The Rocket

A nice rock-indie-emo-student den poking into the busy runway of a pavement stretching from Euston to Kings Cross. The place is perhaps bigger than it looks from the outside and populated by 20somethings from open to close. The bar is quite small but offers a rather good selections of drinks. The decor is also [...]

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The Grand Union

A rather plush bar set into one of the most unlikely locations just a stone’s throw from the Forum. This place is very expensive for its location at around £5 for a glass of wine and around £4 for a beer. The decor is alluring however, with not quite a romantic feel but [...]

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The Griffin Strip Club

From the road this looks like any other pub, except of course that the windows are blacked out and it looks rather ghostly and rather than an open door there is a heavy closed one which serves to repel any curious individuals. Once inside the door there are no heavy bouncers but [...]

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The Winchester Pub & Hotel

Out of the blue this totally done up venture in Highgate really works to pull the best of small crowds in the area. A spray of tables outside allow you to sit with pint in hand only a breath away from the busy road and the place is lit up [...]

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Jewel Bar

A small but very up-market bar in the corner of a very cramped Covent garden. I count four bars in total across 3 floors opposite the larger venue of Porterhouse. Jewel enjoys a queue out front for entry, private areas for private parties and the place is engorged in a blue lighting system alongside [...]

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The Montagu Pyke

The Montague Pyke is a very large Lloyd’s bar in the middle of the west-end yet its entrance is almost too modest for its own good and hides a perfectly good bar behind its doors. The venue paves right through from Charing Cross Road to Soho. Inside is a short entrance with a [...]

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The Living Room
The Living Room has to be one of the most diverse venues in London and very suited to an all-round night out. The entrance is a little off the garden path of the rest of Angel and its gets rather populated into the evening with secluded bars, loud urban and RnB tunes and [...]

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The Wheatsheaf

The Wheatsheaf is something of a cultural landmark in one of London’s most untouched parts of the city. Its not the venue as such which brings the atmosphere in here to life but the animation of its characters. The Wheatsheaf sits opposite borough market and therefore this means its locals are all wearing aprons, [...]

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The Champion

Fitzrovia’s finest among its wild range of drinking outlets, this glamorous pub is bathed in the most unique display of stained glass as walls that you will ever see. It is a small local pub but the light pours in a way which produces a very surreal very cool effect. The pub is semi [...]

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Ben Crouch’s Tavern

A rock-induced goth pub of the eerie pub chain and one of the smallest of the chain that I have ventured into yet it remains popular and busy. Drinks are about £2.85 a pint and as usual there are some creepy cocktails on sale. Matching the full theme of the place with its [...]

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