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Added by: Andrew, Friday, 10 Sep 2010, 13:30

Callooh Callay

The name might be a bit of a tongue-twister and thats because Callooh Calley doesnt follow the norm, instead it has its own independent feel of eccentricity about it.


Opened in 2009, in Rivington Street, Shoreditch, this really isn't a bar that cares what you think. A wall of casettes by the toilets, miss-matched furniture and a drinks lists named 'Random Shit', all go towards making this one of the coolest bars in London at the moment.


Don't go though if it looks like you're trying to look too cool, this place really is for the effortless!

Added by: Andrew, Friday, 10 Sep 2010, 13:13

Time Out's Top Cocktail Bars




69 Colebrooke Row
69 Colebrooke Row, N1 8AA (07540 528593/www.69colebrookerow.com)



Albannach
66 Trafalgar Sq, WC2N 5DS (020 7930 0066/www.albannach.co.uk).



Callooh Callay
65 Rivington St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY (7739 4781/ www.calloohcallaybar.com).



Cottons
70 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QP (020 7833 3332/www.cottons-restaurant.co.uk).



Floridita
100 Wardour St, W1F 0TN (020 7314 4000/www.floriditalondon.com).



Green & Red
51 Bethnal Green Rd, E1 6LA (020 7749 9670/www.greenred.co.uk).



Hawksmoor
157 Commercial St, E1 6BJ (020 7247 7392/www.thehawksmoor.com)



LAB
12 Old Compton St, W1D 4TQ (020 7437 7820/ www.lab-townhouse.com).



Lonsdale
44-48 Lonsdale Rd, W11 2DE (020 7727 4080/www.thelonsdale.co.uk).



Lost Society
697 Wandsworth Rd, SW8 3JF (020 7652 6526/www.lostsociety.co.uk).



Mandarin Bar
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LA (020 7235 2000/www.mandarinoriental.com).



Mark's Bar
66-70 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 9UP (020 7292 3518/ www.hixsoho.co.uk).



Milk & Honey
61 Poland St, W1F 7NU (020 7292 9949/www.mlkhny.com).



Montgomery Place
31 Kensington Park Rd, W11 2EU (020 7792 3921/ www.montgomeryplace.co.uk).



Portobello Star
171 Portobello Rd, Ladbroke Grove, W11 2DY (020 7229 8016).


Added by: Andrew, Friday, 10 Sep 2010, 12:51

Bar Pepito

This tiny bar is feels like a home from home its that cosy. forget sitting in your living room all night, just get down to Pentonville Road, Kings Cross and stroll into a place like no other. 


Pepito is dedicated to sherry, in fact it sells 15 different varieties, and even the tables you sit around are sherry casks. This quaint little bar offers you the chance to sample plenty of them too by paying the 'sherry flight' for somewhere around £8.


To add to the eccentric nature of this bare-bricked bar, you have to pop over the road to the toilet, at Camino, owned by the same people as Pepito's, so it really is like you've had to leave your living room to visit the loo.

Added by: Andrew, Friday, 10 Sep 2010, 12:37

French House

A bar with a little more culture than your average drinking hole. Located on Dean Street, Soho, The French House is a modern 'hold-out' from the modern world, where mobile phones are banned from been used within the premises and if you ask for a pint, you'll also be laughed out of the door as they only sell continental halves! 


Time Out magazine has recently given this bar the full 5* rating, saying 'the greatest crime a drinker here can commit is being a bore.' 



Look like you better take some good conversation with you!