Mullins Bar, Beddington, Croydon

This bar has now been converted to a Bella Italia restaurant. There is still a bar in the adjacent ten-pin bowling complex. It's a simple triangular space just inside the front door, with a wooden floor area hosting a few tables and chairs, with additional seating available around the perimeter walls. For reasons entirely lost on me there are surfboards and windsurfing sails suspended from the ceiling - maybe hanging bowling balls from the ceiling is too much of a health and safety risk. Tetley's Extra Cold and Guinness are available on tap along with the usual lager options. Several TV screens were showing Euro 2012 football. I guess you might have a pint here as it's the only place on the Valley retail/leisure park that allows you to get a beer without buying a meal. You'll have to put up with the noise from the bowling lanes, air hockey, arcade machines and countless screaming kids though and as it's not a proper pub I won't bother listing it separately.

Part of the entertainment complex some may find it a bit noisy due to the Megabowl being in the same building. There are lots fruit machines and other games also next door. If you go there with your children, they may want to spend your money, before you can get a drink in. Think of it as being on holiday by the seaside, without the sea or sand.

Part of the entertainment complex some may find it a bit noisy due to the Megabowl being in the same building. There are lots fruit machines and other games also next door. If you go there with your children, they may want to spend your money, before you can get a drink in. Think of it as being on holiday by the seaside, without the sea or sand.