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brick lane bars - London is suddenly teeming with evening bar clubs offering everything from burlesque to reside music as entertainment as the Licencing Act forces councils to permit bars to start later. How though may be the casual bar goer to choose the wheat from the chaff? This is how Club Insider will come in providing unbiased reviews of what is hip and happening london
Soho and the West End continues to be location for celebrity driven bars. Although for your casual drinker to locate yourself rubbing shoulders using a celebrity you will need to enter into the VIP area first. With the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though the real celebrity action is in the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. About 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 every one of the Match Bars and also the much derided hotel bars such as the Lanesborough and Met bar. Overall though Westminster's notoriously tight licensing rules have effectively put the block on new late licenses in Soho stifling the scene especially with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues whenever they can. In addition lots of Soho's bar activity has migrated to 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 much too touristey since the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
bars in brick lane - East London is where the action is around the new bar front with Shoreditch now Brick Lane because the place where well moneyed hipsters like to available to open new venues. Leaders of the pack need to be Lounge Lover as well as the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House nevertheless the like of Home, Last Times of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all have their own own charm too. In fact along Brick Lane or Shoreditch Traditional achingly cool bars are actually a dime twelve. All of which amusingly has generated a back lash with many hipsters now declaring their passion for their tired old local within the flashy charms from the style bar(s) next door. A honourable mention for Cargo and 93 Feet East too although both are really more music venues than bars. Anything missing? Well possibly a few more live music venues first of all.
For North London read Camden with as many music pub clubs per square mile as there are style bars in Shoreditch and private members clubs in Soho. From your achingly cool Proud to the rather run-down but popular Monarch Camden will be the home from the indie bar (or rather pub) club...... and absolutely nothing else. Actually that isn't quite true Camden and its environs also house several very good gastropubs (the Enterprise being the most effective) and a handful of style bars too which Fityfive is our favourite.
West London unfortunately suffers from the deadly RBKC (that is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) disease who inside their wisdom have effectively place the kibosh on new evening venue openings. Club Insider however likes the electrical Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.
bars in brick lane - That leaves South London? A mix of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has created a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs attempting to try something more important. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel using their glitzy 30s themed take on d'cor and cocktails not to mention The Loft in Clapham. Many of these venues are already picking up numerous bar awards from Periods as well as other magazines much towards the annoyance of their North from the River London rivals. More recently Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction may be making waves having its clever combination of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having acquired almost every award there is certainly for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they are about to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.
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