Friday Night In London - What area to go for a date?

[Taxamo Welf]

Take her to the Nag's Head on Whitechapel High Street ...

An old-man's pub thats been turned into a cut-price lap dancing club ... thoroughly grim in pretty much every respect ...

This will ensure that her opinion of you is rock-bottom before you even get started, which is obviously a good thing as you standing can only improve from there. Take her to the Ivy for a first date, and you’ll spend the duration of your relationship failing expectations miserably.

Can some “loverly ladezz” comment on the effectiveness (or otherwise) of this strategy ???

Well it worked a treat for dustin hoffman in the Graduate...

 

[pinkychukkles]

edit: double post

 

[pinkychukkles]

Was agonising over this matter myself last weekend, although it was a Saturday night. Researching urban brought up this thread and I like the NFT>Gordons>Covent Garden route but that wasn't practical in my case. Booked up a table using toptable.co.uk at the Rivington Bar & Grill in Shoreditch...and it was a pleasant enough meal although not if you've got an appetite.

After polishing off a couple of bottles of fine red, Shoreditch offered plenty of other places to visit should the date go well...and it did as we polished off another bottle of Rioja in The Reliance...

The carefully chosen date location was yielding results as we walked, errr stumbled to the bus stop...
My flat was but a short bus ride away

Any other good date locations, let's hear 'em and the reports of how they went

btw waterloowelshy, how did your date go?

 

[waterloowelshy]

Was agonising over this matter myself last weekend, although it was a Saturday night. Researching urban brought up this thread and I like the NFT>Gordons>Covent Garden route but that wasn't practical in my case. Booked up a table using toptable.co.uk at the Rivington Bar & Grill in Shoreditch...and it was a pleasant enough meal although not if you've got an appetite.

After polishing off a couple of bottles of fine red, Shoreditch offered plenty of other places to visit should the date go well...and it did as we polished off another bottle of Rioja in The Reliance...

The carefully chosen date location was yielding results as we walked, errr stumbled to the bus stop...
My flat was but a short bus ride away

Any other good date locations, let's hear 'em and the reports of how they went

btw waterloowelshy, how did your date go?

Was very good.

Think we ended up going to Smithfields - her idea in the end - it started a bit badly with a really loub brash club/bar thing that you couldnt hold a conversation in due to the all the city boys shouting and the blaring music - and this at about 7.30 pm!

So we quickly left there and then went to a really old pub just down the road - called the Jerusalem tavern - proper old 18th century pub that was more in keeping with having a good drink and a good conversation - review here

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/review_1083.html

Then after a few ciders in there we stumbled on 'The Green' at Clerkenwell green - http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_pubbar_6450.html

was an absolutely great pub - loads of room, great music, good mix of regulars and people out for the night plus a really good tapas menu that we just picked at all night - and they did organic cider which made me all the worse for wear! We liked it so much we ended up staying here till closing time - id reccomend it if you are ever in that area.

So overall a good night was had - wouldnt neccessarily go back to that area as it kind of was a bit restricted but would def go back to those pubs. Prob wouldnt drink as much of the organic cider though as my date wasnt exactly impressed with my post pub performance! - think i did enough to win her over though!

 

[editor]

And tonight it's got to be.....

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[marty21]

So we quickly left there and then went to a really old pub just down the road - called the Jerusalem tavern - proper old 18th century pub that was more in keeping with having a good drink and a good conversation - review here

that's a great place, really interesting choice of ales, you can combine a visit there to another, a short walk away, dovetails, a belgian bar (well belgian beers, not a lot of belgians, although i'm sure if belgians are in the area there's visit it and that)