Port House Review: Port Exists Because England Hated France
Port House Review: Port Exists Because England Hated France | Port was invented as a substitute for French wine during a trade war. It is now a Strand tapas bar with a 4.6.
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Archive and Myth Review: The Two Ways London Keeps Its Past
Archive and Myth Review: The Two Ways London Keeps Its Past | A 4.8 from a hundred and twenty-four people, and a name that accidentally describes this entire survey
The Den Review: A Name That Promises a Hiding Place
The Den Review: A Name That Promises a Hiding Place | Sixty-four reviews, a 4.5, fifty to sixty pounds, and a word that means somewhere an animal goes to not be found
Seventy5th Balcony Bar Review: 3.3 Stars, Nine Reviews, Total Silence
Seventy5th Balcony Bar Review: 3.3 Stars, Nine Reviews, Total Silence | The lowest-rated venue in the entire dataset has been rated by nine people, and nobody has said anything since
Kitty Hawk Review: Named After Twelve Seconds
Kitty Hawk Review: Named After Twelve Seconds | The first powered flight lasted twelve seconds and covered 120 feet. There is now a cocktail bar. It costs more than the aeroplane did.
Charles Darwin Review: A Bar With No Reviews At All
Charles Darwin Review: A Bar With No Reviews At All | Somewhere in this postcode is a venue named after the theory of natural selection, and the data has nothing to say about it
Upper Gods Bar Review: Five Stars From Three People
Upper Gods Bar Review: Five Stars From Three People | Above a rooftop bar rated 3.8 by seventy-two people sits a second bar, rated 5.0 by three. This is the whole problem, in one building.
Te Lion Y Unicorn Review: The Royal Arms, Misspelled, Unrated
Te Lion Y Unicorn Review: The Royal Arms, Misspelled, Unrated | A venue exists in the record under a mangled name, with no rating, no reviews, and no explanation whatsoever
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.
Nellie’s Tavern Review: A Perfect 5.0 Rating, Sample Size One
Nellie’s Tavern Review: A Perfect 5.0 Rating, Sample Size One | Somewhere in Covent Garden is a bar with a flawless record and exactly one witness
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.
Condesa Review: Named After a Countess Nobody Remembers
Condesa Review: Named After a Countess Nobody Remembers | La Condesa in Mexico City is named for a colonial countess. It is now shorthand for a certain kind of expensive neighbourhood.
Equus Review: Thirteen Reviews and a Very Loaded Name
Equus Review: Thirteen Reviews and a Very Loaded Name | Equus is Latin for horse. It is also a famous play about a boy who blinds six of them. The bar has not clarified.
The Alchemist Review: Drinks That Change Colour, Deliberately
The Alchemist Review: Drinks That Change Colour, Deliberately | St Martin’s Lane’s theatrical cocktail bar has built an entire business on the moment before the photograph
UVA Cantina Review: The Last One
UVA Cantina Review: The Last One | A hundred and twenty bars, a hundred and twenty articles, and one final small room doing everything right
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.
Bat and Ball Review: 4.8, and Cricket Is Older Than the Rules
Bat and Ball Review: 4.8, and Cricket Is Older Than the Rules | Boys were playing it in a Guildford churchyard in 1550. The first written laws did not appear for another two hundred years.
Dan Simmonds Bar Review: One Review, and the Last Article
Dan Simmonds Bar Review: One Review, and the Last Article | Five stars from a single person. Three hundred and ninety-one articles. And we are going to refuse it, exactly as we refused the first.
Side Hustle Review: The Phrase Should Worry You
Side Hustle Review: The Phrase Should Worry You | A side hustle is a second job. We have given it a cheerful name and stopped asking why anybody needs one.
Lockes Review: A Name That Locks, or a Philosopher, or a Hairstyle
Lockes Review: A Name That Locks, or a Philosopher, or a Hairstyle | A 4.7 bar whose name could mean a lock, the philosopher John Locke, or a lock of hair – and commits to none of them