Park’s Edge Review: A 4.8 on Eleven Hundred People, and That Is Very Nearly Unfakeable | Volume punishes, and a number this good on a sample this large is one of the hardest things in hospitality
Nico’s Review: Twenty-One Reviews, and That Is the Dead Zone Exactly | Enough that people believe the number, too few for it to survive a bad week
Young Prince Review: A 3.9 From a Hundred and Twenty-Six, and the Dead Zone Is Real | Enough reviews that people believe the score, and too few to absorb four bad nights
Britannia Review: A 2.7, and It Is the Lowest in Camden | Eleven hundred people, a settled number, and this is not the arithmetic trap – this is a verdict
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
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
Upper 5th Review: A 3.4, and Fifty-Eight People Is the Dead Zone | Between twenty and sixty reviews, four bad nights cannot be outvoted, and recovery is arithmetically almost impossible
Rainbow Review: A 3.5, and Ninety-Nine People Is Not Enough | Just outside the dead zone, and the number is still being decided by a handful of bad nights
Cocktail Club Old Street Review: The Fourth One, and the Rule Holds | 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.4 – and the branch with the fewest reviews wins, every single time, in every chain, in every district
Be At One Piccadilly Review: The Fifth One, and the Case Is Closed | 4.6, 4.6, 4.3, 4.5 and 4.6 – and every one of those numbers is explained by the street outside
Bar Alta Review: A 5.0 From Two People | Two. And we have refused this number in five postcodes and six hundred articles and we are not going to stop now.
Be At One Regent Street Review: The Fourth One, and Now We Have a Curve | 4.6, 4.6, 4.3 and 4.5 – and the spread is exactly what the sample sizes predict
Cocktail Club Mansion House Review: The Better Number Is the Smaller Sample | 4.7 against 4.5, and the only difference between the two branches is how many people have walked through the door
ELK Review: A 5.0 From Eighty-Three People | A perfect score on a real sample, which we have found three times in seven postcodes, and we cannot explain it
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
Bootlegger Review: The Other One Has a 5.0 From Twenty-Two People | Same chain, same concept, two branches – and one has five hundred reviews and the other has twenty-two, and the difference is everything
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.
Canvas Bar Review: 3.3 From Forty-Seven People, and It Is a Trap | The lowest score in the City, on a sample small enough to be an accident and large enough to be fatal
Cocktail Club Review: The Third One, and the Curve Holds | 4.5, 4.7 and 4.4 – and the branch with the fewest reviews wins, exactly as it has every single time
R3 Review: Forty-Four Reviews, and That Is the Dead Zone Exactly | Enough that people believe the number, too few for it to survive a bad week
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
Honestfolk Review: A 5.0 From Four People Is a Rumour | Four reviews is not a rating, it is four evenings, and we have refused this in every district
Canal Bar Review: A 3.1, and Thirty-Five People Decided It | Deep in the dead zone, where four bad nights cannot be outvoted and recovery is arithmetically almost impossible
George IV Review: Thirty-Four Reviews, and He Is Not a Rating Either | A tiny sample, a ruined reputation, and the man built Regent Street
104 Bar Review: One Review, and That Is How Mayfair Ends | Sixty-five articles in the richest district in Britain, and it finishes with a venue the system barely knows exists
Big Easy Review: Fifteen Thousand People, and That Number Cannot Be Faked | The largest sample in this district by a distance, and volume is the hardest thing in this survey
COCO Review: A 4.6 From Nearly Eight Thousand, and Volume Punishes | The second-largest sample in this district, and every one of those evenings is in the average forever
Hangar Review: A 3.2 From Nine People, Which Is Not a Number | Nine reviews cannot say anything about anything, and they are shown to you as though they can
Baza Review: A Perfect 5.0 From Twenty-Four, and We Are Going to Refuse It | The proof is unanswerable, and it is the same bar in two postcodes with two different scores
