The Social

Lovely girl with long, dark hair, black top, slim and who resembled Romana from Tom Baker era Doctor Who. This reference is probably before her time.

The Social is definitely growing on me, as it possesses that bohemian 'anything goes' virtue, so beloved of bars in Hoxton.

I simply have to stop going out on a School Night (so to speak). Am meant to be in work in 5 hours (ostensibly).

Not a bad place to visit if you're in the area and can actually find it.

Regards,

Concerned_Viewer

aka Chocolate brown leather jacker wearer
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Thursday, May 19, 2005

Set up by people from the Heavenly Record label who just wanted a decent place to drink, this is a cracking little bar less than a minutes walk from Oxford Street tube stop. The street level bar looks like a 1970s New York speakeasy, with booths and a juke box packed with the kind of music you’d pick if you were at home getting drunk with your own record collection to hand. The downstairs bar is nicely intimate and has seen DJ sets from the likes of Primal Scream, The Avalanches, Super Furry Animals, The Chemical Brothers and loads more– it won DJ Bar of the Year 2000. Well worth checking their website to see what’s on when you’re in town. It’s been so popular, they opened another Social in Nottingham and one in North London that ended in chaos on the opening night when the DJ got into a punch up with The Strokes. If only all bars were run by record labels. Also worth noting - they also do a stonkingly good pie and mash.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Popped in here after visiting a hotel bar after my midweek Spanish class. Not a bad little venue, although rather narrow and possessing the World's smallest bar so there is a large crush as people congregate around the bar area, waiting to be served.

The place has a Hoxton feel to it - replete with hairstyles that wouldn't feel out of place in Hoxton - that whole shabby, edgy ambience, and the DJ behind the decks plays a real mix of music. Unfortunately, the dance-floor area is little more than a strip, so dancing will literally be nose to nose.

Drinks aren't too extravagantly priced given the area, and there is a range of cocktails and shooters, should the thought of drinking bottled beer other than the usual Stella & Becks monopoly be too out of left field a concept (I quite enjoyed the Tsang Tao beer - perhaps that had more to do with the B52 shooter beforehand).

The boy:girl ratio is around even, or even tilting towards the girls.

The Social may not fully capture the mayhem of Hoxton (although "mayhem" is synonymous with trying to get into the Mother Bar at some late hour), it sure beats the cultural wasteland that inhabits most of the places around the Oxford Street area.

Regards,

Concerned_Viewer
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Sunday, April 24, 2005

This is a DJ bar but has only recently got a licence that allows dancing though when I went no one was taking advantage of this.

I have a feeling this place will be packed at the weekend but mid-week it makes a great place for drink and relax

It has a pretty good cocktail menu with some original ideas. The manhattan is fantastic!
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Saturday, September 25, 2004