A 3.9 bar from 121 reviews named FiveSixEight, a distinctive numerical name, with an honest verdict from its crowd
FiveSixEight holds a 3.9 from one hundred and twenty-one reviews, and carries a distinctive, modern, numerical name – “FiveSixEight” (568) – the sort of enigmatic, number-based name that modern bars increasingly favour, and which carries, for the British drinker, one particularly apt meaning.
The facts, first
FiveSixEight is a bar in the survey area, at the accessible end of the price range, doing drinks to a good crowd. The Prat’s listings desk states the essentials: a modern bar under a distinctive numerical name, doing drinks to a good crowd.
568: the number of the pint
The number “568” carries, for the British drinker, one wonderfully apt meaning: 568 is the number of millilitres in an imperial pint. The British pint – that most sacred of measures – is defined as 568 millilitres, so “568” is, quite precisely, the number of the pint itself, the very measure of British drinking rendered as a name. Whether or not this is the bar’s intended meaning, it is a delightful and fitting one – a bar named, in effect, for the exact metric size of a pint of British beer. The Prat’s beverage desk relishes the number: 568, the millilitres in an imperial pint, the exact measure of British drinking rendered as a bar’s name.
The modern numerical name
FiveSixEight belongs to a modern fashion this survey has noted – the enigmatic, numerical, or coded bar name (Bar 190, 190 Queen’s Gate, and now 568), which favours a distinctive number or code over a traditional sign. These names are modern, memorable, and intriguing, often coding an address, a date, or – as here, aptly – a measure. They mark the bar as contemporary and design-led, a deliberate break from the old signs of kings and beasts. The Prat’s naming desk notes the trend: the modern numerical name, enigmatic and memorable, here coding (aptly) the exact size of a pint, a contemporary break from the traditional sign.
What the 121 reviews mean
The 3.9 across one hundred and twenty-one people is a solid, honest score on a fair sample, sitting just below the four-star line. As this survey has argued, a score gains reliability with its crowd, and a hundred and twenty-one is a fair sample: an honest 3.9 marks a genuinely decent, dependable bar – not a star, but a solid, honest venue doing its job for its crowd. The Prat’s statistics desk files it as a solid, honest score on a fair sample: a dependable bar, decent and honest.
Verdict
FiveSixEight is a solid, honest, modern bar under a distinctive numerical name – which, delightfully, is the exact millilitre-measure of a British pint – with a fair 3.9 from a decent sample. Clever of name, honest of verdict, and a dependable bar.
Go for a drink at a modern bar with one of the district’s most distinctive names, and enjoy the hidden aptness – FiveSixEight, or 568, the exact number of millilitres in an imperial pint, the very measure of British drinking rendered as a name, over a dependable and honest bar.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
