Oddfellow Bar (Chester Town Centre)

January 10th, 2012 · No Comments

Oddfellow Bar

With bouncers on the door and the rain really coming down outside we dash into Oddfellows leaving the miserable northern weather behind us. Heading up a flight of steps we find ourselves in a hallway much like an old fashioned house with a stairwell up one side. The room beyond has a bar to [...]

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Tags: Chester

The Bar at the Dorchester (Park Lane - London)

August 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The Bar at the Dorchester

A posh bar crawl is not complete without a trip to the Dorchester. I love the name of this place, it rolls off the tongue and after having had a cocktail or two before entering the premises I find myself saying the name of the venue out loud as we are [...]

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Tags: Marble Arch and Park Lane

The Church Club (Dublin - Ireland)

April 1st, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: Dublin

Courthouse Hotel Bar (Great Malborough Street - Soho)

March 14th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: Soho and Leicester Square

Library at Lanesborough Hotel (Hyde Park - London)

March 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

Library at Lanesborough Hotel

To date this is probably the poshest bar I have ever been to drink inside. The entrance to the venue features a man in a grey top hat and tails and the Bentley’s parked outside appear to be some kind of rudimentary security feature designed to dispel the local riff raff from [...]

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Tags: Marble Arch and Park Lane

The Cooperage Pub (London Bridge - London)

February 18th, 2011 · No Comments

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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Tags: Tower Bridge and London Bridge

Upstairs at Dachkammer Bar (East Berlin - Germany)

February 12th, 2011 · No Comments

Upstairs at Dachkammer Bar

Climbing the narrow wooden stairs up to the top floor of this bar, voices and music get louder. At the top of the stairs is a hippy themed bar with red lighting, draped fabrics and an assortment of antiquities, behind which lay a small bar serving up bottles of beer and cocktails. [...]

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Tags: Berlin Bars

Bourne and Hollingsworth Bar (Charlotte street - London)

January 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Bourne and Hollingsworth Bar

I love being taken unexpectedly to really peculiar bars and this little number just off of charlotte street totally takes the biscuit in the area. I see these signs all the time in the Goodge street area, pointing down at a sets of iron stairs indicating a wine bar below. Freud bar, [...]

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Tags: Fitzrovia and Goodge Warren Street

Shunt Bar and Club (London Bridge - London)

April 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Shunt Bar and Club

An infamous bar that shut its doors in 2009 only to reopen in 2010, the same venue but with a new take - an arty, theatrical perspective.
The entrance is a tiny cubby hole in the ever popular London Bridge station, commuters completely surprised to see dozens of people queueing either side of [...]

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Tags: Tower Bridge and London Bridge

The Light Bar (St Martin’s Lane - London)

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments

The Light Bar

One of the most exclusive bars in central London is the prestigious Light bar of the St Martin’s Lane hotel. The bar is accessible by entering the hotel and striding forth up to the bar entrance, there is always some kind of guest list so preparation is essential, it doesn’t usually cost anything to [...]

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Tags: Covent Garden