Bar Aquarium

Not to be confused with a club down the road with the same name, this is a bar/pub of surprises. Inside it is very pub-like and seems small with a fast, curtious bar facing you as you enter vai the front doorsand the bar splits of in two directions, both busy and both snaking [...]

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The Bierodrome
From the outside this place looks like a butchers, large class windows which open up as doors in the summer months to allow punters to sit outside. Once inside you are faced with a rounded bar which forks round to the left for drinkers and to the right for diners. Although the bar is [...]

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The Angel

Pubs that give you a wink and a smile on the way in are those pubs with the truest character. The angel in old street is a prominant pub of old form and style with carpet, comfy chairs and bright pub lights under the watchful governing of a fast bar service. The toilets are [...]

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The Crown Tavern

A nice quiet pub set in the classic setting of London’s Farringdon. It seems best for one or two during the day and has quite reasonable prices at about £3 for a glass of wine. The toilets were nice and clean (for a change) and the atmosphere also makes it a suitor [...]

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Slug and Lettuce (Formerly The Litten Tree)
UPDATE - Jan 2008 - The Litten Tree is now a Slug and Lettuce

A Wetherspoony pub with a club style twist inside - has a soft casino like glow about the place, illuminating the young crowd of winers and diners. There are an assortment of fruit machines and the place [...]

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The Rat and Parrot

From across the way beside the Wetherspoons this pub looks like your bog standards “Sunday lunch” pub with chrome chairs and tables populating the walkway outside. However, enter and you are met with a huge staircase ascending to a bar and galley with tables and chairs upstairs. To your right you see [...]

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The Glassworks(Lloyd’s No.1 Bar)
The Glassworks is a Lloyd’s bar (of the Wetherspoons chain) hidden in the new N1 complex in Angel. Its a simple trek up some stairs and along the walkway and you’re facing a bar with a totally glass front. Inside the path leads directly to the bar with table separated on either [...]

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The Waterfront

This bar is accessible from the street and from the edge of the river. Its back garden overlooks the banks and in a flood of chrome lights up this whole area. One of the most wonderful of beer gardens for the summer. When entering from the front you come up some side stairs into [...]

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Motion Bar
 
An underground bar and club tucked away next to Embankment tube station. Entrance to the bar is via a staircase to the left of an updoor restaurant, past a cove of couches halfway down the stairs overlooking the venue then unleashed onto the lower levels. Before looking around we head straight for one [...]

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The Grove

Diving into the grove for a couple is definitely a good idea especially during the football season. There are good views of several screens and a good support for the team of the moment. The place is laid out on two floors and as you come in you swing round to a bar on [...]

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