Urban Golf Bar

Soho has more to offer than meets the eye, take for instance the Urban Golf venue, a basement affair with virtual golf on large screens to be swung at by real golf enthusiasts - bring you own clubs or borrow their’s. The lessons or open golf is a pretty good price and alongside [...]

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Belgo’s Restaurant Bar

Another addition to the belgo’s and bierodrome chain, this little number in Camden is not easy to stumble upon, especially if you are after the food, the entrance is up and over the kitchens of the venue and inside, an art deco hall with small tables is on the cards, the bar sits [...]

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Monarch Bar

On the trot between Camden Town and Chalk Farm tube stations is the Monarch, a vibrant venue which pulls crowds for specialist club nights, guest DJs and drink deals. We head on over to this venue for White Wedding Club which sees a host of people in fancy dress for the cause of the [...]

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Market Tavern Pub

Most of the pubs in Mayfair are not places for the Rich and famous, they are local squats for aging drinkers, those on Monopoly pub crawls and those looking for lost bars. The Market Tavern - one of the newer additions to the Mayfair scene is actually a surprising Gastro-treat in the heart [...]

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HaHa Bar and Restaurant

I thought that most HaHa bars had had their day, so I was surprised to see an addition to the chain in the premier entertainment centre of the O2 in Greenwich - South London. Entering off the curricular walkway; perimeter of the giant venue - the HaHa bar has a wide bar [...]

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The Star Tavern

Weaving into Mayfair among rows of smart white washed houses and cleaner than a whistle one comes across the Star Tavern. The walls of the outside are covered in coloured plants at the venue looks so traditional that its part of the landscape. Inside the pub diners inhabit almost all the tables this [...]

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Free Drinks and VIP Status in London this weekend
 
My inbox has been hit today by a letter of invitation to a couple of bars. I’d like to think its exclusive to Barblog but I am sure a few other invites have gone out. Basically there is a club on Friday and a club night on [...]

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The Junction Bar

Junction Bar is a fairly neat looking bar, set back from the road behind its own courtyard equipped with picnic tables and drinks with long wide steps leading down to the front entrance. Above the giant letters of the bar name calls to thirsty drinks who happen to be passing on the opposite [...]

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O Neills Bar

Along the busy streets of Watford at the dead of night on a Saturday, drinkers shuffle in single file like a flowing brook towards destinations within arms reach of the bar they have just left. O Neill’s is right in the thick of the action and is a relatively large venue. The bouncers outside [...]

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Shake Town Milkshake Bar

One of the newer additions to Barnet’s growing cosmopolitan population of shops and outlets is this little milkshake and smoothie bar. Perched on the corner of Barnet hill opposite High Barnet tube station this unit has previously been occupied by a curiosity shop, a vacuum cleaner shop and a flower nursery. Today [...]

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