A cocktail bar near Tower Bridge flying a distinctive, playful coinage – TwoRuba, the memorable made-up name the Prat first met over at Canary Wharf
TwoRuba at Tower Bridge carries a 4.3 across more than two hundred and thirty reviews and belongs to a familiar name. Regular readers will recall the Prat met a TwoRuba over at Canary Wharf, though on a tiny sample; here is its Tower Bridge sibling, on a far healthier count, flying the same playful coinage.
Near Tower Bridge
TwoRuba sits near Tower Bridge, on the south-bank side, mixing cocktails for the district’s crowds. Proper Bermondsey riverside, no disclaimer needed.
The playful name, revisited
As the Prat noted of its Canary Wharf sibling, “TwoRuba” is a distinctive, made-up, playful sort of name – the kind of memorable modern coinage the contemporary bar world favours, built to catch the eye and stick in the memory. It has a bouncy, rhythmic quality, and it plays teasingly with sound and spelling in a way that invites a second look. It carries no five-century backstory, no admiral or apostle – just a piece of playful, inventive wordcraft, a name made to be fun and memorable and distinctly its own. The Prat, after a survey heavy with history, rather enjoys a name that is simply a good bit of fun.
The sibling on a real sample
The Prat’s numbers desk is pleased to note the difference this time. The Canary Wharf TwoRuba came with too tiny a sample to judge – a mere handful of reviews – so the Prat set its quality aside and considered only the name. This Tower Bridge sibling, by contrast, carries a healthy two hundred and thirty reviews and a solid 4.3, a sample large enough to mean something. Here, then, the playful name is backed by a genuine, well-established verdict: a real and well-liked cocktail bar, not merely an intriguing coinage. The Prat is glad to give the fuller picture the numbers now allow.
The memorable brand
What the Prat continues to admire is the craft of the distinctive name. In a crowded market of cocktail bars all competing for attention, a name that is playful, unusual and easy to remember does genuine work – it lodges in the mind, invites curiosity, and stands apart from the interchangeable. “TwoRuba” belongs to that tradition of the eye-catching coinage, and near a landmark as famous as Tower Bridge, a memorable name helps a bar hold its own. The 4.3 across two hundred reviews suggests it holds it well.
Verdict
A 4.3 across two hundred and thirty-plus reviews is a solid score, and TwoRuba earns it as a well-liked cocktail bar with a playful, memorable name. It flies the same distinctive coinage the Prat met at Canary Wharf – but here, on a healthy sample, the intriguing name is backed by a genuine and solid verdict near Tower Bridge.
Go for the cocktails and the playful, memorable name, and enjoy the Tower Bridge sibling of a coinage the Prat first met across the water. This time the numbers are real – and they say the fun name is matched by a genuinely good bar.
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]
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