The bluethroat is one of Britain’s rarest and most beautiful little birds – a jewel of a name for a top-rated Brixton bar
Bluethroat in Brixton holds two hundred and seventy-nine reviews and a perfect 5.0 – an exceptional and remarkable score, one of the very best in this entire survey – and it is named after one of Britain’s rarest and most beautiful little birds: the bluethroat, a jewel-throated songbird, a genuine rarity and a delight.
The perfect score
A perfect 5.0 across two hundred and seventy-nine reviews is genuinely remarkable – a large enough sample to carry real weight, and a flawless score across all of it. It is one of the very highest ratings in this whole survey, across all its London areas, and it marks Bluethroat as a genuinely exceptional, beloved, near-universally-praised venue. When a bar earns a perfect score across nearly three hundred reviews, it is doing something very right indeed. As ever, we note the remarkable number and turn to the beautiful name.
The jewel-throated bird
The bluethroat is one of the most beautiful and sought-after of all British birds – and one of the rarest. It is a small songbird, related to the robin, and the male in breeding plumage is a genuine jewel: he has a brilliant, iridescent blue throat, bordered with black and chestnut and often marked with a bright red or white spot in the centre – one of the most stunningly beautiful markings of any European bird. This dazzling blue throat gives the bird its name, and makes it a true jewel of the bird world – small, exquisite, and gloriously coloured.
The bluethroat is a genuine rarity in Britain. It is only a scarce passage migrant and very rare breeder here – most British birdwatchers go their whole lives hoping for a glimpse of one, and the appearance of a bluethroat is a genuine event, drawing eager birders from far and wide. It is a bird of real rarity, beauty and special delight – the jewel-throated migrant, glimpsed only rarely, treasured all the more for its scarcity. To name a bar “Bluethroat” is to reach for exactly this quality – rare, beautiful, jewel-like, a genuine delight and a special find.
The beautiful, distinctive name
As a name for a bar, “Bluethroat” is beautiful, distinctive and evocative. It has the appeal of the bird names this survey has admired throughout – the warmth and charm of the natural world – but with an added note of rarity, beauty and jewel-like distinction. It evokes something rare and beautiful, a jewel, a special find – exactly the qualities of a genuinely excellent, sought-after, special little bar. And its brilliant blue throat gives it a note of colour and beauty, the jewel-blue of the name suggesting something exquisite and special.
There is a lovely fit between the rare, beautiful, jewel-like bird and a bar that has earned a perfect score – both are rare, special, exquisite finds. “Bluethroat” promises something rare and beautiful, a jewel of a venue, a special discovery – and its flawless score across a large sample suggests it more than delivers. It is exactly the kind of rare, beautiful, treasured find its jewel-throated name evokes – a genuine gem of a bar, as rare and delightful as the bird it is named for.
The bar
A genuinely exceptional bar doing a flawless 5.0 across a large and real sample – one of the best-rated in this whole survey – beautifully named “Bluethroat” after one of Britain’s rarest and most beautiful little birds, the jewel-throated songbird.
Verdict
Exceptional and flawlessly rated – a genuine gem, beautifully named “Bluethroat” after the rare, jewel-throated songbird, as rare and delightful as the bird itself.
Go to Bluethroat – one of the very best-rated venues in this whole survey – and enjoy the rare beauty of the name: the bluethroat, the jewel-throated little songbird, a rare and treasured find, just like the bar itself.
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]
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