Masque Bar (Kings Cross - London)

Masque Bar

A rather happening 'Bassy' small club next to Kings Cross station masquerades by day as perhaps a derelict shop and at night falls victim to pumping chillout and slow dance beats. You enter to the corner of a rounded bar with leather couches dotted about. The DJ sits in a booth opposite the bar at the back lost in his own world of music while the relatively few people mingle about the place. Noticeably at the end of the evening it is very uncrowded which is quite nice if you are looking for a small club where you cant here yourself think with no people in at the end of a Friday night. The drinks are at usual cost of about £3 a pint and upon a visit the toilets were shabby but not actually dirty.

Overall the place gets 5/10. It has a good bar with solid music with a good location but too small to be an impressive club and could really do with some redecorating!

Comments

[Gastroboy]

Visited the Masque yesterday as part of an impromptu 'how do we get from Islington to Soho' pub crawl. Now it might be because it was the Saturday before New Year's Eve, or maybe just that it was a bit early, but the place contained an un-atmospheric 4 customers and managed to be both filty and shabby and simultaneously reek of disinfectant. In particular, the toilets are a work of art. Not exactly dirty (as you say) but damp and musky. Every available surfact was wet to the touch, and there was some evidence of stalagtites forming on the bare electrics hanging out of the holes in the ceiling. That said, the music was ok (until they put the best of Sherrly Crowe unplugged on) and it is very red.