A dark room with
very good tables.
From Wright Street it is a cream building on a corner, and nothing about the outside suggests what is inside.
Inside: charcoal walls, tables under suspended light rafts, buttoned black leather benches down one side, a counter at the back with a display cabinet, and trophies.
The lighting does what lighting in a proper Heyball room is supposed to do. Each table gets its own raft and the room around it goes dark, so you spend the hour looking at a lit rectangle of green and almost nothing else.
“A comfortable playing environment with quality billiards tables.”
The club’s own description of the room, and an accurate one: the light is on the cloth and almost nowhere else.
Who is in it
A mixed crowd, several generations, regulars and first-timers, and on most nights a few tables going at once. People who review us tend to call the staff friendly and, more than once, humble.
Ask at the counter about drinks. The room stays easy however mixed the table next to you is — reviewers mention the mix of ages and backgrounds more often than anything except the tables themselves.
It is not for everybody. A couple of reviewers found the lighting over the pool tables too dim, and one found the room unwelcoming. Those are on the reviews page in full, next to everything else.
The room with the lights off
Photographed in daylight with the rafts switched off, it is an ordinary room: green cloth, chrome hangers, a suspended ceiling, a television. Every bit of the atmosphere comes back on with the lamps. That is how every good Heyball room works, and it is why the photographs taken at night look like a different building.
- Tables
- Heyball in the long room, American pool beside it, and a private Mahjong room off the floor
- Where
- 17-19 Wright St, Adelaide SA 5000
- Open
- Open from noon or 2pm, until midnight and 2am on Friday and Saturday.
- Drinks
- Bought at the counter — ask what is served