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List of ALL the Bars and Clubs of London
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10 Room : A civilised fusion of bold, rich colours and a splash of decadence give this lounge bar a rather opulent feel. Prices and clientele tend to match the atmosphere, but the cocktail list is as extensive as you like, with bar staff creating individual concoctions to match your personality. Kick back in a chaise longue or oversized winged armchair, and let the smooth jazz tunes fly you to a true lounge lizard experience.The food menu features light bites such as canapés and wun tun from around £6. Members are bestowed with privileges and the dress/personality code is inimitably funky to complement resident DJs' mix of jazz, funk, and R'n'B jams.
10 Air Street
London, England W1B 5AB
+44 20 7734 9990
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100 Club : The 100 Club jitterbugged onto the London scene back when the girls were gals and the men were horny American GIs. And some of the 100 Club stalwarts doubtless remember the halcyon era of knee-warming hosiery and tea stained calves with some fondness.
Boot-scuffed podiums, woodbine-heavy blackout curtains and a Formica bar staffed by Octogenarians is testimony to the colourful history of this forlorn basement sweatpit.
Squint through your plastic cup at the tattered pictures of BB King and you could easily imagine the jazz, swing, boogie and blues notables of the venue’s glory days. And to survive an evening out at 100 Club, nostalgia is a recommended approach.
Stop/ start Jazz and blues greats are hammered out on a squeaking system until middle-agers have had their fill of G&Ts and zigg-zagged off for a ‘old times’ fumble in the bus stop; then the addled Westend twenties – who fell in here after headbutting the software store next door – take to the chipboard for a schizophrenic revue of obscure 80s hits and tracks culled from Now Dance ’95.
Yet, however glaring the 100s limitations, you can’t help but love the place in all its baccy-spittle ridden glory. Central London clubbing isn’t what it was when the tillies were jiving to the bassline of falling bombs, and sadly so.
The beauty of going out in the capital is the chance – after seven whiskies and four forgotten trips to the cashpoint – of winding up in one of the city’s few hidden gems; where, free from the page three wannabes and congealing cheese coruscating in the neon light, you can dance like the twat you are and dribble cheap booze down your chin. Just like Gramps does.
The 100 club – last bastion of the lindy-hopping, rat-sideburned spiv – is a king amongst such forgotten gems; its two-up plastic scoop seats and plastic brewery ashtrays indelibly etched into London’s landscape as an ode to an era of true hedonism Clive, at Ritzy Titsy Disco Dome down the road, could never hope to emulate.
Best known for hosting traditional and swing jazz, the 100 Club's notoriety for booking top-flight bands is not unfounded. Eminently influential rock and blues acts have also graced the stage, including the Sex Pistols, Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker and BB King. Public perception of the trad jazz focus has slightly diminished general appeal, but current pop and rock acts choose the venue for clandestine mid-week gigs, giving it a hue of hipness to savvy clientele. There's also a long-running Sunday blues night.Taking around 300 people, the basement club has a large central stage with great all-round visibility. More sincere than the Jazz Café, and with markedly better sound, the 100 Club has a retro feel with genuine historical roots. It's also one of the curiously scarce London venues bridging the gap for bands leaving the pub circuit for greater things. Festive Friday nights have recently been injected with new wave folk, funk, world music or new blues as well as jazz. Refreshingly, this is a live music venue as it should be.Admission: between £5 and £10.
100 Oxford Street
London, England W1D 1LL
+44 20 7636 0933
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12 Bar Club :London's small but intimate 12 BAR CLUB showcases around FOUR ACTS A NIGHT, 7 NIGHTS A WEEK, from solo performers through to full bands. That's a LOT OF MUSIC, and with the emphases placed on SONGWRITING, we feature artists from ALL OVER THE WORLD.
As well as the MUSIC ROOM the club has a CAFE/RESTAURANT open from 9am until 9pm serving a diverse menu from tasty snacks through to full meals.
Being centrally located, close to the intersection of Charing Cross Rd, Oxford St and Tottenham Court Rd, we are well served by public transport. The nearest TUBE STATION is Tottenham Court Rd. - WHERE ARE WE? 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London WC2.
