Brasserie Chez Gerard

Another fine addition to the restaurant and bar chain that is Brasserie Chez Gerard. This wide restaurant front is positioned opposite the Monken Holt pub and offers a finer level of dining that lends itself to customer who maybe coming from Hadley Wood since it is a bit of a walk from High [...]

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Ye Grapes

Selectively tucked away, Ye Grapes is a pub exclusively for two groups, the locals that know where it is and the pub explorers of this world looking to find it. You literally stumble out of a collective of very quiet cobbled roads up this well hidden and apparently well establishment pub. The place is [...]

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The Garden Bar

Feb 09 - The Garden has now closed. It has been replaced by a Bar with another name.
With large gates and an outdoor area fitting to courtyard with a veranda softly welcome you to the entrance of the garden, a wide single storey building which remains dark yet sleekly lit, soaring forwards in a [...]

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Jake’s Bar

A downstairs, quite chilled out yet overly popular bar, with clean white walls, wooden high back benches and tables that spill across 3 basement rooms. The bar has a very very good selection of drinks including Psang Ambon. Early on the place is vibrant but in a soft candlelit glow but later on djs [...]

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Fiesta Havana

A slice of restaurant combined with a mixed cocktail bar, combining the effect of being in a large fallout shelter with atmospheric arches and low coloured lighting with a strong assortment of drinks. Bright flowers decorate the bar and the first level drops away to a second with a bottle bar and a small [...]

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The Amber Lounge

On the Top shelf of central Chester sits the Amber lounge, a location whose name has apparently changed more times that than the guard outside Buckingham palace in the last few months. Outside is your usual balding burly bouncers and past the door is a slim bar which climbs up a short staircase [...]

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The Plough

A family dining pub, well catered to the area in the foothills of Hertfordshire- it this infamous of garden-nursery villages. The place is naturally full of plant and fish lovers and young families and although it is surprisingly busy it is not too busy to find a table in a corner and sit down [...]

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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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