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brick lane bars - London is suddenly teeming with late night bar clubs offering everything from burlesque to call home music as entertainment since the Licencing Act forces councils to allow bars to start later. How though is the casual bar goer to pick the wheat from the chaff? This is where Club Insider is available in providing unbiased reviews of what is hip and happening in London
Soho and the West End continues to be spot for celebrity driven bars. Although for that casual drinker to find yourself rubbing shoulders having a celebrity you'll have to enter the VIP area first. With the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though the real celebrity action is within the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. Around the drinks front Lab continues to be cocktail daddy although comparative newcomers like Milk and Honey, CellarDoor and specialist regional bars like Floridita are nipping at its heels. Club Insider also likes every one of the Match Bars as well as the much derided hotel bars such as the Lanesborough and Met bar. Overall though Westminster's notoriously tight licensing rules have effectively place the block on new late licenses in Soho stifling the scene especially with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues every time they can. Furthermore plenty of Soho's bar activity has migrated towards the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla which makes it very much harder for the casual drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its way too touristey because the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.
brick lane bars - East London is where the action is on the new bar front with Shoreditch and today Brick Lane since the place where well moneyed hipsters want to ready to accept open new venues. Leaders with the pack must be Lounge Lover and the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House but the like of Home, Last Events of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all have their own own charm too. Actually along Brick Lane or Shoreditch High Street achingly cool bars are now any money twelve. All of these amusingly has created a back lash with a lot of hipsters now declaring their passion for their tired old local over the flashy charms with the style bar(s) nearby. A honourable mention for Cargo and 93 Feet East too although both are really more music venues than bars. Anything missing? Well possibly other live music venues for starters.
For North London read Camden with as much music pub clubs per square mile because there are style bars in Shoreditch and personal members clubs in Soho. From your achingly cool Proud for the rather rundown but highly sought after Monarch Camden will be the home with the indie bar (or in other words pub) club...... and zilch else. Actually that's not quite true Camden and its environs also house several excellent gastropubs (the Enterprise being the very best) and a couple of style bars too that Fifty Five is our favourite.
West London unfortunately is suffering from the deadly RBKC (this is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) disease who inside their wisdom have effectively place the kibosh on new evening venue openings. Club Insider however likes the electrical Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.
brick lane bars - That leaves South London? A combination of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has created a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs wanting to try different things. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel with their glitzy 30s themed undertake d'cor and cocktails not to mention The Loft in Clapham. Many of these venues have been picking up numerous bar awards from Time Out along with other magazines much to the annoyance of these North from the River London rivals. Recently Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction has been making waves having its clever mixture of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having found just about every award there is for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they are about to so something big in the western world End very shortly. Watch this space.
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