Smokey Joe'S Cafe Bar & Diner

*Free Entry* A fantastic mix of Music from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Jump session of Swing, Jive, Balboa & more! Fully licensed bar with Music, Dancing, Beers, Cocktails and Food!

Smokey Joe’s Jazz Club: Sara Dowling Quartet Thursday 6th September 2018 Doors open at 7.15 pm; gig starts at 8 pm
Tickets: ... £12 (if booked in advance; or £15 on the door) Students: £8 (if booked in advance; or £10 on the door; please bring student ID on the night)
Welcome back to Smokey Joe’s Jazz Club!
Tonight, we are delighted to welcome the incredible jazz vocalist, Sara Dowling. Lots of our regular audience members have been raving about Sara for some time, and they demanded that we get Sara over to Smokey Joe’s! We listen to what you want, and guess what … Sara is coming! Tonight is the night!
Sara has earned an enviable reputation for her deliciously emotional vocals. Her influences are as far reaching as straight-ahead jazz, Irish folk and Lebanese classical music. In the most stunning of ways, Sara is a jazz singer who presents every lyric with passion and every melody with poise. Her performances, whether singing gorgeous ballads or ripping up swinging standards, are mesmerising. We are delighted to welcome this inspirational jazz vocalist to Smokey Joe’s for what we know will be a night of beautiful and stunning music.
Check out lots of incredible recent review of Sara:
"Enigmatic, beguiling & intensely musical." MOJO MAGAZINE
"A vocalist with timeless quality. 5 stars!" JAZZ JOURNAL
"How soon before it will become normal to think about Sara as one of the best jazz singers this country has?" SEBASTIAN SCOTNEY, EDITOR OF LONDON JAZZ
"Her voice has all the qualities that you will find in the greatest of singers." GUY BARKER
"The jazz world has been waiting a long time for Sara Dowling to come along." NIGEL PRICE, JAZZ GUITARIST
Joining Sara tonight, we have the rhythmical master, Charlie Stratford on drums, and our resident powerhouse of creativity, Paul Jefferies on double bass and Alex Steele on piano. As always, we like to surprise our audiences with inspirational guest musicians, and if you’re lucky, tonight will not be an exception!
Based on the energy of our previous jazz nights at Smokey Joe’s, we know this one’s going to be a corker too! Tell your friends, bring your friends, get tickets while you can! For more information about Smokey Joe’s Jazz Club and to book, go to www.smokeyjoesjazz.club
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Cheltenham Drink & Draw and all ages colouring
Welcome to Cheltenham Drink and Draw in association with @Proud Lion
For all the newcomers we would like to welcome you to our once a month drawing event we hold at @Smokey joe's, Cheltenham where all kinds of people come together and share ideas both verbally and visually loosely based on a theme. It is open to all ages, though we do ask Children are accompanied by adults.
... Can't draw? Don't worry! We have all levels of talent come along from fully trained artist to starters! It is all about having fun, meeting new people and building a lasting community for everyone to enjoy. Don't have any equipment? Not a problem either. We have a small collection of stationary and paper for you to use, but feel free to bring anything you are comfortable with creating with.
This month there won't be a theme and I shall leave it open to everyone! There is story cube available to see what weird and surreal ideas can come from serendipity, you can always speak to other artist and see what they are doing or just go with something you are working on.
We will also try to post up the art work in the group so please join to hear about new events and all sorts of other fun things happening in the local area!
Thank You and see you there!
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*FREE ENTRY* Original 50s Rock n Roll, Rockabilly, Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop & other classics in an authentic Vintage setting. Dance floor, licensed bar, hot food, draft beers, shakes & cocktails! DJ- King of the Rocket Men

Don’t forget to get this date in your diary!!

