The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell

This place is best avoided. I wouldn't go back there if you paid me. One of my friends booked a private party here, putting down a deposit for the basement room and paying a fee for use of the decks as another friend had agreed to DJ. When the DJ arrived, someone claiming to be the owner proceeded to tell him what kinds of music were "allowed" to be played in his bar - no dance music was the bottom line. The owner was rude, abrasive and objectionable, refused to listen to any reason and he insulted both the DJ and the person who's birthday we were celebrating (who was in tears by the end of the conversation). And then he took the deposit money at the end of the night, having also taken a load of money over his bar from a packed room while he played his personal selection of music all night, which by the way included some dance. Never going back and I wouldn't advise anyone else to either.

27 May 2006 18:11