The Upin Arms (a scream bar)

A pub-like venue from the outside and not very representative of a chain bar either inside, the Upin Arms is a lot smaller inside than it looks form the roads passing either side of it outside. It is popular with Sports fans and students with weekly games, quizzes and prizes [...]

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Kings Arms
With Liverpool street station nearby , this ember inn style bar  is a step down into the pub off the street outside and enters into a cosy carpeted, (but quite big) bar for the area. The features include a Games machine, a very nice quiet beer garden out the back - opening into the [...]

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The Globe

On a corner in Moorgate this modern and quite large pub sits with good proximity to the station. The bar fronts onto Bishopsgate and another slips to the room upstairs as well. You can expect to pay £3.30 a pint. I think it’s part of the greene king chain, Full of suits from the [...]

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The King of Diamonds

Walking past this 60’s build freak of a bar seems to cause every observer to do a double-take. Yes there is multi-coloured panelling and a balcony on the roof, yes it is a bar (and a good one at that) and yes they have a pool hall downstairs, in what can only [...]

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The Stone Horse

Almost an alcove off the street- brightly lit with plants and up lighting this curious entrance tells the layman nothing of what goes on inside. Down some stairs and through a soundproof door you enter a bright room with a bar to the left and a long walkway to a bend facing a [...]

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The Loaded Dog

The loaded dog proves to be a popular bar and pretty exciting place to land on your night out if you are the kind of person into the whole cheap drinks and instrumental music scene in Leicester. Very popular with the students this particular bar offers a pub-like exterior with large bar interior [...]

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The Malt and Hops

A traditional pub with pool table, well stocked bar and very friendly bar staff, has a flavour of Barnet’s old Green Man in it with the small fluorescent signs on the bar highlighting the bottles on offer. At the back end is a dart board and the tables are assorted of the [...]

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The Good Mixer
Set back from the rest of Camden this apparent cocktail bar turns out to be a rather rocky hangout for everyone interested in the more sociable side of metal. Inside it is revealed to be a double-sided bar with a pool table on one side and packed crowds congregated on the other. The [...]

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The Elbow Rooms

This dramatically cool club is very well hidden and is the absolute gem of Islington. You approach the bar on an average-joe road populated by small supermarkets, bookies and newsagents when you come across what looks like some kind of gay club outside but opens into this kind of sports bar with [...]

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The Mitre - a Scream Bar

If someone would have ever told me that there was a cheap bar or pub on Upper Street I would have laughed them into the ground but indeed I would have been wrong. The Mitre, as much of a pub as it sounds is in fact a bar aimed at [...]

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