzing lovely to see families out enjoying the games

Lovely retro arcade and hangout in the heart of Nottingham with good food and drink selection. Popular for stag & hen parties at the weekend. Great place but pretty noisy so not really somewhere to go if you’re just after somewhere to eat and a chat.

Great place to visit on a night out with kids 😀

Great place to visit with friends and family! Lots of different fun games to play and it is suitable for all ages! The drinks are fun and unique and we totally recommend to go during happy hour!

Such a fun place with a lovely rear garden! Will definitely come again!

This lady has taken on a tattoo that someone else started on me and as unfortunately closed down,but penny lane as taken it in her stride and done a amazing job at finishing it 👏. The details in the tattoo that she has done is absolutely stunning 😍, i would definitely recommend for a fine detail tattooist and will definitely be back 👌

Had to change food after we had ordered because they had run out, plus everything was VERY salty. Generally not great food at all. A nice place, and fun to have drinks and play at the arcade, but not a culinary treat.

if you like playing pinball and other machines then this is the one for you.

Me encantó! Los precios eran geniales, había una oferta de cócteles 2 por 1 y eran agradables. Grandes juegos para jugar, es una pena que no sea más grande

Service wasn't great can't rate the food as didn't have any but seemed like a really good atmosphere just needs more things to do in there

Great fun pub, complete eith amusements

Gran servicio y orden fácil de usar en la aplicación de mesa, además de una gran oferta de vacaciones para niños en comida + fichas para el arcade, sin duda recomendaría y volvería.

¡Este lugar lo tiene todo! Hermosos cócteles y cócteles, personal amable, un ambiente encantador y las fabulosas arcadas y juegos! Pasamos una hora o dos aquí y a todos nos encantó!

Mi marido y yo visitamos Penny Lane por primera vez recientemente, y tuvimos una gran experiencia! El bar era acogedor y cómodo, y las bebidas eran fantásticas con sus temas y extras añadidos. La señora detrás de la barra era súper amable y amable, y fue muy divertido tomar unas copas y luego ir a buscar algunas fichas para jugar los juegos de arcade hacia la parte trasera del lugar. Este es un excelente lugar para amigos o citas, y lo recomendaría encarecidamente!

Visited on quiet Thursday night hoping to play pinball but they don't have that anymore. Bought a couple of pints, service was very poor. Guess you would get a very different experience on a busy night but if you can't serve a pint when the bar is quiet then there is no incentive to go back

Fuimos en las vacaciones de verano con 2 niños de 12 años y 3 adultos. Llegué allí cuando abrió. La bienvenida era fría, las mesas eran pegajosas, tienes que ordenarte en el sitio web, que no es genial. La comida no es barata, pero es realmente mediocre. Pedí platos pequeños y las alas de coliflor eran lo más suave. El servicio continuó siendo, en el mejor de los casos, desinteresado, eliminando platos y haciéndonos pasar platos para llegar a pesar de que todavía estábamos en el medio de comer. Se olvidaron de los postres infantiles, así que tuvimos que pedirlos. Los juegos están bien, pero £ 1. 25 una ficha y la máquina expendedora de fichas se rompió. Cuando fui a pedir las fichas que había pagado en la máquina pero que no me habían dado, me hablaron como una molestia. No hay disculpas o preocupación de que la máquina que necesita para acceder a los juegos se rompió. Simplemente mediocre, el personal que no podía importarle menos y gastó £ 20 por el privilegio. Feliz de no volver.

Great venue with a great look. Some awesome arcade games for all the family. Can have hours of fun here

Lovely staff, very attentive. Had a great night, one of my favourite places!

Fun place, great cocktails, great games and service was spot on! A young dark haired lad think his name was Joe Was amazing, he made friends with my 4 year old boy 🙏 definitely returning

It's good, I enjoyed my time here but it's not somewhere I would go again. Some machines weren't working well and everything felt pretty dirty

Brilliant staff I felt so comfortable and loved every moment as they helped so much , I couldn’t stress enough to come here as they are just perfect people that’s seriously deserve the best in the world. Please make them feel loved 🤍

Brilliant staff. Kept us safe when a guy followed us all night. Such lovely service. Made us so safe and so lovely. Perfect staff. Kept children and women safe. Cannot stress enough how brilliant they are.

Brilliant service. We came in for a speaific cocktail that we had last year but didn’t realise that the menu had changed. The lady behind the bar said she’d do her best to recreate it for us and she did a fantastic job. 10/10. Thank you!

Hotdogs were grey in colour, not sure if they had been frozen for a while and was quite herby and the taste a bit overpowering for some of us. The burgers were pretty good and curly fries were lovely. Cocktails were just ok as well, not sure with it being so quiet when we went that it impacted quality or not

Top fun. The shooting game and the fortune teller were my favourites. Also ducks 🦆

Absolutely awful service. The bouncer was so so rude to us as we came in. We were wearing pub golf hats and he told us we had to remove them which we did and then he came over and said we had to finish our drinks and leave as they ‘don’t accept pub golf’ even though they let us come in knowing we were pub golf. The bartender said they accept pub golf all the time and that we weren’t rowdy at all. The bouncer them came over and was rude to us again telling us to leave. We spoke to a manger and they weren’t listening to us at all. My friend was crying after being shouted at us and they were completely unsympathetic and didn’t listen to our complaints at all. We’d speak and they spoke over us and spouted out generic phases. The staff were overall unsupportive and unresponsive and overall useless. Wouldn’t come here again.

