Top 10 Places to Celebrate your Birthday in London

There's no better way to do a birthday than diving feet first into a ball pit, am I right? Awaken that inner child and let loose within a million balls. For the full birthday experience, book a bottomless session with unlimited pizza and 2 full hours of uninterrupted ball pit play. 

No birthday party in London is complete without a final flourish on the dance floor. Promising 'cutting edge music and hedonistic debauchery', The Old Queen's Head's first-floor party room is exactly where you'll find it, as revellers get up on the stage and DJs drop one party anthem after another. There's a variety of spaces for private parties and a karaoke room upstairs, too.

Hidden downstairs in a chic subterranean bar, find WM Barker & Co, a classy cocktail establishment that uses natural ingredients to create their delicious concoctions. Having consulted expert mixologists, cocktails here are a theatrical masterpiece.

Out to mark your birthday celebrations by thrashing all your mates at bowling? All Star Lanes can accommodate, offering the use of their private Club House with unlimited bowling for up to 80. You'll have two lanes, your own fully stocked cocktail bar and the option of extra karaoke facilities if there's a victory song to be sung.

Where better to celebrate your birthday than the coolest karaoke joint in town? All you budding singers have the use of a dressing up box, all the musical hits you could need and – luckily for some – a soundproof room. All you need to do is grab a cocktail and get singing.

With great drinks, epic deals and awesome DJs, this quirky cocktail spot is a must-visit for birthdays. Open until 2am at the weekends, it's got everything you need for a fantastic night out.

Looking for a venue where you can drink, dine and party hard without leaving the premises? Hello, Paradise. Blessed with a handful of stunning private function rooms ready to host birthday parties for between 10 and 150 guests, you're free to celebrate surrounded by your nearest and dearest before heading upstairs to a packed out club room that plays hip-hop, funk, soul and party classics.

A completely thrilling dinnner-theatre experience, this stunning venue offers some of the finest entertainment in the city. With delicious food and some of the most talented cabaret performers in the business it's a top spot for celebrating a birthday in London.

For more unusual birthday celebrations in London, Piano Works is your calling card. A piano-led live band take centre stage here, playing a repertoire of songs that come requested by the audience themselves. Aside from the infectious atmosphere, birthday groups can come for delicious dinner and drinks in a party bar with 80 person capacity.

Welcome to a pubbing experience like nothing you've experienced before. The hyperbole really does seem justified with Aeronaut, which brings some of Europe's finest circus and cabaret performers together to put on a dazzling live show each and every weekend. The entertainment is wonderful, there's food and cocktails and you'll end up dancing to DJs until 1.30.

Offering dreamy views of London's most central spaces, this stunning bar and restaurant in Leicester Square offers sky-high dining and signature cocktails as well as botanical-inspired interiors. If you're looking for a spot that screams 'special occasion' this could very well be the one for you.

Celebrate your birthday at Roka for the ultimate Japanese robatayaki experience, with incredible sushi and sashimi, as well as charcoal grilled dishes, and all washed down by expertly made cocktails.

With its street food vendors, cocktail bars and ever-changing roster of live music, Night Tales has earned its place as one of London['s favourite clubs. Head over to this spot in Hackney on your birthday and experience all the magic for yourself. 

Celebrate your birthday at Swingers for the ultimate in crazy golf action, with two 9-hole courses, as well as three amazing street food vendors, five cocktails bars, a two-storey club house and the coolest interiors around.

For fun music, mouthwatering pizzas and fantastic cocktails on your birthday head to Old Street Records. The venue pays homage to some of the best recording artists through a huge vinyl collection. Throughout the week there's DJs and live music and downstairs a secret bar is hidden.

The team behind Flight Club have launched an all-new social activity, powering up in Canary Wharf this winter. Shaking up the traditional game of shuffleboard with a technological twist, Electric Shuffle adds food and drink to really amplify your experience. 

Perfect for groups of people and a fun social activity, darts at Flight Club is a brilliant way to pass your birthday. Head to either their Shoreditch or Bloomsbury venues, peruse the cocktail list for celebratory drinks before putting on your best game face and competing to score as highly as possible.