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Delicious cocktails start at £5 and it's easy to lose track of time and work your way through the whole menu. Tea For Two (£10) comes served in a chunky pattered teapot with matching cups and saucers and - be warned - a generous amount of alcohol. The perfect way to start an evening, or begin the end of an evening, depending on how well your date went...]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20215 The Fox Public House http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20195 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20195 The Sherlock Holmes Pub http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20193 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20193 Tooting Tram and Social http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20192 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20192 World-class Indian Food http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19676 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19676 J Sheekey http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19675 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19675 London bar website http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19288 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19288 Geisha Bar http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19269 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19269 The Blackbird pub http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19160 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/19160 The Fire Station http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18573 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18573 The Water Poet http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18090 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18090 Maya London http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18025 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/18025 Monkey Chews http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17728 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17728 Absolut Ice Bar http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17368
First, you raise your body temperature by a few valuable degrees in the normal, heated Below Zero bar downstairs, which serves creative fresh fruity cocktails such as a scrummy apple and blackberry crumble concoction.

Everyone is allocated a 40 minute time slot so when your time comes they give you space-age silver cloaks, thick gloves and snow boots and you go into the Ice Bar. Inside it's minus five degrees and everything inside is made from clear crystal ice from Sweden – the walls, the bar, the tables and the chunky glasses, which you slurp simple but super-strong vodka cocktails from. Drinking doesn't get more refreshing than this.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/17368 The Spice of Life http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16628
Thanks to a new refurbishment the Spice now looks like a slightly garish, eccentric Highland mansion, and it's extra-cosy for sinking winter pints. And best of all the pub's attractions? Three words: Sticky. Toffee. Pudding.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16628 Culinary London http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16558 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16558 Lahore Spice http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16537 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16537 The Alma http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16407
Better still, they have a lovely little beer garden (more yard than garden) at the back. A great little place a little further afield from where the hordes hang out in Islington.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16407 The Chandos pub http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16348 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16348