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N:EV Bar
FN:EV Bar
TEL;WORK;VOICE:020 7620 6191
ADR;WORK:;;97-99 Isabella St, Southwark;SE1 8DA
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NOTE:We're all ending up the same, which is a luxury that wealth affords us. We can all, in our limited fashion, aspire to live like the elite, to wear what they do, eat where they eat and dance on the same dancefloors. Our lifestyles become a dream of how we think the other half live. This is why there has been a phenomenal growth in bars like the EV Bar, where those with pretensions of grandeur can flatter themselves that they have sophistication, taste and intellect, whilst surrounded by an unthreatening crowd as dull as they are. The EV bar is part of the ever-expanding Tas empire, which has made a fortune serving so-so faux Near Eastern food to people who can't be bothered finding somewhere proper to eat. Situated under a span of railway arches, the bar also contains a restaurant area and an organic bakery. Decked out in a sort of Habitat idea of Near Eastern exoticism, like something a pair of middle class, middle aged kaftan wearing WOMAD goers would drape their house in, it oozes a self-assured blandness that is matched by most of its clientele. Beer on tap? You've got Stella, otherwise there's puny, overpriced bottles of the usual glop. Best stick to the wine, which while being too expensive, isn't bad. It has a nice outside area in the summer, but its phenomenal popularity, based upon so little substance, makes me tremble for a time when most London bars will be like this.
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