Smollensky’s Cocktail Bar
This Cocktail bar and diner is a very well hidden establishment off of the Strand and so sits squarely between Charing Cross and Covent Garden stations. With a big heavy door being the only indicator that there is a bar beyond and down the stairs our group heads inside. Within is a relatively [...]
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Tags: Covent Garden
January 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Golden Lion
Inhabiting the very quiet back streets of piccadilly sits the Golden Lion. A place so quiet and overlooked that even up close it looks closed to the public. Inside the venue turns out to be a traditional pub, very small with a woody atmosphere, light and bright and with friendly bar staff. There [...]
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Tags: Piccadilly and Regent Street
The Priory Bar
When modern gastro meets industrial pipework in the back streets of trendy-as-you-like Farringdon. It becomes obvious why the venue is filled with beautiful and wealthy people. The building is quite well hidden off of a couple of more prestigious factory style offices near clerkenwell road and yet in its own courtyard set back [...]
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Tags: Farringdon and Fleet Street
December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Blue Posts
i swear there are enough pubs with this name in central london to make a guy’s head spin! The blue posts is a small quaint pub just off carnaby street with a front garden type area which just sits on the pedestrianised street.the interior is that of a standard pub.a medium to heavy [...]
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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Dog and Duck Pub
soho has been sprinkled on by the hand of god who has laid tiny pubs in all the crevaces of this weird and wonderful square mile. The dog and duck is accessible from two entrances and sits on two floors with bars on both.the ground floor bar is continually busy. I wouldn’t [...]
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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square
December 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Sugar Cane Cocktail Bar
What i can only assume is supposed to be a tropical themed bar is housed along one of the quieter main roads of clapham.out front are a couple of tables basking in the warm glow of red lights. Within is a medium sized room-larger than you might expect from the outside with [...]
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Tags: Clapham and Battersea
November 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The Hyde Park Bar
When a bar a long way a way from London takes a name as well known as Hyde park it is difficult not to be curious as to what it might be like. Well on the positive side it is popular with an indie rock persona. The interior is modern, the crowd [...]
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Tags: Leeds
November 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Cafe Del Mondo
This cafe gets probably 100 per cent of its business from the enormous Olympia conference hall over the road. The cafe is pretty much a single file queue down to the stumpy till with a small swarm of tiny chairs with accompanying tables at the back. The place is run very much like [...]
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Tags: Olympia and Shepherds Bush
November 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Red Lion Pub
Trudging through the back street of piccadilly is a peaceful mission in the dark but a difficult one if you have a destination in mind, as close to Piccadilly Station as the Red Lion is, it is quite difficult to find if you are at the tail end of the Monopoly pub Crawl. [...]
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Tags: Piccadilly and Regent Street
Inferno Bar and Pub
Inferno is The resident scream bar of bournmouth and next to a club that used to be called the fire station.inferno obviously used to be the pre party venue before people crammed inside the club next door but now it must rely on the student population to keep things running smoothly. It [...]
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Tags: Bournemouth