Brasshouse Bar

A surprisingly  large student bar with cheap food cheap drinks and tunes all day long. Although this combination of so many positive attributes in the student pub checklist does get this place very busy later on  . It is just a hypothesis that this venue brings a big bulk of student population but judging [...]

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Casa Blue Bar

Propping up the most northerly ends of brick lane is casa blue. Its a bohemian cocktail bar run on a skeleton staff of one barman one doorman and two so called cocktail waitresses who just seem like young drunk female members of the crowd who keep asking you if you want mojitos well [...]

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Groucho Bar - tapas

This is another Barcelona hidden gem, buried down one of the dodgiest looking backstreets I have ever had the honour of walking down. Stray dogs, abandoned shops and young men offering passing tourists “hashish” line the cobbled street as you approach what appears to be the only bar open for 300m, the [...]

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Centric Point Hostel Bar

For a youth hostel so embedded in the centre of a city as majestic and fantastic as Barcelona, you could do a lot worse than end up at Centric Point. One of the most compelling features of this establishment is its bar. There is no cash kept behind the counter so there is token [...]

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White Camp Bar

During Reading Festival the fields of Caversham fill to overflowing with tents and people and although White field - the field further from the main arena, is sectioned off as being a “quiet” field, it is home to its own Bar - a feat. than none of the other fields can lay claim [...]

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The Lounge Bar and Diner

A large gastro pub is central leeds trying to pass itself off much more as a drawing room with en suite gardens than a popular pub. Features such as leather seating, big heavy wooden tables and potted palm trees. The exterior of the place is mainly fabric covered with the retractable [...]

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The Oracle Bar and Restaurant

The Oracle is an esteemed venue by the canalside in Leeds catering for drinkers and diners that perhaps want a larger slice of the quality pie which does not conform to the usual student environment of other bars in the city. This venue has rope and carpet leading upto the entrance, [...]

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Busaba Eathai

Accosted a little further north than its sister restaurant, this branch of the Busaba Eathai chain which resides in the northern hemisphere of Soho in the Fitzrovia caters for a slightly quieter crowd than the central Soho branch. There aren’t the long queues outside but inside the notable differences are the speed of the [...]

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I thought it might be worth inventing a fictional bar, just for fun: 
The Thought Corridor Bar

A stranger place than anyone I know has been to in the last few weeks, The Thought Corridor Bar is a basement old army den converted into a windowless drinkery for the purposes of the dull and the needy. Popular in [...]

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Match Bar

Match Bar is a long thin bar set on two different levels with a decor in well polished woods and early on of a week night not overcrowded. The specialty in here is some amazing cocktails, fast to produce and a good price for the area the bar persons whip frozen glasses from freezers [...]

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