Book your comedy tickets now!! Laughter, beers & burgers are a great way to spend a Saturday night with friends!! 😂🤣🤪

Led Zeppelin songs üòç And AC DC, Black Sabbath, The Who, Thin Lizzy, Paramore, Fleetwood Mac.
FFO: Vegan Heavy Rockin’ Badasses
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... Doors at 7.30pm
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Cheltenham’s homage to ‘The Moth’ -New York An informal night sharing a range of human experiences. Share your story or just listen to others.
‘The Moth's mission is to promote the art and craft of storytelling and to honor and celebrate the diversity and commonality of human experience.’
... Hosted by Charlie Markwick, The Yarn Whisperer.
Check out these websites for ideas and inspiration. https://www.themoth.org/ https://m.facebook.com/JoesYarns/photos/? mt_nav=1 http://www.yarnwhispering.co.uk/
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*Free Entry* Super Cheltenham Bros. is a regular meetup for gaming enthusiasts, focusing on (but not limited to) the retro side of gaming, as well as game development. Hosted by Sam Beddoes of FreakZone Games (a super awesome guy who is definitely awesome and definitely didn't write this about himself honest) and friends, you'll meet with retro game collectors, indie developers, game dev students and maybe even a YouTuber or two, and we'll drink and play great games!
GOT STUF...F TO SHOW? GAMES TO SHARE? Bring your stuff! There are a total of three HDTVs in the bar, and enough table space for you to bring your own monitors, CRTs, laptops etc. if you so wish, so feel free to bring something from your collection to show off and enjoy with others, or just join in on what's already here! Got a 3DS? There's usually some kind of Mario Kart of Monster Hunter game going on too, so why not join in?
JUST WANNA PLAY GAMES, OR EVEN WATCH? Smokey's also have a collection of arcade cabinets, many on free play all night. We also keep a RetroN 5 system in the bar, which plays any Mega Drive, SNES, NES, Game Boy Advance or Game Boy cartridges you might wish to bring along.
NEITHER? There is booze. So that's good. A lot of us just love to chat and have a good drink with like-minded people. It's always a great night, whether busy or 'intimate', and many friendships have been made through our events, so come join in!
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*Free Entry* A night of beautiful live music. Grab a drink & enjoy! Doors at 7.30pm Music from 8pm

Get laughing this weekend with a brilliant night of Comedy, Beers & Burgers!! 😂🤪🤣

Yes it is!

Union of Strings live at Smokey Joe's

Another fabulous night of music at Smokey Joe’s Jazz Club! 💕🎷🎼 #smokeyjoesjazzclub #cheltenham

Nothing better than a cold beer & a night with Union of Strings!

Girls are so excited! Looking forward to another brilliant Wizarding Week!

Don’t miss the next Comedy Night Extravaganza & for this one we’ll be doing some special drinks offers. Get the date in your diary & book a table for you & your friends!!

Don’t miss this talented duo on Saturday August 11th!

‘One of the best hotdogs I’ve had’.

Grace aged 12.

I took my daughter and her 5 friends to Smokey Joes tonight for her birthday tea. Great food, drinks (Coke floats) and impressive desserts.

The coffee is superb and the mac and cheese completely delicious.

Fun atmosphere and the staff were polite, attentive and friendly.

Thank you Smokey Joe’s for giving my daughter the best birthday. 5�

We had a work Christmas get together here on a Friday night in December. Everyone had a great time - lovely relaxed and fun atmosphere with good value delicious food and drink. Thank you Smokey Joe’s Team for a fantastic evening!

This was my daughter's favourite place a couple of years ago when she was at Uni and we still make it our first port of call when we visit Cheltenham. A lovely, friendly atmosphere and very good food, and very reasonably priced.

The staff couldn't do more for us - we were accompanied by an older relative in a wheelchair and they were completely on the ball with ramps to get into the bar, they made a table readily available with lots of space around us. Our drinks order arrived within 5 mins of ordering and the food was superb. A lovely Christmas Eve spent in friendly and professional company, can't wait to return in the New Year. Well done Somkey Joe's.

It’s fabulous, fun and lively atmosphere. The staff are always lovely and very attentive. A great place to take the children or just to pop in for some sweet treats and read the paper. I recommend for young and old.

