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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Bradley’s Spanish Bar

Hidden away on a very narrow street just a short walk from Tottenham Court road station is the rather dangerous looking spanish bar. Inside a pierced tattooed couple cheerily serve a handful of regulars. pints come in at 350 each but theres almost no where to stand or sit. There’s an old vinyl [...]

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The Carpenter’s Arms

Parked in the back streets of Fitzrovia, the Carpenters arms is a multi-storey gastro-pub. It is a tight squeeze inside, where the groudn floor is a handful of tables, the peopel sqeezed in elbow to elbow at the bar, waiting patiently for drinks. The service is not very fast but the drink selection [...]

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Vanilla Bar

Sitting silently on the road outside, where even on a busy London Friday night, few souls are to be seen, sits the smart entrance to vanilla. Inside, a small room with a staircase down to the basement, silence is dominating. At the end of the steps another doorway into a very heavenly lounge. Purest [...]

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Jerusalam Tavern

Rumours spread quickly through a city as diverse as London and when one knows that the Jerusalam is as soon as everyone said it was, that was when I went. Above ground the Jerusalam is simply a lonely looking staircase downward into a basement, guarded by a bouncer. Once inside the noise hits you [...]

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The Phoenix Pub

A busy place to be after work, the phoenix seems to be yet another pub in this shady corner of Oxford Cirus with more character than every other pub in soho. The places is rammed with middle-aged persons and students, none too posh or common, some in kilts and trendsetters in what is [...]

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The Crazy Bear Bar

The Crazy bear bar is one of my favourties in London. It is a well hidden bar combined with a small hotel and restaurant near Charlotte Street and Goodge Street station. From the name you might expect hordes of teddy bears inside but instead you get a multi tier exclusive bar. Starting [...]

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Manouche Wine Bar

Manouche is a wine bar that lives on the downstairs floor of goodge and Mortimer street. The wine selection as one would expect is pretty thorough and there is also a good selection of more run of the mill drinks. This venue is very simplistic and dark. It is quiet even of a [...]

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Bertorelli Restaurant

This popular chain of restaurant/bar combinations is dotted all over the west end of London but I think this is the original of that chain. The bar area is downstairs in this two floor venue – it is brightly lit up with an average selection of beers and wines and caters to the couples [...]

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The Black Horse Pub

Not directly on the Oxford street itself but on a popular side road at the tottenham court road end of town sits the black horse. Its a popular bar next to the roxy club and as such attracts young rock people with their spoken hairdos and counting out small change at the [...]

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