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Aside from The Everyman in Hampstead, I have never known comfort like this. Plush leather armchairs and footstools with cream coloured walls, red velvet-like recesses and golden trimmings and a bar where you can forget the usual packaged and processed fat food and expect Mediterranean snacks such as olives and crudités, stuffed quail eggs and breaded prawns, great brownies and good wine. It’s the next best thing to having your own screening room with surround sound and on a Monday all tickets are half price. It’s rather beautiful too. It also claims to be the oldest cinema in town, opened in 1910 and finely restored to its Edwardian glamour boasting a gorgeous gilt-domed box office and pretty mosaic floor leading to an elegant paneled baroque styled auditorium.

http://www.electriccinema.co.uk/

191, Portobello Road, London, W11 2ED
020 7908 9696

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