Bertorelli Restaurant

This popular chain of restaurant/bar combinations is dotted all over the west end of London but I think this is the original of that chain. The bar area is downstairs in this two floor venue – it is brightly lit up with an average selection of beers and wines and caters to the couples [...]

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The Clarence Pub

With such close range to Green Park station one would assume that the tourists swarm in and around this pub like locusts but it is just enough off the tourist path to be quiet enough to get a table. Or at least I thought so on my Saturday afternoon visit. Outside are a [...]

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Cafe Bar Top

This Long, thin bar has a wide scattering of chrome chairs and tables out front, spilling onto the wide pavement in a mess that stops an evening stroller and invites them to sit and drink. The friendly inhabitants of the so called cafe are its regulars but the bar staff don’t give 100per [...]

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Be at One - B@1

Larger than its covent garden counterpart this wooden floored, more up-market version of be st one is s bar that lives for its happy hour. It gets noisy quickly in the early evening and the bar staff let out shrieks every now and then, offering specialised twists on the vast cocktail [...]

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The Long Hope Pub

At the top of the angel hill looking down into the belly of kings cross and it a smattering of stations is perched the oddly named “long hope”. Quiet in the day and at night far enough away from the action to be comfortable. Creepy across the floorboards inside we come across [...]

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Glaciar Irish Bar

Located in one of the top corners of this rather central square of Barcelona - just off the Ramblas, sits Glaciar bar. No one in our party seems to understand why exactly an Irish bar with a hint of American diner thrown in should have anything to do with ice caps but the [...]

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Vodka Revolution

The first thing you notice as you trundle up the road towards this venue is that it looks quite beautiful from outside. The site literally used to be a bank which is why to this day one of the rooms is called the vault. One will find the whole atmosphere of this place very [...]

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Eagle Bar and Diner

Up itself as a bit of an exclusive and oh-so-fantastic bar or perhaps the staff would just claim that the place prides itself on a good cocktail and dj service. Not getting popular til later on however, the eagle seems quite laid back about the fact that it is still empty around nine o’clock, with [...]

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H-Top Hotel Amaika Bar

Getting in on the all-inclusive action on this hotel or in this hotel group on the Costa Brava means basically free drinks at the bar. Okay this does not account for all drinks but the majority of your basics (G&T, vodka, rum, schnapps, wine, whisky, beer) are all free with mixers. Unfortunately [...]

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Brannigans Nightclub

Brannigans in Chester is a large commercial club clinging to the centre of Chester with its teeming nightlife and drunken revellers. There are often queue to get in but they are not as long as they were some years ago when Brannigans was the capital letter among the lowercase alphabet of the other bars and [...]

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