Ye Olde Mitre Pub

I raise my hand and admit I had to be led to this pub. It is sandwiched between a church and high rise modern buildings, claiming to be a five hundred year old tavern and every sense of the place supports this claim. The Ye Olde Mitre has a collection of black [...]

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Coq d’Argent Bar and Restaurant

With one of the most beautiful views in the city, this bar restaurant on the 8th floor of One Poultry is a class above the rest. Private lifts takes drinkers and diners up to a courtyard garden scene withsecluded outdoor tables and parts of the venue that splay out onto the [...]

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The Vinyl Factory Club

The Vinyl factory is a very well hidden studio-like venue which can be moulded to the requirements of whoever is holding an event there. Basically a white-washed wall garage with open spaces, waiting staff that bring over drinks and en-trays on wide platters. The crowd suits the purpose of the evening, I arrive attending the summer party of a very [...]

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Rubyana’s Bar and Restaurant

Rubyana’s in Elviria, Marbella is something of a fantastic old style restaurant, hidden in the backstreets but with an amazing dining experience the likes of which have never matched my taste-buds before. The tip is as follows: one day before you intend on dining here, order the roast lamb for everyone in [...]

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Akbar

Akbar is hard to find even in this metropolis of assorted bars and if you do find it, it can be a blessing for early drinks if your out of an evening. Its essentially a very chilled out moroccan bar with warm lighting from flickering candles, aromas of vanilla with light bassey music and [...]

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The Square Tavern

A very well hidden lodge of a bar behind Euston Square station. Even outside the front door you feel like you could be in a housing complex in the middle of a nature reserve (think Centre Parks) rather than in the middle of a monster metropolis. Inside we come across proper poker tables [...]

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Gray’s Inn Wine Bar

Utterly hidden in the back of Holborn in a quiet side road sitting barely a shadow away from Grays Inn road is the “Grays inn wine bar” a small wooden shack of a bar that looks like it has not changed since it was opened in the 60’s. The front is [...]

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Quinns

Kudos to any bar that serves ‘Sausage Beer’ honestly this place has hundreds of European ales and lots of novelty fruity delights on tap. A nicely decorated old style pub but large and popular with a whole manner of punters but it clearly lies in secret undiscovered by the cosmopolitan world. The bar was always [...]

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