City Arms

Running through the streets of Manchester in the pouring rain, we snake down the various roads until we reach the City Arms. A small local tavern, busy inside with middle aged men ogling over the ales presented on the pubs on the opposite side of the tiny bar area on the immediate left of the [...]

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The Clerk and Well

The Clerkenwell road is home to a number of drinking establishments but the Clerk and Well is some of the more homely, with large wooden floor space and a reasonably sized interior, the Clerk and Well is suitable for a lunchtime beer with the Thai food that this pub serves up. [...]

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The Gate Clock Bar

On a stag do the last drink in Dublin needs to happen in the nearest pub to the runway. The Gate Clock bar is situated in Dublin airport in departures and is surprisingly well kept. There is a huge Copper beer-brewing vat-case suspended over the bar, where a courteous bar maid takes [...]

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The Joinery Bar

Coronation Street - one of the UK’s most love soaps in 2010 saw the renovation of an old disused joinery transformed into a nightclub to contend with the Soaps far older and mroe established venue - The Rovers Return. Managed by Nick Tisley, the Joinery has seen its fair share of bar persons [...]

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Chocolate Bar

The safe haven between Dublin’s Pod Club and some other stage club with terrible off beat garage music, the Chocolate bar is a more quiet well lit bar with soft furnishings and a reasonable selection of alcoholic beverages. The Chocolate bar seems to be free to get into but the mystery club access setup [...]

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Slim Jim’s Bar

Well hidden, smack bang in the center of Upper Street is the Slim Jim’s Bar (i believe this one was formerly known as Matt and Matt’s). The venue is a very small, very dark - prohibition style drinkery with bearded metal-fan bar men and only one or two booths at the back to sit down and [...]

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Citi Bar

Before heading into Temple Bar, a vibrant and inexpensive looking venue catches the eye of our group and we head over the main road sending wild beeps and shrieks heading out into the bright sunshine of the Dublin afternoon. Citi Bar is part of the hotel encapsulating it, but the bar itself is [...]

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Gravity Bar

Overlooking Dublin, the Gravity bar, located at the crows nest of the Guinness factory is a truly amazing bar with almost 360 degree views across Dublin and yet less that ten stories high. the bar itself occupies a simple room with the odd free standing table, the bar persons pour pint after pint [...]

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The Buckingham Arms

A very old fashioned pub hidden away in the back of Victoria (somehow i managed to miss this pub after years of searching for it, thank you for the invention of the Sat Nav and to work colleague Rob for leading the charge to the venue). The front of the Buckingham Armas is [...]

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Barrafina Bar

A Soho 1950s mini diner with a difference, this diner prides itself on serving up smaller dishes and the after work crowd piles in during the week to sample the drink. There is a selection of bar stools around the bar, behind which the staff are scurrying around a makeshift open kitchen area. Out [...]

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