In an area where a new health food shop or over priced store selling baby clothes pops up every 10 minutes, I initially didn’t give Samson Miro a look in as it was always empty with only a couple of people sitting at a long wooden table who would stare at you when you’d peer [...]

I don’t go out to bars all that much, I usually only get as far as dinner then decide I’m done socialising and head home. Trailer Happiness isn’t somewhere I come often but if I was to recommend a good bar (which I am) then this would be it. Think South Pacific tiki hut mixed [...]

Half speakeasy half colonial clubhouse, this little art deco bar takes you back to 1930’s New York during the prohibition. It also reeks of British colonialism with leaf-shaped fans attached to the ceiling. The intimate atmosphere, flickering tea lights, subtle seediness and decadence remind me a bit of the kind of place you would find [...]

The way things are going these days, no trendy bar or café will be complete without the odd piece of taxidermy it seems. The venue is large and quite pretentious which attracts a local crowd. A bit like an old fashioned English pub but with 70’s-style hippie-chic wallpaper. “ ….it’s popular with an uber [...]

It starts with a single door under London Bridge Station then on down a long, long near pitch black tunnel with an eerie silence punctuated only by the odd sound from one of the weird art installations along the way. When you finally reach the end, it opens into an enormous cavernous space with a [...]

There is nothing I love more than taking a Third World theme and throwing a shit load of money at it thereby creating the ideal place for posh kids to hold their birthday parties all the while discussing their current holier-than-thou missions with the red cross, UN or whatever. The theme is in the title [...]

Just up the road from the Ten Bells, the Commercial Tavern is where I come when the Ten Bells is too busy. I’m on another bad date where I keep having to buy my own drinks and the guy keeps talking about his ex-girlfriend who is a model, always good to hear. Commercial Tavern [...]