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198 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JL Full details & map

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Posted: Jun 23 2010

Back in the late 1980s, this was the place to be. A hidden cellar with a faintly industrial feel, it carried with it a certain easy-going democracy, a welcome change from style-trial nightclubs and members-only enterprises such as the Groucho. After what seems a lifetime, it hasn't changed a bit.

The 40-odd affordable cocktails (£5.50-£7.25), stencilled above the busy bar counter, are strong and served with ceremony: a Holy Freud Lemonade contains vodka, lychee, lemonade and elderberry, while mojitos come in several varieties. Some 15 types of bottled beer include Meantime, Budvar and Zywiec, while wine starts at a bargain £3.35 a glass.

Rotating art exhibitions dot the aged-concrete walls; it does, after all, say 'Café Bar Gallery' in red neon outside. Who'd have thought it would survive so long?

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Freud

198 Shaftesbury Avenue WC2H 8JL

Transport Tottenham Court Road tube

Telephone

020 7240 9933

Freud website

Open 11am-11pm Mon-Wed; 11am-1am Thur, Sat; 11am-2am Fri; noon-10.30pm Sun. Food served noon-4.30pm daily

Credit cards MC, V

Facilities

Babies and children admitted ( until 4.30pm )

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