BITE user comments - mozip78
Comments by mozip78
At mere spitting distance from 'Jaguar Shoes' and 'Catch 22' lies this restaurant/bar/cafe. This place couldn't be more different from the other two, whereas they were bursting at the seams, this place was buzzing, but not packed. There was also the bonus of no sign of any Hoxtonites in the place (it is under a scary dark bridge).
It's a Jamaican bar, so this is reflected in the decor of the place (I haven't tasted the food, so I can't tell you if that's any good). The DJ was very good, playing a mixture of hip-hop, soul, jazz stuff on a Thursday night.
The place seemed very friendly, the bar staff seemed to be enjoying themselves, and they serve beer on draught.
Basically somewhere that you'd expect to stumble across in Brixton, and for me that's a good thing.
18 Aug 2005 16:40
Rather worringly when I visited this recently it seem to have been rebranded as 'POW'. Thankfully inside, it's the same old pub. Some people love it, some people hate it, it depends on your attitude to junk. It's like someone's been on a trolley dash through the Horniman Museum, then thrown it all at the walls.
I like the dingy atmosphere, and the burly surly barmaid, not something you get in many places in Clapham.
9 Aug 2005 12:41
This place seems far more successful than its former incarnation, Babushka's. It would have survived on a busy street, but it was too timid to survive on the corner of a block of housing estates.
Mango Landin' however manages to balance nightlife and families quite well. It's packed out on the weekends, with varied DJs and I've witnessed Tango lessons on a weekdays in there. They have a veg stall on the weekend, and seems to be very family friendly (there's always kids tearing around on the weekend).
Overall a nice little pub, no attitude, no bouncers, no charge to get in, and little eccentricity.
8 Aug 2005 15:45
I do normally like this pub, the terrace upstairs is quite nice in the summer, and I like a pint of Star. But I went on the weekend, for the first time and was disapointed by the arsey bouncers they have on the door. They were treating the place like it was Ha�ienda not a tatty pub in Camden. First everyone had the undignified bag search, followed by the confiscation of water bottles if you had any stowed away. I just saw this as a complete insult to anyone entering the pub, basically they were saying 'you are a load of scumbags who will try to sneak in vodka into our drinking establishment' without considering that hey, it might just be water.
Avoid on Saturdays, anyway. But that could be said of pretty much anywhere in London. Sundays are much better.
8 Aug 2005 14:53
The Catch, Shoreditch
Part of the grungy chic of Kingsland Road, it feels a bit grubby but there's always something interesting going on. Downstairs there's a normal bar with a micro dancefloor, but up the spiral staircase you have bands, DJs and lots of sweaty people all packed in.
2 Sep 2005 16:31