The Buffalo Bar

Buffalo Bar is a truly underground establishment where great bands play secret gigs in a dark, yet somehow appealing little venue beside Highbury and Islington Station. During the day it looks like an old abandoned cult headquarters but at night you enter down some steps into a small red room with a little […]

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The Garden

With large gates and an outdoor area fitting to courtyard with a veranda softly welcome you to the entrance of the garden, a wide single storey building which remains dark yet sleekly lit, soaring forwards in a wide space and then after the bar on the left comes to a finish its polishes off […]

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The Famous Cock Tavern

Seated next to the station in what seems like a rougher-than-average area of London sits the Famous Cock Tavern. The name certainly made me laugh for indeed I wondered if the name was once something else and it had been changed by a furious landlord’s wife in the early hours of one […]

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The Living Room
The Living Room has to be one of the most diverse venues in London and very suited to an all-round night out. The entrance is a little off the garden path of the rest of Angel and its gets rather populated into the evening with secluded bars, loud urban and RnB tunes and […]

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Old Red Lion Theatre Pub

From the outside this appears to simply be another pub but in fact this is a pub front to a theatre which would suggest this is a particularly old and particularly significant building and drinkery. Bright lights and theatre posters fill the entrance and the entrance takes you into the […]

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The Agricultural

This place is rather small, bumpkin-like and with a panini stand in the corner it feels a little obscure for what looks like a larger establishment from the outside. The seating provided is leather and although the place remains quiet it is quite friendly. £7 for a round of two pints with semi-popular music […]

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The Angelic

This bar sits behind angel in a clown-suit. It has been dressed up to look like a hip and modern Gastro/industrial style scarecrow with a juice bar, stairs so big that the customer needs hiking boots and enormous, clumsy plates with clumps of food upon them. The decor consists of large unread library volumes […]

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Ladybird Bar

At a glance this place appears to be a civilised cosmopolitan dream but the delivery of its experience is not only delayed but disappointing. It’s a double-floor rather trendy up-beat venue with hip-hop and reggae fusion playing throughout. The bar entrance is across a VIP rope and up a short set of stairs into […]

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Keston Lodge

This trendy bar in Upper street is friendly, laid back and somewhat professional with dark corners, selective lighting and a centrepiece staircase which winds up to a smaller floor above the ground with a few available tables. The colour theme is a mix of dark reds and blacks and this is accompanied with a […]

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Matt and Matt

Generally this a very small bar literally after entering the swinging doors you are in a wooden venue with a cove of games to the right (table football and a pinball machine surrounded by bar stools) and ahead a short staircase up to a wooden platform with low tables and chairs to […]

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