Bar Ria

August 2008 - Bar Ria has now changed its name

There’s two ways of looking at this venue, its either uncomfortably quiet or cosmopolitan and romantic. Whose to say? I have to admit i liked it and the mixture of bar with Thai food served well in the dim lighting. Alcohol is around £2.50 a [...]

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Pause Bar

This is a really swanky bar aside from the lack of space. There are plenty of seats but nearly all of them were reserved when I went for a quiet drink after work on a weeknight. The cocktails were small but really well made and the menu promised a wide selection. The service was [...]

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Garlic & Shots

Now, who would have imagined that tucked into a corner in Soho was a Bar than not only served amazing food but also played rock music? Well indeed this is the place. Vampires beware: the waft of Garlic that hits you on the way in is powerful and you immediately enter a restaurant [...]

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The Three Greyhounds

A small pub set into the entrance to soho from shaftesbury avenue. The place is apparently renouned for its ales but it wasn’t the ales that made me enjoy this places. The atmosphere though crammed was sophisticated drawing a crowd of 30-somethings. The was a good variety of wine and it was a [...]

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Shisha Bar (Stables Market)
Hidden away in the stables market is a growing collection of Shisha or Huppah bars. This particular one sits among the food stalls in the center of the market and takes some navigating to find. Its a beautful and cosy morrocan bar serving up non-alcoholic beverages and well priced Shisha.(at about eight [...]

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The Pumphouse
This bar is located in a basement and as a result has an underground feel to it right down to the steel stairs that greet you from the entrance. The drinks are reasonably priced and the food is surprisingly decent. I’ve only occasioned this bar on work functions which it suits really well. My [...]

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East India Arms

Again another small pub in Aldgate but very popular, so popular in fact that its punters pour into the street with their pints. The pub inside is not all too crowded either and is great for a drink after work with corner seating readily available for those weary legs. The drinks are a [...]

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The Erris Tavern
Although looking much like a green grocers from the outside it is actually larger inside that you might expect from a local pub and make sure you get in before eleven thirty on a Saturday for a lock-in. It is by far the most Irish pub I think I’ve ever been in, in [...]

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The Square Bottle (Wetherspoons)

In the town center of Chester sits a large Wetherspoons but with a disappointingly low ceiling. OK its not that noticeable but there are bouncers on the door, youths perched outside gagging to get in and a bar with two sides at which it seems to take forever to get served. Its [...]

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Barley Mow

This pub- set into a square in the pedestrianised part of Warrington town centre is a small celebration of indie and emo music amidst a barrage of old men and trendy haircuts set across the backdrop of chains and social teenage masks. It is quite the pub therefore, a fresh air to the town [...]

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