It's my favourite place to go back home in Cheltenham when I am not studying at University. Arcade games, pancakes & shakes and gooood music! Everyone is so welcoming and lovely, love it!

Great milkshake today! Will be back for breakfast

Bang on! Totally retro experience. Awesome fun, great for kids and some good munch as well, especially the ice-cream!! Recommended.

Bacon & maple syrup waffle with a malt hot chocolate made for a great brunch & reasonably priced to boot, and the arcade games & pinball helped passed some time post-brunch. Getting hi-scores was another highlight for Mr CJ ...üòÄ

As always lovely accommodating service and polite and friendly staff

Amazing highly recommend. Food was great, excellent service. Just brilliant! Will definitely be back soon

We had a lovely lunch yesterday, Friday 28th October, couldn't fault it or the staff, and the Unicorn Hot Chocolate was to die for, but I'm afraid what let Smokey Joe's down, were the toilets. What a shame they weren't up to the standers of the decor of the Cafe its self, the Cafe is awesome, so much to see, and the toilets, well what a shame. Maybe an update or even a coat of paint. But apart from that, it was such a lovely lunch and would definitely go again.

Quirky venue and a very varied menu - thought the unicorn hot chocolate was a cute idea!

But a really long wait for drinks, none of the tables were cleared whilst we were there, it was very messy everywhere with food on the floor. Milkshakes were overly sweet and coffee was not hot.

Staff were clearly busy, but customer service could have been better.

Would go back, maybe it was just a super busy day.......

Popped in for a quick hot chocolate, and was offered the special 'unicorn' which we declined since we are vegan, enjoyed a soy hot chocolate which I appreciate was minus the whipped cream and marshmallows, however was surprised that we had to pay an extra .50p per drink for the vegan option? Don't quite understand how it can be more expensive to have a drink which must have been much cheaper to make, paying over £7 for two hot drinks is on a par with London prices, took 20 minutes for drinks to come, table hadn't been cleared from previous customers, service was friendly and table cleared after we had sat down, would I return? Possibly, this is my second visit, really like the setting and it has potential to be a great venue, but some improvement is needed.

It's a really great place to look at but the staff let it down. There were about 5 people behind the counter and not one of them acknowledged me, then a quiet little voice said "will someone serve" then a young girl very reluctantly and slowly walked towards me without saying a word just looked at me. I ordered my coffee and cake, it did take sometime before she actually brought it to the table. Real shame the staff come across as being so disengaged with the customers ÔøΩ

we were served by a new member of staff who was getting grips with the ropes, very pleasant young lady, food was not bad, nice and hot as was the coffee, but the scrambled eggs could have been a bit more scrambled, but the portion size was ok, it was very busy so had a little bit of a wait. would go back another day just to listen to the great music :-)

Not a great visit unfortunately. Took a while to get served although there were 5 or 6 members of staff behind the counter. I ordered 3 different meals and only 1 meal came out as it should. Lots missing from the plates that were stated on the menu. I took one back as I ordered nachos with add chilli but got crisps with a small amount of chilli on top when it came back out with a poor effort made to correct it with no apologies. Over all the staff seem unhappy and unhelpful.

Ordered 2 Sandwiches glass of water and fries

Waited 40mins went to ask and told even though order taken and put up they had forgotten about the order. Was given a full refund but doubt will use again

Great place to eat and look at , decor wise ... but such slow service and its expensive ! There were around 7 people working there yesterday lunch time and a table actually walked out even after they paid because they were waiting for so long . I don't get what seven people were doing for that whole time? There only seemed to be one young girl waiting tables. Also, the kitchen area / island food prep area was smothered in food and wrappers , which you can see from the till, and just looked so unhygienic. Food being prepped was just left in odd places and most people handling food weren't wearing gloves or washing hands, and they were also going from one food item to another, then to another fridge and then picking up another food item. Not great.