The guide includes all the pubs, bars, clubs and public places with usable traditional dart boards in the centre of London – generally within 2 miles of Charing Cross station. It doesn’t include digital darts venues, which can afford their own marketing.
Browsing The Map will show you every venue that is listed. The Advanced Search shows particular areas, and other useful information such as multiple boards, function rooms, or league teams. Venues are also classified by type: Bars (think chrome and loud music), Boozers (men’s toilets that stink and frequent use of the C word) and more Traditional pubs (fish and chips and warm beer).
All pubs included have been rated out of 5 to reflect their overall suitability for a game of darts. There are a lot of great pubs in the guide that are poorly rated because the set up for darts isn’t particularly good (and vice-versa). If you would like your pub to have a better review or higher rating, firstly make it a better place to play darts, and secondly tell me.
There is also some information about pub leagues in London, and old copy about the London Fives dart board, retained here as this information doesn’t appear to be published anywhere else.
Capital Arrows is a non-commercial website, will never be complete, and is probably never up to date. Pubs are only added once I’ve been to them, with most venues are visited annually. Every effort is made to publish and update correct information, but it only takes a minute to remove a dart board, and just a few weeks to demolish a building. If you are making a special visit, always call first, and please note in particular that lots of pubs do not open on one or both weekend days.
Do let me know your experiences in these wonderful pubs, via the form on each pub page, or on bachelorofdarts@gmail.com.