Outpost Review: The Lounge Is Doing Nothing and the Word Is Empty
Outpost Review: The Lounge Is Doing Nothing and the Word Is Empty | A lounge used to promise a chair you could stay in, and charge extra for it, and everybody understood
Tag: bar names
Home Bar Review: The Sixth Bar Selling You Somebody’s Flat
Home Bar Review: The Sixth Bar Selling You Somebody’s Flat | A category that now runs to six venues across six postcodes, and every one of them is selling the feeling of being invited
Without Papers Review: 4.9, and the Name Is Doing Something
Without Papers Review: 4.9, and the Name Is Doing Something | The highest rating in the district on a real sample belongs to a bar whose name is a phrase about not being allowed to be here
Rain Dogs Review: A Rain Dog Cannot Find Its Way Home
Rain Dogs Review: A Rain Dog Cannot Find Its Way Home | The rain washes away the scent trail, and the dog is lost in a city it knows, and that is the whole idea
Ninety One Review: The Address Is the Name, Again
Ninety One Review: The Address Is the Name, Again | A number on a door, which cannot be wrong, and which is now the eleventh honest name in six postcodes
Soho Residence Review: A 3.9, and the Word Residence Is Doing a Lot
Soho Residence Review: A 3.9, and the Word Residence Is Doing a Lot | It is not a residence and nobody lives there, and it is the fourth venue in this survey selling the fantasy of a home
Little Violet Door Review: 4.8, and It Is Behind a Little Violet Door
Little Violet Door Review: 4.8, and It Is Behind a Little Violet Door | The name is a set of directions, which after five hundred and fifty articles is a considerable relief
93 Feet East Review: The Name Is a Boundary Measurement
93 Feet East Review: The Name Is a Boundary Measurement | It is the distance from a fixed point, it appears in the deeds, and it is the most literal name in six postcodes
TKL Review: The Last Shoreditch Article, and It Is Three Letters
TKL Review: The Last Shoreditch Article, and It Is Three Letters | A hundred and ten articles in this district, and it ends with an initialism nobody will explain
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes Review: It Is Two Old Shop Signs
Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes Review: It Is Two Old Shop Signs | They took over two units, never changed the fascias, and the name is simply what was already written on the building
Bar Jackie Review: The Fourteenth Woman on a Sign
Bar Jackie Review: The Fourteenth Woman on a Sign | Fifty-two reviews, and nobody has asked, and by now we did not expect them to
3 Henrietta Street Review: A Bar Named After Its Own Address
3 Henrietta Street Review: A Bar Named After Its Own Address | The most literal name in this survey, and after a hundred and eleven articles it comes as an enormous relief
V Bar Review: A Single Letter, and Four Reviews
V Bar Review: A Single Letter, and Four Reviews | V could stand for Victoria, victory, or five – and with four reviews, the letter is doing all the work there is
Gigi’s Review: A 3.8, and the Eighteenth Woman Nobody Can Name
Gigi’s Review: A 3.8, and the Eighteenth Woman Nobody Can Name | Three hundred and eight people have reviewed this bar and not one of them has asked who she is
Equus Review: Thirteen Reviews and a Very Loaded Name
Equus Review: Thirteen Reviews and a Very Loaded Name | Equus is Latin for horse. It is also a famous play about a boy who blinds six of them. The bar has not clarified.
135 Review: The Fourth Numbered Bar, and Still No Explanation
135 Review: The Fourth Numbered Bar, and Still No Explanation | A number on a door tells you nothing, cannot be checked, and cannot be wrong, and that is precisely the appeal
Studio48 Review: The Rename Broke the Coordinate
Studio48 Review: The Rename Broke the Coordinate | The listing says formerly, which means the venue knows exactly what a name change costs
Henderson Review: Another Surname, and We Have Stopped Being Surprised
Henderson Review: Another Surname, and We Have Stopped Being Surprised | Thirty-nine reviews, and the last of the possessive names in a survey that has been collecting them for three hundred articles
Mulwray Review: Forget It, Jake
Mulwray Review: Forget It, Jake | Named for a character in the bleakest ending in American cinema, and the last line is one of the most quoted in the language
Otherist Review: Othering Is a Real Term and This Is Not It
Otherist Review: Othering Is a Real Term and This Is Not It | The name gestures at a serious idea, almost certainly by accident, and we are going to take it seriously anyway
Cabin Bar Review: The Word Means a Small Room You Cannot Leave
Cabin Bar Review: The Word Means a Small Room You Cannot Leave | Cabin fever, ship’s cabin, log cabin – and a bar in Paddington with a 4.6, which is the best of them
Two Floors Review: The Plainest Name in Soho
Two Floors Review: The Plainest Name in Soho | It has two floors. That is the entire claim, and it is verifiable, and after six hundred articles it is a relief.
Bar 1790 Review: A Year, and It Was an Extremely Loud One
Bar 1790 Review: A Year, and It Was an Extremely Loud One | The sixth numeric name in four postcodes, and the year in question was the one where everything started going wrong for everybody
My Place Review: The Fifth Bar Selling You a Home
My Place Review: The Fifth Bar Selling You a Home | It is not your place and it is not theirs, and this is now a genuine category with a genuine explanation
Blood Orange Bar Review: Six Reviews and a Vivid Name
Blood Orange Bar Review: Six Reviews and a Vivid Name | A 4.8 from six people, and a name doing everything the generic ones fail to do: it is specific, sensory and memorable
Chilled Eskimo Review: The Name Has Not Aged Well
Chilled Eskimo Review: The Name Has Not Aged Well | Thirty-nine reviews, a 4.2, and a word that most of the people it refers to would rather you did not use
MNM Review: Three Letters, and Nobody Is Explaining
MNM Review: Three Letters, and Nobody Is Explaining | The second initialism in this survey, and the unsolved list is now nine entries long
Drop Kensington Review: The Smallest Unit of Drinking
Drop Kensington Review: The Smallest Unit of Drinking | A drop is the tiniest measure of liquid – and ‘a drop of something’ is one of the fondest phrases in the language of drink
64 Old Compton Street Review: The Address Is the Name
64 Old Compton Street Review: The Address Is the Name | Which puts it in a category with about eight other venues in five postcodes, and it is the only honest one
Back To Mine Review: The Most Optimistic Name in Five Postcodes
Back To Mine Review: The Most Optimistic Name in Five Postcodes | Four words that have preceded more bad decisions than any other sentence in the English language