Recommend me a London Bar

PeterNem

PeterNem

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Hi All,

I'm meant to be sending out an email tomorrow suggesting a time and place to meet up next weekend with a group of 15 or so of us who are due to start work together shortly.

I had a place in mind that I'm rather fond of - Ember Wine Bar(Farringdon), but I've just checked and it isn't open Sundays :(

I need somewhere that:

a) is open sundays
b) has plenty of flexible seating we can move around a little to sit us all in
c) has a little bit of style, but nothing too OTT or expensive
d) has a wide range of drinks at reasonable (for London) prices
e) won't mind people in casual clothes (jeans and trainers likely)
d) must be fairly central and within easy walking distance of a tube station

If all else fails I'll just suggest a random chain pub, but would rather we went somewhere a little nicer.

Any suggestions?
 
London is quite big you know can you be more specific?

Distance form a station or somethign would help.
 
People will be coming from all over the place so wherever we chose will inconvenience someone. I'll be coming into Kings Cross Thameslink, others will be already in London, others coming into Waterloo and Paddington.

So, central and near a tube station really is about as specific as I felt neccesary. By that I guess I mean Zone 1 or maybe at a push zone 2.
 
radikal_dj said:
The Porterhouse in Covent Garden
Medicine Bar on Great Eastern Street
Revolution in Soho
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All good choices. I like Alphabet on Beak Street in Soho, but it's fairly small. Meza is a nice cocktail bar nearby too but pretty expensive and you won't get in in jeans. So both fairly useless choices but oh well :p
 
I used to be quite fond of Waxy O'Connors in Leicester Square. The drink wasn't too expensive and the atmosphere was OK.
 
The Porterhouse in Covent Garden is great, or the Bierodrome. If people like to have lots of different beers in a more interesting setting than a regular chain pub then these are great.
 
You'll be ending up in the Goose in Holborn for the first two weeks so I'd avoid that.

When are you starting? I'm two months in now and still training, (just got back from Chicago which was LANGUAGE! carnage).
 
Hey Volcs :)

I start on October 2nd, but due to accomodation cockups I won't be able to get to London until Oct 1st, and several others are in a similar situation hense us wanting to have a meet up the day before we start.

Not sure if we'll end up at the same place as you after training as it's no longer at Hatton Gardens, as of the October group we'll be training at Regus Citypoint where is not far from Mooregate.

Be interested to hear of your Chicago antics - MSN is in my profile if you can spare a few moments at some point!
 
tom_nieto said:
The Porterhouse in Covent Garden is great, or the Bierodrome. If people like to have lots of different beers in a more interesting setting than a regular chain pub then these are great.
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You have good taste my man. The Porterhouse and The Bierodrome are two of my favourite places in London.
 
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