The bouncer was so rude, he was a bald angry man. He shouted at us as we came in for wearing hats before even asking us to remove them. Just a generally very aggressive demeanour. He then shouted at us while we were inside and then let multiple people with hats on through the door, all men, and didn’t say a single thing to them. It was overall a very hostile atmosphere mostly caused by the bouncer but reinforced by the rest of the staff. Whatever bouncer we had was clearly very power hungry and just looking for a problem. Would stop me from coming again definitely.

Food was delicious. We did have to remind the server that our child had a pudding ordered. Great old tunes over the sound system which was at a good pitch, so we could still talk without having to shout at each other. A variety of games in the arcade area, tho not always clear how many tokens needed and where to put them. Only got 8 tokens for £10 so when what was supposed to be a 2 player game ends up as 1, that felt like a wasted token. The 2p push slots were so heavily piled up I think we won a total of 8p and a young lad stole mine out of the machine and refused to give them back!! Cheeky sod!! But, all that said, ut was a lovely time for a catch up with my friend and her daughter, with nice food in a sound environment. I personally wouldn't go again, but it you haven't been it's worth the visit. If you have the extra pennies to spare. Thanks for a lovely 2hrs slot.

Love the concept of this place. Staff are all lovely, only issue is the queuing for drinks was a while each time. Apart from that cannot fault the place

Very expensive, I drink bitter which they don't sell so didn't have a drink. Machines very expensive £10 for 8 tokens. have 2 young kids so very expensive. Food was expensive, so did not eat there, got food on way home. Went there for a birthday party so very disappointing, except kids loved it.

amazing night but staff are so stretched most nights its impossible to get a drink, maybe some speed pumps would just finish this place

Ioved this place never been before first time Saturday my son and his girlfriend took me will defo return

Cocktails are extremely weak. Came here for happy hour on a Sunday and even at essentially £5.50 a cocktail we wouldn’t pay that again. Don’t waste your money!

Very nice place. Good food and drinks.

Funky place to drink and great idea to have a games area to have some fun

Good fun, very popular. Went for drink and played the arcade games, lots of fun 👍

Great cocktail range, nostalgic 70/80s music and amazing arcade games for all ages!

Place is great but the food is disappointing, don't bother with the desserts, not as described & nothing like the pic on the menu .

Great venue and attentive staff.

Cool place. No real ale or cyder, stocks the usual array of london type larger and keg beer at higher than average price for notts. The games are fun and it's easy to get tokens to play them which work out at £1.25 each but after half an hour or so you will have done all the ones you want to play so a good stopping place as part of a larger night.

Good food, lots of options for drinks. The arcade is the best part, good place to go with friends and family.

Not for me loud and a fight broke out. Food was awful

Good for some fun. 10quid for tokens got us a few fun games and I would recommend going for the ice hockey which is good fun. Beer selection isn't great, but it's a place to play some games and have fun for a few hours.

This is a great idea for a bar, just wish there was other old school games to play.

Pre-made cocktails in a bottle?!?! £11.45 for a cocktail that is already pre made in a bottle is scandalous. Staff are whipping the cocktail makers round like it’s hard to mix pre made sprits with Ice. Imagine £11.45 for a cocktail that’s being poured from a bottle pre-made in a factory. Get yourself to Wetherspoons for 1/2 the price. How can you justify?

Really enjoyed the food and the and the games are fun but it is very noisy

This is a great atmosphere to play party games and be taken back to your childhood would rate to go play games and drink beer for sure! Our food was cold and quite stale it came out super quick we had hotdogs and wings. The hotdog buns were hard and crusty at the ends showing it was left out out and sausages cold. It’s super busy so I’m guessing they have these out and ready for chips and sauces. No server was available so we couldn’t mention this to them. The wings were fine just regular frozen wigs cooked with a sauce dribbled over the top. The drinks were hot and miss but you’re paying for the novelty of them. We order 6 cocktails in total and 2 in it if the 6 would order again. The games were so much fun so if I was going again I would drink beer and just play games. Then go for a nice cocktail and some food elsewhere after.

This is a great atmosphere to play party games and be taken back to your childhood would rate to go play games and drink beer for sure! Our food was cold and quite stale it came out super quick we had hotdogs and wings. The hotdog buns were hard and crusty at the ends showing it was left out out and sausages cold. It’s super busy so I’m guessing they have these out and ready for chips and sauces. No server was available so we couldn’t mention this to them. The wings were fine just regular frozen wigs cooked with a sauce dribbled over the top. The drinks were hot and miss but you’re paying for the novelty of them. We order 6 cocktails in total and 2 in it if the 6 would order again. The games were so much fun so if I was going again I would drink beer and just play games. Then go for a nice cocktail and some food elsewhere after. Can’t really be any fairer than that. I would love this to of been rectified but no one was around at all as it’s all mobile and bar ordering.

