The Dolphin

A two sectioned traditional Irish pub set in the quiet street behind the bustle of the Euston Road. The locals inside seem to stick to one side of the bar while the after-work suited crowd occupy the other. The bar service is prompt but not particularly friendly but at least a resident dog which [...]

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The Elbow Rooms

The Elbow Rooms in Old Street, Shoreditch area is a very trendy, quite spacious bar with a curiously plush choice of decor, posing on fine woods and a strange wavy-like layout. It is noteably more crammed than its sister venue in angel, which, like this shoreditch branch is a bar mixed with snooker lounge [...]

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Bar Risa

The bar is the centre-piece in this venue, accessible from all sides with a very good selection of wines, beers, spirits and ciders, witha  comedy club upstairs and a galley overlooking onto the bar from above. On a Saturday night however this place is a little quiet, rumoured to be louder in the week [...]

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The Griffin

The griffin could be that wild night you are searching for, needless to say when a friend and I came across this venue by following a stranger (who was very strange) from the Bavarian beer-house, across the old street roundabout to this backstreet pub. Within the griffin is loud and trendy downstairs with flavours [...]

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The Hercules Pub

With very tranquil decor and soft carpets this place feels more like an Indian restaurant than a pub, somehow the booths in contrast with soft green and yellow lighting gives of an aurora of calm. The place is not crowded but could accept a large crowd if need-be , its surprisingly big. At [...]

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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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The Court Pub

Supposedly the Court is a Scream bar but I found it to be more of a sports bar that one for students. The prices were not even particularly cheap at the bar, which sits downstairs facing the two sets of entrance doors. Upon entering you will find the place to be moderately busy, [...]

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Big Red

Big Red is here to make the statement that is the voice and spirit of rock in Holloway. It is a large bar, lit by candles jammed into Jack Daniel’s bottles on the unsanded thick wooden tables, all of which are scattered around the bar centre-piece, manned by tattooed bar-persons that serve up a reasonable [...]

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Nelson’s Retreat

A wide yet shallow pub sits in the same place it is has occupied for a grerat many years on the pavement of old street, easily one of the closest pubs to the station with good access to a kebab shop afterwards. Within there is a good assortment of guests who ferry in and [...]

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The Texas Embassy Bar

In one of the nicer parts of town, the Texas Embassy sits just outside the brash crowds that populate more commercial eateries such as Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe. Maybe this is why it saw fit to set up a Mexican parlour with the same tourist attracting template and proceed to [...]

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