Saturday night goes forever.
My favourite captain random partner in crime and I went out for some leisurely spritzers on Sat afternoon around 2pm. We got home at 730am the next morning. Most of what happened is unprintable even in an anonymous forum, so here are the venue highlights:
No 1. Edinboro Castle, Mornington Cresc.
Subeurb beer garden. Good menu. Too many children. Freezing cold outside (but not their fault). Very very slow food service, and small portions (which may have meant that we were slightly hammered when we left). Although this seems to be only a problem on a busy Saturday.
No 2. 69 Colebrook Row Islington
One of the cocktail bars du jour at the moment. Not good for picking up men. It seats about 30 people of which 2 were men. Very cute. Expensive drinks but nice. Book ahead. Cute waiters, good service. They screwed up our bill so we got some free drinks (watch this theme develop)
No 3. Run rabbit run Essex road
No one in there. Very cute little bar with a lovely bar lady. We made friends with the one other person in there who was an Iranian PhD student – hence more free drinks. We talked at him for about 2 hours. Very very sugary cocktails. Yech. Go back, but don’t order the cocktails.
No 4. The pub with no name Essex road.
Things start to get a bit hazy here. I really think it was called the pub with no name…nice pub. Busy. Open til 2. Good atmos. We left cause we needed dancing tunes. Random men from Wiltshire buying us drinks. The bar lady came over to check if we were ok. Which was nice. Across the road from a hilarious shop called get stuffed which currently sports a full sized stuffed giraffe in the window. Bizarre.
No 5. Alibi Dalston
I don’t know if I quite get Dalston yet. I certainly don’t get Alibi which was full of 17 year olds and was playing crap rock music through a broken PA system. Jesus, I am getting old. We lasted ten minutes.
No 6. The club with no name
Ahhhh home of the nicest bouncer in London – Barry. By orienting myself with the location of Nandos (I always remember where food is)we returned to the scene of a previous crime – before it had even opened. This is the smallest club I’ve ever been to. One room, 2 couches, a bar and a toilet. Its like being in your own living room. Its especially like being in your own living room when you are sitting on the couch before the club has opened and the DJ comes over and introduces himself to you and asks for any requests. My god that place is random. There are some interesting characters in there – including a couple who got thrown out for having sex (this is not a big club remember). Anyway we had fun…..and there may have been a random hook up. Hence, a lot more free drinks.
Mailie’s Dalston hook up tip: If a man has more than 3 mobile phones, and keeps disappearing outside every 15 minutes while asking you to mind his drink, its probably accurate to assume that he is a drug dealer.
No 7. Egg. Kings Cross.
When you go to a club at 630am with aforementioned possible drug dealer you probably aren’t going to get in. We didn’t get in.
Quote of the weekend: ‘You are never ever seeing that man again. And definitely don’t tell him where you live.’