Birkbeck Student Union Rooftop Bar

Hard to believe that one could get confused wandering onto the UCL campus, after all its not an enormous site. The Birkbeck University hides in perfect innocence however, a student union bar in its more lofty of floors. Making my way through the student building and past laboratories and corridors with [...]

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Courvoisier Bar

Perhaps the only part of my evening at the Bompas and Parr complete history of food experience that was truly in a bar was our wander around the great house later on. This bar is set in the heart of the building on the first floor, bright before the day comes to an end [...]

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Bompas and Parr Desert Room

By now my head is spinning, the room is because the drinks I have had on the Bompas and Parr journey through the complete history of food, have been strong and they are about to get stronger. My stomach is turning from the bombardment of truly questionable flavours as I stand [...]

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Iguanadon Dining Room

After exiting the inflatable stomach in the Bompas and Parr complete history of food experience and feeling somewhat dizzy from un-stomach able truffles and now lurching down a corridor of foam mushrooms while trying to put my shoes back on, we are suddenly at the foot of a large staircase and met by [...]

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Rooftop Gourmet Reverse Champagne Bar

This summer experience from Bompas and Parr leads us in our quest to find out more about the complete history of food to the high rooftops of Belgravia. And I have to say that riding in a tiny lift built some 100 years ago in a building of the same age [...]

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Medieval Bar

Deep in the heart of a summer 2010 experience into the world of food by Bompas and Parr 8 adventurers set about climbing down a narrow and darkly lit staircase into a gloomy corridor beyond which itself leads across a narrow wooden bridge across the spat of eels beneath. The pathway grows more challenging [...]

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The Worlds End

A focal pub as you come up the Stroud green road from Finsbury Park station and it just so happened that I came by to visit during world cup season. With a number of big screens and projectors the drinker sitting at the bar in the center of the room is surrounded by [...]

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Shunt Bar and Club

An infamous bar that shut its doors in 2009 only to reopen in 2010, the same venue but with a new take - an arty, theatrical perspective.
The entrance is a tiny cubby hole in the ever popular London Bridge station, commuters completely surprised to see dozens of people queueing either side of [...]

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Montcalm Club Lounge

On the 6th floor of the Montcalm hotel in London is the club lounge, a long corridor-like room with soft carpets, new plush seating, windowless and private with TVs displaying sports results and computers for Internet access. The venue is comfortable, the serving staff are friendly but not particular confident in handling the [...]

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Palace Lounge at The Rubens Hotel

“Tea for two at the Rubens, darling”, the words can be heard uttered by the various drinkers and diners, invariably over 50 occupying the prestigious lounge at the Rubens hotel. Opposite the Royal Mews and perfect for a cup of English, scones and views of parading tourists, the tea at [...]

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