Barrio Central Bar
A small looking venue just down the road from Rupert street - the Barrio Central bar is something of a hawaiian or exotic drinks venue with a restaurant upstairs. The venue is pretty popular, there is a queue outside and after checking our bags we head downstairs to a loud and very busy [...]
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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square
Slim Jim’s Bar
Well hidden, smack bang in the center of Upper Street is the Slim Jim’s Bar (i believe this one was formerly known as Matt and Matt’s). The venue is a very small, very dark - prohibition style drinkery with bearded metal-fan bar men and only one or two booths at the back to sit down and [...]
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Tags: Angel and Islington
Zen sai bar
Zen Sai Bar on Inverness street in Camden is a Camden-trendy happy hour cocktail haven. Like many of the bars that have sprung up along this strip Zen Sai joins them with the intention to throw on some RnB tunes and cheese in the dark setting of a basement establishment. The bar persons [...]
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Tags: Camden and Chalk Farm
Mary Jane’s Bar
Just around the corner from Tower Hill station on entrance to the square mile is a more up-market bar for the suited and booted city boys and girls to dabble inside. The venue consists of a small area of tables and chairs upon entry and a staircase leading down to windy bar area with an impressive bright [...]
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Tags: Aldgate Moorgate and Liverpool Street
March 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Groovy Wonderland - Sway Club
Sway is one of the premier clubs of Holborn, and with such a short walk from the tube station its not hard to see why it fills up so quickly. The 2011 million pound renovation certainly left me wide eyed as I entered the all-too familiar club to quite the surprise. [...]
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Tags: Holborn and Russell Square
March 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Crystal bar - Sway Club
Following the 2011 million pound refit of this rather hidden club in Holborn the centre room - now dubbed the “Crystal Bar” really hasn’t see n much change to it at all. The Crystal bar is sandwiched between a number of other basement rooms provided by the Sway club and consists [...]
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Tags: Holborn and Russell Square
The Horse Pub
On a street so close to the London eye yet with so few pedestrians, its possible to ride past this venue on a bus and miss it completely. Inside the bar is relatively busy midweek with all tables and chairs occupied. At the bar there is a great selection of drinks from spirits [...]
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Tags: Borough and Southwark
Bar Solo
Down the old market road of Inverness street is bar solo, one of a number of bars rather than the traditional pubs that dominate Camden. Bar solo is a long narrow bar with wooden fittings, a bar area along the left side and booths and some seating at the back. We enter on a [...]
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Tags: Camden and Chalk Farm
Bar Vinyl
Inverness street is home to a number of up beat bars and tiny little clubs and bar vinyl fits the bill as the former. Pumping out rnb tunes and popular hits the venue is a succession of a long bar to left right followed by a horde of long tables and chairs with mirrors [...]
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Tags: Camden and Chalk Farm
October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Junction Bar
Junction Bar is a fairly neat looking bar, set back from the road behind its own courtyard equipped with picnic tables and drinks with long wide steps leading down to the front entrance. Above the giant letters of the bar name calls to thirsty drinks who happen to be passing on the opposite [...]
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Tags: Angel and Islington