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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 because the Licencing Act forces councils to permit bars to start later. How though may be the casual bar goer to select the wheat from the chaff? This is how Club Insider is available in providing unbiased reviews of what is hip and happening london

Soho and also the West End remains the spot for celebrity driven bars. Although for your casual drinker to find yourself rubbing shoulders with a celebrity you'll have to enter the VIP area first. Of the celebrity bars Punk and Kabaret remain the daddies even though the real celebrity action is in the clubs like Bijou, Chinawhite's Soho House and Movida. On 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 and 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 particularly with the chain bars continuing their onslaught gobbling up independent venues when they can. In addition lots of Soho's bar activity has migrated towards the private members clubs like Soho House and Vanilla which makes it that much more difficult for the sporadic drinkers. Club Insider also only recommends Soho weekdays as at weekends its far too touristey since the bridge and tunnel brigade descend.

brick lane bars - East London is where the action is about the new bar front with Shoreditch now Brick Lane because the place where well moneyed hipsters prefer to ready to accept open new venues. Leaders with the pack need to be Lounge Lover as well as the humongous (but 100% private) Shoreditch House but the like of Home, Last Days of Decadence and Hoxton Bar and Grill all get their own charm too. In reality along Brick Lane or Shoreditch Traditional achingly cool bars have become any money a dozen. All of which amusingly has established a back lash with lots of hipsters now declaring their passion for their tired old local on the flashy charms with the style bar(s) next door. 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 to begin with.

For North London read Camden with as many music pub clubs per square mile as there are style bars in Shoreditch and members clubs in Soho. From the achingly cool Proud towards the rather rundown but ever popular Monarch Camden will be the home from the indie bar (in other words pub) club...... and nothing else. Actually that's not quite true Camden and its environs also house several excellent gastropubs (the Enterprise being the most effective) plus a handful 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 within their wisdom have effectively put the kibosh on new night time venue openings. Club Insider however likes the Electric Cinema (part private) Paradise in Kensal Green and Notting Hill Arts Club.

brick lane bars - That leaves South London? A variety of laxer licensing laws and cheaper property prices has created a ripe environment for bar entrepreneurs wanting to try something more important. Cue Lost Society and Lost Angel using their glitzy 30s themed take on d'cor and cocktails not forgetting The Loft in Clapham. Many of these venues happen to be obtaining numerous bar awards from Break and other magazines much for the annoyance of these North with the River London rivals. More recently Peacock Bar in Clapham Junction has been making waves having its clever combination of burlesque and cabaret early with retro 80s and 90s Djs later. Having found pretty much every award there is certainly for burlesque and cabaret Club Insider hears they are planning to so something big in the West End very shortly. Watch this space.

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