Leisure time

Ealing boasts an impressive range of bars, cafe's and restaurants with every possible type of dining experience and taste catered for. As well as a number of upmarket restaurants, there are also many of the favourite chain restaurants in Ealing's high streets and speciality cafes and restaurants can be found in the surrounding roads. Southall gives the option of sampling some of the most authentic and best value Indian food in London.

Local attractions include Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, the country home of Sir John Soane, architect of the Bank of England. Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery is now a venue for concerts, workshops and highly regarded contemporary art exhibitions.

Ealing is also home to the Questors Theatre, the largest community theatre in Europe, with an audience membership of around 3,000. The Questors Theatre stages around twenty productions each year with a reputation for very high standards of production of both modern and classical drama.

Added to that, Ealing Council produces the “Ealing Summer Festival" which has now been running for nearly 25 years. One of London's biggest and best arts festivals it is held over five weeks and includes a week of top comedy (recent years have seen Bill Bailey and Jimmy Carr as headline acts) and the Ealing Jazz Festival which is the largest free jazz festival in Europe. Other attractions include blues and global music days and a range of children's activities. Ealing Summer is brought to a close by the London Mela which is one of the biggest celebrations of Asian music and culture outside the Indian subcontinent and now an established highlight in the capital's cultural calendar.

Cinemas can be found at the multiplex at the Royale Leisure Park in Acton or the Bollywood cinema at the Himalya Palace in Southall. The cinema at Ealing Broadway is currently being redeveloped to provide a new town-centre multiplex cinema.

All of the attractions of London's West End are also only 30 minutes away.