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brick lane bars - London is suddenly teeming with late night bar clubs offering everything from burlesque to live music as entertainment since the Licencing Act forces councils to permit bars to open later. How though may be the casual bar goer to select the wheat in the chaff? This is when Club Insider comes in providing unbiased reviews of what is hip and happening london
Soho and also the West End continues to be the place for celebrity driven bars. Although for that casual drinker to locate yourself rubbing shoulders with a celebrity you will need to enter the VIP area first. Of 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. About the drinks front Lab remains 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 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. Furthermore plenty of Soho's bar activity has migrated for the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla making it very much tougher for the rare drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its far too touristey because the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
bars in brick lane - East London is where the experience is about the new bar front with Shoreditch and today Brick Lane because the place where well moneyed hipsters want to available to open new venues. Leaders from the pack have to be Lounge Lover and also the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House but the like of Home, Last Days of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all have their own charm too. In fact along Brick Lane or Shoreditch Traditional achingly cool bars are actually any cash a dozen. All of which amusingly has generated a back lash with a lot of hipsters now declaring their fascination with their tired old local on the flashy charms from the style bar(s) nearby. A honourable mention for Cargo and 93 Feet East too although are both 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 numerous music pub clubs per square mile with there being style bars in Shoreditch and personal members clubs in Soho. From your achingly cool Proud towards the rather run down but highly sought after Monarch Camden is the home from the indie bar (in other words pub) club...... and absolutely nothing else. Actually that isn't quite true Camden and its environs also house several great gastropubs (the Enterprise being the very best) along with a handful of style bars too which Fifty-five is our favourite.
West London unfortunately is suffering 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.
brick lane bars - 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 something different. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel with their glitzy 30s themed accept d'cor and cocktails not to mention The Loft in Clapham. Most of these venues are already obtaining numerous bar awards from Break along with other magazines much for the annoyance of their North of The River London rivals. Recently Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction has been making waves using its clever mixture of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having found almost every award there is certainly for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they may be about to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.
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