The Hawley Arms, Camden

Visited the Hawley Arms on a Saturday night -- first time I'd been in about a year. Girlfriend and friends were already inside. I arrived with two other male friends and were refused entry because we did not have "regular's cards" (what?). Went away for a bit, met three of our female friends, tried again sending them up to the door first -- they had no problem, bouncer recognised us and accused us of not knowing the three girls we were with. Bouncer then went on to ridicule me for "pretending to use my phone" the first time (i.e. when I was calling g/f to inform her that we were not able to enter) but eventually allowed us to enter when we convinced him that the girls in our party were actually our friends, and not randoms.

Once inside, drank a few flat fizzy lagers, got knocked by a load of drunk punters pushing past and encountered 3 guys doing cocaine in the toilets downstairs. Things improved around midnight as the pub quietened down a little and there was sufficient space to breath.

22 Aug 2011 18:03