Opening Hours - The 12 Bar Cafe opens at 9am till 9pm - The bar opens at 11am
The music venue opens:
Monday - Thursday 7:30pm till 1am
Friday - Saturday 7:30pm till 3am (may close earlier)
Sunday - 7pm till 12.30pm
22-23 Denmark Street
London, England WC2H 8NL
+44 20 7916 6989
CLICK TO ENLARGE MAP
12barclub.com
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140 Park Lane Restaurant & Bar :This is the cosy side of sophistication, doctored with attitude. Immaculate creamy walls, wood floor and a selection of stripy armchairs rebound with the buzz of conversation, and the atmosphere is elegant, busy, gossipy and fun.
The thing about money is that you don’t tend to have pots of it when you’re young, so the clientele of the bar, a mixture of hotel guests and customers from outside, are generally slightly older.
It’s family friendly, which makes it feel lively. Too much elegance can be stuffy, but 140 Park Lane provides comfort and refinement without the starch. The staff are friendly and attentive, not snobby; and the creaky luxury of some multi starred hotels is replaced with vibrant and well planned simplicity.
The cocktails are generally good; the 140 Park Lane with vodka, white cranberry juice, cointreau and lime, was delicious. The Capirinha was a bit too strong for my taste, the sheer rum overpowering everything else like nail varnish remover in a sweet shop. There is a good selection of the usual cocktails and spirits.
The bar food is fine too, the grilled Mediterranean vegetables were absolutely delicious, fresh, divine peppers and crunchy courgette. The tortilla filling of bacon and avocado and chicken was also very good, but the tortillas themselves were a slightly odd shade of green and a bit foamy to bite.
The only real gripe I had with this otherwise pleasant bar was that the tables by the door are draughty, which is uncomfortable, and they are rather low in relation to the height of the chairs, so if you make any sudden movement of the knees your cocktail will fall in your lap, and if you are eating in the bar rather than the restaurant you have to stoop.
The bar succeeds in being a destination in itself as well as a facility attached to its hotel, largely due to the charming staff. It is not overpriced for what it offers, and although it still feels a little ‘new’ it has its own bright smiley charm.
Check out their website at http://www.140parklane.co.uk
140 Park Lane Restaurant and Bar
140 Park Lane, Mayfair, LONDON, W1K 7AA
Tel. 08713326659
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151 Bar : While some clubs are classy and others are pretentious it's good at the end of a drunken night to settle back into the tacky, plush familiarity of 151 Club.
Dangerously close to some useful watering holes across the street the 151 Club door cover is always competitive - free during the week. A last bastion of the endangered classes of London, the sheer weight of sleazy city bankers and blue-blooded alcoholics at 151 Club is its own best protection against the general public, which occasionally venture in only to retreat, intimidated by too many boorish public school accents.
The drinks are a little pricey but who comes for the alcohol? 151 Club is a last ditch end of night retreat where you can be assured of running into old friends, relatives and acquaintances.
But beware - in this noisy mix are spread a healthy smattering of fine and gorgeous fillys, some dangerously close to jail bait and also more experienced girls, who have come to find a bed for the night. Pickings for the consummate player!
Altogether 151 Club is a wonderful place... Enjoy!
151 Kings Road, , LONDON, SW3 5TX
Tel. 0871 332 3202
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190 Bar : 190 Bar's friendly but not very slick (on our visit at least) staff preside over a long, clean, beautifully backlit bar, reminiscent of the one Jack Nicholson steps up to in The Shining. The extensive drinks list includes 16 varieties of brandy and 15 of champagne (including the cheeky little Louis Roederer Cristal magnum at £550), though given that this is a five-star hotel we were a little put out to find the white wine served at only a few degrees below room temperature. American tourists and bright young things pop up everywhere at 190 Bar.
Comfortable and classy is the best way to describe 190 Queens Gate Bar & Restaurant. Located on the ground floor of The Gore Hotel, the Restaurant & Bar have a mythical 'buzz' that makes this a must visit. Recently revamped, 190 Restaurant has grown into its new shoes. The attractive dining room with its dark walls, miscellaneous prints, evokes a pleasant Gallic feel. And with it's a line up it is no surprise that the stylish 190 Queens Gate is renowned for using the highest quality freshest ingredients obtainable. Co-founded by Antony Worrall Thompson, and a superb menu by Head Chef Malcolm Starmer, who has worked at Richard Corrigan's kitchen in Lindsay House for nearly three years & had a period of time working with Gordon Ramsay, with the emphasis on English dishes with a twist - wild fish, organic meat, strictly seasonal vegetables, funghi and garden herbs. Topping this off is irresistible puddings! Friendly staff and the excellent cuisine ensures regulars from local businesses and neighbourhood. Ideal for pre-theatre food for the neighbouring Royal Albert Hall.
