Kettners Bar

Kettners is a private venue just north of Shaftesbury Avenue. There are bars and dining areas on the ground floor and private rooms and a bar on the floors above. On the second floor there is a small bar with a large mirror behind. There aren’t many places to sit but the selection of [...]

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Barrio Central Bar

A small looking venue just down the road from Rupert street - the Barrio Central bar is something of a hawaiian or exotic drinks venue with a restaurant upstairs. The venue is pretty popular, there is a queue outside and after checking our bags we head downstairs to a loud and very busy [...]

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Bounce Bar

Bounce bar is a lively, loud bar in the middle of Manhattan. Attractive hostesses greet us at the door and show us in to a bustling venue with after-work drinkers knocking back pints fo beer (much to my delight it isn’t too hard to find a real pint in New York). The beer selection [...]

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Oliver St John Gogarty

A mess of trinkets and irish memorbelia fill the walls and ceiling of this circular bar, close to the heart of dublin’s tourist hotspot - Temple Bar. The service is fairly fast although with stools at the bar itself getting served can be something of an excercise in carefully carrying a pint [...]

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The Cotton Mill Premier Inn Hotel Bar

The Cotton Mill was a delightful surprise to behold. The interior has a rich dark finish to it with soft lighting and a homely feel to the place with lots of tables hidden around corners and in nooks and crannies of the venue. The pub serves up a hearty [...]

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Soho Joe’s

In all honesty Soho jo’s is more a restaurant than a bar but it is a bustling social setting for some very well priced grub and a chat with friends at the interior lofty wooden benches or out front; al fresco on the streets of Soho. The servcie is Soho Jo’s is very swift [...]

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The Chameleon Bar

Walking through the various fields of Glastonbury one comes across a whole spice of different bars and drinking holes. The Chameleon bar was one of the most lively additions to the scene in the first few days of the festival that we found. Inside, a DJ played popular tunes including big band and [...]

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The jolly anglers

The Jolly Anglers is the staple in the diet of Wood Green drinkers the world over. Well established as a venue of debauchery for young woman and men to congregate in drinking very close to the age of consent into the small hours. The jolly Anglers guarentee’s a busy local pub with loud [...]

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The Cuban Club

Latin clubs in London seem to be cropping up at a pace as salsa lessons and dance classes release their grautes into the wild. Early in the evening, the cuban club is pretty busy, its a long, thin, brick-walled venue with a high ceiling which extends backward into a private garden in the [...]

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Parliament Bar

Well politians have to drink too you know and what better place to drink than in the most powerful place in the country - the house of commons. Well not quite, this strange little bar is very old but looks much like any other old traditional, I found it pretty similiar to a Samual [...]

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