Bluebird Chelsea Review: A Century of Speed on the King’s Road
Bluebird Chelsea Review: A Century of Speed on the King’s Road | An Art Deco brasserie parked in what was once Europe’s largest garage, and the birthplace of a land-speed legend
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The Cadogan Arms Review: The Landlords’ Pub on the King’s Road
The Cadogan Arms Review: The Landlords’ Pub on the King’s Road | A handsome King’s Road institution named for the family that owns much of the ground beneath it – and a soap-opera legend that refuses to die
The Pig’s Ear Review: A Pint of Cockney Rhyming Slang in Chelsea
The Pig’s Ear Review: A Pint of Cockney Rhyming Slang in Chelsea | A late-17th-century Chelsea pub whose name is Cockney for the very thing it sells, run today as a Local and Wild countryside kitchen
The Phene Review: The Pub the Tree-Planting Eccentric Built
The Phene Review: The Pub the Tree-Planting Eccentric Built | A leafy Chelsea backwater pub built in 1853 by the architect who, legend has it, gave London the very idea of planting trees in its streets
The Coopers Arms Review: A Toast to the Barrel-Maker’s Trade
The Coopers Arms Review: A Toast to the Barrel-Maker’s Trade | A characterful Chelsea backstreet pub named for the cooper – the barrel-maker whose craft the whole drinks trade was built upon
Beaufort House Chelsea Review: Drinks on the Ghost of Thomas More’s Mansion
Beaufort House Chelsea Review: Drinks on the Ghost of Thomas More’s Mansion | A King’s Road members’ bar borrowing the name of the great lost Chelsea mansion where Sir Thomas More wrote in his garden and left for the Tower
The Cross Keys Review: The Oldest Pub in Chelsea, Saved by Its Neighbours
The Cross Keys Review: The Oldest Pub in Chelsea, Saved by Its Neighbours | Chelsea’s oldest pub, established 1708, haunt of Turner and Whistler and Bob Marley, rescued from the developers by a neighbourhood in revolt
Zefi Bar Review: A West Wind on the King’s Road, Too New to Judge
Zefi Bar Review: A West Wind on the King’s Road, Too New to Judge | A brand-new King’s Road cocktail bar with too few reviews to judge fairly, flying a name that whispers of the gentle west wind
The Arch Bar Review: The Shape That Holds Up the World
The Arch Bar Review: The Shape That Holds Up the World | The arch is one of humanity’s greatest inventions – the shape that let us build big, from Roman aqueducts to railway stations
Library Bar Review: The Quietest, Most Civilised Idea in Drinking
Library Bar Review: The Quietest, Most Civilised Idea in Drinking | A 4.8 from 355 people, and a name that promises the single most agreeable combination in hospitality: books and a drink
Jak’s Bar Review: The Possessive Name Reaches Chelsea
Jak’s Bar Review: The Possessive Name Reaches Chelsea | Jak’s. Somebody’s name, an apostrophe, and the implication that you already know who Jak is. You do not.
Cubanista Review: Rum, Revolution, and the Cuba Libre
Cubanista Review: Rum, Revolution, and the Cuba Libre | Cuba gave the world rum cocktails, the mojito, the daiquiri, and a revolution. The name carries all of it.
Kosmopol Review: A Name Built From the Word for Citizen of the World
Kosmopol Review: A Name Built From the Word for Citizen of the World | Cosmopolitan means citizen of the cosmos, of the whole world. It is also, of course, a very famous cocktail.
Little Blue Noodle Bar Review: The Most Charming Name in the Survey
Little Blue Noodle Bar Review: The Most Charming Name in the Survey | A 4.8 from 45 people, and a name so specific, modest and vivid that it is almost impossible not to like
1871 Bar Review: Named After a Year, and a Very Specific One
1871 Bar Review: Named After a Year, and a Very Specific One | 1871 gave us the FA Cup, the bank holiday, and Stanley finding Livingstone. A bar has chosen it as a name.
Revery Bar Review: A Beautiful Old Word for Daydreaming
Revery Bar Review: A Beautiful Old Word for Daydreaming | Revery is an archaic spelling of reverie – a state of pleasant, drifting daydream. It is a lovely name for a bar.
St George Review: Coffee by Day, Wine by Night, One Room
St George Review: Coffee by Day, Wine by Night, One Room | Named after the patron saint who probably never came near England, this hybrid runs the smartest model in hospitality
North Circle Bar Review: A Name That Sounds Like a Ring Road
North Circle Bar Review: A Name That Sounds Like a Ring Road | The North Circular is one of London’s great orbital roads. A bar has borrowed a very similar name, for reasons unclear
Reunion Bar Review: The Warm Idea of Coming Together Again
Reunion Bar Review: The Warm Idea of Coming Together Again | A reunion is a coming-together-again – one of the warmest ideas there is, and a lovely thing to name a bar after
Nolita Social Review: A New York Neighbourhood, Imported to Chelsea
Nolita Social Review: A New York Neighbourhood, Imported to Chelsea | Nolita means ‘North of Little Italy’ – a New York district invented by estate agents. Now it names a Chelsea bar.
Bar Flor Review: A Perfect Score From Four People
Bar Flor Review: A Perfect Score From Four People | Bar Flor holds a flawless 5.0, and it holds it on the strength of exactly four reviews, which is no strength at all
Eastside Review: A Name Pointing in a Direction
Eastside Review: A Name Pointing in a Direction | Eastside tells you which side of something it is on, which is either useful or meaningless depending on where you start
Purgatory Bar Review: The Waiting Room Between Heaven and Hell
Purgatory Bar Review: The Waiting Room Between Heaven and Hell | Purgatory is where souls are cleansed before heaven. A bar named after it has a 4.8, which is closer to paradise than the name suggests
Egerton House Bar Review: Three Reviews and a Townhouse Hotel
Egerton House Bar Review: Three Reviews and a Townhouse Hotel | A 4.7 from exactly three people, in the kind of small, discreet luxury hotel bar that the whole city walks past
ESQ Bar Review: An Abbreviation Nobody Uses Anymore
ESQ Bar Review: An Abbreviation Nobody Uses Anymore | Esq. once followed the name of every gentleman. Now it survives mainly on junk mail and, apparently, a Chelsea bar.
Muse Lounge Review: The Goddesses of Inspiration, One More Time
Muse Lounge Review: The Goddesses of Inspiration, One More Time | The Muses were nine goddesses who inspired all art and knowledge. Their name now sells bars, and it always will.
Bocca Lounge Review: Italian for Mouth, Which Is Honest
Bocca Lounge Review: Italian for Mouth, Which Is Honest | Bocca means mouth in Italian. A restaurant naming itself after the organ that eats and drinks is refreshingly direct.
The Back Room Review: The Secret Space Behind the Bar
The Back Room Review: The Secret Space Behind the Bar | The back room is where the real business happens – the hidden, private space that has always carried a whiff of the illicit
K Bar Review: A Single Letter, and a Very High Score
K Bar Review: A Single Letter, and a Very High Score | A 4.8 from 324 people, and a name stripped down to one initial, in the modern fashion for saying as little as possible
Crystal Bar Review: Four Reviews and a Word Full of Glamour
Crystal Bar Review: Four Reviews and a Word Full of Glamour | Crystal means clarity, light and luxury – from cut glass to champagne to the palace that gave a suburb its name