Archway Tavern Music Hall

Behind the archway tavern is a music hall, you probably wouldn’t know it was there unless you were specifically invited to a gig by some small local unsigned band so hence I ended up here. You pay for the entry on the door which is normally £5 and then inside to a [...]

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The Old Star

Not you’re typical pub, the old star looks small and dank from outside but within turns out to be a twisting turning array of split levels, hidey holes and secret booths. The ground floor is a multi-platform mess of small tables and a bar at the end opposite the doors. The bar is [...]

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Masala Zone

This Indian restaurant turns bar when the evening approaches and although they continue to serve up food people are mainly seated at tables in here to drink. The alcohol isn’t change though at £12 a bottle of wine but should you order food, it comes out it almost moments. The smell of rogan fills [...]

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The Medicine Bar
 

Feb 2009 - The Medicine Bar is now closed

 
From the outside this place looks like an antique shop where in fact inside it is more a Gothic-feeling cocktail bar with elaborate decor but expensive drinks. The cheapest cocktails are about £6 but the bar is well stocked and the service is fast. Looking around [...]

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The Cedar Rooms

This has had several previous names including “The independent” and “Lush Bar” but each has had a different fitting with its own decor and character. The Cedar rooms appears to be fairly new. with red under lighting across the picture rail by the ceiling creating a rather exotic lighting effect topped off by [...]

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Bar Neptune

A small bar on the side of the dome building in the theme park of Thorpe park in Surrey. There are two entrances- the dome entrance or an outdoor french-doors type entrance with picnic tables outside to serve as a kind of beer-garden in the middle of a very busy strip of walkway. There [...]

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The Joiners Arms
Approaching this pub in Finchley central one comes across a small beer garden out the front and instantly the booming voices of lads on the piss. Once past the bouncers and inside; you walk along a long shiny wooden wall and this breezes off to a bar on the left. On the right [...]

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Prague Bar

Okay so we’re in hackney, the streets are paved with needles and people are not all smiley and family orientated as they would appear in Prague ‘the old country’, here they are seriously hip, trendy, mashing it up to the grooves of cheap cocktails and acid jazz. That’s what this bar is like- set [...]

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The Greencoat Boy

It looks a little larger outside than it is within- the pub grows downwards into the basement rather than upwards as it may appear. The place has a very taverny-woodlike finish to it with an atmosphere thick with old men and serious ale guzzlers. The place serves some summer cocktails at about £10 [...]

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The 3 Horseshoes

Not the place for a stag do! I’ll say that much and I’d know I went here for just that-my stepdad’s Stag do. The place is basically a cosy pub nested on a semi-busy junction into London. It is made up of two room which arc around the bar and a secluded beer [...]

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