Vodka Revolution Bar

Vodka Revolution is always an oasis in the middle of the desert of contemporary, boring bars and pubs. This particular branch of the infamous chain has a bold wooden walkway down the center of the room, with a big bar to left and neon signs, bright lights and music the future back we [...]

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The Sugar Lounge Bar

A moroccan soft red-curtain interior makes the Sugar lounge appear out of place among the rotting fruit stands and cheap hair wholesalers of Stroud Green road. The sale is meze, “come and bring groups of friends” appears to be the message as we enter spotting perhaps two small crowds plunging hands into [...]

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Chapter One Bar

Chapter One bar looks relatively boring from the outside but unlike most one the strip this one has a rather grumpy looking bouncer outside but he lets us in with a smile and past a small entrance room we make our way past a second door into the body of the venue. There is a lot to look at; [...]

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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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The Laurel’s Bar

The Laurel’s Bar clearly has a problem getting women in the door. The main issue may be the fact the bar has a sponsorship agreement with the Rugby club down the road and this pulls in some thirty odd over sized testosterone fuelled young men after a match. The attempt to pull the [...]

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Sweeney’s Bar

A bit of a rough old pub. We just so happen to enter this venue in the middle of a football match and it seems all eyes are fixed on the many screens around the room. In fact I am not sure I have seen a room so crowded in the middle of the [...]

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Ruislip Rugby Club

A rather rowdy yet friendly bar coupled with a mess hall and gardens scattered with tired picnic benches sat before a Rugby field. Saturday afternoon can see some 60 odd lads fill this venue - large in stature, often with blood on the face and unspoilt smiles by a days game. Surprisingly football [...]

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Albert and Pearl Bar

Replacing the old Medicine bar in Upper Street the Albert and Pearl bar (weird name if you ask me) is more like a pub now than a bar yet with qwerty additions such a bulk shots for low prices and more obscure spirits. The clientele are of an odd assortment with the old [...]

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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 White Lion of Mortimer

For a pub with no atmosphere the white swan is surprisingly busy.each table is occupied with some pretty tired looking  working class people looking like they are on their last legs. The service in this relatively small wetherspoons is friendly but the bar staff are incredibly slow joking amongst themselves as time [...]

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