Bar, Café entertainment in London
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Freud
Make this the first stop on your crawl because there’s no way you’ll make it down the stairs (not much more than a ladder) after a few bevvies (drinks). It’s a small basement bar-cafe-gallery with the sort of beige walls that could look just plain dirty, but purposefully arty pictures head off close scrutiny. The decor and punters are suitably scruffy and arty, and the cocktails are fat and fancy, but beer is sadly only by the bottle.
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Freedom
Freedom, once Soho’s coolest bar back in the 90s, is back and better than ever. Its total design rethink has given it a fantastically glamorous feel, whether it be upstairs in the main cafe-bar area, or downstairs in its dark underground club venue, which plays host to cool midweeker Hot Pink on Tuesdays.
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Concrete
By day this outlet in the Hayward Gallery is a discreet cafe serving tea and cake to an earnest art-loving crowd. By night this Cindarella transforms into a wicked step-sister, with late-night bar, DJs and live music from Thursday to Saturday and neon-pink cement mixers as props.
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Troubadour
Bob Dylan and John Lennon have performed here and this friendly cafe-bar remains a wonderfully relaxed boho hang-out decades later. There’s still live music (folk, blues) most nights and a large, pleasant garden open in summer. Next door is Troubadour Wines, which is an excellent source for wine.
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Scooterworks
A real find in the elephants’ graveyard we like to call Waterloo, this lovely cafe-bar does a sideline in vintage Vespas so you can scoop while you scoot. Opening hours have just been extended, giving you even more time to haggle over those two-wheelers.
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