Golden Lion Pub

The Golden Lion is another of the many traditional pubs in Shoo in central London. It is closer to the Shaftesbury avenue and Old Compton street end of town but draws a more mixed crowd. The place fills very quickly of a Friday night and although set on two floors the venue can [...]

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The Grasshopper Bar and Coffeeshop

The grasshopper is a mammoth coffeeshop, bar and diner, lit up in a ghostly absinthe green in the heart of Amsterdam, just a minutes walk from Central station. Outside there are a few tables for cigarette smokers. Downstairs is the coffeeshop (mind your head) where one find a counter serving in [...]

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The Blue Posts

Easily one of the most popular names for pubs in London, the one sits just behind the Ritz and Green Park Station. The Blue posts is full of after work drinkers come 6pm on a Tuesday which is when I conducted my review and found that there was only one table left to [...]

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Ben’s Coffeeshop

The first coffee shop you ever visit is most memorable and we chose one nearest our hotel - Coffee Shop Ben. Not a wonderful name for a place but we ducked inside. The serving counter sits directly to the left and we make a selection from the menu. The product inside is very highly [...]

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Piccadilly Lounge

The City Inn hotel overlooks the embankment of Manchester Piccadilly station and its bar with glass walls and stone flooring, faces directly out into the main road. The venue is a decent size for a hotel bar, the interior is glazed with subtle finishes like big low tables, a dominating bar with bright white [...]

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Thai Silk Bar and Restaurant

A large restaurant bar combination unit based on the inside circle of the walkway around the inside of the O2 entertainment dome in south east London, just by the river. Thai silk is pretty big and many of its tables and seating remain empty between the enormous pillars dotted here and there [...]

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Albert and Pearl Bar

Replacing the old Medicine bar in Upper Street the Albert and Pearl bar (weird name if you ask me) is more like a pub now than a bar yet with qwerty additions such a bulk shots for low prices and more obscure spirits. The clientele are of an odd assortment with the old [...]

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Pappagone Bar and Pizzeria

A loud bar restaurant combination with a  short wide loud very seriously acting little Greek host. He shows us to the bar, which we are capable of finding ourselves thank you and moves us every ten minutes to a place he would rather have us sat in.the loud Italian bar staff serve us [...]

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The Pub

Not an epic venue by any standards but on the far side of the main road this looks pretty interesting. An English pub complete with dark wood decking out front, speakers (which they bring out come the middle of the day) and a comfortable interior. Expecting proper english grub on the menu we are bewildered to find snack food available instead. Unfortunaltey our omlette and [...]

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La Forza Restaurant and Bar

Outdoor dining and drinking presented in a culturally relevant square. The sun beating down on the concrete floor, a large fountain erupting in the middle with children and dogs splashing about. The surrounding buildings are covered in war-orientated messaging and postings of politics as graffiti. One of the buildings is empty [...]

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