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 girls comes from an all-you-can eat drink offer to the girls where a tenner gets them unlimited drinks all night (perhaps the first off I have ever seen of its kind). Yet the girls who do enter seem oblivious to the offer and in their blonde states buy drinks by the glass. The doormen are more strict about entry as well - smart dress only and with large deep booths and scatty bar staff the place certainly has more of a charm than Sweeney’s up the road.

Overall one of the nicer bars in this part of Ruislip with good transport links but it needs to get its mix of gender and marketing strategy right if it wants to push away the old male regulars and bring in the totty - 6/10