The Verve Club

Closer to Leicester Square station than actually near Covent Garden itself, The Verve plays along as a club but sits far more in the bar category. The main room consists of a number of tables with comfortable seating and a long bar with chandeliers overhead featured inside red tubes, which give it an eerie subtly. The wait for a drink is relatively fast of an evening and the prices are about average for the area. Downstairs is the “club” which consists of a dark basement, a bar, crowded small dance-floor and some reservable booths inside old-style arches in what at one time must have served as a wine cellar. Toilets sit in a crows-nest two floors up above the main room, from which you find yourself leaving with a fixed cringe as if some outright ugly homeless person in the street had just given you a free kiss.

The atmosphere is friendly until it starts getting late, then the management begin to charge to let people in and as queues form outside you wonder, from within, what people could on earth be queuing for. Overall a moderate bar but a disaster if it sells itself as a club - 6/10

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