September 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Fifty London Club
Rumours invariably spell trouble for their supporters and insight into the world of “Fifties” had gone round many tables at which I had sat in venues far away with tales of riches, amazing times and wonderment. Let me just say that these are not rumours but hard-stone truths, Fifties is an amazing place. Let me [...]
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Tags: Piccadilly and Regent Street
The Rockwell Bar
The Rockwell bar at the Trafalgar hotel is a spacious and a beautiful welcome to the guests. Entering literally from the corner of the Trafalgar square until Nelson’s watchful gaze and steps and a heavy modern style set of doors. Inside the polished floors bounce the light around inside the hall-like bar which [...]
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Tags: Westminster and Whitehall
Gaymers Cider Garden
What better way to spend a festival that sitting at picnic bench behind a small white picket fence listening to the sounds of music legends just a few meters from the stage 2 tent. To top it off the Gaymers Garden had full table service. The waitresses would come by take orders and [...]
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Tags: Marble Arch and Park Lane
February 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Kensington Roof Gardens
One of the most beautiful venues in London is the prestigious Kensington Roof Gardens. Located on the 6th floor of a rather majestic building just off of Kensington High street, a lift takes party goers up by the group to wait in line for entry by the cloakroom. Entry is only possible as a [...]
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Tags: Earl's Court and Hammersmith
Vanilla Bar
Sitting silently on the road outside, where even on a busy London Friday night, few souls are to be seen, sits the smart entrance to vanilla. Inside, a small room with a staircase down to the basement, silence is dominating. At the end of the steps another doorway into a very heavenly lounge. Purest [...]
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Tags: Fitzrovia and Goodge Warren Street
November 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Wiggle’s Strip Club
An interesting set up for a strip club.outside are one or two bouncers but little other commotion-no one handing out flyer’s or strutting their stuff in hot pants in front of the venue. Plainly it looks just like a house which is also a strip club. As you enter there is a small [...]
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Tags: Bournemouth
Restaurante de la Perfumes
Well buried in the heart of Marbella Old Town this unique little bar with its red washed walls and grated windows turned out to be a real charmer. The whole venue is filled with delicate smells of plants and flowers and as the name suggests is themed on perfume. Even the less than [...]
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Tags: Marbella and Puerto Banus
Gilgamesh Bar and Restaurant
Gilgamesh is an absolutely stunning bar restaurant complex located beside the old Camden stables market, towering as a glass building, overshadowing the overground railway next to it. Up an escalator and down a hallway to the main reception desk the staff greet you among the Mayan temple-like display with eccentric wooden carvings [...]
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Tags: Camden and Chalk Farm
Studio Valbonne
Studio Valbonne is a very exclusive club just of Carnaby Street near London’s Soho and regent Street. It keeps itself quite well hidden yet access to the rest of the city and a pool of nightlife is only a few steps away. The venue itself sits in the canopy of Soho, up a [...]
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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square
March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Guanabara Bar
One of London’s most innovative and interesting Bars, Guanabara is a samba dance club in a large hall-like room above the quiet back streets of Covent Garden. Once you pass through the cafe-lounge like entrance and up the stairs you enter the bustling room which has a walkway around the outside of the central [...]
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Tags: Covent Garden