The Cedar Rooms (Upper Street - Islington)

The Cedar Rooms

This has had several previous names including "The independent" and "Lush Bar" but each has had a different fitting with its own decor and character. The Cedar rooms appears to be fairly new. with red under lighting across the picture rail by the ceiling creating a rather exotic lighting effect topped off by Chinese decorations and chandeliers. The place is really very small, merely the size of a small pub but with a rather plush bar with good cocktails available at £6 each (very strong) even though the bar persons are a bit slow. There is a hidden flight of stairs in the corner which seem to lead into a rather quiet private party type area. You can see they have really tried to give what is clearly a pub an upmarket trendy image but only the cocktails really rescue the fact that it is too small and out of place on this part of upper street.

Overall an even-sided 5/10.

Fancyapint.com - Map, Directions, Contact Details & More Reviews on this pub