All Bar One Review: The Third One, and the Experiment Continues
All Bar One Review: The Third One, and the Experiment Continues | Three branches, three postcodes, one menu – and the numbers have moved again, exactly as they always do
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Shoreditch Pub Crawl Review: 4.8, and It Is Not a Pub
Shoreditch Pub Crawl Review: 4.8, and It Is Not a Pub | The second organised crawl in this survey to out-rate almost every real bar around it, and the reason is structural
MUSE at RSA House Review: Drinks in the Vaults of the Enlightenment
MUSE at RSA House Review: Drinks in the Vaults of the Enlightenment | The Royal Society of Arts was founded in 1754 to make Britain better. Benjamin Franklin was a member. You can now have a Negroni in the basement.
QEH Roof Garden Review: A Wildflower Meadow on a Brutalist Roof
QEH Roof Garden Review: A Wildflower Meadow on a Brutalist Roof | Fifty-two people have reviewed a garden on top of a concrete concert hall, which is fifty-two more than have noticed it exists
Paragon Review: A Paragon Was a Perfect Diamond
Paragon Review: A Paragon Was a Perfect Diamond | It meant a flawless stone of over a hundred carats, and then it meant a perfect person, and the stone came first
Players Social Review: 4.6, and It Is a Games Bar That Works
Players Social Review: 4.6, and It Is a Games Bar That Works | The seventh activity venue in this survey, and every single one of them has beaten its district average
Players Review: A Word That Used to Mean Vagrant
Players Review: A Word That Used to Mean Vagrant | For centuries an English player was legally classed with rogues and beggars. There is now a piano bar.
Hux Bar Review: Three Letters, and Nothing to Hold On To
Hux Bar Review: Three Letters, and Nothing to Hold On To | Eighty-six reviews, a 4.3, and a name so short that it cannot be wrong about anything
Netil360 Review: The Eleventh Rooftop, and It Broke the Rule
Netil360 Review: The Eleventh Rooftop, and It Broke the Rule | A 4.5 on a serious sample, which is half a star above where every other rooftop in this survey has landed
Diddy’s Review: 4.7, and It Costs Under a Tenner
Diddy’s Review: 4.7, and It Costs Under a Tenner | The fourth cheap room in this district, and it out-rates almost everything expensive around it, and this is now a law
Firebird Review: The Bird Is a Blessing and a Curse
Firebird Review: The Bird Is a Blessing and a Curse | In the Russian tale it is both – and catching it destroys the man who catches it, which is the entire point
Cocktail Trading Co Review: 4.8, and the Jokes Are the Point
Cocktail Trading Co Review: 4.8, and the Jokes Are the Point | Drinks arrive in a matchbox, in a can, in a paint tin – and it should be unbearable, and it is one of the best bars in London
The Gin Palace Review: A Name Borrowed From a Public Health Disaster
The Gin Palace Review: A Name Borrowed From a Public Health Disaster | The original gin palaces helped kill a generation of Londoners. This one has a 4.0 and does a decent Negroni.
Dirty Martini Review: The Dirt Is Olive Brine
Dirty Martini Review: The Dirt Is Olive Brine | It is the most argued-about drink in the world and almost every rule you have been told about it is somebody’s preference
Camden Cocktail Club Review: 4.9, and the Formula Again
Camden Cocktail Club Review: 4.9, and the Formula Again | A hundred and four people, an outstanding number, and it is the same three things it has always been
Renegade Review: 4.8, and They Make the Wine Under a Railway
Renegade Review: 4.8, and They Make the Wine Under a Railway | An urban winery in an arch in Bethnal Green, and the grapes come to the city rather than the other way round
Happiness Forgets Review: A Basement, and No Theatre At All
Happiness Forgets Review: A Basement, and No Theatre At All | Eight tables, low ceiling, no gimmicks, and one of the best-regarded cocktail bars in Europe for fifteen years
Finley’s Review: A 5.0 From Eighty-Seven People
Finley’s Review: A 5.0 From Eighty-Seven People | The second perfect score in this district on a sample that is starting to mean something, and we cannot explain it
Old Speckled Hen Review: It Is Named After a Car
Old Speckled Hen Review: It Is Named After a Car | Not a chicken. A 1929 MG covered in paint flecks, which the factory workers at Abingdon called the owld speckled ‘un
Edge Bar Review: 4.7, Under a Tenner, and Nobody Knows It
Edge Bar Review: 4.7, Under a Tenner, and Nobody Knows It | Eight hundred people have rated this cheap pub higher than almost every expensive bar around it, and there is no queue
Big Easy Review: Louisiana, Reconstructed from Memory
Big Easy Review: Louisiana, Reconstructed from Memory | Maiden Lane’s enormous BBQ operation has 7,638 reviews and a bottomless lobster deal that should be studied by economists
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Review: It Is Bauhaus
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Review: It Is Bauhaus | The circle, square and triangle are a hundred-year-old design theory, and the bar is built on it, and almost nobody notices
Bourbon Review: A 5.0 From 169 People, and We Are Suspicious
Bourbon Review: A 5.0 From 169 People, and We Are Suspicious | A perfect score on a real sample has happened once in six postcodes and five hundred and eighty articles
Nelson’s Review: They Preserved Him in a Barrel of Brandy
Nelson’s Review: They Preserved Him in a Barrel of Brandy | Nelson’s body came home from Trafalgar in a cask, and the sailors are said to have drunk from it
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
Setlist Review: A Name From the Naming Machine
Setlist Review: A Name From the Naming Machine | One word. Lowercase. No article. It could be a bar, a podcast, a productivity app, or a shoe.
Humble Grape Liverpool Street Review: Named After a Workhouse
Humble Grape Liverpool Street Review: Named After a Workhouse | Liverpool Street station is built on the site of Bedlam, and the burial ground was found when they dug the Crossrail tunnel
Fatt Pundit Review: 18,059 People Cannot All Be Wrong
Fatt Pundit Review: 18,059 People Cannot All Be Wrong | The most-reviewed venue in Covent Garden holds a 4.8, which should not be mathematically possible
Boundary Rooftop Review: The Spelling Is Wrong in the Listing
Boundary Rooftop Review: The Spelling Is Wrong in the Listing | There is an extra o in Rooftoop, it has been there for years, and it is the seventh typo in this survey
MAP Maison Review: 4.8, and the Best Number in the District
MAP Maison Review: 4.8, and the Best Number in the District | A small room with a short list and somebody behind the bar who has tasted everything on it, for the five-hundredth time