The Blue Posts

This perky corner pub is larger inside that you would first imagine upon approach. Inside it offers some interesting points such as attractive bar staff, food, darts(probably the closest darts offering to Oxford Street), a bar upstairs and best of all the independent air of yet another Samuel Smith’s bar. Like the others in the chain, even [...]

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Toby Carvery

Replacing Barnet’s only late opening, well established pillar drinking hole of the community with a family friendly, carnivore eatery was a risky move indeed but the Toby Carvery in High Barnet takes advantage of the on-site bar licence, offering drinkers a drink in the forefront section of this bar-restaurant and the rest of the gallant floorspace [...]

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The Vinyl Factory Club

The Vinyl factory is a very well hidden studio-like venue which can be moulded to the requirements of whoever is holding an event there. Basically a white-washed wall garage with open spaces, waiting staff that bring over drinks and en-trays on wide platters. The crowd suits the purpose of the evening, I arrive attending the summer party of a very [...]

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Kaslik Shisha Bar

At last, a place in Soho where you can legally smoke shisha. This tiny bar/Lebanese restaurant sits quietly on Greek Street minding its own business with one or two comfortable stools and tin tables out front where you can purchase cocktails (from the rather short list) and smoke a shisha in the London [...]

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Vibe Bar

Sitting up there with some of the most controversially laid out bars in the city, the Vibe Bar sits innocently on Brick Lane looking like a concrete garden or playground from the road. Its a vibrancy of picnic tables drowning in a sea of trend-setters and young identity artists, which red carpet your entrance [...]

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Henry’s Bar and Cafe

Henry’s Bar situated directly opposite Green Park station is a sea of large white pillars, fine carpets and a bar which snakes along the left hand-side. The bar offers various drinks, cocktails (but no cider on tap) and food which comes out to the many tables making this venue feel a little [...]

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Lolita Bar

Young girls, bottled beers and mood lighting in this trendy back-street bar in old town Marbella. We stumble across Lolita bar with a crowd of young people outside and enter the small downstairs room with its makeshift bar and grumpy looking bar-man. The venue then goes upstairs onto a low-lit intimate landing with couches [...]

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Bacardi Tent Bar

Quite a small tent as far as festivals go, the Bacardi tent at Reading festival 2005 attempted to exclusively sell bacardi at its bar, but with an event sponsored by Carling, beer was also available in large plastic cups. The actual bar sat in the top left corner of the tent where the [...]

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The Piano Bar

 The Don Carlos hotel is a 5 star luxury eye-sore tower block near Elviria in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol. One of its distinguishing features is the presence of a piano bar; that is a most-of-the-night long bar abreast of a wide lounge, with a central dance-floor, very small (and now disused) [...]

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The Old Kings Head Pub

Out the front of this pub the venue looks like a chain pub, shiny and new with a name dreamt up by a landlord with the creative mind of a brick of MDF. Inside however, the pub reveals a rounded bar, sitting towards the back, a small stage area to the [...]

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