Twenty Two Below Bar

Despite having worked in the Soho area of London for a good year, this bar completely alluded me until a close friend showed me its delights. Literally a doorway beside a chain restaurant, the 22 below bar is located opposite Carnaby Street and once through the door reveals itself to be a [...]

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Vertigo 42 Champagne Bar

Towering over londons skyline in the heart of the City is Tower 42. At the base of the enormous building are escalators leading up to a rather unwelcoming and corporate reception area. Arriving five minutes before our alloyed slot was are asked to wait until the exact time we booked before being [...]

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Champagne Bar

Heralded as one of the most luxurious train stations in the world and most certainly one of the grandest, Kings Cross St Pancras plays host to its own Champagne Bar, a tidy little booth opposite the platform for the Eurostar trains and catered by a couple of well dressed, well accented, French bar persons. [...]

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Mulligan’s of Mayfair

Mulligans of Mayfair is fine looking bar housed between the rich white washed walls of Mayfair housing. Inside the front step is an old looking room but with bright lights attached to the side walls. Tall tables line the walkway and to the left a downward spiral staircase leads to a Restaurant. At [...]

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The Laurel’s Bar

The Laurel’s Bar clearly has a problem getting women in the door. The main issue may be the fact the bar has a sponsorship agreement with the Rugby club down the road and this pulls in some thirty odd over sized testosterone fuelled young men after a match. The attempt to pull the [...]

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Potemkin Bar

Potemkin sits perfectly in Farringdon surrounded by ex-warehouses, manufacturing units and blocks that have not been updated since the 1930’s. Approaching the bar it has a mirrored exterior and looks in a little disrepair, in fact I wasn’t even sure if it was open. Heading inside, things aren’t much better, its 8pm on a [...]

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Belgo Belgian Beer Bar and Restaurant

One of the most interesting experiences I have had this year has to have been eating and drinking in Belgo’s - the infamous Belgian bar and restaurant tucked away in Covent Garden just off of the seven dials roundabout. Inside, Belgos is an industrial looking metal chamber. We are sent [...]

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Bunker Bar and Microbrewery

A so called microbrewery turned somewhat gastro with its slightly more upmarket sheek couples and big screens take on German drinking. The interior is dark but the basement is wide and has alcoves of interest including open kitchen and large tables with access during the day to a hidden marketplace. Bar service can [...]

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The Phoenix Pub

A busy place to be after work, the phoenix seems to be yet another pub in this shady corner of Oxford Cirus with more character than every other pub in soho. The places is rammed with middle-aged persons and students, none too posh or common, some in kilts and trendsetters in what is [...]

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The Bavarian Beerhouse

A total surprise to find this kind of bar in what can only be described as one of the most univiting areas of london. You enter through small doors and down a set of stairs with a bright-light-wetherspoons type entrance and through double doors into a small underground maze of lederhosen-wearing females with [...]

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