Freud’s Cafe Bar Gallery

Freud’s Bar is a basement venue along the end of Shaftesbury Avenue. It is not immediately obvious that it is a bar until you descend the metal staircase out front and make your way down the bar. On the left as the toilets, a large and dirty, smelly room with odd shaped [...]

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Detroit Bar

So I went on a night out after work one fine Friday evening fully intent on visiting the best bars in London, so imagine my surprise to find online that fifteen minutes away from my office was one of the best bars in the world (according to one unmentioned website), I simply had to [...]

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The Light Bar

One of the most exclusive bars in central London is the prestigious Light bar of the St Martin’s Lane hotel. The bar is accessible by entering the hotel and striding forth up to the bar entrance, there is always some kind of guest list so preparation is essential, it doesn’t usually cost anything to [...]

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The White Hart Pub

A self proclaimed pub on ancient grounds with a lurid doorway into a woody floored venue. Down this corridor there are tables either side and a bar on the right. The bar is littered with social friend pictures, youthful faces of the clientele, clearly a community pub. At the back the surprise of a more grand living room, [...]

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Travel Lodge Drury Lane Bar

The Travel Lodge on Drury Lane is not the easiest Hotel to find yet it towers in its secluded corner of Covent Garden as an Eyesore among other similar blocks of flats. The entrance is a pair of unsightly double doors on a concrete plateau of what must be public gardens. [...]

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The Boadicea Pub

A tiny pub tucked into the corner of Charing Cross station. The Boadicea is quiet with no music playing yet full of men in casual attire at the end of a working day. All have beards or stubble and all look so perfectly at ease in this little pub that they must all [...]

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Café des amis Champagne and Wine Bar

For that little spice of something different as a couple, on a date or with friends; poke your head around the corner on the road next to Covent garden tube station to find Cafe Des Amis. This champagne and wine bar is a two floor setup with modern squared fittings [...]

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Belgo Belgian Beer Bar and Restaurant

One of the most interesting experiences I have had this year has to have been eating and drinking in Belgo’s - the infamous Belgian bar and restaurant tucked away in Covent Garden just off of the seven dials roundabout. Inside, Belgos is an industrial looking metal chamber. We are sent [...]

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Cellar Door Cocktail Bar

A somewhat cramped but wonderfully stylised bar in Covent Garden and just off of the Stand, Cellar door (rumour has it) used to be an old underground public toilet. Today it sells itself off as a jazz and cabaret bar, dark and alluring at the bottom of a set of stairs but [...]

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Cambridge Theatre Dress Circle Bar

The Cambridge theatre was playing the stage production of Chicago on my last visit and with tickets to seating in the dress circle we took it upon ourselves to head up to the theatre a few minutes early and wait for the doors to open. On arrival we were shown up [...]

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