Best Shoreditch Bars
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London is suddenly teeming with late night bar clubs offering anything from burlesque to call home music as entertainment since the Licencing Act forces councils to allow bars to start later. How though may be the casual bar goer to select the wheat from the chaff? This is when Club Insider comes in providing unbiased reviews of what's hip and happening in London
Soho and also the West End continues to be spot for celebrity driven bars. Although for your casual drinker to discover yourself rubbing shoulders having a celebrity you will have to enter the VIP area first. From the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though the real celebrity action is incorporated in the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. On the drinks front Lab continues to be the cocktail daddy although comparative newcomers like Milk and Honey, CellarDoor and specialist regional bars like Floridita are nipping at its heels. Club Insider also likes all the Match Bars and also the much derided hotel bars just like the Lanesborough and Met bar. Overall though Westminster's notoriously tight licensing rules have effectively position the block on new late licenses in Soho stifling the scene particularly with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues every time they can. Additionally lots of Soho's bar activity has migrated for the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla rendering it much more difficult for the casual drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its way too touristey since the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
East London is when encounter is on the new bar front with Shoreditch and now Brick Lane as the place where well moneyed hipsters like to open to open new venues. Leaders of the pack need to be Lounge Lover as well as the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House but the like of Home, Last Days of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all have their very own charm too. Actually along Brick Lane or Shoreditch High-street achingly cool bars are now any money twelve. All of these amusingly has generated a back lash with many hipsters now declaring their love for their tired old local on the flashy charms from the style bar(s) next door. A honourable mention for Cargo and 93 Feet East too although both of them are really more music venues than bars. Anything missing? Well possibly some more live music venues to begin with.
For North London read Camden with as much music pub clubs per square mile as there are style bars in Shoreditch and members clubs in Soho. From your achingly cool Proud towards the rather run down but highly sought after Monarch Camden is the home of the indie bar (or rather pub) club...... and absolutely nothing else. Actually that is not quite true Camden and it is environs also house several excellent gastropubs (the Enterprise being the best) along with a handful of style bars too of which Fifty Five is our favourite.
West London unfortunately is affected with the deadly RBKC (that's the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) disease who in their wisdom have effectively place the kibosh on new night time venue openings. Club Insider however likes the electrical Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.
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That leaves South London? A variety of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has established a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs planning to try different things. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel making use of their glitzy 30s themed take on d�cor and cocktails as well as The Loft in Clapham. Many of these venues are already obtaining numerous bar awards from Break along with other magazines much to the annoyance of these North of The River London rivals. Lately Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction continues to be making waves having its clever mixture of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having picked up almost every award there's for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they may be planning to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.
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London is suddenly teeming with late night bar clubs offering anything from burlesque to call home music as entertainment since the Licencing Act forces councils to allow bars to start later. How though may be the casual bar goer to select the wheat from the chaff? This is when Club Insider comes in providing unbiased reviews of what's hip and happening in London
Soho and also the West End continues to be spot for celebrity driven bars. Although for your casual drinker to discover yourself rubbing shoulders having a celebrity you will have to enter the VIP area first. From the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though the real celebrity action is incorporated in the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. On the drinks front Lab continues to be the cocktail daddy although comparative newcomers like Milk and Honey, CellarDoor and specialist regional bars like Floridita are nipping at its heels. Club Insider also likes all the Match Bars and also the much derided hotel bars just like the Lanesborough and Met bar. Overall though Westminster's notoriously tight licensing rules have effectively position the block on new late licenses in Soho stifling the scene particularly with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues every time they can. Additionally lots of Soho's bar activity has migrated for the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla rendering it much more difficult for the casual drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its way too touristey since the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
East London is when encounter is on the new bar front with Shoreditch and now Brick Lane as the place where well moneyed hipsters like to open to open new venues. Leaders of the pack need to be Lounge Lover as well as the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House but the like of Home, Last Days of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all have their very own charm too. Actually along Brick Lane or Shoreditch High-street achingly cool bars are now any money twelve. All of these amusingly has generated a back lash with many hipsters now declaring their love for their tired old local on the flashy charms from the style bar(s) next door. A honourable mention for Cargo and 93 Feet East too although both of them are really more music venues than bars. Anything missing? Well possibly some more live music venues to begin with.
For North London read Camden with as much music pub clubs per square mile as there are style bars in Shoreditch and members clubs in Soho. From your achingly cool Proud towards the rather run down but highly sought after Monarch Camden is the home of the indie bar (or rather pub) club...... and absolutely nothing else. Actually that is not quite true Camden and it is environs also house several excellent gastropubs (the Enterprise being the best) along with a handful of style bars too of which Fifty Five is our favourite.
West London unfortunately is affected with the deadly RBKC (that's the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) disease who in their wisdom have effectively place the kibosh on new night time venue openings. Club Insider however likes the electrical Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.
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That leaves South London? A variety of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has established a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs planning to try different things. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel making use of their glitzy 30s themed take on d�cor and cocktails as well as The Loft in Clapham. Many of these venues are already obtaining numerous bar awards from Break along with other magazines much to the annoyance of these North of The River London rivals. Lately Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction continues to be making waves having its clever mixture of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having picked up almost every award there's for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they may be planning to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.
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