The Beehive Pub

A long narrow Wetherspoons pub on Brixton high street just a very short walk from the station down towards Brixton Academy. The service at the bar (which runs most of the length of the pub along the right hand wall) is fast and as with all Wetherspoons the drinks are very reasonable prices. [...]

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Azzurro Italian Bar and Restaurant

Built into the arches of Waterloo bridge and somewhat hidden in the crevices of cavernous walls is Azzuro, an Italian bar with romantic restaurant with towering bright walls and a heavy transparent glass front. Inside the venue has a few select small tables with oddities like plants strewn in corners at [...]

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Bar at Imax Cinema Waterloo

The Imax cinema in Waterloo is a centre-piece for the area and large and dominating as it is, some of its features leave a somewhat bad taste in the mouth. First off finding the entrance to Imax from above ground is impossible and I will shamefully admit I walked round the structure [...]

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Silver Bonito Bar

Sold as a romantic champagne cruise around the Thames this is nothing more than a sightseeing tour. The romantic music from the brochure is replaced with the camp gab of some misled tour guide. Five minutes into the cruise and i head down to the champagne bar. Hardly a bar could it be called [...]

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All Bar One

Being so very close to the London eye, one would assume this bar would be more flooded with tourists but as luck would have it, it isn’t. Instead, a busy but not overcrowded bar with your typical all-bar-one good selection of drinks, wines and spirits. Food is also available and quite popular, possibly [...]

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Reef Bar

Since you have to pay to use the station toilets these ones are all coded up, the week I checked out this establishment the code was 1815. The venue is on the top floor of the station, perched as a large interior with balconies overlooking the bustling station below. Reef bar seems to be [...]

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The Banker

A traditional pub popular with guess which group of people? Yes that’s right, bankers and city folk relax in their over-priced suits, lining the sides of the veranda outside the front, into the small hall within and up on the first floor as the pub begins to wind around corners in an attempt to [...]

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The George

The start of the monopoly pub crawl sees this pub busy from the first light of day any given Saturday in the calender despite the fact that it seems a drift out of the way of a central location. It’s basically a short bus ride from the station and without one can expect friendly [...]

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Southwark Tavern

This single venue is infamous and great. More recently updated this place used to be the drinking den for all the late late drinkers running their own stools on the borough market sitting opposite with very odd opening hours and rough-as-a-biscuit clientele. However in its more modern times the place appears to be delivering [...]

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The Wheatsheaf

The Wheatsheaf is something of a cultural landmark in one of London’s most untouched parts of the city. Its not the venue as such which brings the atmosphere in here to life but the animation of its characters. The Wheatsheaf sits opposite borough market and therefore this means its locals are all wearing aprons, [...]

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