The Church Club

An enormous church has been kitted out as a bright, spacious venue with the elaborate bar filled in the centre of the main room. Around the bar are booths and tables and out of some of the modernised doors, the entrance to a beer Garden where smokers are congregating. As we enter the [...]

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Mary Jane’s Bar

Just around the corner from Tower Hill station on entrance to the square mile is a more up-market bar for the suited and booted city boys and girls to dabble inside. The venue consists of a small area of tables and chairs upon entry and a staircase leading down to windy bar area with an impressive bright [...]

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The Winchester Bar

One of the better venues that Upper Street/Essex Road has to offer, the Winchester is venue I have had a couple of rather epic evenings inside. Looking rather like a gastro-pub from the outside the interior consists of a walkways with tables either side following an entrance through a porch. This is followed [...]

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Crystal bar - Sway Club

Following the 2011 million pound refit of this rather hidden club in Holborn the centre room - now dubbed the “Crystal Bar” really hasn’t see n much change to it at all. The Crystal bar is sandwiched between a number of other basement rooms provided by the Sway club and consists [...]

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Barre Noire Montcalm Hotel

After spending a thoroughly romantic day in London with my better half there is the always the allure of having a drink in the hotel bar before retiring to bed and the Montcalm hotel was no exception. The Barre Noire Bar is rather a spectacle. Inside the venue is very quiet but [...]

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Courthouse Hotel Bar

An obscure yet welcoming bar presented by the courthouse hotel. This bar is one with some history so listen up! Basically the entrance is a wooden corridor that comes in off the street outside feeling very much like the turn of the century primary school entrance, but once inside the lobby of [...]

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Barburrito

Not really what I would have thought could be classed as a bar, the popular delights of a fast food chain spun into a genuinely respected establishment in Manchester’s multicultural center. That’s right, come in, get in line, gaze upwards at the menu in true fast-food style and proceed down the subway style canteen to [...]

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Marriot Hotel Bar

The Marriot Hotel is situated over the beautiful views of the West Inida Quay in the shadow of Canary Wharf and its surrounding tower blocks. The entrance to the hotel itself sits under an overpass and gives off a rather bad first impression. Up the stairs and to the first floor sits [...]

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The Corner Shop 

On the corner of old street and shoreditch high streets sits the corner stop - although I think it used to be called “jam”. It looks a little un inviting In the shadow of the bridge that’s runs overhead yet still seems like a safe haven compared with these streets. Within, the corner store [...]

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The Cooperage Pub

A strange and ancient looking pub sits beside the London dungeons and beside shunt club in the old tunnels if London bridge station. The interior is a hard cobbled Stone floor with barrels, hay, heavy wooden benches and small tables. On the wall on the left a sign indicating the heritage of the [...]

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