The Elbow Rooms

The Elbow Rooms in Old Street, Shoreditch area is a very trendy, quite spacious bar with a curiously plush choice of decor, posing on fine woods and a strange wavy-like layout. It is noteably more crammed than its sister venue in angel, which, like this shoreditch branch is a bar mixed with snooker lounge [...]

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The Golden Fleece

I will be the first to admit that the curious name required some racking of the brain to remember that “the Golden Fleece” was an article out of the queer animatronic adventure of Jason and the Argonauts and as such when I first entered this pub I was not prepared for the curiosities [...]

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Biddy Mulligan’s Irish Pub

A popular Irish pub in the small port of La Cala on the Costa Del Sol, Biddy Mulligans brings the popular format of ONeills in the UK to the sandy shores of Spain. The same mix is here literally, fast bar service, live, loud music and cover-bands, heavy wooden tables with outdoor [...]

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The Brass Monkey Bar

A busy, trendy, long, thin, tunnel-like cocktail bar in one of the more popular parts of Nottingham town centre. Brass monkey spill out brash dark urban tunes among a crowd of excitable students and young adults without long queues to have to contend with on entry. The cocktail menu is pretty impressive [...]

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Bar Risa

The bar is the centre-piece in this venue, accessible from all sides with a very good selection of wines, beers, spirits and ciders, witha  comedy club upstairs and a galley overlooking onto the bar from above. On a Saturday night however this place is a little quiet, rumoured to be louder in the week [...]

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The Rhythm Factory Club

The Rhythm factory looks like a small cafe from the front. On a saturday night smokers can be found floating outside the front and past the burly bouncers you pay the small fee for the club and move past a quite quiet bar to the door at the back where it is [...]

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The Beachside Bar

The Marriott beach resort in marbella has a rather fun poolside bar, which is strangely called the Beach-side bar yet doesn’t even sit on the beach. The appeal of this venue , apart from its array of outdoor picnic tables is the selection of frozen cocktails are amazing since the staff the spirits in generous [...]

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Bar Red

Bar Red demands a few things from its punters, these include fine attire, guest-list inclusion, wealth and smiles. The prize for approaching the bar with these attributes is two floors of chairs with red leather furnishings, entrances front and back for use by smokers and much of an after-work suited crowd. The plight and [...]

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Rubyana’s Bar and Restaurant

Rubyana’s in Elviria, Marbella is something of a fantastic old style restaurant, hidden in the backstreets but with an amazing dining experience the likes of which have never matched my taste-buds before. The tip is as follows: one day before you intend on dining here, order the roast lamb for everyone in [...]

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El Corjito Bar and BBQ Grill

Dishing up the best deals on Steak, whole chicken and sausages this side of the Costa Del Sol, this grungy, yet value for money backstreet Spanish answer to a steakhouse; is El Corjito. Consisting of two areas, the inside bar area which remain quiet and comfortable while the outside is [...]

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