A 4.9 cocktail bar named The Prince, invoking the glamour, youth, and promise of royalty’s rising star
The Prince Bar holds a 4.9 from a hundred and nineteen people, and carries a name of youthful royal glamour – “the Prince” – invoking the charm, promise, and rising-star quality of royalty’s younger generation, though, with only a hundred and nineteen reviews, its near-perfect score comes with the survey’s customary caution.
The glamour of the prince
Where “the King” and “the Crown” invoke the settled majesty of the reigning monarch, “the Prince” carries a different, younger, more glamorous flavour – the prince is royalty in its youth, its charm, its promise and potential. The prince is the dashing young royal, the heir, the figure of romance and possibility – Prince Charming of the fairy tales, the gallant young prince of legend, the glamorous royal youth. He is monarchy at its most romantic and appealing, before the weight of the crown descends. The Prat’s naming desk notes the distinction: “the Prince” reaches not for settled majesty but for youthful glamour, charm, and promise – a fittingly appealing register for a stylish cocktail bar.
The princely bar
For a cocktail bar, “the Prince” is an apt and appealing name, promising a certain glamour, style, and youthful sophistication – the bar as a place of romance, charm, and rising-star cool. It suggests elegance without the stuffiness of the fully royal, glamour with a lighter, younger touch. There is also a hint of aspiration in it – to drink at the Prince is to touch, briefly, a little princely glamour, to be treated, for an evening, as royalty’s honoured guest. The Prat’s naming desk notes the aspirational charm: “the Prince” flatters its patrons with a touch of borrowed royal glamour, youthful and stylish rather than grand and remote.
The name also belongs, of course, to the great tradition of royal pub and bar names this survey has tracked – the King’s Head, the Queen’s Head, the Crown, the Kings, and now the Prince – the whole royal family, it seems, presiding over Islington’s drinking. “The Prince” adds the youthful, glamorous member to this royal roster, the dashing young heir among the kings and queens and crowns. The Prat’s heraldry desk notes the completeness of Islington’s royal collection: the district drinks under the sign of the entire monarchy, from crown to prince.
The small sample
At a hundred and nineteen reviews, the standard caution applies, though more gently than at the tiniest samples. A 4.9 from a hundred and nineteen people is a genuinely impressive and encouraging signal – a strong showing on a fair, if not yet large, sample, past the very-small danger zone of SANE or Bar Silver but short of the fully volume-proof thousand-review verdict. It suggests a bar that is genuinely delighting its customers, its near-perfect score worth taking seriously while remembering that a hundred and nineteen is not a thousand. As this survey has argued throughout, high scores grow more trustworthy as samples grow, and the Prince’s is trending very well. The Prat’s statistics desk files it as “impressive, and increasingly trustworthy.”
The bar
A 4.9 across a hundred and nineteen people is a very strong score on a fair sample. The reviews describe excellent cocktails, stylish surroundings, and warm service – a glamorous, well-run bar living up to the princely charm of its name, on a sample large enough to take seriously.
Verdict
A glamorous, stylish cocktail bar named the Prince, invoking the youth, charm, and rising-star glamour of royalty’s younger generation – an impressive near-perfect score on a fair and growing sample.
Go for the princely glamour and the excellent cocktails, and enjoy being treated, for an evening, as royalty’s honoured guest – at a bar whose 4.9, while not yet fully volume-proof, is trending very handsomely indeed.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
