The Gatehouse Wetherspoons

Quite what a wetherspoons is doing parked in the centre of the quiet village of highgate, i’m not too sure. Its stands out much like a sore thumb as the pickle of chain-bar high-street conglomerate which really doesn’t belong in these parts and its popularity is demonstrated within. Its a well don-out building, [...]

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Milo Bar

Just next to the Wire club in Leeds City Centre is Milo Bar, another completely alternative venue that raises more eyebrows than Bill Oddy. We queue outside briefly before heading into a red room with hanging lamps, a little dingy in context but not tiny. The bar service is un-impressingly slow, and it appears [...]

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Beau Monde Bar and Bistro

This curious venue , perched over the stetch of greenery whcih is the park running through bournemouth, does indeed look down on the world outside. It is far more of a plush leather-seated chrome-and-glass table bistro and cafe, than a bar. Middle aged persons who come to bournemouth for refinary overlook [...]

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Elbert Wurlings Bar

A rather peculiar name for a bar. This venue must literally be one of the only places to go out in hertford because it seems to attract people who are desperate to be there but for no visible reason. The building is a 1960’s arty build with big windows on the first floor [...]

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O’ Neill’s Irish Bar

Tucked away quite percariously in London’s Soho, a stone’s throw from China town, it seems that the bar manager thinks its okay to charge £7 entry fee to what is just a very packed two storey - low ceiling pub. Sure, its popular and in a very central location but at least [...]

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The Packhorse Pub

with a name that really sounds like a mule on his last legs, this pub doesn’t start off doing itself any favours. The first face we see at an interesting cubby hole window on the edge of the first room in the venue is that of the barman. But he is too busy [...]

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The Fenton Pub

One does a double take when entering the Fenton, its a large pub and so has a hallway onto which the bar sits but its like entering the front of a youth club. After being served drinks on the way in the inside opens up as rooms and goes upstairs for larger evenings. [...]

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The Garrick Arms

Sitting next to the Garrick theatre, the Garrick arms is a large wide pub with a sea of wooden furniture inside. The main room feels quite hall-like due to the high ceiling an elaborate light fixture. The inhabitants are mainly tourist types who fancy exploring the inside of a rather modernised and sadly [...]

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Bar Social Cocktail Bar

..Or should we say bar anti-social? The welcome is initially very warm -chocolates are presented to us as a gift before we even order a drink and the barman is very friendly and beaming but his colleagues loom in the dark corners of the bar. We are served cocktails on a two [...]

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Bierodrome Belgian Beer Bar

At six pounds a pint for fruit beers that you have to drink in the street Bierodrome in Clapham is really not a fun place to be. The interior is completely overcrowded to dangerous levels and the crowd themselves seem dressed up for the best night out of their lives seem happy [...]

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