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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Bell and Compass Bar
 
The Bell and Compass sounds like the name of an old pub but in fact it is a rather new age gastro-style venue sitting on the strand in Central London. So what can be said about the Bell and Compass? Well to start off with its very pricey, I happened upon a [...]

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The Railway Pub

Sitting literally outside the back of finsbury park station is the railway pub and thank god, I was plenty thirsty. Half of the door were bolted shut so getting in wasn’t easy but when i finally hauled myself through the doors i found myself looking in the face of a middle aged lanky [...]

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The Kings Head Pub

Often have I walked past this staple in the diet of the islington drinker but waited some 5 years before going inside. I remember a time when one would pay to enter this pub due to its popularity but in hard economic times the entry in now free. Within is a well lit pub [...]

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Wax Jambu Bar

A dark bar filled with people, shoulder to shoulder. Filling every tiny table, sitting on couches and in tiny booths looked packed as sardines are the occupants,only revealed once you enter through the glass doors past bouncers and bag checkers. The wait for drinks is very slow, at a bar that sits at the [...]

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The Kings Head Pub

During the week this classy back street pub in Mayfair is as empty as can be expected, yet after work and at the weekend it sees it’s fair share of traffic. It’s always good for an after work drink according to my friends who live and work just by the King’s Head. I [...]

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