{"id":742043,"date":"2026-02-04T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:49:10","slug":"the-rise-of-arcade-bars-and-pubs-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742043\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of arcade bars and pubs in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Londoners have near infinite choice when deciding where to go for a night out, with a growing number of adult-only arcades joining the city\u2019s ranks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chains such as NQ64 and Four Quarters have several branches across the capital, inviting adults for a nostalgic trip to the games of their youth.<\/p>\n<p>Arcade bars are especially suited to those stepping away from alcohol, in light of recent figures showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clymvgj8zymo#:~:text=The%20shift%20towards%20more%20moderated,%2C%20reaching%20this%20year&#039;s%2041%25.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">41% of people in Greater London planned to take part in Dry January.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We visited The Thieves, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/?s=pubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pub<\/a> in Battersea, and 90s-themed bar Bunga 90 in Covent Garden, both of which have recently converted part of their premises into an arcade.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full story below: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Pb609 via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=121618859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Londoners have near infinite choice when deciding where to go for a night out, with a growing number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[192267,37591,29221,748,15340,201965,393,4884,257,19606,1889,16,15,32391,3069],"class_list":{"0":"post-742043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-arcades","9":"tag-bars","10":"tag-battersea","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-covent-garden","13":"tag-dry-january","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-nightlife","18":"tag-pubs","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wandsworth","22":"tag-westminster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116013155195043371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}