The Good Intent Review: A Pub Named for a Hopeful Phrase
The Good Intent Review: A Pub Named for a Hopeful Phrase | A far-southern stray in the survey, a local whose old-fashioned name promises nothing but good intentions
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Fire Bar Review: Everything in This Survey Started With Fire
Fire Bar Review: Everything in This Survey Started With Fire | Distilling, smoking, brewing, grilling, roasting – and the Great Fire, and the Second Great Fire, and a pump that had nothing to do with any of it
Secret Bar Review: The Last Article, and It Has No Rating at All
Secret Bar Review: The Last Article, and It Has No Rating at All | Six hundred and forty-seven articles, five postcodes, four hundred and seventy venues – and it ends with nothing
Bar Alta Review: A 5.0 From Two People
Bar Alta Review: A 5.0 From Two People | Two. And we have refused this number in five postcodes and six hundred articles and we are not going to stop now.
Banana Pub Crawl Review: A 4.8, and It Is Not a Pub
Banana Pub Crawl Review: A 4.8, and It Is Not a Pub | It is an organised tour, and it holds a better rating than almost every actual bar in Soho, and that tells you something
HDN Review: The Third Initialism, and Nobody Is Saying
HDN Review: The Third Initialism, and Nobody Is Saying | Three letters, twenty-three reviews, and the unsolved list is now thirteen entries long
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
Sophisticats Review: The Pun Is the Worst in Five Postcodes
Sophisticats Review: The Pun Is the Worst in Five Postcodes | And we have assessed four hundred and seventy venues, so this is a considered judgement
Bar Review: It Is Called Bar
Bar Review: It Is Called Bar | Three letters. One word. No adjective. Five stars from one person. And it is the most honest name in six hundred and thirty articles.
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
Rumba Review: The Dance Britain Learned Is Not the Dance
Rumba Review: The Dance Britain Learned Is Not the Dance | Cuban rumba is drums and voices and no melody instrument at all, and what we call rumba is something else entirely
Disrepute Review: Reputation Is the Only Currency This Survey Measures
Disrepute Review: Reputation Is the Only Currency This Survey Measures | A bar named after having none, in an economy that runs on nothing else
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.
Thin White Duke Review: He Disowned This One Completely
Thin White Duke Review: He Disowned This One Completely | The third Bowie character in this file, and the only one he refused to defend afterwards
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
Bantof Review: 4.8, and the Name Is Not a Word
Bantof Review: 4.8, and the Name Is Not a Word | Six letters, no meaning, and it is the newest naming category and it is winning everywhere
Lucky Voice Review: Karaoke Means Empty Orchestra
Lucky Voice Review: Karaoke Means Empty Orchestra | Kara, empty. Oke, orchestra. It is a machine that removes the band and leaves the space where you have to stand.
Jack Solomons Review: He Ran British Boxing Out of a Soho Gym
Jack Solomons Review: He Ran British Boxing Out of a Soho Gym | A fishmonger’s son from the East End who became the most powerful promoter in Europe and had his gym on Great Windmill Street
Colony Room Review: She Paid Francis Bacon to Bring His Friends
Colony Room Review: She Paid Francis Bacon to Bring His Friends | Muriel Belcher gave him ten pounds a week and free drinks to fill the room with people who could afford it, and it worked for sixty years
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
Honestfolk Review: A 5.0 From Four People Is a Rumour
Honestfolk Review: A 5.0 From Four People Is a Rumour | Four reviews is not a rating, it is four evenings, and we have refused this in every district
River Bar Review: A 3.0 From Three People, and the Building Is Free
River Bar Review: A 3.0 From Three People, and the Building Is Free | Three reviews decide nothing, and the concrete around it is the most generous building on the South Bank
Charlies Corner Review: No Rating At All, and That Is How South Bank Ends
Charlies Corner Review: No Rating At All, and That Is How South Bank Ends | Eighty-three articles in this district, and it finishes with a venue the system does not know exists
Chaplin Review: He Was Born Four Streets From Here and Grew Up in the Workhouse
Chaplin Review: He Was Born Four Streets From Here and Grew Up in the Workhouse | Lambeth, poverty, a mother in an asylum – and he became the most famous human being alive
Riverside Garden Review: The Thames Was Biologically Dead in 1957
Riverside Garden Review: The Thames Was Biologically Dead in 1957 | Declared incapable of supporting life, and it now has seals, porpoises and a hundred and twenty-five species of fish
Le Champagne Bar Review: English Sparkling Wine Is on the Same Chalk
Le Champagne Bar Review: English Sparkling Wine Is on the Same Chalk | The seam runs under the Channel and comes up in Kent and Sussex, and the French have started buying land here
Efes Review: Ephesus Had One of the Seven Wonders and a Man Burned It for Fame
Efes Review: Ephesus Had One of the Seven Wonders and a Man Burned It for Fame | He destroyed the Temple of Artemis so that his name would be remembered, and they made it illegal to say it
BFI Balcony Review: The Balcony Is Named After a Beam
BFI Balcony Review: The Balcony Is Named After a Beam | It comes from the Italian for scaffold, and it is doing structural work that most people never think about
Cucumber Bar Review: The Cucumber in the Gin Was a Marketing Decision
Cucumber Bar Review: The Cucumber in the Gin Was a Marketing Decision | One brand told Britain to garnish differently, it worked completely, and it was invented in a boardroom
Southwark Tap Review: Southwark Means the Southern Defensive Work
Southwark Tap Review: Southwark Means the Southern Defensive Work | It was the fortified bridgehead guarding the only crossing, and it existed to defend London from the south