The Double bar - Angel, London

[Soovy]

Last night I went to this place with a mate. He chose it.

http://www.thedoubleclub.co.uk/bar/bar.html

It's down a back alley in Islington. It's a Congolese Bar (FFS) sponsored by Prada and UNICEF.


We went to the bar, and ordered two 75cl congolese beers ("Turbo beer" - 5%)


We sat down on the plastic chairs, and were then presented with a bill for TWENTY SEVEN POUNDS.



Yes sir, £13.50 a bottle.




Utter c0ck rocketry.



Do not go there. Ever.

Edited by Soovy on Thursday 16th April 12:32

[billybuds]

Looking at the menu on the website, all other drinks seem to be standard-ish london prices. It's just the beers! Not sure about those plastic chairs!

[scotal]

Soov, you absolute fknugget, you've been drinking in an art installation. Your mate is either hopelessly gullible, or a pretentious tt.

website said:

The Double Club is a Carsten Höller art project by Fondazione Prada.
Located in an old Victorian warehouse just beside the Angel tube station, The Double Club opened on 21 November 2008, offering a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality, as well as creating a dialogue between Congolese and Western contemporary music, lifestyle, arts and design.
Open for a limited duration of 6 months, The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

[Soovy]

Pretentious website for this place said:

The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

This place is without question the MOST pretentious place I have EVER been.


£21.50 for a scrag end of goat, burned to a cinder in an old oil drum, plus one beer.



Utter c ntery.

It was full of skinny white folk, getting down wid de effniks and feeling their pain. No wonder the Congolese militia have got such ace weapons....



Hilarious.

Edited by Soovy on Thursday 16th April 12:43

[G'kar]

£13.50 is a bargain for a beer that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

I must grab my polo neck and head on over.

[billybuds]

website said:

The Double Club is a Carsten Höller art project by Fondazione Prada.
Located in an old Victorian warehouse just beside the Angel tube station, The Double Club opened on 21 November 2008, offering a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality, as well as creating a dialogue between Congolese and Western contemporary music, lifestyle, arts and design.
Open for a limited duration of 6 months, The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

people get paid to write that crap... "an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion" can anyone decypher that?!

[Soovy]

billybuds said:

website said:

The Double Club is a Carsten Höller art project by Fondazione Prada.
Located in an old Victorian warehouse just beside the Angel tube station, The Double Club opened on 21 November 2008, offering a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality, as well as creating a dialogue between Congolese and Western contemporary music, lifestyle, arts and design.
Open for a limited duration of 6 months, The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

people get paid to write that crap... "an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion" can anyone decypher that?!

It means lots of enormous black fellas trying to get into the pants of dopey skinny white chicks.

[Johnny]

Soovy said:

This place is without question the MOST pretentious place I have EVER been.


£21.50 for a scrag end of goat, burned to a cinder in an old oil drum, plus one beer.



Utter c ntery.

It was full of skinny white folk, getting down wid de effniks.



Hilarious.

Is dat not like, y'know, a bit racialist like?

[okgo]

to the whole thing really... What a st place. WTF has the beer got in it to warrant it towering over the rest of the menu?

Thank god its only open for another month or so.

Edited by okgo on Thursday 16th April 12:47

[sleep envy]

Soovy said:

Pretentious website for this place said:

The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

This place is without question the MOST pretentious place I have EVER been.


£21.50 for a scrag end of goat, burned to a cinder in an old oil drum, plus one beer.



Utter c ntery.

It was full of skinny white folk, getting down wid de effniks and feeling their pain. No wonder the Congolese militia have got such ace weapons....



Hilarious.

Edited by Soovy on Thursday 16th April 12:43

seen off

[Ikemi]

This isn't some awful result from a task off 'The Apprentice', is it? Someone should be fired!

[mouseymousey]

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

[Soovy]

Can the mods change the title to "most expensive beer ever..."

[sleep envy]

mouseymousey said:

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

not by a long chalk

[G'kar]

sleep envy said:

mouseymousey said:

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

not by a long chalk

Indeed. As you well know, DD's probably served me the most expensive beer of my life.

[Ikemi]

Didn't Carlsberg produce a beer that cost approximately £250 a pint not long ago?

Edited by Ikemi on Thursday 16th April 13:18

[Soovy]

G'kar said:

sleep envy said:

mouseymousey said:

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

not by a long chalk

Indeed. As you well know, DD's probably served me the most expensive beer of my life.

Oh yes.....


Come on.....

[G'kar]

Soovy said:

G'kar said:

sleep envy said:

mouseymousey said:

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

not by a long chalk

Indeed. As you well know, DD's probably served me the most expensive beer of my life.

Oh yes.....


Come on.....

Made it to the petition. I say no more.

[Soovy]

G'kar said:

Soovy said:

G'kar said:

sleep envy said:

mouseymousey said:

That is brilliant. Is it the most expensive beer in the country?

not by a long chalk

Indeed. As you well know, DD's probably served me the most expensive beer of my life.

Oh yes.....


Come on.....

Made it to the petition. I say no more.

Ah. Right then.

[scotal]

swerni said:

I thought the first rule of city beers was "nah poofters"

And yet you wear those shirts?