Bars & Pubs

Sparse, laid-back and bohemian, the two-floor Two Floors is understated and quite wonderful. Beers here are mainly bottled (Modelo Especial, Red Stripe, Brooklyn), ales (St Peter's, Sierra Nevada) too, with draught Kirin and £6 caipirinhas, caipiroskas (plain, vanilla and cinnamon) and cosmopolitans thrown in. There are £4 lunchtime ciabattas too - chorizo and emmental or mozzarella, tomato and basil perhaps? Though even the laziest daytime rendezvous might well spark into a raging evening session along the new bar hub of Kingly Street. Alexandra Carpenter and Richard Hubner's strikingly graphic depictions of people interacting should survive a major paint job scheduled for early 2008.

Time Out Bars, Pubs & Clubs Guide 2008/9