Yankee asking about ace cafe

[Honda434]

Over in the states anytime ace cafe is on Tv or in a magazine write up it’s packed. Looks like the coolest place for anyone into bikes. And the vintage bikes they always show are amazing. Is ace cafe as cool as it’s portrayed as?
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Honda434

[doggone]

No.
It might almost have been in about 1964

[WD Forte]

I've been a few times and its OK to tick off the list but I'm kind of 'meh' about it
and have no desire to go again.
My favourite spot for a meet up up that London way was
the bike meet at St Dunstans church at Cranford park just off J3 of the M4

It's a lovely friendly wee place for a meet up and you'd get all manner of folk on bikes and scoots turn up
and I always found it to be a friendly, chatty, snob free atmosphere.
It's also a nice old place to wander about and the charming church ladies would have stalls selling tea/coffee and home made buns and stuff dead cheap
( A lot cheaper than the ACE btw)
I haven't been up there for few years now so don't know if it's still on
but would like to go again if it was.

Here's a pic from their website of the vicar blessing the bikes
You don't get that up the ACE!

https://www.saintdunstan.org.uk/images/module1/2019Bikes1.jpg
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[stinkwheel]

[Bhud]

It's alright - they've set it up nicely to be very much like it was. It's got a little museum-ness and touristy feel to it. There are a couple of 60s bikes and a mod's scooter at the back. Lots of stuff on the wall to look at and read. There are souvenirs and stuff for visitors to buy, in case your friends comes to visit. It's set up like an old-school diner.

[MarJay]

[Easy-X]

Miserable fuckers. The Ace Café is a bar/restaurant/meetup place in the middle of fecking nowhere (as regards to urban situations) and will have plenty of ppl and bikes there as weather and weekends allow.

90% of the people who don't rate it don't live anywhere near and wouldn't go. If you want to flex with your turbo Hayabusa there's no better place in London
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[jeffyjeff]

[stinkwheel]

[WD Forte]

[Bhud]

The Ace Cafe is a very convenient place and hard to fault. It's got parking and it's got plenty of seating. I mean, it's not really my bag and isn't my scene, and I've only been there 3 times, but it's still got a sense of being something a bit out of time. The food is a bit on the quantity side rather than the quality side, but the tables and chairs and atmosphere is a breath of fresh air, even if it's contrived. I bet a tourist who was into bikes would love it. Would be nicer if it was actually a bike meet sort of place rather than a novelty, but the owner's a good businessman and he has to make ends meet and balance the needs of different crowds. That said, if you do like bikes then you have to make a pilgrimage to the Ace Cafe at least once. It's the law!

[chickenstrip]

It was ok as a meet-up point, and sometimes some interesting bikes would turn up on 'themed' days, but I wouldn't head there for its own sake.
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[slowasyoulike]

Went in 2011 as I had strayed unusually close to London, and thought I'd have a look. Never felt the need to go back.

[jonquirk]

It was very quiet on Saturday morning at about 11am when I dropped in for a butty and a brew on my way to Greenford. Only about six bikes in the car park plus a bunch of Hyundai i30N that we’re having a meet there.

Grub was OK but London prices.

I did have a family from Hong Kong chatting to me and admiring my bike as I got ready to leave, easily impressed by a BMW G310R I guess.
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[MarJay]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[A100man]

Not been - would call in if passing ..is it outside ULEZ?

I guess its a it like the SuperSausage on the A5- Ok for a coffee and a gander but you wouldn't want to spend all day there...
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[UncleFester]