S L B Bar Review: Initials, and Nobody Will Say What They Stand For
S L B Bar Review: Initials, and Nobody Will Say What They Stand For | Thirty-one reviews and three letters with spaces between them, which is a deliberate act
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ESG Sweet Bar Review: The Last One, and It Has No Rating
ESG Sweet Bar Review: The Last One, and It Has No Rating | One hundred and twenty articles in the Square Mile, and the final venue has no number at all
Palomino Review: The Colour Cannot Be Bred True
Palomino Review: The Colour Cannot Be Bred True | Two palominos do not reliably make a palomino, because the gene that produces it does not behave
Bloodsports Review: The Name Is a Provocation and We Have Notes
Bloodsports Review: The Name Is a Provocation and We Have Notes | Bear-baiting, bull-baiting, cock-fighting. All legal, all popular, all royally patronised – and all within a mile of this bar.
Oasis Review: The Water Is There Because the Rock Says So
Oasis Review: The Water Is There Because the Rock Says So | An oasis is not luck – it is geology, and the water frequently fell as rain thousands of years ago
Oriani Review: The Trailing Space Is in the Listing
Oriani Review: The Trailing Space Is in the Listing | Look carefully at the name. There is a space before the closing bracket, and it has been there ever since.
Bar 182.52 Review: There Is a Decimal Point in the Name
Bar 182.52 Review: There Is a Decimal Point in the Name | Eleven people have reviewed a bar named after a number with two decimal places, and the Prat has questions
CRATE Review: Hackney Wick Was Cheap and That Is Why It Was Interesting
CRATE Review: Hackney Wick Was Cheap and That Is Why It Was Interesting | The highest concentration of artists in Europe, in warehouses nobody wanted, and then the Olympics arrived
Imperial Palace of Big Red Review: The Best Name in Camden
Imperial Palace of Big Red Review: The Best Name in Camden | It is absurd, it is confident, it explains nothing, and it is the only name in this district doing any work at all
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
Gillray’s Review: He Invented the Political Cartoon and Went Mad
Gillray’s Review: He Invented the Political Cartoon and Went Mad | He drew the King as a farmer and Napoleon as a tiny man, and both images have outlived every argument he was making
Mr Pizza Baby Review: The Comedy Club Sells Pizza Because It Has To
Mr Pizza Baby Review: The Comedy Club Sells Pizza Because It Has To | The ticket makes nothing, the bar makes the money, and every small venue in Britain is a bar with a stage attached
Vaulty Towers Review: The Pun Is Doing Work, Which Is Rare
Vaulty Towers Review: The Pun Is Doing Work, Which Is Rare | It is in a vault, it is a Fawlty Towers joke, and it is one of the very few puns in this survey that earns its place
Whiteley’s Bar Review: He Was Shot Dead in His Own Shop
Whiteley’s Bar Review: He Was Shot Dead in His Own Shop | William Whiteley saw the Crystal Palace in 1851 and built an empire. In 1907 a man walked in, claimed to be his son, and killed him.
Found Review: 4.8, and Nobody Has Found It
Found Review: 4.8, and Nobody Has Found It | Four hundred and forty-five people, an excellent score, and a name that is very nearly a joke about its own obscurity
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
Columbo Review: The Detective Show With No Mystery
Columbo Review: The Detective Show With No Mystery | You see the murder in the first ten minutes, you know who did it, and that is the entire point
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.
Popworld Review: Pop Means Popular and It Was an Insult
Popworld Review: Pop Means Popular and It Was an Insult | For most of its history the word was used by people who wanted you to know they listened to something better
Amora Gusto Review: Gusto Means Taste, and So Does Wisdom
Amora Gusto Review: Gusto Means Taste, and So Does Wisdom | Sapor gave English savour, sapient and insipid – and Homo sapiens means, literally, the man who tastes
Rum Kitchen Review: 4.9, and Twenty-Two People Is a Rumour
Rum Kitchen Review: 4.9, and Twenty-Two People Is a Rumour | We have refused this number in every district and we are refusing it here, and the reason is a matched pair
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
My Village Review: Hawraman Is a Real Place and It Sings
My Village Review: Hawraman Is a Real Place and It Sings | A Kurdish mountain region on the Iran-Iraq border, terraced for millennia, with a music that is on the UNESCO list
Rebelle Review: Eleven Reviews, and Somebody Signed a Lease
Rebelle Review: Eleven Reviews, and Somebody Signed a Lease | A live music room with almost no reviews, in a district that is losing them, and the arithmetic is against it
Tattershall Castle Review: It Is a Humber Ferry
Tattershall Castle Review: It Is a Humber Ferry | A paddle steamer that crossed an estuary for forty years, then became a pub, and it is still floating
Piano Kensington Review: Somebody Is Playing and Nobody Is Listening
Piano Kensington Review: Somebody Is Playing and Nobody Is Listening | The hardest job in music is performing to a room that has not come to hear you, and doing it for four hours
Underworld Review: The Small Venue Is the Entire Supply Chain
Underworld Review: The Small Venue Is the Entire Supply Chain | Every band that fills a stadium played a room like this first, and Britain is closing them
The Hoxton Review: It Is Not in Hoxton
The Hoxton Review: It Is Not in Hoxton | A hotel named after a neighbourhood eight miles away, in a different part of London, which is now a global brand
Cubana Review: The Mojito Was a Cholera Remedy Too
Cubana Review: The Mojito Was a Cholera Remedy Too | Mint, lime and sugar over aguardiente, prescribed for dysentery, and the medicine came first as it always does
Folly Review: A Folly Is a Building With No Purpose
Folly Review: A Folly Is a Building With No Purpose | It is an actual architectural term. A structure built at great expense to do nothing at all, on purpose, as a statement.