Ladybird Bar (Upper Street - London)

Ladybird Bar

At a glance this place appears to be a civilised cosmopolitan dream but the delivery of its experience is not only delayed but disappointing. It's a double-floor rather trendy up-beat venue with hip-hop and reggae fusion playing throughout. The bar entrance is across a VIP rope and up a short set of stairs into a short walkway with leather backless couches and tables to the left. The walkway then opens into the bar which is to the left and some assorted tables and chairs to the right. At the end of the bar the venue finishes, in short; Yes; it is quite small. The decor of reds blacks and whites suits the desired comfortable effect and although the place is open til 4am it is hard to find a seat at 10pm. The toilets downstairs are pretty grim and the "late bar" also downstairs is very small and overheated. The service of the drinks was - ask at the bar - then go back to your seat and wait an hour for high quality cocktails.

In short the place is managed badly - its like waiting all night for a train then having it arrive with only one carriage, you frown but get on board cos you've been waiting this long but the ride is just.. disheartening. 5/10

Comments

[TwoCrabs]

OMG. Thank you for your unbiased negative review of Ladybird. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I HATE and DESPISE Ladybird. You see, we live next door to this rubbish club. And have spent the past year fighting with the Ladybird owners and the local council about this stupid club, the pounding blaring crap music that shakes the picture frames off our walls at 2am on weeknights when we have to be up for work four hours later; the loud drunken idiots who stumble out of the bar at 4am on Saturday and vomit on our doorstep; the managers' rude inconsiderate behaviour; I could go on for hours. Boycott the Ladybird!