Works Xmas do here. Drank a lot. Thirsty. Ate a lot. Tasty. Got told I was very attractive. Blushes. Rode hungry hippos. Lost. That's all I remember but would defo's go back.

Cracking place. Not ate here before but they do some lovely drinks including mocktails. The arcade is great fun too. We always try and pop in here when we go to Nottingham.

This is a very busy place with something for everyone.

Came as part of a group, food was tasty and the menu had lots of choice. Nothing spectacular but filled me up, mozzarella sticks were a highlight. Arcade machines were great, mixture of token machines and 2p machines. Would recommend for the interesting cocktails also!

First time going what a good experience

Ross and Natalie were superb bartenders and really friendly, will deffo come back!!!

Ordered spicy burger, which was in keeping with ones I had overseas, unlike many UK places. Fries and other sides extra. Ribs were also excellent

Fantastic atmosphere, great music, drinks a bit pricey

We ordered on the app, and our drinks (2 cans and a pint) took over 25 minutes to arrive (after chasing). Then another 25 mins for hot sandwiches and chips. And the waiter had a face like thunder. Food was fine and the atmosphere was nice.

Games don’t work, drinks are weak. When you complain about the games they never get fixed

Very nice place.... the sofa it was great...

Well I was surprised at how bad the staff are and how awful their practices are. Went here with friends ordered a glass of Zinfandel,the bar staff rinsed the glass with water and was about to pour the wine in until I noticed a few mil of water in the glass. I quickly grabbed it and turned it upside down for the water to leave the glass otherwise it would've been watered down and then she did the exact the same to two pints of lager that I couldn't do anything about. As she poured into the glass it was flat as a pancake until she got 3/4 the way and started swilling around to get a head on it. 4 drinks was over 20 quid but when you get rubbish service and cowboy antics with the glasses it really annoys me. Will never go back. Sorry to be blunt but it really was garbage.

Great cocktails 🍹 Entertaining venue with its ammusment arcade machines 🕹️

Even though we were right on the cusp of the deadline for food, Natalie sorted us out and was so patient with us x

Great bar albeit expensive, must be tried..with arcades, air hockey and drinks!

Decent venue, good place for pre drinks. It was quite quiet when we visited, but I'm sure the atmosphere is better during busier hours.

Good bar with arcade games available. Staff is welcoming and nice. Good fun

Had a great time! Really fun, good games and great service by Ross.

A great place for food and drink, plus the bonus of playing some retro games. Anything from Outrun 2, Air Hockey, 2p machines and even a Zoltar Fortune Teller. Fun for all the family.

Great place and 2 for 1 on cocktails

Bar with cocktails and an old arcade like at the seaside. Air hockey, penny drop, horse races etc. Good atmosphere.

Waited for ages to get served at the bar for a drink as there was 4 people all just talking behind the bar..... Rest was great

Love the two penny pushers & air hockey just like being at the seaside in the middle of the city

Matthew was very friendly and provided great service late at night. Fun environment and unique to Nottingham.

Loved this place 10 out of 10. Fun for kids to go to or even to have fun as adults. Everyone I was with enjoyed their selves. The cocktail jug life is my fav cocktail there. I ate cheeseburger and fries.. it was lovely

A cool little arcade and pub. Great for kids and adults.

3* because its so overpriced now. I understand the whole idea and what it's about, but drinks, games far too much over priced now.

Didn't have the food but looked nice, shame about the games side as most of the machines were really run down and don't work. Also 8 tokens for £10? Why not just make it £1 per token 😅 Cocktails where nice but at £11 a pop you wouldn't have many. Good for a one off but wouldn't go again sadly

Very good place. Different from your normal pub. Games and entertainment. Prices for drinks are slightly pricy

Great place friendly staff. Excellent time.🙂

Very creative cocktails with great scenery. Happy hour until 9pm!

It's good... Once... The novelty of the arcade machines is great the first time. But a lot of the time the machines don't work correctly and it's very expensive. The drinks are very expensive and the wait times can be very long. But it's definitely worth going at least once just to experience it. It's okay. But looks better than it actually is

Great place for drinks and arcade games, loads of games to choose from, no end of fun

The cocktails are really nice and tasty with a wide variety to choose from. There are some sweet options that are original and feel like desserts in a glass! The food is also pretty good. Their small plates like the Brie wedges, Halloumi fries and sweet potato fries are very good, not too oily and pretty tasty! I personally was not entirely satisfied with the sandwich as I found the baguette bread quite dry. The staff is super friendly and the atmosphere is really nice both for a meal during the day or drinks in the evening. Good retro music and a lot of fun arcade games! It’s worth checking out!