Harrahs Casino

Undoubtedly one of the oldest and most well established casinos on the strip. This casino may look small from outside but don’t be fooled, it stretches right back into a sea of slot machines, roulette tables and bright neon signs drawing gamblers right to the back. Outside scary looking jester characters peer down menacingly [...]

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Imperial Palace Casino

Set back from the strip slightly with an entrance for cars lit up with bulbus old fashioned light bulbs overhead in their thousands. The interios is only slightly themed for the authentic chinese appeal. The lucky ladies game is a popular table choice and there is a poker room aroudn to the right [...]

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Fat Tuesdays Bar

Tucked at the back of the imperial palace, hidden away past the celebrity lookalike table dealers is a small franchise of the popular american bar-chain “Fat Tuesdays”. There are 4 bar persons crammed into this tiny space with bar stolls in the casino walkway. The bar specialises in buckets and yard sticks of [...]

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The Lock Tavern

A large wooden pub sits between the bridge of Camden and the roundhouse of Chalk Farm Road. My footsteps echo as I scramble inside despite the pub being pretty busy. There are drinks offers on blackboards behind the bar and an all round good selection of drinks. The service is not super fast [...]

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Rockhouse Bar

The rock house is smaller than it would appear from the main strip. It sits out the front of the imperial Palace- seemingly blocking the view of this casino. Out front, bar persons scream and shout at the passing crowd to bring them inside, offering novelty plastic guitars full of frozen cocktail. Inside “beer [...]

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Iguanadon Dining Room

After exiting the inflatable stomach in the Bompas and Parr complete history of food experience and feeling somewhat dizzy from un-stomach able truffles and now lurching down a corridor of foam mushrooms while trying to put my shoes back on, we are suddenly at the foot of a large staircase and met by [...]

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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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