Route 99 Coffeeshop

Down a narrow alleyway is one of the more friendly coffee-shops of Amsterdam. Route 99 consists of a durable glass door frontage with the main counter in the basement and the seating and smoking areas on the first floor. Taking the stairs downward there is a long room witha low ceiling and a [...]

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The Diner Restaurant and Bar

Well why did no one tell me about this place before? This bar restaurant combination is how an American Diner should be done out, there are booths, cheesy American music, big cocktails and best of all, proper fat American food. Burgers chips, milkshakes, hot dogs, the works. And yet the prices [...]

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Belgo’s Restaurant Bar

Another addition to the belgo’s and bierodrome chain, this little number in Camden is not easy to stumble upon, especially if you are after the food, the entrance is up and over the kitchens of the venue and inside, an art deco hall with small tables is on the cards, the bar sits [...]

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The Western Front Pub

Just outside the main shopping centre in Brighton town centre and a short walk up from the beach is the Western Front Pub. This pub is bustling with activity with a sea of outdoor tables and chrome chairs to the rear with large wooden features within from heavy-set coffee tables to the [...]

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Wonder Bar Two

The Red light district houses a couple of quite quality venues, Wonder Bar Two is not purely a coffee-shop since it does not sell the wacky backy, rather it allows you to smoke in the confines of the venue while have a drink or smoking some Shisha. the most fun seats are moroccan [...]

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Betty Boop Coffeeshop

A friendly coffee shop in a little pedestrianised area in Amsterdam. Betty Boop’s has a neon sign of the famed 1930’s cartoon character and automatic doors which lead into a light wooden cabin with a steep spiral staircase at the back, high stools at the bar and along the sides of what is a [...]

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Market Tavern Pub

Most of the pubs in Mayfair are not places for the Rich and famous, they are local squats for aging drinkers, those on Monopoly pub crawls and those looking for lost bars. The Market Tavern - one of the newer additions to the Mayfair scene is actually a surprising Gastro-treat in the heart [...]

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Fortune of War Pub

Set on the bustling beaches of Brighton is this shallow bar, with a spray of pcinic tables out front, grandually eroding from the salt off the shore. The theme inside is sailing and the water, with images of boats about the place. The bar staff are fast, the prices are low and [...]

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Merlotte’s Bar and Diner

Merlottes Bar is a strange bar/diner based in the middle of the woods. It baffles me how drinkers get two and from here without drinking (since they are all driving) and in fact we do see a few characters leave the bar, car keys in hand chased by the pretty waitresses across [...]

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Sports Bar and Grill

Jogging into Marylebone station at top speed during the height of the Monopoly pub crawl I reach the usual face of the Victoria and Albert pub and am stopped dead in my tracks, hiding around the corner of the station in the far end was a new bar to my eyes. Looking [...]

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