Bada Bing! Strip Club

In the US mafia TV show of the Sopranos, one of the main hangouts for Tony Sopranos and his crew of hostile cronies is the Bada Bing strip joint. New Jersey’s finest, rather subtle looking topless venue where private dances can mean a lot more than abusing the no-touching rule. Tony and [...]

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Loft Bar

A keen basement bar and disco in the centre of chester. The place has burned to the ground before but on reopening the venue is lit up with neon green lighting behind the bar and has a dark and twisted feel with industrial piping about the place. During the party season the place can get [...]

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Merlotte’s Bar and Diner

Merlottes Bar is a strange bar/diner based in the middle of the woods. It baffles me how drinkers get two and from here without drinking (since they are all driving) and in fact we do see a few characters leave the bar, car keys in hand chased by the pretty waitresses across [...]

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Ronnie and Roxy’s Club

Why is it the British dream to settle down with a loved one, buy a pub and live happily ever after? It seems that this cliche comes out in full force when the locales of Albert square setup a basement club just off the square. The place is popular with one or [...]

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Liams Imaginary Pub

Entering some sort of drink induced fantasy world Liam stumbled out of the Bavarian Beerhouse in Old Street and some hours later turned to me on the Tube home insistent that I should write a post about a fantasy pub in his imaginary world. Not his ideal pub in the real world [...]

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Fawlty Towers Hotel Bar

In the traditional English Hotel of Fawlty towers, in Southern England, there is a bar which is a throwback to 1970’s drinking. In fact the very sort of bar you may find in a 1970’s British comedy. Located just behind the reception, the badly decorated lounge is filled with small tables and [...]

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Chris Morris Best Bar (none) Guide

Chris Morris’s Best bar guide is short collection of his favourite fictional bars, a comedy collective on anicdotes and reviews for Chris Morris (master of obscure comedy) and his escapades around the bar-scape which is his own imagination. This guide is short and shapr with a key depicting available [...]

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Student Union Bar

Hollyoaks has far more student aged characters in it than any of the other British soaps and as such the student union bar remains one of the primary meeting spots for many of the characters. Equipped with a pool table and quiz machine and with suitably trashy pop music the venue also has [...]

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I thought it might be worth inventing a fictional bar, just for fun: 
The Thought Corridor Bar

A stranger place than anyone I know has been to in the last few weeks, The Thought Corridor Bar is a basement old army den converted into a windowless drinkery for the purposes of the dull and the needy. Popular in [...]

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The Queen Victoria

The old Vic has been in the British TV diet for over twenty years and is a good example of a properly run pub in the east end of London. Although completely fictional the pub looks to have a good variety of drinks and prices are average. Apparently if you are a regular [...]

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