The Bavarian Beerhouse

The Bavarian Beerhouse in old street has always been a favourite with me and my friends and the addition to the chain in Tower Hill does not appear to be an exception. We are greeted with friendly faces upon arrival and shown through the surprisingly small ground floor bar and restaurant down [...]

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Dltwo Basement Club

In the depths of the Harcourt hotel underneath the Dltwo bar is the Dltwo club - a spectacle of young party goers filling this venue to the brim even as late as 3am. The venue is a network of rooms which clearly once made up the basement of this hotel. A red neon [...]

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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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Zen sai bar

Zen Sai Bar on Inverness street in Camden is a Camden-trendy happy hour cocktail haven. Like many of the bars that have sprung up along this strip Zen Sai joins them with the intention to throw on some RnB tunes and cheese in the dark setting of a basement establishment. The bar persons [...]

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Mary Jane’s Bar

Just around the corner from Tower Hill station on entrance to the square mile is a more up-market bar for the suited and booted city boys and girls to dabble inside. The venue consists of a small area of tables and chairs upon entry and a staircase leading down to windy bar area with an impressive bright [...]

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Crystal bar - Sway Club

Following the 2011 million pound refit of this rather hidden club in Holborn the centre room - now dubbed the “Crystal Bar” really hasn’t see n much change to it at all. The Crystal bar is sandwiched between a number of other basement rooms provided by the Sway club and consists [...]

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Jurys Inn Hotel Bar

In the basement of the value-for-money hotel - Jury’s Inn in the centre of Manchester, resides the hotel’s private bar. The bar has been carved out of the basement brickwork and consists of a large room and curved bar around one side. In fact the bar is so hidden away that it [...]

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Charlotte Street Blues Bar

The Blues Bar on Charlotte street pulls jazz friendly bohemian drinkers to its doors in heavy numbers of a weekend and midweek as it books in live acts from something of a more underground scene in central London. The blues bar is divided into a basement bar and a ground floor venue [...]

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The Bar

And the award for most inventive bar name goes to… The Bar: nothing more impressive than a neon light over a rather curious looking doorway in an alleyway - a stones throw from Soho where one would expect Bar to mean something a little different.. The man on the door gives us cold looks [...]

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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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