Review: It’s a Ping thing.

3 words: Ping-Pong, pizzas, cocktails. Sold?

Ping has recently opened in Earls Court, having taken over the venue of Miss-Qs: the guilty pleasure with no hint of irony nightclub that sat on The Earls Court road. This spot used to guarantee a late night boogie to commercial hip hop and R&B until the early hours any night of the week. 

I won't lie to you, I’m going to miss the possibility of heading here after listening to the sweet sound of Anna Byrne play at The Troubadour: the only other reason to head to Earls Court, correct me if I’m wrong. However Ping brings a long-overdue piece of East London style cool to this drab bit of West so we'll allow it. 

I’ve long been a fan of ping-pong. Since being initiated into the elite geek club in my last workplace, I’ve been adding to my list of good places to play London. My favourite is The Book Club in Shoreditch, though they only have one table and its usually in high demand.

Ping is just on the right side of trendy. It’s low lit, it has corners for couples, bars to schmooze at and big tables for parties. 

Ping is equipped with 3 tables and a foosball table too. It also shakes-up a fantastic cocktail – with simple twists on classics, including Rhubarb Aperol Spritz (rhubarb liquor, prosecco and aperol) and a cinnamon amaretto sour (amaretto, lemon juice, maraschino cherry and cinnamon – I have mine with egg white too but it's not included as standard). It's interesting enough that you’ll want to try more than one thing on the menu, but simple enough that you won't have to ask what every other liquor in the ingredients is (I'm actually a little bored of this game Milk & Honey). 

Rhubarb Aperol spritz

Asahis and Amaretto sours all round

The food is just a small selection pizzas and salads but they too are well concepted – apple sausage and parma ham, rocket and sundried tomatoes and at £7.50 a pop these make for great in-between-play sharers. Oh, and the waitress looks like she's just stepped out of a cheer leading scene in Glee. I'm not entirely sure why, but why not eh?

Why not?

This would be a great place for a first date - an ice breaking activity that doesn't make you cringe is hard to find but ping-pong may just be the perfect fix. It's also a good test of how fun/ competitive a person is... I mean you wouldn't want to waste your time would you? I went with a big bunch of friends after work and found that being at the table made everyone wind down much faster than they would if we'd just headed to the pub.

You can book here, but you probably don't need to as they're still quite young. We went mid-week and it was busy but not heaving.

Go forth, go play.

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