The Comedy Store / Picadilly Circus

[Zico]

This is a last minute thread (with some last minute planning) ahead of my trip to The Comedy Store (1a Oxendon Street SW1Y 4EE) at Piccadilly Circus on Thursday.

The only fixed parts of the trip so far is as follows:

6pm find bar/pub etc. to watch the Liverpool vs Lille game on TV (apparently www.funland.co.uk have a sports bar which is just over the road from The Comedy Store making it an ideal spot before wondering over the road for the 8pm showing).

8pm Comedy Store show.

Anybody have any suggestions of other things to do/see/eat etc. within the area around Piccadilly before 6pm on Thursday or anytime Friday (before ~9pm)?

I've booked a night's stay at the Travelodge Covent Garden (10 Drury Lane, WC2B 5RE) where we will be heading to after the comedy show finishes (~10:30pm apparently).

[Burble]

Do you physically have your Comedy Store tickets to hand? If not, get there early as there will be a queue almost around the block for people collecting tickets.

There's a nice (and really cheap) Italian restaurant on Old Compton Street (head over Leicester Square, turn at left Charing Cross Road walk up until you reach Cambridge Circus and it's on your left there) called Polo Bar which does the best, and most authentic pizza I've had in London.

[Zico]

Do you physically have your Comedy Store tickets to hand? If not, get there early as there will be a queue almost around the block for people collecting tickets.

There's a nice (and really cheap) Italian restaurant on Old Compton Street (head over Leicester Square, turn at left Charing Cross Road walk up until you reach Cambridge Circus and it's on your left there) called Polo Bar which does the best, and most authentic pizza I've had in London.

I need to collect the tickets from the venue. If we head out on the early train then I was planning to head down and pick up the tickets first before finding something to do before the football game at 6pm.

[Zico]

Picked up the tickets for the train and tube. Good job I asked at the counter about the tube tickets as if I had bought them online then I would have only had tickets for the one day and not the return leg :).

Need to print out booking reservations for the hotel and Comedy Store before I forget.

This is costing an arm and a leg but hell it should be worth it to see Mike Wilmot.