1920 Pool Bar

1920 bar is a multi-tier bar with a selection of four pool tables with an orange theme inside with low lighting. The bar is a tiny corner bar near the entrance of the venue with fairly fast service but not a great drink selection. To use the pool tables it is essential to [...]

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Parliament Bar

Well politians have to drink too you know and what better place to drink than in the most powerful place in the country - the house of commons. Well not quite, this strange little bar is very old but looks much like any other old traditional, I found it pretty similiar to a Samual [...]

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Black Dog Ballroom

Attending a social event at the black dog ballroom featuring some hundred or so guests, our group eventually stumbled upon this place after scouring the streets of Manchester in the pouring rain. The black dog ballroom, equipped with its bouncers is a basement establishment with an array of seating and booths in the [...]

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Five Bells Bar and BBQ

Looking for something in the way of a sit down meal and more of drink in a bar than an overpriced restaurant or old man pub, my girlfriend and I settle at the Five Bells Bar and BBQ. Inside, the venue tries its best to clutch at American culture with pool tables [...]

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The Faltering Fullback Pub

Having been given precise directions to what my esteemed friend Michael Ginty calls “The best pub in the country” I was amazed to actually walk past the thing. Set back from the main Stroud green road, the Flatering Fullback is nested in a quite lane, with only one or two punters smoking [...]

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Fum Elephanter Pub

Looking for a local place to drink a beer can often leave you getting more than you bargained for. The elephanter pub looked very much like a traditional English pub from the outside, big pub sign swinging overheard and bold glass frontage windows. Inside every punter turned to look at us and we [...]

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The Atlas Pub

A weird musty smell hits me ad I enter this rather eccentric traditional pub. The place is kitted out with a scattering of heavy tables and only about a third are occupied. Over the fireplace a DVD plays over and over of fish in a virtual fish-tank. Books sit underneath it on a [...]

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The Crewe Hero

A lowly bar on a single platform at Crewe station, sees travellers of all walks of life dropping in for a quick half an hour to drank a hot or cold drink as they make their way up to Northern front’s for the weekend. Inside, a very loud radio blairs out sounds and songs [...]

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Mario’s Bar and Kebab Shop

Mario’s is a total marvel to behold, a kebab shop which is also a bar is a fantastic idea and waiting in line for my burger and chips under the bright 1000 watt lights of the kebab house front we suddenly realise that we can take our polystyrene lunchboxes into the veneu [...]

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The Park Pub

A really weird local pub with an old school late 90s juke box. We enter with a few glances from the locals,the vampire eyebrows on the stipey barlady raise as we request drinks. We sit at the rounded bar on stools and i make note of the many taps and rather impressive selection of [...]

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