Pop, Sohoback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
To sum up in a sentence - thinks its one of the best, but in reality, is one of the worst.
OK... i'm going into more sentences now but I feel i need to....
This really is basically a hang out for 1) Essex girls who reallllllly want to be either page 3 models or 'IT' girls, 2) Guys who earn too much money and use this to attract No1. 3) Z list celebrities who still crave their moment of stardom.
After we were told to come up for the night by a friend (an 'IT' girl type admittedly) we thought why not and she put us on the guest list. Turned up and after being stared at like we were some kind of scum for 30 seconds or so by the bouncers and the 'i'm very important as i have a clipboard' woman, we were told that we were not on the guestlist at all. My friend came out and had a bit of a row with the clipboard wielding idiot and finally we were 'allowed' in - wow thanks pop you've done us a massive favour!
�15 entrance fee - oh dear - and then �14 for two drinks (bourbon and coke - not even a decent brand).
Inside, the bar is very small and cramped, with a small 'VIP' (if you can call them VIPs) area roped off.
All in all the bar is a place for the real 'look at how great/how well off i am' types and should really be avoided at all costs - unless you are given a totally free night out there, but even then i'd think twice.
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Pop will eat itself.
anonymous - 14 Oct 2007 19:41 |
The posts below are accurate.
Typical cheesy/sleezy west end night club.
Door staff need to take a reality check - they think they are on the door of some exclusive Mayfair members club.
Place for wide boys, essex girls, kids and tourists. Londoner's who are even slightly clued up don't go to places like this.
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I think that this place is genuinely more expensive than most other clubs in the West End (I am basing this mainly on the extortionate entrance fee). The club itself is very small and cramped and on a busy night there is barely room to breathe. Nothing special.
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Recommeded by a friends sisters junky boyfriend, ok should have known at that point. Anyways 8 quid to get in. Puke on the stairs partially hidden by an copy of the Sun. No hangers left in cloakroom, so nice spot on the floor found for my jacket. Teenage girls, 30something blokes and easten blok students abound. �40quid for a round of 5 drinks, dropped to �30 when i queried the price, short of a full measure on all, warm glasses (shouldnt complain, I guess they at least washed them). I hear they piss standing up in the ladies loo. Neat little shelves in the gents to either put your beers or snort a couple of lines. DJ really bad, how do you go from ABBA to oasis to some rap-diddy-daddy thing in 2 minutes. Cloakroom lost my jacket, suggested i wait till they close, found 20 minutes later out the back, minus the 80pence I'd forgetton about in the inside pocket. Was gonna complain but the 3 6foot'4 bouncers were eyeing me up, put my hands in my pockets, kept my arse to the wall and made a hastey exit.
anonymous - 19 Aug 2005 13:49 |
Guest list which turn in to free 4 if you turn up after 1.
Nice little place with one bar area. This club do'se get very very busy with not much room to move but still there was a good vibe there but not enough to kept me there till 2am. Music was up and down all nite with no real flow which was only thing that let nite down for me but DJ did play every thing.
Alot of guys have complaint about price of drinks in pop its about same as any where else in london.
When I was leave (02:00) they started just pulling drunks off the street to fill club read into that what you want.
If i had choice to go pop or C Club then C club would win every time but If C Club was closed then i would take walk down to Pop.
The date i went to this club was on 21.05.05
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this club was so expensive �7 to get in before 9 and the drinks were completely overpriced.a pint and a malibu and coke - �9 what rip off!!also very pretentious!!people thinking they are better than they are!!
Beci - 18 Oct 2004 15:01 |
I love ur Pub whenever me on my girl friend go there on fridays we alway have a great time the last time i went thyere was on friday the 30th july and the dejay was very very good and it was great
Mellica Mills - 2 Aug 2004 15:21 |
This place is a real shit hole. When I went to the cloak room to collect my coat the cloak room attendant had misplaced my coat. When I complained and asked to see the manager three 6'4'' bouncers put me in an arm lock and threw me out of the place. When my friend did eventually find my coat, which was placed on the wrong coat hanger, there was no apology. Pop can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned!!!!
Oswin - 18 Mar 2004 12:04 |
This wants to be a really classy nightclub, but lets itself down by begging people off the street to come in. Too many drunken suits hiding wedding rings in their inside pockets and trying to recapture their youth by garbling nonsense and beer fumes at 17 year old girls. The club looks nice enough but it needs a quick kick up the arse and a drastic identity change.
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This club has definitely been around since 2000. It's quite laid back, funky style, sometimes a bit too bright. Had a company party here 2yrs ago but the DJ was utter pants! Unless you want to hear Kylie repeated 3 times in 1 night, which most do not. It has a cool glass wall where the men have a pee and women walk past, oh and a female urinal?? WTF! Not a bad place.
JP - 13 Nov 2003 15:58 |
POP is one of those places I�ve managed to avoid for the year or two it's been open, as I thought it may be an over-expensive ponce bar. Nevertheless, I went for the first time with an ex last night, and was quite impressed with its funky �horseshoe� couches and pseudo-70s d�cor (I don�t know what I mean by that). However, it is an over-expensive ponce bar. The music that Thursday was a mix of �California Soul� and �Rapper�s Delight�, and it apparently plays dancey housey stuff at weekends.
Don�t expect pints: they only do halves � there�s neesh on tap, so ales are out too (as snobs don�t beer it), and when my four halves of Gitwasser came to �8 (�10 credit card minimum), I had to top the order up with a couple of slippery nipples. I was then hit with a total of �17. Sheisse.
Oh, and the icing on the cake, I managed to exit the gents trailing a tail of toilet paper from the back of my jeans while people sniggered.
This is why I�m consistently single.
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