Kaslik Shisha Bar

At last, a place in Soho where you can legally smoke shisha. This tiny bar/Lebanese restaurant sits quietly on Greek Street minding its own business with one or two comfortable stools and tin tables out front where you can purchase cocktails (from the rather short list) and smoke a shisha in the London […]

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Bar Red

Bar Red demands a few things from its punters, these include fine attire, guest-list inclusion, wealth and smiles. The prize for approaching the bar with these attributes is two floors of chairs with red leather furnishings, entrances front and back for use by smokers and much of an after-work suited crowd. The plight and […]

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Sirocco Sports Bar

On one of the more popular strips for London nightlife, shaftesbury avenue plays host to top notch theatre venues, tourist style restaurants and one or two clubs. Sirocco is a sports bar with a dark interior, built on two floors with a bar at one end. The venue charges for entry after about […]

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Zebrano at the Establishment

Overcrowded, under-managed and messy, Zebrano at the Establishment replaces the failing club called “The Boardwalk” but I fail to see much improvement. The interior consists of a floor with a bar running along one side and a cloakroom embedded in the other ending with a staircase splitting to an upper and basement […]

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De Hems Pub

This unwitting dutch palace sits mighty; yet slightly hidden on the edge of soho by the arch entrance to china town. Within it has a large high ceiling ground floor interior and up a smart staircase to the left of all the action is another bar with assorted seating. The downstairs pub tends […]

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The Sports Cafe Bar

Tourist central meets sports-haven in this all sport, all countries all of the time eatery, bar and entertainment facility. Every sort of sport, it seems is played on the many many screens in this two-tier venue, which has a fibre-glass Formula one car hanging from the ceiling on the way up the […]

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Studio Valbonne

Studio Valbonne is a very exclusive club just of Carnaby Street near London’s Soho and regent Street. It keeps itself quite well hidden yet access to the rest of the city and a pool of nightlife is only a few steps away. The venue itself sits in the canopy of Soho, up a […]

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Salvador and Amanda

This was rather an obscure venue. Outside flaming torches light up the night and before you a reward of veils opens out to a large room that drops down on a staircase which leads you into a very buzzy loud room with a windy walkway around a lot of tables where people are […]

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Ruby Blue’s

A place with more attitude than sense, Ruby Blues represents commercial club organisers making a few bucks out of a prestigious location. Making the worst cocktails I’ve ever seen: four shots for fifteen quid has never tasted so bad it is clear that such positioning has never been so well abused. Ruby Blues is basically a […]

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Freedom Bar

A fairly small Wardour Street bar with a downstairs club at the back. Freedom lives in the lick of green neon lighting and zebra-skin style chairs with trendy people who find some appeal in the dark and seedy essence of the place. Entering the bar takes you down a quite narrow walkway with tiny […]

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