The Sports Bar & Grill, in the upper reaches of London Waterloo train station, is part of a chain of bars that pretty much do what they say on the tin. It’s an American style sports bar, where people can sit in front of the many plasma screens and watch ‘the game’ with a beer…
Update Jan 2015: Caxton Grill , reviewed below, does indeed have fabulous food and service, as well as an atmosphere that’s buzzy but not too loud. However, there are a couple of things to look out for: 1. The tables have balls on the end of their legs which meant I had to sit 12″ (approx)…
Part of Antic collective of pubs, The Balham Bowls Club and Hagen & Hyde are two of the coolest (possibly the two coolest) pubs in the area around Balham. This is an area with a lot of different pubs and a lot of pubs coming and going from the scene, so saying they’re two of the best is…
The 3 BBS Ticks are the gold standard for style and accessibility. Today we’re giving out 3 Christmassy Ticks for the following 3 things… What to buy / be bought!… Give someone a way to keep their Blue Badge in Style this Christmas by giving them a trendy holder from the Blue Badge Company. They…
The European Access City Award is an annual prize set up to reward the European city that has done the most work to improve its accessibility for less able residents and visitors. For 2014, Gothenburg was named the EU’s Access City for its holistic and comprehensive approach to access. Sweden’s second city was declared to…
The Rake, in Borough Market, is an award winning bar specialising in beer and packing in an incredible amount of variety into a very small space. The bar is owned by Richard Dinwoodie and Mike Hill – the two owners of Utobeer – and is a true haven for beer connoisseurs, with the beer changing pretty…
It’s Cocktail Week again! Last year we ran a post on London Cocktail Week in which we made our top ten recommendations for cocktail bars in London. This year we’re back with ten more highly accessible and trendy bars taking part in this year’s festivities. Thanks to the £4 cocktail tour, this week is a once in…
Graphic is a trendy Soho bar, with top quality, reasonably priced cocktails and an artistic influence that is clear without being pretentious. The bar blends a fairly laid back contemporary style with innovative urban art on the walls. It looks great, as does the astonishing list of gins, with 235 different types of the stuff…
Big Chill House, in King’s Cross, is (for us) the final of the three trendy Big Chill bars. We liked the funky decor and laid back charm of both the original Big Chill Bar in Brick Lane (which got 2.5 BBS Ticks) and the Bristol Big Chill (2 BBS Ticks), so we thought it only made…