Upper 5th Review: A 3.4, and Fifty-Eight People Is the Dead Zone | Between twenty and sixty reviews, four bad nights cannot be outvoted, and recovery is arithmetically almost impossible
Odyssey Review: It Took Him Ten Years to Go Home | The Trojan War lasted ten years and the journey back took ten more, and almost all of it was his own fault
STEREO Review: A Name in Capital Letters, and a 4.1 | Covent Garden’s late-night cocktail bar is the lowest-rated of its class here, and the reason is the door
The Gods Rooftop Bar Review: 3.8 Stars and a Very Good View | Named after the cheapest seats in a theatre, rated accordingly, and yet the view is genuinely excellent
Off Broadway Review: Off-Broadway Was Defined by Seat Count | It is not a place and it is not a style – it is a number of seats, written into a union agreement
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
Rainbow Review: A 3.5, and Ninety-Nine People Is Not Enough | Just outside the dead zone, and the number is still being decided by a handful of bad nights
Equal Parts Review: The Best Cocktails Are Equal Parts | The Negroni, the Last Word, the Corpse Reviver – the greatest drinks are all one-to-one-to-one, and that is not a coincidence
Light Bar Review: It Was a Power Station | The building generated the electricity for the Great Eastern Railway, and the turbine hall is now the dining room
Lighthouse Review: A 2.7, and the Reviews Are All the Same | The lowest score in this district on a serious sample, and four hundred people have written about the same thing
Jailhouse Review: The Second Prison Bar in This District | Alcotraz holds a 4.8 and this holds a 4.3, and the difference is entirely the sample and the promise
UVA Cantina Review: The Last One | A hundred and twenty bars, a hundred and twenty articles, and one final small room doing everything right
Trapeze Review: The Word Means Four-Legged Table | A trapezium is a table shape, the circus act was named after the geometry, and the geometry was named after furniture
Colours Review: The Regiment’s Colours Were Worth Dying For | Men died protecting a flag, deliberately, and the practice was abolished because too many of them did
Spread Eagle Review: The Eagle Is Habsburg, and It Has Two Heads | A displayed eagle is a heraldic pose, the double-headed version is an empire looking both ways, and it is on a great many pub signs
Strongroom Review: The Bar Is Attached to a Recording Studio | Records you have heard were made twelve metres from where you are drinking, and the bar exists because the sessions ran late
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 | Thirty-nine reviews, and the last of the possessive names in a survey that has been collecting them for three hundred articles
Sixes Review: Cricket, With the Boring Parts Removed | A bowling machine, a net, a screen, and a game that has been stripped of everything except hitting
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
Leadbelly Review: He Was Recorded in Prison and the Man Who Found Him Took the Copyright | A folk archivist with a portable disc cutter, an extraordinary musician, and a contract nobody should have signed
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
Greenberry Review: Coffee Is a Seed and It Is Green | The bean is not a bean, the roasting is everything, and the colour that gives this cafe its name is the raw state
The Globe Review: 3.2 Stars, Which Takes Some Doing | The lowest-rated venue in the Notting Hill file, and a hundred and fifty people who all arrived at roughly the same conclusion
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.
La Bodega Review: The Word Means Warehouse, and Then It Meant Everything | A bodega is a cellar in Spain, a corner shop in New York, and a wine bar in Notting Hill, and the drift is the story
Freaks and Geeks Review: A Geek Was a Fairground Performer Who Bit Heads Off Chickens | One of the most complete reversals in English, and the word used to be the lowest thing at the carnival
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.
Cocktail Club Review: Nobody Knows Where the Word Cocktail Came From | Six theories, none documented, and the first printed definition in 1806 says it is a bittered sling
Core Bar Review: The Earth’s Core Is Iron and Nickel and It Is Why We Are Alive | It is spinning, it is generating a magnetic field, and that field is the only reason this planet still has an atmosphere
