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- tomknieling
Travelling to London next week...
Any cool places to go?
Any shops to go?Thanks for your help!
- rasko40
http://www.magmabooks.com on clerkenwell road... http://www.designmuseum.org.uk near tower bridge
- smellvetica0
Covent Garden>
Leicester Square>
Soho>
Carnaby Street>
Pubin that order my friend!
- -_MU_-0
Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace) for the view!
- Seph0
Mother bar - shoreditch.
The Lux - Hoxton square.
Sports bare (if youve got the dough) - Shoreditch
Club 333 - shoreditch.
Spittlefields Market (Sunday mornings) Near Liverpool
- ********0
Walk up the tip of primrose hill, then go for a piint at the princess of wales...or sit in the beer gardne of the engineer.
Then wander down to camden and point and laugh at the freaks.
Get a tube to leicester square, hav some dim sum and then go shopping on covent garden.
- esp0
*London Eye for the view
*Lots of good shops in and
around Covent Garden*Some good bars in
Clerkenwell, Farringdon area*Do an open top bus tour for
the usual tourist sites and
obligatory London photos you
will want*Soho for a night of seediness
- Mr_Jump0
Fuckin shoreditch.. *sigh*
ok, go down to Brick Lane and eat out at the finest curry houses in London - serving excellent Bengali/London cuisine. Checkout all the Banksy stencils on the walls and under the bridges - and the ones done by Banksy wannabe's. Head out to the Vibe bar and then across the street 93 Feet East - TOAST v DJ Rubbish battle going on this Saturday. U might see me there. Or go to fuckin hoxton and look at all the other graphic designers. Drink at the Duke of York pub and then go to Elbow Rooms or something and play pool and dance to some break-beat fineness. Too much to do man. Go buy a Time Out. It's ALL in there! (Definitly have a curry in Brick Lane)
- rasko40
ha! the irony of slating shoreditch and in the same breath noting brick lane as somewhere better, the vibe bar and 93 feet east have more than their fair share of muppets, the whole of brick lane is populated by muppets in fact.
the Troyy Club on Hanway street is the ropiest, dirtiest late night boozer in central London. the Flying Scotsmen, Kings Cross is the shadiest, nastiest strip pub you can hope for. In case you like that sort of thing.
- ********0
Brick lane curries, are I think, over rated. I suspect that the curries I have had there, were little mroe than stewed horse meat. I though I could actually see some whip marks on the flesh.
But it's a tradition I suppose.
- Mr_Jump0
I'm not knockin shoreditch. Brick Lane's totally shoreditch. Exact same crowd of muppet. But i like brick lane. And my mate lives in Hoxton so we're out there all the time. Irony? That ain't irony dawg
- Seph0
Mr_jump
Why diss shotreditch and then tell him to go there?
I bet you point and laugh and make fun of shoreditch mullets but at the same time the people are not in suits, they dont get aggressive, they dont (not as a rule) talk out of their arses and are quite friendly.
I lived from 1996 to 2002 at 72a Brick Lane above the Safire curry house. I know my East End and it pisses me off when people diss it because its trendy to diss it.
- esp0
The Griffin on Clerkenwell Road is easy for a beer and girls at a quid a 'performance'...
- esp0
...if you're into that sort of thing course...
- Mr_Jump0
No, i'm not dissin it. Its a cool place. But its so talked about, thats all. Actaully I prefer agressive places. I shud tell him to go to Ocean in Hackney. Not that agressive, but the walk home sure is.
- Seph0
Hackney downs, I got offered a blowjob for f iver by a crack head there once. I didnt take her up but if I had had an extra few pints who knows?
- Mr_Jump0
All the dealers i've ever had in london (apart from the mini-cab guy) always wanted to meet me in Hackney. Got a special place in my heart.
- rasko40
I used to live in Hackney Central up until october last year, it rules.
Well ok it doesn't quite rule, its ropey as fuck but ya cant say it aint got personality. And I could get beer and fags on tick 24hours a day from the offy downstairs which is always handy.
- soda0
Ha, this makes me laugh.
It's amazing how things change and how much the east end has moved on. I grew up there (born in the sound of the bow bells no less!) and still to this day carry my own hard coded opinions of the place. I lived in Whitechapel but would shit myself going to Hackney! You just didn't do it!!
It's great that it has become a place that people are taking notice of and want to be (even if they are just knocking it) but would I spend £250k buying a place in Bethnal Green like a few mates of mine have?
Would I fuck!
- soda0
as for the curry discussion...if you want a decent curry then don't go to Brick Lane. It's pretty much your British-cook-it-all-in-one-pot-c...
Go to Euston, or Southall for the best Indian(North or South) /Pakistani cuisine.
Or if you want to stay East, go to Namaste Spice on Dock St.
Pricey but worth it...
And while I am at it for things to do in London, go to Borough Market on a saturday get stuffed and walk it off with a stroll on the river towards Oxo and the Tate.
Sorted
- rasko40
yeah drummond street is teh place.