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in recent weeks they've attempted to tart the place up with some red leather lounges and felt wallpaper that attempts to mitigate the empty and lost look of the upstairs area. i wonder whether it will work. the average beer is over £4. no ale, or anything decent to drink, really, and the place seems infested with pests of one sort or another, giving it the atmosphere of a psych ward or impromptu drop-in centre for the terminally bewildered.
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This used to be one of the best gay bars in London but it is now one of the worst. One of the barboys didn't know what a Pimms was until I said it's that bottle over there with Pimms written on it, the other gave me a lager bottom when I asked for a lager top (an absolute crime). The upstairs bar doesn't bother opening at all now giving a sense of either neglect or dereliction. The Christmas decorations last December consisted of a tree looking lost above the entrance door where no one could see it, and I believe it was £10 on the door on NYE with the cabaret coming on earlier than usual so everyone missed it. When I last checked the website to see what was on there seemed to be two, an old one that nobody had thought of closing down and a more recent one that hadn't been updated for about six weeks. All in all this place has gone down hill quicker than Compo's bath on the Yorkshire fells. The owner needs to take a hard and fast look at this place.
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En route to this bar on a crawl last night, a friend of mine exclamed, 'Oh GOD not that despair place!' I soon came to understand what he was talking about. I'm all for a cheap, unpretentious soho gay bar, but 79 CXR is just depressing. It made me think hard about the lengths I'll go to in order to buy a cheap double vodka and coke.
Apparently the men's toilet attendant was asleep.
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the toilets have been cleaned up but most of the punters have vanished ... the two are related as improptu cock was the reason the place was popular.
sorry to say that it's one on the way out, like a lot of gay pubs.
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Ugh... No matter how drunk you get, and how fogged up your beer goggles are, this place is not the nicest venue to find yourself in.
Its usually busy from 11pm (it has a 3am licence). But the venue needs so much work doing to it. It could be a much nicer place with a paint job and a bit of love and attention.
Don't bother to venture to the nasty toilets unless you are really desperate....
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Open till 3am (charged £3 after 10.30) its a somewhere to go when every where else is shut and your practically guaranteed to pull, which is fine. However some of the punters are objectionably drunk and the bar itself is a dark dingy affair.
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The later it gets the crusier it gets and the dearer the beer gets. Worst toilets of a gay bar in London - wake up Westminster Council Enviromental Health.
bob55 - 21 Dec 2007 12:51 |
If its gone midenight and you want to keep drinking, then this might be an option. It's £3 to get in and the place is open till 4am. Thats all I can say to recommend it.
This is a VERY VERY gay pub and not my cup of tea at all. The smell in the toilets defies description!
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Cruisy gay bar thats open late six days a week.
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