Rileys Victoria

Having launched London’s first darts lanes here in 2010, in 2022 this venue now contains two traditional dart boards and two interactive metallic fuelled versions.

The two traditional boards means that this remains one of the best places in central London for a serious game of darts in a quality set up – for a fee. The newer boards require use of the very light ‘house’ darts. As with other versions, this is no doubt fun for the newcomer, but it has its limitations for those of us who just want to chuck their arrows.

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3 Comments

  1. James W

    I been a few times throughout the last year and as of Oct 2016, they still have 6 or 7 boards with winmau scoring machines all ready and free to go. Downstairs in the pool and snooker are they now also have 2 awesome darts live soft tip machines.

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  2. Steven Cleall

    I went here yesterday (15/06/2018) and paid £9.95 to hire a lane to play darts. Once paid you can have the lane all day. You also have to be a member or go in with someone who is a member. They had the world cup on all the TV’s and it was £1.75 for a glass of cola.

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  3. Chris P

    It’s been recently refurbished so this review needs an update. The lanes are gone, and they have 2 steel tip boards and 2 electronic boards now. At the time of writing the steel tip boards are new Blade 6’s and they are in good condition, probably because the UK open qualifiers were held here last month.

    However the big problem is the throw lines. Instead of having a proper regulation throw line of 7ft 9 1/4 inches or even a distance marking for it, like every other pub in the world with a dart board, Riley’s has 3 lines – “Rookie”, “Pro” and “Show Off”. I asked behind the bar which is the proper 7ft 9 1/4 inch line and neither of the young bar staff knew. Their response was “They don’t tell us that, sorry”. I had to ask a mate to bring a tape measure!

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Address

16 Semley Place

Pub type

Unclassifiable

Tags

Hireable, Multiple boards, Pay to play

Area

Victoria and Pimlico SW1
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