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Bar history: The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1

The Social Bar was opened in June 1999. Having run the Heavenly label for nearly a decade (think St Etienne etc) and the seminal Heavenly social club nites for four years they took the decision to build a bar that reflected the mood at the time: somewhere you can sit back, relax and get pissed up but can go crackers if the mood takes you. The design of the building reflects that – the upstairs has a feel somewhere between a New York speak easy and a Swedish sauna while the downstairs appears to have taken it’s main influences from NCP car parks the length and breath of the UK. All in all though it makes a crackin’ small but perfectly formed bar with a well programmed assortment of brilliant yet barmy nites.

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