The American bar

Hale is a quaint little village not too far from Manchester Airport and offering a relaxed but perhaps arrogant invitation to outsiders. It’s 10am when I arrive to find a cafe for breakfast and instead this American bar or rather diner looks rather polished and suggestive. We head inside to find an [...]

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Giant Robot Bar and Restaurant

Giant Robot Bar is not quite as fun and goofy as it sounds. Inside the robot-esque tinkets and diner style decor point to a twisted combination of cheap and retro while trying to be fashionable and different. The menu feels like a diner menu but with just a single burger present [...]

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The Pigs Ear Bar

Not one of the easiest pub and restaurant outfits to find running around Dublin, the Pigs Ear is a very modern venue with expensive drinks and daring peculiar overpriced food. Despite its sour notes the venue is popular and comfortable environment for friends to share an evening. Unfortunately for me the more [...]

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Cock O the North

The Cock O the North is a fair distance into southern herfordshire and from a distance looks like it might be a great place to get a hearty meal. The interior is as expected, a warm lodge like glow with winter-long supply of firewood. There are also some rather unexpected glass doors [...]

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Made in Brasil Bar

Most things that come from Brasil I perceive to be a little on the exotic side, the south American flare of the tantalizing all night party and those world renown pictures of Mardi-Gras certainly give me a cliche to ponder upon as I enter Made in Brasil bar. Like many of the [...]

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The Guiness Tasting Experience

After splashing out for a ticket to the Guinness factory in Dublin, Ireland at a cool fifteen euros, the wander up a couple of flights of stairs, past the copper vats and hops and furious branding efforts, its time to taste the Guinness. The tasting room is a simple bar with poor [...]

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The Waggon Pub

A bus stop full of people block the front entrance and its a group that don’t move to let folk in, so it’s not a great start for the review of this pub in Southgate. 1990S dance very quietly plays from a distant docking station and the heavy murmur of voices grow as I stand [...]

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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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La Salsa Cantina Mexican Fare

Its never a good idea to wander into an empty bar at 9pm and get comfortable. The Latino venue features a bar with a selection of stools and the Vegas “monitor in the bar top” poker games. We drink draught beer and watch a dance competition on the Spanish screens opposite [...]

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Planet Hollywood Bar and Restaurant

Only in america could you find a bar sandwiched betweeen a Louis Veton store and a Christian Dior store. The globally recognised Planet Hollywood keeps this branch in good nick. Out front the bar area is small but the venue itself is spacious: TV screens play movies overhead and all [...]

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