Cellar Door Cocktail Bar

A somewhat cramped but wonderfully stylised bar in Covent Garden and just off of the Stand, Cellar door (rumour has it) used to be an old underground public toilet. Today it sells itself off as a jazz and cabaret bar, dark and alluring at the bottom of a set of stairs but [...]

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The Quay Bar

A grand warehouse of a Bar, the Quay Bar stands at two stories high with capacity for a good few hundred people and absolutely no shortage of space. The venue has a rather small entrance around the side from which you enter after walking alongside the river, so on the second floor of [...]

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The Windmill Pub

Turning through the back roads beside Regent Street and Mayfair one comes across the windmill, jammed in on a road no wider than an escalator. The place is packed with people standing outside merrily drinking away, some stumbling every which way, at what i notice is only 7pm this fine Thursday evening. There isn’t [...]

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The Isambard Kingdom Brunel

On approaching this pub i was quite surprised it was such a large flagship venue. From outside its seems that it presence and size are something of a secret. Only making my way up the front stairs and entering the long hall of the pub was its grandeur revealed. The hall was [...]

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Bar [Me]

With 200 people in Portsmouth on a most wanted database it is clear to see why entrance queues are so long and why ever punter gets asked for id but then it does baffle me how 3 twelve year old’s in front of me manage to get into what seems like an adult nightclub. [...]

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The Rutland and Derby Arms

On a quiet street of Leicester is the derby. On approach it is literally the side of an old terrace building with gold lettering.inside is a rather busy bar with cream colours on the walls, fast bar persons and a very good selection of drinks behind the bar. Spirits are served [...]

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The Jolly Farmers Pub

Driving down the start of what seems like a grand country road means expecting horses, large oak trees and meadows, surprising then to come face to face with such a large bellied pub as the farmers arms. Reaching into the road with its high capacity front car park, the farmers is nicely [...]

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The Toucan Bar

The Toucan Bar, perched on the edge of Soho Square has a wonderful air of familiarity about it and with more character than any of the other more pretencious bars in the surrounding streets, Toucan feels rugged, rocky and contently Irish. Sporting the Guiness touch it took me a surprisingly long time to [...]

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Mojo Bar

This surprise hit two floor bar in the centre of Leeds likes to pull itself a crowd. Outside there is a brief queue to get in but the bouncers are friendly if a little stern. Inside the bar is lit up purely by red neon lights upstairs and down with good music played throughout the night [...]

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Reform bar

It is nice to know that in some spots of leeds a little reform is going on. In what looks like a trendy and happening venue,scores of young people and students fill into a medium sized, low ceiling, darkened establishment. The bar area is brighter than the rest of the venue which is riddled with comfortable [...]

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