NQ64 Birmingham

The good - the arcade machines are plentiful, it was empty when we went so there were no queues for the machines. The prices of the Arcade machines were 14 tokens for £7, which works out to 50p for most machines of £1 for the popular ones (DDR, House of the Dead, Guitar Hero etc.)

The machines were well maintained, controlled well and only had 1 token eaten the whole time we were there.

The environment was awesome - aircon, cool designs on the walls and friendly staff.

Environment wise, what would make it awesome is a jukebox that eats the tokens for the arcade machines.

The bad - Drinks prices are crazy and include 1% tip by default, along with signs belittling patrons that don't tip. I get that these are in jest, but for £9 for a little tiny cocktail (Basically a shot of gin and some fruit) or £5 for a 330ml can of Hooch, £5.10 for a pint etc - if the staff want tips, they could have served the drinks up nice and quick, espcially if it's empty. In the UK tipping is not part of the service, it's for exceptional service, which this wasn't. It took almost 20 minutes for one set of drinks to turn up, but on average around 5 minutes. Which would be fine, but the place was empty.

Plus, if I'm going to tip, I'll tip my server directly so that they get 100% of the funds. Not via the app.

All in all, an awesome day out - just start there, take a bottle of water and instead of buying drinks there, pop around the corner to subside and pay a normal price for drinks.

Enjoyed my time, but wouldn't visit again in a hurry purely because of the extortion on the drinks.