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brick lane bars - London is suddenly teeming with late night bar clubs offering anything from burlesque to reside music as entertainment since the Licencing Act forces councils to allow bars to spread out later. How though may be the casual bar goer to pick the wheat from your chaff? This is where Club Insider will come in providing unbiased reviews of what's hip and happening working in london
Soho and the West End continues to be spot for celebrity driven bars. Although for the casual drinker to locate yourself rubbing shoulders using a celebrity you'll have to enter into the VIP area first. From the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though real celebrity action is incorporated in the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. On the drinks front Lab continues to be 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 every one of the Match Bars as well as the much derided hotel bars just like the Lanesborough and Met bar. Overall though Westminster's notoriously tight licensing rules have effectively place the block on new late licenses in Soho stifling the scene especially with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues every time they can. Additionally plenty of Soho's bar activity has migrated for the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla making it that much tougher for the casual drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its much too touristey as the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
bars in brick lane - East London is when the experience is around the new bar front with Shoreditch and today Brick Lane as the place where well moneyed hipsters want to open to open new venues. Leaders of the pack need to be Lounge Lover and the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House nevertheless the like of Home, Last Events of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all get their own charm too. In reality along Brick Lane or Shoreditch Traditional achingly cool bars are now any cash several. All of these amusingly has established a back lash with lots of hipsters now declaring their fascination with 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 for starters.
For North London read Camden with as many music pub clubs per square mile with there being style bars in Shoreditch and members clubs in Soho. From the achingly cool Proud to the rather rundown but popular Monarch Camden will be the home with the indie bar (in other words pub) club...... and nothing else. Actually that's not quite true Camden and its particular environs also house several excellent gastropubs (the Enterprise being the best) and a handful of style bars too which Fifty Five is our favourite.
West London unfortunately suffers from the deadly RBKC (this is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) disease who in their wisdom have effectively position the kibosh on new night time venue openings. Club Insider however likes the Electric Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.
bars in brick lane - That leaves South London? A combination of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has created a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs planning to try something different. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel with their glitzy 30s themed undertake d'cor and cocktails not to mention The Loft in Clapham. All of these venues have been collecting numerous bar awards from Break as well as other magazines much towards the annoyance of these North of The River London rivals. Lately Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction has been making waves with its clever mixture of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having acquired almost every award there is for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they're planning to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.
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