The 40 Elephants Review: Named After the Gang That Robbed This Street | Alice Diamond’s all-female shoplifting syndicate raided the West End for decades. There is now a cocktail bar honouring them, in the West End.
Dovetail Bar Review: Sixteen Seats and a Perfect Score | Covent Garden’s smallest serious cocktail bar has a 4.9 rating, and a capacity problem that is doing all the work
Blame Gloria Review: Who Is Gloria and What Did She Do | Two and a half thousand people have drunk here and not one of them has asked the only question that matters
The Bootlegger Review: Five Stars, Twenty-Two Witnesses | A Prohibition-themed basement on Burleigh Street with a flawless record and almost no evidence
Be At One Review: Two Branches, and This Time They Match | Six matched pairs in this survey and every one of them differed. Here are two that do not, and it complicates everything.
cato Review: Lowercase, and a Roman Who Would Have Hated It | Cato the Younger drank heavily, hated luxury, and killed himself rather than accept a pardon from Caesar
Escapologist Review: Houdini Performed a Few Streets Away | He was a locksmith’s apprentice who discovered that the lock is never the point. The audience is the point.
