The Original Oak Pub

By all accounts the Original Oak pub in Leeds is one of those student gems that is a massive venue for congregation, partying and pulling in all weathers. Surprising it is then that from the outside it doesn’t look as big as it is within. Inside there is a forebar then a [...]

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The Box Bar

Well i have to say that with a name like this, box bar doesn’t conjor up images of grandure.in fact as expected the box is a loud boyish sports bar. With screens, bright lights, students and seating out front. The box bar seems to attract some rather fit bar people yet the punters [...]

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The Holloway Pub

The Holloway is infamous with Tottenham fans everywhere. This quite large pub was built for football fans mainly, it sits very close to the arsenal stadium and yet it secretly houses the yid-army. On match days the venue is packed with loud fans cheering and jeering at the numerous football screens around the [...]

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Bar Risa

The bar is the centre-piece in this venue, accessible from all sides with a very good selection of wines, beers, spirits and ciders, witha  comedy club upstairs and a galley overlooking onto the bar from above. On a Saturday night however this place is a little quiet, rumoured to be louder in the week [...]

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Sirocco Sports Bar

On one of the more popular strips for London nightlife, shaftesbury avenue plays host to top notch theatre venues, tourist style restaurants and one or two clubs. Sirocco is a sports bar with a dark interior, built on two floors with a bar at one end. The venue charges for entry after about [...]

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Bok South African Bar
There is a small den in Covent Garden for Saffas they may have wandered this way and it come int he form of a bar named “Bok”. It truly is a South African dream bar with flags, cricket stumps, foreign currency on the walls and zebra print stools around a few small [...]

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The Oakwood Tavern
This watering hole is the closest traditional pub to Oakwood tube station on the Piccadilly line of the tube. It is nestled among a parade of shops and at night is the only thing alive along the block. I say “alive” but the faint noise of crowd applause’s every time the door opens [...]

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The George

A tudor style- average sized pub with the usual amentities - fruit machines, blackboards details drinks details and the food that is available and several TV’s broadcasting sport when popular fixtures are on. Coming inside, the customer faces the bar directly where the queue relatively short but serving times are a little slow. The [...]

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Varsity Bar

A large bright open wooden bar like a walkabout awaits you here.With large bay windows at the front making this place seem grand and bulky. There are big brown couches in coves to the right and a long bar to the left. The residents are students (surprise surprise) and much like a Walkabout you [...]

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The Waterfront

This bar is accessible from the street and from the edge of the river. Its back garden overlooks the banks and in a flood of chrome lights up this whole area. One of the most wonderful of beer gardens for the summer. When entering from the front you come up some side stairs into [...]

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