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 cubicles and wet floors. On the right is the body of the venue and for a Friday night even my jaw drops to look down upon 6 or 7 person deep bar where the grappling of hands of the crowd of many looks like a frantic stock exchange. Knowing I will have little success in this swamp of folk I have a colleague buy a drink for me as I wait by the bar entrance. The place is far too crowded and with little seating available it really is a bare minimum bar. In fact when my drink does arrive half has been lost thanks to stray elbows and I learn that the drink is poor justification for the price.

Overall popular perhaps just because it sits on the feet of covent garden but on a Friday night there is little point in coming, it is a madness that only the most thirsty dare endure - 3/10