Apt Bar, City Of London - pub details
Address: Aldermary House, 10–15 Queen Street, London, EC4N 1TX [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 7618 9020
Mansion House (0.1 miles), Cannon Street (0.2 miles), Bank (0.2 miles)
Bank (0.2 miles), Tower Gateway (0.9 miles)
Cannon Street (0.2 miles), Moorgate (0.4 miles), Blackfriars (0.5 miles)
Pub suggested by Steve_D on 10 Jun 2005
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user reviews of Apt Bar, City Of London
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| went here for a mates birthday, happy hour is ok if you get served but try telling the waitress's to top up your pint when the head runs flat, here what happens: punter: can u top that up (yuppy accent) bartender: sorry (eastern europe accent) punter: can you top up that pint please bartender: sorry, Top it? punter: Yeah, top it up, what are you thick or something? bartender: DONT YOU CALL THICK ME.. punter: oh forget it love. you see, you could be there all night if you have an issue with a drink, so keep it simple as the staff dont have a brain cell between them and they cant speak english, i can imagine the interview: manager: hello..? olga: my name is Olga manager: can u pour a pint? olga: NO manager: your english is good? olga: NO manager: when can you start? Jay20VT - 11 Feb 2008 16:37 |
| RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS BAR! Rude beyond compare bar and door staff. Overpriced. Overcrowded. Dingy and soul less. Only 3 bar staff on a Friday night before Bank Holiday weekend! So the wait for the bar was over 20 mins each time. If you order your drinks during happy hour but they take ages to prepare the drinks and it goes over happy hour time, they will charge you full price!! They will make up an excuse for not serving pints then make you buy hugely overpriced bottles of beer. My jacket got pinched. Downstairs is pitch black. I could go on........ anonymous - 10 Apr 2007 13:46 |
| Similar to Alan Curbishley’s managerial career at West Ham, my night at Apt started brightly and then went downhill. I came here Friday evening (2 Feb) for my mate's girlfriend birthday drinks. On first impressions, I liked the layout of this place, with the smaller upstairs bar and the larger area downstairs. The atmosphere, moreover, appeared lively and I enjoyed the music playing in the background. I then attempted to buy a round of drinks… Around 6ish, there apparently were no pint glasses?? I also had to wait a while to be served and be told this. So I eventually got 2 bottles of Corona, 1 bottle of Tiger, 1 Magners and a Vodka, lime and lemonade. This came to £17.25, so make what you want from that if anything about the prices of drinks. The Magners was £4.60 by the way, while the Tiger beer was reduced in happy hour. Despite there being some female talent around initially, the place rapidly (and perhaps predictably) filled with blokes, presumably from the local City worker population and it became too overcrowded. Besides, the few women that were there appeared as friendly as a rottweiler off its lead, up their own @rse, touching on the "angry girls" remark in the second review for this place. Not really a place to come searching for H-Files then. Even when I left there was a queue of blokes hoping to come in, with the queue going back as far as the William Hill bookies. Searching_for_H_Files - 5 Feb 2007 15:02 |
| Apt is the kind of place where dreams are made. That is it can be the night of your life, or unravel into a nightmare. As bipolar as a sexually experimental polar bear; busy nights can be laden with pretty people game for a carnival of flirting, but can just as easily descend into a mêlée of belligerent drunken fools waiting for any excuse to practice their white collar boxing. City egos... Funtime Frankies or Turgid Tysons. To reiterate a previous review, I happened to speak to one of the senior barmen recently who informed me Thursday nights were more often than not frequented by the faux-upper crust; those of who are the types to start a tab, depart as the lights go up and cancel the card the next morning. Tsk tsk. Does the 90s TLC hit 'No Scrubs' apply here? My suggestion is to attend one Thursday, go a bit early, or even reserve a seating area ahead of time for a group of your friends and enjoy the music with familiar company, then you'll have a great time. I will also second a previous critic in that it isn't the cheapest venue, however happy hour does last from 6 til 8. bennyc - 5 Jan 2007 16:03 |
| Dont go here! I was in there about two weeks ago with friends. We had left our coats on top of the bar (at the end of it). I brushed against the coats and next thing I know something crashes behind the bar. The barman starts having a go at me waving something in my face and then some woman with a radio starts telling me off for not putting the coats in the cloak room! I told her I didn't know there was one and that I was disappointed at being told off in such an aggressive manner by her and the irate barman! Then before I know it i was man-handled out of the bar by two rather large men who said they wanted a word with me and before I could explain they pushed me onto the street. My friend got in trouble with the OB afterwards due to the incompetence of the staff (as it looked to the police as though we were causing trouble inside!) Ridiculous is the only word to describe it! Basically this place sucks as the staff treat you like rubbish so don't go there or you might face a similar fate! I found out later Apt Bar is one of the worst for trouble in the City - and im not surprised now as you dont even need to do anything (sorry you cant cause an ACCIDENT) to get thrown out!!! I certainly will NEVER return... anonymous - 2 Jan 2007 00:51 |
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