Moonshine Saloon — Restaurant in London

If I could give this place 10/10 I would.

This is a venue that works its butt of to give you an amazingly unique and memorable night!

All of the actors kept in character, but were friendly and very funny throughout the night.

I'd been peppering them with emails via their email, as I wanted to doubly confirm I would have a great birthday and my guests would have a fantastic night. I needn't have bothered- it was epically fun!

The atmosphere was so warm and everyone got really into the show and just enjoying how 'different' everything was.

I would recommend this place to ANYONE. Even my incredibly introverted friend had a blast and didn't find it overwhelming.

They genuinely have props I.e. cowboy hats for guests to wear. They celebrate you if you dress up. They also invite you if you haven't, to participate with a fantastic selection of cowboy gear.

The storyline was easy to connect to and we all became weirdly invested haha. Everyone did.

The drinks?!! The Bar staff are soooo good at their work. The drinks were strong and they were willing to prepare something different if requested. They know their staff. They made sure never to 'block' the action, but drinks were always rolling.

My only complaint? Please make it longer. Each table had cards and dice, we honestly would've been happy staying for both performances of the night.

Actually, another thing is that the venue is quite small, so if someone needed support or more space for their wheelchair it may be a tight fit. However, I hope (and think) they would be very ready to change the seating as needed.

Also, the venue can't help if you have a birthday cake. So if you are cutting it there, then please be prepared to bring bowls/plates, cutlery, tissue etc.

Food?!! I think offering some nibbles would really help the experience and ensure people don't get a bit 'too cocktail-y'.

*There is a sport's bar directly across the road, where we and others from the show went to get food and continue the fun 😜

If you take 2 things from this review it's that:

1. Make sure you have a confirmed guestlist, before you buy your tickets. Tickets are nonrefundable, even if you give them plenty of notice. In this climate ...£39.99 and booking did feel like a loss 😭

2. Go ready to laugh and just embrace the...

We had a promising start, but things took a turn for the worse. We arrived as a group of six people. Two of us were arriving separately (form a different station), so we were let in first. My two friends then joined us after. Literarily 1mim after we did.

After our third cocktail the sherif was in our table and playing the game my friend that arrived late and didn’t get the brief grabbed the gun in a misunderstanding with the actor. The gun was given back but were were kicked out. We were not drunk as we only drink ⅓ of cocktail given and my friend was on mocktail. We clearly explain to the lady that it’s a misunderstanding as he didn’t get the brief and though he was playing with the actor but we were asked to leave anyway.

My friend is on a the spectrum and he doesn’t always read body language well even more when the cast in and stayed in character. We apologies but were asked to leave anyway.

It’s shocking for two reasons.

One- we were not misbehaving, we were not drunk, my friend didn’t know the rules. As he wasn’t told. The responsibility of him not knowing the rules is on the staff upon entry not on their guest (like we were told).

And there was no listening or trying to understand from the staff even though we were super understanding and calm. (I can understand that the staff must be used to deal with silly and drunks people, but we were not).

Secondly- why having a gun as props if it’s such problem?! The show can do without and feels like an unnecessary burden for you as a business and for your customers. Makes no sense.

Even though the staff wasn’t rude the fact they didn’t listen or show logic or any empathy to the situation was shocking. Also a training would be nice in how to deal with people with learning difficulties.

We will be asking...

★★★★★ IF YOU CONSIDER GOING - JUST GO, YOU WON'T REGRET IT! ★★★★★

Before coming to visit my sister asked me to organize the most amazing time for her and I immediately had to think of the Moonshine Saloon as I had heard only good things beforehand and was dying to go anyways. We got some tickets for Thursday evening and our already high expectations were exceeded from the start! This is a truly immersive experience, the actors are amazing and happily interacted with the little characters we made up. Basically you are playing pretend while being served 4 rounds of drinks. The drinks [we brought vodka] were great as well, they all tasted different from each other and were super delicious ♥

We had so much fun that we ditched the activity we had planned and went a second time on Saturday afternoon.

★★★AND WE HAD THE BEST TIME AGAIN★★★

This time we also booked a special character for one of us [I got to be Mayor Tiffany ♥] and I cannot recommend it enough, it was so much fun! The same goes for going multiple times, it probably was by chance, but we had a slightly altered story and entirely different drinks besides bringing vodka again. Either way, the way the actors encourage people to play along and respond to what the guests bring to the table is what truly makes going multiple times worth it, as both crowds had entirely different but super fun vibes. Other than going two times in one week, we also kept recommending the experience to everyone we met during the rest of our party weekend, including all of our uber drivers! ♥

We will definitely go again the next time my sister...