Reflex Nightclub

The day i discovered a Reflex bar in central London was the day I fell in love with the city. I had no idea that a commercial club chain had an outlet in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral. Okay its not the easiest venue to find but stumble upon it before 10pm and [...]

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O’Neil’s Bar

This O’ Neils is a very loud very popular and strangely pleasant addition to the chain. Saturday nights see young and middle aged people alike congregate in a formidable sea of faces where getting to the bar is not a struggle and service is followed with a smile. The ceiling is lower than the [...]

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Salvador and Amanda

This was rather an obscure venue. Outside flaming torches light up the night and before you a reward of veils opens out to a large room that drops down on a staircase which leads you into a very buzzy loud room with a windy walkway around a lot of tables where people are [...]

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Montey’s Rock Cafe Bar

Rock bars are scarce in York which is probably why Montey’s has a good turnout of a weekend evening. The rock music is quite commercial, the lights kept low and the staff, attractive, in tight black numbers. The bar is further down on the right as you enter but just before that [...]

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Bar Kick

Where Shoreditch and Old Street exchange glances at one another, meeting at an intersection, here sits Bar Kick. Bar Kick is an inspired, themed bar specialising in those who are fans of table football (or foosball as the americans call it). Bar Kick is a two leveled bar with a throwback 1950’s student type appeal to it, [...]

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The North Star

This pub has charisma and is well made-up within. The bar is down in the right corner and the walkway in the pub leads through a  few tables to begin with then past the bar and down to a wider room at the back with toilets. To the right is a door leading out to tables assembled [...]

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Wax Bar

This commercial underground bar sits in the depth under Oxford Street and snakes around in its capacity downstairs offering one or two long bars with the sort of size which is not enormous, but large for the area. Booths and leather seating are on offer, although not in abundance since many can be reserved and are, even [...]

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Big Red

Big Red is here to make the statement that is the voice and spirit of rock in Holloway. It is a large bar, lit by candles jammed into Jack Daniel’s bottles on the unsanded thick wooden tables, all of which are scattered around the bar centre-piece, manned by tattooed bar-persons that serve up a reasonable [...]

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Positively 4th Street

This bar is something out of a tim burton film, that is if you keep your eyes peeled. It is on a quiet road joining warren street and camden together. Inside a long bar with a lwevel downstairs for dancing. The main bar offers bar stools and then after a gap for walkway, [...]

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Sport’s Cafe

A giant sports bar in central Leeds combined with a restaurant up front gets busy on match days and during other sporting events. There is a bar on the right when you first walk in and after the restaurant area on the left the venue snakes down to an open area at the back [...]

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