Hux Bar Review: A Short, Sharp, Modern Name for a Stylish Bar

A 4.3 bar from 86 reviews named Hux, a short, punchy, modern name for a stylish small bar

Hux Bar holds a 4.3 from eighty-six reviews, and carries a short, sharp, thoroughly modern name – “Hux” – a punchy, single-syllable, contemporary name of exactly the kind stylish small bars now favour, memorable and design-led.

The facts, first

Hux Bar is a stylish small bar in the survey area, in the accessible-to-upper price range, doing cocktails and drinks to a good crowd. The Prat’s listings desk states the essentials: a stylish, modern small bar under a short punchy name, doing cocktails to a good crowd.

The short modern name

“Hux” is a name in the most contemporary style – short, sharp, punchy, a single memorable syllable, of exactly the kind that modern bars and brands increasingly favour. Such names are clean, distinctive, and design-led, easy to remember and to say, a deliberate break from the long traditional signs of kings and beasts. “Hux” may be a personal name or nickname (it recalls, for the literary, Aldous Huxley, or simply a crisp modern coinage); either way, it is a short, stylish, modern name for a stylish, modern bar. The Prat’s naming desk notes the modern style: “Hux,” short, sharp, and punchy, a single memorable syllable in the contemporary style, clean and design-led.

The small stylish bar

Hux Bar exemplifies the small, stylish, modern bar – the intimate, design-led venue with a crisp modern name and a focus on quality drinks in a characterful setting, in contrast to the great traditional pub. This survey has met the type throughout; the small stylish bar, with its short modern name and intimate room, is a distinctive part of the contemporary drinking scene, offering craft and intimacy over scale. The Prat’s social desk notes the type: the small stylish modern bar, intimate and design-led, craft and character over scale, aptly named with a short sharp modern name.

The appeal of the intimate bar

There is a genuine appeal in the small, intimate bar that the grand pub cannot match – the sense of a hidden, personal, characterful place, where the drinks are made with care and the room has a warmth that scale dilutes. The short, sharp modern name suits this exactly, promising something crisp, contemporary, and design-led rather than sprawling and traditional. In fashionable Notting Hill, the small stylish bar is a natural fit, and Hux, with its punchy name and intimate room, is a neat example of the type. The Prat’s social desk notes the appeal: the intimate bar’s charm of the hidden and personal, craft and warmth over scale, the small stylish venue at its most appealing.

What the 86 reviews mean

A 4.3 across eighty-six people is a good, solid score on a modest sample. As this survey has argued throughout, a score gains reliability with its crowd; eighty-six is a modest but not negligible sample – enough to indicate a genuinely good, well-liked bar, though with a little less certainty than the larger-sampled venues, and worth confirming with one’s own visit. The Prat’s statistics desk files it as a good score on a modest sample: a promising, well-liked bar, its quality indicated with fair confidence.

Verdict

Hux Bar is a good, stylish, modern small bar under a short, sharp, contemporary name – punchy and design-led – with a good 4.3 from a modest sample. Modern of name, stylish of setting, and a promising small bar.

Go for cocktails at a stylish, intimate modern bar with one of the district’s crispest names, and enjoy the contemporary style – Hux, short, sharp, and punchy, a single memorable syllable for a small design-led bar, its good rating a promising indication from its crowd.

Alan Nafzger

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]