Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre

The Ealing Broadway centre is my go to for all my day to day needs! Situated just a few minutes walk from Ealing Broadway station (central and district lines) it’s convenient and has plenty of shops to choose from.
There are multiple jewellers, sportswear shops and clothing stores including H&M, Marks and Spencer and River Island for bigger purchases sitting alongside Tiger, Poundland, Boots, Superdrug, Primark and Tesco for your day to day requirements! You can equally pop in to grab a pint of milk as you can find a new set of make up brushes or killer stilettos.
The square at the centre has recently been refurbished with shiny new seating and is home to the annual Christmas market as well as food pop-​ups throughout the year. There are often pop up activities during school holidays for children, including a previous installation of deckchairs and a giant sandpit plus free craft activities.
Ealing’s shopping centre has almost all the convenience of the centre of town, with much fewer people and smaller queues!

This place is like a nerdy younger brother, always trying to play catch up with the big bro-​in this case, Westfield. In 1985 the EBC probably seemed very chic, but it is open to the elements with windy and cold malls and an average array of shops. It has no anchor store i. e a department store. There used to be two in Ealing now there are none. There is a good M & S and the usual plethora of phone shops. What it lacks are the individual shops that set it apart from any number of centres. They do try though and there is currently a refurb going on. Here’s hoping.

Apart from being constantly, always, ALWAYS busy, no matter the day of the week (or of the year!) and time of day, I really love this shopping centre. It’s got anything you could possibly need in terms of shops: H&M, M&S, Primark, Tiger, Tesco, Poundland, Argos, New Look, River island, EE, Virgin Active, Pandora, Claire’s, Robert Dyas, Boots, Superdrug, Pandora, Accessorize and SO many more.
There is a lovely plaza in the centre where occasionally food stands or trucks pop up, and where a tiny Christmas Market takes place during the holidays. I can not think of something I’d née to buy that I couldn’t find here. There’s a big parking garage too so you can drop the car and dive into a very relaxing shopping experience. I like to go there on Saturday mornings and have a little stroll around the shops even if I’m not looking for anything in particular, because it’s just nice.
It’s currently undergoing renovation too and getting better and prettier by the day.
Now, if only they could fit a Cinema somewhere…

Ealing Broadway Centre is a shopping Centre which includes retail shops of every nature clothes, footwear, books, cards, electrical, beauty, food, gift shops and some independent (food confectionery, café’s)shops.
In the middle of the shopping Centre you have a few statues and seating to rest your tired feet, or for your loved one to wait while you shop.
On the top floor you have Argos and Ealing Central Library. On the ground floor mostly chains and the odd cheap non chain shop basically everything I mentioned above, plus Tesco’s.
I really like their Primark, I would say its on the level of Oxford street but without the crazy crowds.
Ealing Broadway Centre is on the Uxbridge road so its convenient to get to, because all the buses pass their plus you have the Ealing Broadway station which is a 10minutes away. They also have their own car park as well.
The shopping Centre is good for the locals, but I would not go out of my way here, because you can get majority of the stuff where you live, (I lived in Harrow at the time). I wished i tried some of the independent shops more… its a good shopping Centre and does the job.

Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre
Not good, many shops closing down, they now have to pin there hopes on Primark doing well.
How do i vote no stars?.
Had to threaten these people not to spam me with their Emails.

The centre took a big hit recently, when Arcadia Group decided to quit Ealing it meant that Burton, Evans, Wallis, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge all disappeared at the same time, leaving several gaps. Maybe they expected all the shoppers to be lured away to Westfield, but to me it seems as busy as ever. It was probably one of the bigger shopping centres when it opened but now it would be considered small. There’s an open square in the middle with lots of seats, at the weekend you might find a French market or craft stalls set up here. Short, covered ‘streets’ of shops run out from the square and connect it to the main road. Most of the shops are chains: Marks & Spencer, Boots, Primark, Next, Tesco Metro, Currys, Monsoon, River Island and Whittards among them. Above the shops you’ll find Ealing library and a multi-​storey car park.

This is a pretty decent mall, and is a great option for those on the west end of town who can’t brave Oxford Street (at least until the huge shopping development in Shepherd’s Bush/​White City finishes).
Check out the website: it’s quite useful, and lists all the shops. The usual necessities are there, including newly renovated Boots, M&S, Waterstones, and a relatively new Tesco Metro.
Primark is currently building a new shop here and will finish early this summer, replacing a Beales that is now gone.
The nice thing about this mall is that it’s partly outside. Most hallways open directly to the outdoors rather than having closing doors. While this means its not quite a fully-​heated refuge in winter, it makes it more an integrated part of the stroll through Ealing than a hermetically-​sealed environment. The central courtyard is open to the sky which makes it nice when they have craft stalls or summer concerts there. Many of the shops face outwards from the building as well, or are in passages that lead out to the street. The bad thing about the open-​air aspects of the mall is that people can still smoke in here.
There’s an Early Learning Centre (ELC) that makes great educational and interactive toys for kids. There also a Fat Face clothing store that appeals to my Canadian/​comfortable/​lumberjack side.
The rear mall entrance does have glass doors, and these seem to get broken, cracked, or become non-​functioning with disappointing frequency, and to be fixed with disappointingly slow speed.
I feel that the choice of men’s clothing on offer isn’t great. And those who are used to hundreds of shops (a la Oxford Street) may find it limited. But if you’re not looking for anything too unusual you’ll probably find it here.

I guess Ealing has become one of my regular places to shop because it is realtively hassle free with small crowds unlike Oxford Street/​Central London.
It has most of the stores that we all know and love, all the usual suspects are there i.e. Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Warehouse, Next, Monsoon/​Accesorise amongst others. Be aware that the first 3 are not flagship size and so may not have the same range as the centre of town. Another thing to mention is that Ealing is yet to accomodate H&M, Zara or Mango; so if you’re looking for these you’re better off heading to Brent Cross.
There is a massive M&S that’s undergoing refurbishment and a TK Maxx if you want a bargin. In addition Ealing Broadway has a good selection of restaurants and café’s such as Café chai, Pizza on The Green and Carluccio’s, so you’ll have plenty of places to go get some RnR before you head out for more shopping.
In the summer look out for the Ealing festival in nearby Walpole park and in Winter look out for special Xmas stalls in the centre itself.