Forever running hot and cold with its darting interest, in 2026 the Cheese seems back to not really caring about the fact that it contains probably the best darts space in the capital. Having briefly flirted with digital darts, it is now back to three loveless boards. Having been a hub of darts for a couple of years, on my most recent visit there were three hammered city types spearing arrows in the corner, and nobody else in sight (apart from about 200 choir singers).
The shrine to Bullseye (below) with quotes from Sid Waddell was painted over some time ago.
Bullseye’s Jim Bowen, previous resident of the darts room.
They’ve recently changed managers and are seemingly not now very interested in darts, although the two boards remain in place. Both teams (including ours) that play there from our league are looking to move asap
Since my last comment they’ve had a refurb of the darts room. The lighting is sub-optimal, but there are now three boards, all with electronic scoreboards.
Played there last week – still 3 boards up but lighting is poor.
Need to book in advance on-line to make sure of getting a board.
18 Feb 2024 This place was my second attempt to throw so some darts while in England. I was on holiday from America for my 60th birthday and I brought two sets of my darts.. The store front said “Darts”, so my wife and I went in expecting to order drinks and food and toss some darts. I asked the proprietor where the board was and he said upstairs but it’s closed. I asked if it would be okay if I could throw a few and he said “No”. Regardless, we sat downstairs and had lunch and drinks. Food was not worth it. Alas, I left England NEVER having thrown one dart.
The Cheese has had a bit of a refurb, including the darts room, and reopened early Sept. It now has three brand new Blade 6 boards, all with lighting surrounds and laser oches (which are definitely better in theory than in practice, as they have a habit of getting knocked. Not sure why they had to remove the metal strips that previously functioned as the oche line!). As previously mentioned, you can book the boards online (and ignore the bit about a £5 charge per hour – I have never been asked for this!)