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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The Old Fountain

The old fountain is a charismatic place, it exits onto two different roads but it still rather well cloaked in the Old Street darkness. Its full of men who are either sitting grumpily in the corners complaining or lads out for a bit of a ruckus by the main bar. The old fountain [...]

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Woodhey House Hotel Bar

At first sight, I arrive in Hooton at around 10pm one Friday evening to find the bar closed. Disappointed but ready for the day to come I ignore and return back to the hotel the following evening. The bar is alive with the 60th birthday party of someone present. At kids are [...]

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The Crewe Hero

A lowly bar on a single platform at Crewe station, sees travellers of all walks of life dropping in for a quick half an hour to drank a hot or cold drink as they make their way up to Northern front’s for the weekend. Inside, a very loud radio blairs out sounds and songs [...]

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Terrace Bar Solent Hotel and Spa

A picturesque modern lounge with brown rouge leather and wicker seating, entering the venue there seems to be the distant keys of piano music in what feels very much like an up Market, but not particularly relaxing, setting and this due to the layout, the wooden floor leads up tidy [...]

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Bar 38

From the beautiful views of the portsmouth harbour and gunners wharf is a stark contrast of drunken readjints groups of men who tear down the prominade along the canal and settle at the chrome tables outside Bar 38. This rather common, rough chain bar feels very much like a yates but without the signatory [...]

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Roast Bar

A quiet thai restaurant with a normal bar out front in a hall-like room where the light thai music drifts in from the restaurant and very bright lighting seems to damage what environment the venue should have.we are shown to our red leather diner chairs much like i a restaurant but i decline to have [...]

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The Park Pub

A really weird local pub with an old school late 90s juke box. We enter with a few glances from the locals,the vampire eyebrows on the stipey barlady raise as we request drinks. We sit at the rounded bar on stools and i make note of the many taps and rather impressive selection of [...]

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The Trafalgar Bar

Outside of the rougher select of the guild hall bar crawl is the Lloyd’s bar, a far cry from the wetherspoons mentality and its sister bar down the road. the entrance is similar to that of a popular club, stiff bouncers and a staircase ascends into the venue. walking past a few empty [...]

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Glasshouse Bar and Nightclub

A large den for students. This is what i wrote in my show notes for the venue upon walking in, drinking and then leaving. As far as my memories stretch this place is a large theatre of a venue with two floors, the upstairs completely pitch black but with a galley overlooking [...]

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