The Bollo House

Chiswick extends its hand to the sort of crowd that populate a bar with civility, chivalry and pleasantries and the Bollo encapsulates those elements of this up market area. Serving food alongside alcohol the Bollo offers live Jazz (both piano and saxophone are playing as we enter) to a bar which is not [...]

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Leeds University Student Union
 
This huge student union is a canvas for the variety of performances and evenings that occur in here. My experiences are based on a Drum and Bass live event that is held here relatively frequently. The venue is rather vertical; from when you first enter there is a set of stairs that [...]

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Brb Bar and Restaurant

Brb bar is genuinely excellent example of how a bar should be run, despite minimal errors, its location is very central, its layout is different and accommodating and it does not get overcrowded or two quiet and is open all day and all night. The tall thin wooden doors take you into a smallish cocktail [...]

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Busaba Eathai

Far from being any kind of bar , have a few words to say about Busaba and since this place serves alcohol to the table it is worth mentioning as a venue, I believe. Busaba is a fantastic venue with the nicest tasting Thai food in the Soho area and althoguh it is often [...]

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The Jerusalem Tavern

A fundamentally quaint and powerful ancient pub is this. The Jerusalem tavern presents very very old inn furnishings, interior and bar, even the drinks are from a local brewery and bottle beers are presented in containers you would expect to see in an 18th century apothecary. The bar staff, though unfriendly are firm [...]

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The Barlounge

A heavily populated bar which as an initial impression gives the air of a trendy palace crammed full of people who feel that being their gives the cool image they need to survive their peers. The bar staff are very animated however and once we order our drinks it becomes clear that the barman [...]

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Christkinelmarkt Bar

The Christkinelmarkt is a token of German Christmas heritage playing an annual role as a market, fair and bar December of every year in the main square in the city centre in Leeds. Queueing to get into the Bar area is common-place but standing in line you can already hear to the brass band [...]

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The Clapham Grand

I wholly endorous the Clapham grand. This venue has excellent proximity to transport links to tune of the large Clapham Junction mainline rail station and is only a short bus ride from links to the tube. The layout is similar to that of the old Camden palace - a multi-tiered affair with backstairs [...]

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Akbar

Akbar is hard to find even in this metropolis of assorted bars and if you do find it, it can be a blessing for early drinks if your out of an evening. Its essentially a very chilled out moroccan bar with warm lighting from flickering candles, aromas of vanilla with light bassey music and [...]

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Vats Wine Bar

A floorboard clad long wine bar, well buried up a pedestrianised road in the rich pickings behind Russell Square. This is an established older, middle-market sophisticated wine bar with some fine examples and not for those living on the cheap. The place is communal and glowing with wine knowledge, old bottles on random [...]

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