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
Tag: Soho bar
Bar Jackie Review: The Fourteenth Woman on a Sign
Bar Jackie Review: The Fourteenth Woman on a Sign | Fifty-two reviews, and nobody has asked, and by now we did not expect them to
Bar Alta Review: A 5.0 From Two People
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.
El Siete Review: 4.9, and Seven Is the Number Everybody Picks
El Siete Review: 4.9, and Seven Is the Number Everybody Picks | Ask a room to think of a number between one and ten and most of them will say seven, and nobody knows why
La Familia Review: The Word Is Doing More Work Than It Looks
La Familia Review: The Word Is Doing More Work Than It Looks | Every restaurant in the world claims to be family – and one of the very few things this survey found is that it usually means the staff
Two Floors Review: The Plainest Name in Soho
Two Floors Review: The Plainest Name in Soho | It has two floors. That is the entire claim, and it is verifiable, and after six hundred articles it is a relief.
My Place Review: The Fifth Bar Selling You a Home
My Place Review: The Fifth Bar Selling You a Home | It is not your place and it is not theirs, and this is now a genuine category with a genuine explanation
Clays Soho Review: 4.9, and It Is a Themed Activity Bar
Clays Soho Review: 4.9, and It Is a Themed Activity Bar | The highest rating in the Soho file belongs to a venue in a category we have spent five hundred articles being rude about
Bar Review: It Is Called Bar
Bar Review: It Is Called Bar | Three letters. One word. No adjective. Five stars from one person. And it is the most honest name in six hundred and thirty articles.
O Bar Review: One Letter, and It Is the Shortest Name in Five Postcodes
O Bar Review: One Letter, and It Is the Shortest Name in Five Postcodes | The naming arms race has reached a single character, and there is nowhere left to go
Bantof Review: 4.8, and the Name Is Not a Word
Bantof Review: 4.8, and the Name Is Not a Word | Six letters, no meaning, and it is the newest naming category and it is winning everywhere
Friendly Society Review: They Were the Welfare State Before the Welfare State
Friendly Society Review: They Were the Welfare State Before the Welfare State | Millions of working men paid a few pence a week into a club that would bury them – and the NHS made them obsolete overnight
Sophisticats Review: The Pun Is the Worst in Five Postcodes
Sophisticats Review: The Pun Is the Worst in Five Postcodes | And we have assessed four hundred and seventy venues, so this is a considered judgement
Thin White Duke Review: He Disowned This One Completely
Thin White Duke Review: He Disowned This One Completely | The third Bowie character in this file, and the only one he refused to defend afterwards
Rumba Review: The Dance Britain Learned Is Not the Dance
Rumba Review: The Dance Britain Learned Is Not the Dance | Cuban rumba is drums and voices and no melody instrument at all, and what we call rumba is something else entirely
NQ64 Review: Drinking Inside a 1990s Arcade
NQ64 Review: Drinking Inside a 1990s Arcade | A 4.4 bar full of retro arcade machines and consoles, selling nostalgia to a generation that grew up with a joystick