London Bar Recommends?
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- paraselene0
wow. just tfl'd it. not that far at all to the endurance. seven minutes! plus there's wanky music industry people in there who will buy drinks for the girls so you don't have to. woo.
- skt0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
Chimp
(May 22 06, 07:55)I'm not that sure that hat turned out to be quite such a success in the end.
- Baskerville0
I guy I work with always makes us go to the endurance. I can definitely vouch for there being wanky music types in there!
- soda0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
Chimp
(May 22 06, 07:55)I'm not that sure that hat turned out to be quite such a success in the end.
skt
(May 22 06, 07:58)heathens!
- Nairn0
Beautiful - thankyou very much Rasko & Parasalene (I think Crouwel might be on to something ;) and I know that I can rely on your jukebox taste..
x
- Nairn0
:) Aw, sweet - i'm glad you enjoyed it, that's a ray of sunshine for me in an otherwise comically disastrous weekend!
Friday was doomed as soon as half of the people who were supposed to turn up, didn't. A girl from home, who the remainder of the group have a mutual dislike of, did turn up - and being the prissy champagne-snaffling pretentious perenially-proto- lawyer she is, didn't like the places we were going to, nor would bother to walk to some of the outer options in her heels, dragging her airport trolley/make up wagon.
Then, the old friend we were meeting turned out to be exactly the same old friend we left at home many years ago - but, despite 'doing quite well for himself' seemed to think that we were all loaded and were Taking Him Out and kept going for Teh Most Expensive Cocktails. Despite having his g/f of 5 years with him, he spent all evening making really obscene jokes and just being a juvenile muppet, whilst she shied away, looked awkward all the time and proved incredibly difficult with to engage in any form of conversation.
Then we went for an awful meal - end'o'night remnants, at a Moroccan restaurant, where one of the group - an Italian who's lived in Jamaica for 7 years (who i assumed would be a bit worldly) was very rude to the African waitress, which kind of set the pace and airs of the meal.
After this I took everyone to Madame JoJo's, as i thought it'd be a gentle compromise for everyone, and took great pains to explain what kind of music it was etc. As Soon As we'd paid the entrance and walked down the stairs, I saw the two visitor's faces drop and we spent the next half hour in a chair-dancing/foot-tapping conversational void (it was a bit noisy) 'til it became painfully obvious we had to leave. He actually said to me (in a heavily accented Gibraltarian accent "Ey Jooin [ie. 'Ewen'] , man - I'd've preferred it if we'd got some E's and gone to listen to some Reggaeton".
Deep down, I wanted to die. And maybe take him with me.
So then I walked all the way home, in the rain - I could've got a taxi, but by this stage I was enjoying soaking up the catastrophe.
Now my suede trainers and headphones I was wearing are utterly ruined.
On Saturday, I went up to St. Albans for a friend's 30th, to one of those provincial out of town 'halls' which accomodate leisure facilities and cheesy dance nights, where upon we came across good ol' twatty bouncers who wouldn't let my friend in because of his trainers. At which point we turned-tail and came straight back on the last train to London.
(this is my longest post ever, i think - thanks for letting me get all that off my chest.)
- skt0
Oddbins Ltd, 47, Brewer St.
No55 Bus, Oxford Street.
Stay on it for at least 15 minutes whilst drinking carry out.
Get off go to any bar you can see and you are doing better than the town centre.
- Chimp0
The Social on Little Portland Street: 12 mins
rasko4
(May 19 06, 07:48)Yep good call. If you would like a more old school pub, John Snows is very cheap.
- roper0
anywhere. just got back from upper street/angel and i'm fucking smashed! have a good 'un everyone! the social is still my number one!
- skt0
Jon snows is the best pub in Soho. £1.97 a pint. Although Aiagearegerer brou gives a hoor of a hangover.
- MrBixler0
The Crown And Sceptre on Gt Titchfield St has just been voted my new favourite pub.
It’s the perfect cure if you’re sick of the Shaston and the White Donkey.
- Bottlerocket0
I hate that beer at John snows. £1.97 is exaclt £1.96p too expensive in my opinion, it is dire.
That said, I endorse the suggestion to go to 'Two Floors' but there its £3.00 for a bottle of mexican beer!
- paraselene0
hell's teeth, nairn. your weekend sounds rubbish.
at least it was bad enough to be comical. somehow there is consolation to be had in that...
it's so difficult to have old friends visit from home. especially when home is another country and you haven't seen them for a long time. they can turn into twats and you get each other wrong and then it just dissolves into an awkward, mutually self-conscious vortex in which you anxiously wait for their plane to leave.
:l
haha. i see now that if there are any places in central london which would be suitable for these kind of people, i certainly don't know where they are!
- Chimp0
Oddbins Ltd, 47, Brewer St.
No55 Bus, Oxford Street.
Stay on it for at least 15 minutes whilst drinking carry out.
Get off go to any bar you can see and you are doing better than the town centre.
skt
(May 19 06, 08:09)You back on the special brew?
- rasko40
sound like a right bunch of cunts Nairn, sorry about your ordeal, should have left em to it.
- paraselene0
jon snows smells of piss. but it is cheap.
have a good time, nairn!
- Chimp0
jon snows smells of piss. but it is cheap.
have a good time, nairn!
paraselene
(May 19 06, 08:18)Too good for the pubs that smell of piss are we?
- skt0
jon snows smells of piss. but it is cheap.
have a good time, nairn!
paraselene
(May 19 06, 08:18)As all good pubs should. Ah, the days when you could just piss into the gutter running round the bottom of the bar. Women in pubs spoilt all that.
- paraselene0
Too good for the pubs that smell of piss are we?
Chimp
(May 19 06, 08:21)not at all.
*adjusts petticoat
- Gordy220
Whate ever you do, no matter ow late it is or drunk you are DO NOT GO TO ONANON.
The bar in the ICA isn't too bad actually, just down from Trafalger Square.