189-190 Queens Gate
London
SW7 5EX
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2 Brydges Place : Celebrating its 20th anniversary in September 2002 and situated down a very creepy alleyway, this rickety Georgian house has a very Dickensian feel inside. The club was set up by Rod Lane who teamed up with Alfredo Fernandini to create an ultra-relaxed, cosy place for like minded people. Its the ideal place to hold a book group with your intellectual friends.
Unique and charming especially around Christmas when the decorations are up and the fire is burning. Staff are always welcoming and friendly. Whether it's just for a glass of wine or a full dinner, every visit has been a joy. The menu is a delight with school dinners (bangers and mash) mixed with mediterranean fare and the Eton Mess is a wonderful surprise. Great wine list too. thank you Rod and all your helpers.
2 Brydges Place
2 Brydges Place,
St. Martins Lane,
London.
WC2N 4HP.
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202 : 202 serves beers, wines and spirits as well as a selection of dishes including brunch and light snacks.
Genre. Bars
Nearest Tube. Notting Hill Gate
Area. Notting Hill
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Opening Hours
Mon-Sat 09:30-19:00; Sun 11:00-17:00
Food type
British
Average Costs
Lunch - £15.00 p/person
Dinner - £15.00 p/person
Booking
Not Necessary
Dress Code
None
Smoking
Allowed
202
202 Westbourne Grove, , Notting Hill, LONDON, W11 2RH
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25 Canonbury Lane : 25 Canonbury Lane is a bar that serves wines, beers and spirits as well as a selection of modern English dishes. Outside seating is provided in the garden.
A lovely setting but let down by very poor service. (Having waited 10 minutes to be served, the bar tender couldn't decide between me and another- being polite I gave way expecting to be next. But I was passed over and had to protest, bringing unwanted attention to myself and appearing petit. As a one off occurence this is inconsequential, but given that my friend had hired out half the bar and this- or some other badge of poor service- happened to everyone in the party it's just not warranted. ) If you've anything in mind beyond vanity try somwhere else- Wetherspoons for example.
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Very small i.e. intimate cocktail bar, filled with people who all seem to know one another. However, you're never made to feel unwelcome by the friendly and hospitable staff, and the cocktails are the best in the area.
Due to it's small size, best to visit for one cocktail before moving on.
It's refreshing to see that places like this can exist in the monotony that is Islington.
Regards,
Concerned_Viewer
Concerned_Viewer - Monday, January 03, 2005
Full of character - with food and chatter!
Great cocktails, seem high, but sip and relax through to your fingertips.
Great tapas and varied food, portion size brings on the drool!
Chandeliers and comfy chairs, colour, warmth, a chic bar with flair!
Monday, September 13, 2004
Nice. laid-back nice. Slightly battered nice. Nicer than a place listed as a 'cocktail' bar.
25 Canonbury Lane Islington N1 2AS
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3 One 7 : I like this place alot. Varied crowd, nice staff. The girls are nice on the eyes too! Thursday night karoke. The drinks are reasonable. Its open to twelve on the weekends. Highly recomended
Pool table
Outside seating, Wireless internet access
Address: 317 Finchley Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 6EP
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333 : This austere, yet eternally popular Old Street bar – with its refreshing mixture of clientele and refreshingly musty, olde-worlde interior – may be approaching its sixth birthday , but that doesn’t make its hallowed, bud-stained walls any less of a legend.
Far from it. Indeed, it’s currently hard to think of the time when Mother won’t be a legend in its own lifetime…
Mother and 333 kick-started the infamous 'Hoxton' trend, back in the bleak days when alcopops, knocked-off YSL shirts and clinical house clubs ruled London nightlife.
What was ground-breaking then – eclectic tunes, a relaxed atmosphere and no-nonsense decor – is commonplace now, which stands testament to the shrewd thinking of the faces behind 333, a mixed bunch of DJs and local entrepreneurs who saw the rich possibilities of this ex-industrial brewery site.
