Sugar Reef Bar
From the outside sugar reef looks a pretty exclusive venue with its ornate frontage and its straight faced bouncers. Within it is a large and noisy room with a scattering of round tables all occupied with a bar at the end of the room. To be honest it feels much like wading through [...]
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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square
Harbour Lights Bar and Restaurant
This hard-to find bar is on Bournemouth beaches formidable crows nest which includes such buildings as the international centre. This family bar is located on the second floor and the first thing to note was the interesting selection of staff. The range includes grumpy dopey and bashful,ordering fish and receiving it [...]
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Tags: Bournemouth
October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Big Chill Bar
In the heart of where it is cool to be in london sits the big chill bar. It is located quite slyly just off of brick lane but that doesn’t stop the masses finding it and swarming inside. Big chill has a heavy red canopy out front to shield the multitude of outdoor [...]
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Tags: Old Street and Shoreditch
September 27th, 2008 · No Comments
The Litten Tree Pub
A large dance floor and a big bar pretty much sums up the litten tree. For me the name declares a small local pub but this is a male dominated cheesy 80s music easy listening Selectric’s of a venue. Drinks are pretty pricey setting you back around 320 a bottle but there [...]
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Tags: Bournemouth
August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Harvester Bar and Restaurant
Set in a retail park on the way into Stevenage, the Harvester, like others in the chain is a family friendly bar and restaurant combo. This one I feel is a little smaller than some of its brothers and sisters. Inside there is a lounge scene, mock fire, couches in leather, all [...]
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Tags: Hertfordshire
Maui Disco Club
Above the Menfis club is this quiet club bar and when I say quiet I mean it. Ten per cent full on a Saturday night does not suggest incredible times at first and although tunes are playing the dj booth’s empty. The upside is that entry to menfis means entry here and the [...]
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Tags: Calella
Davos Cerbeza Bar
When a bar restaurant that serves food early in the evening in Barcelona tells you they are open and your English stomach is rumbling you dash inside and hope for the best. The waitress that greets us tells us she No speak English even though an English menu is then offered to our [...]
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Tags: Barcelona
Thames Bar
The Thames bar is obviously supposed to be a replica London pub or at the very least British pub in the heart of Calella on the Costa Brava. Entering through some mock wooden doors the layout within consists of a wide bar facing a small standing area at the foot of a wide stage [...]
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Tags: Calella
August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Corner Store Pub
This close proximity to one or two theatres, other bars of significance (such as B@1) and a wealth of tourists flooding the covent garden backstreets at the weekend, The Corner Store is a large gastro venue with a very high ceiling giving it hall-like qualities. The interior is a sea of chairs [...]
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Tags: Covent Garden
The Albion Pub and Dining
The Albion replaces an O’Neills which used to reside in its place some time ago. The Albion tries to be a gastro commercial affair but it does come across as nice pub, quiet and laid back. With features such as pillars, carpets, a small wooden staircase and well equipped with middle aged and old [...]
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Tags: Blackfriars and Chancery lane