Bar Red (Kingly Street - London)

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square

Rubyana’s Bar and Restaurant (Marbella - Costa Del Sol)

June 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Marbella and Puerto Banus

El Corjito Bar and BBQ Grill (Marbella - Costa Del Sol)

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Marbella and Puerto Banus

Industry Bar (Shoreditch - London)

May 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Industry Bar

Sandwiched between Old Street and the City (literally opposite a skyscraper) Industry Bar captured the swank of Brick Lane yet appears just outside of the parameter of Shoreditch. Gliding past the friendly bouncers the music within is pretty hot, there are bars upstairs and down, the downstairs is soundproofed and often has private gigs [...]

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Tags: Old Street and Shoreditch

Bailey’s Tavern (Jericho - Jericho)

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Bailey’s Tavern

When there’s radiation raining down from all sides and grenades soaring overheard as you fight for your very existence there’s nothing better than a traditional pint on tap at what could possibly be the last remaining proper pub in post-apocalyptic America, in the town of Jericho. The story of this bar before the war [...]

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Tags: • Fictional Venues

Tattershall Castle (Embankment - London)

May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tattershall Castle

Ahoy! Finally an affordable bar in the middle and I mean the middle of London, in fact a ship on the Thames itself moored up by embankment station. The tattershall castle promises amazing views of the river, the London eye and up river the houses of parliament. The boat itself is a large tugboat [...]

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Tags: Westminster and Whitehall

Joe’s Bar (Hanger Deck - Battlestar Galactica)

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Joe’s Bar

Possibley one of the most unlikely places to host a gathering of people with alcohol is a room that also caters for the fixing of star fighters and weapons. Indeed Joe’s Bar situated on one of Battlestar’s many hanger decks and is almost home for a great many characters in this fictional series. “Starbuck” in particular (the mouthy [...]

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Tags: • Fictional Venues

Yates Wine Lodge (York - Yorkshire)

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Yates Wine Lodge

With another nice location by the river that runs through York, this Yates wine lodge offers an older crowd and a nice selection of drinks. The poles on the dancefloor attract much hilarity from groups that dare to get their groove on. The place quickly becomes very lively and it seems the bar [...]

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Tags: York

Bar 2012 (Brick Lane - London)

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Bar 2012

This small woody alternative venue could have been a cafe at one time. Upstairs at the back is a very small bar with bottled beers and cocktails. Low sofas and chiars fill the room with dark corners, drapes and curtains put up randomly with candle and low lighting sitting inside a room whcih the [...]

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Tags: Old Street and Shoreditch

The Printer’s Devil (Chancery Lane - London)

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

The Printer’s Devil

Mar 2008 - The Printers Devil has now closed down
If pubs could easily be segregated into types in the way that maovies are classed by genre then the Printers Devil sits in the “Black Comedy” section. Downstairs a dark and gothic feel with the mannerisms of a typical pub. The barman, friendlier than [...]

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Tags: Farringdon and Fleet Street