Enter on the Old Street wing for Mother, up battered, institutional-blue stairs and into two adjoining rooms that would easily pass for a circa ’76 post-grad common room.
Dog-eared, dragged-from-a-skip leather sofas back up against large original Victorian windows, which afford a view over a choked road junction and the blinding headlight glare of passing trucks.
Sounds a little dreary admittedly, but when combined with the tattered flock wallpaper and moody low lighting the overall effect is more Brooklyn bar than Brum boozer.
And the no-nonsense approach extends to music policy too. This is democratised clubbing – freeform, eclectic tunes (drum ‘n’ bass, house, Latin and afrobeat and funk, often combined in a single set), for a sartorially ostentatious, yet down-to-earth, bottled beer-supping crowd.
Expect Mother to be perennially full – or if not full, bustling at the very least. The reputation, not to mention the music and elegantly wasted décor bring ‘em flocking from all over the place – even now, almost six years after opening.
Mother has not only established itself as a modish venue (and that’s fairly hard to keep up over half a decade given the fickle natures of your fashion fascist crowd) but also as a genuinely progressive and impressive music venue.
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43 South Molton : You won't find wannabes and has-beens at 43, but you will find "have-dones" and "are-doings". The founders of 43 South Molton and their intentions.43 South Molton is a new members' club in the mouth of Mayfair, for creative professionals who prefer to park pretentiousness at the door. Set over four floors, 43 provides welcome relief from over-design and starchiness. Eccentric country-house comforts mixed with convivial conversationalists make for a house party every night.
"Sterility should stay in the Pharmacy"
43 provides the perfect antidote to over-design. One architecture journalist described our feel as "dilapidated country-house chic." To us that means furniture that's lived-in rather than laughed at. A space injected with fun not farce.
The Rooms:
The second member's floor introduces the Trophy room, a parlour with tables and chairs, and at the rear our private dining room with a DJ booth.
The Lounge and adjacent Bar Room:
The perfect places for you to sink into sofas, sip and savour, and socialise.
The Store:
With its outpost general-store decor, the ground-floor bistro indulges members and the public with Modern European lunches and a new take on tapas for dinner.
The Ballroom:
This is our subterranean homely event space available for private hire. Your ideal venue for a range of parties, launches, live gigs and fashion shows
3 South Molton St, W1K 5RS
Mayfair
main enquiries 020 7647 4343/membership enquiries 020 7647 4330
www.43southmolton.com
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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11:00 - 23:00 |
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50 St James :
50 St James is a distinguished private member's club with an opulent decor and intimate atmosphere. The restaurant serves fine cuisine's from around the world and members can either choose from the A La Carte menu or from the table d'hote menu, which are available for either lunch or dinner.
50 St. James's Street, London
SW1A 1JT
Telephone 020 7491 4678
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79 CXR : 79 CXR unusual gay bar as it has a straight feel to it. Open late - till 3am It's around £3 to get in depending on the time, but you get a raffle ticket which is worth £2 at the bar!
Very cruisy gay crowd - mostly men. All different types of guys go in here. Girls tend to get stared at even if accompanied by a fella.
Friendly place and people tend to talk to each other!
Lots of guys hanging around in the loos so be careful of unwanted attention.
79 CXR
79 Charing Cross Road, , London, WC2H 0NE
Tel. 0871 332 2772
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93 FEET EAST : The upside to 93 Feet East is the venue: a courtyard, terrace and school-hall style main room. The other plus point is the music, playing host to nights like Way Out East they attract plenty of attention from the acts that matter. The downside is the people. The door-staff take a Gestapo like turn the minute the clock strikes 9pm and the punters are your usual East London clones. Clientele wise we're not complaining, it's par for the cause for any eastside 'in' club but the moody security we just can't be doing with. Maybe they're bitter cos they don't get to spin records, get lashed or have any fun. We think management should provide them with free Valium or at least some kind of small pet to keep them amused. For all our sakes.
One of the best bars/clubs in East London. A selection of rooms with different music in each. A real party atmosphere with people dancing on the tables. Especially good in the summer, with it's outdoor area. Nice
Mon-Wed 6pm-11pm,Thu-Sat 6pm-2am,Sun 12pm-10.30pm
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Clientele Trendy, fashion industry, media types
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