Adventure bar - East Dulwich (Lounged when no longer about same)

[AllyCat]

I like the fact there is a Happy Hour (or 3!) from 5pm - 8pm every night!

[EDOldie]

There's an adventure cafe & bar in Bath. Bloody adventure getting a drink in there I can tell you. Is it the same chain as this one? Theres no mention of Bath on their website. I don't think they should have a happy hour they should have a miserable hour when all us forumites can go in and have a good moan about everything. Can you have a good moan or is that an oxymoron??

[mamafeelgood]

i'm sure that they mix a good cocktail and people will end up going. my only complaint is that the graphics are awful. but then i'm sure that's just pretentious thing to care about...

[TobyJackson]

Hi everyone

Thanks for your interest in our new bar. We have almost finished the extension now and are starting the internal structure. We are still aiming to be open at the end of August and I will give out more details nearer the time.

Just to answer your questions, firstly, our music is played and chosen by us. We don't have play lists, every day is different. I couldn't list every band on the website but we play a mixture of rock, indie, disco, dance and soul. The thing we concentrate on is making sure everybody has a good time. Our staff are very good at this. They are all full time professional bartenders.

Secondly, we don't have a bar in Bath (yet). Our website is going to be updated with a new East Dulwich page this weekend so you should be able to find it through Google then.

If you have any questions over the next few weeks, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

Thanks

Toby, Adventure Bar & Lounge

[iggy_pop]

inside 72 was the only bar i'd been in where i heard 'at the drive in' being played...

looks like the adventure playlist is designed to attract the sort of character that thinks having a kaiser chiefs cd in their audi TT is cool

birkenstocks to the lot of 'em

[James]

Kaiser Chiefs = fat Menswe@r

[Brendan]

Kaiser Chiefs = a soccer team from Soweto

[mamafeelgood]

music can be shut out of the high street and therefore chosen not to be heard, the outside design and type cannot. it is there for all to see and as i have voiced before the design of this place is bad, uninspiring and flat. sorry but one thing i will say for inside 72 was the sign looked good.

[SeanMacGabhann]

mamafeelgood

Have to agree - I was surprised when I saw it yesterday. The facia might have cost money but it sure as heck doesn't look it

[James]

As long as they give good cocktail (and don't play Mika) I am willing to forgive and forget

[KalamityKel]

"give" good or "make" good James? ;-)

[James]

"Give good" as in "give good xxxxx" (insert desired noun). Pretentious, moi?

[kford]

Hmm.. I just can't get past the insipid name. Sounds like something conjured up by grad marketeers during their first ever brainstorming session.

[*Bob*]

Surely the name and signage is an overt homage to

?

Maybe (and I might be talking to about three people here) they're going to have a talking plants and a Vortex out back?

[indiepanda]

I remember that, don't think that makes me THAT old though!

[benjaminty]

I miss the adventure game! Why dont we get that stuff on UKTV??????

As for the bar... we might see a lot of what looks like passing trade but infact people looking to get a roof over their heads?

http://www.ymca.org.uk/

[muffins78]

I was in the Battersea Rise bar last nite - after not been there in ages...and the cocktails were as yummy as ever!! And the music was brill - i real mixture!! :)

[dc]

The Adventure Game! It was so Doogy Rev. Let's hope the new bar is half as entertaining.

[mamafeelgood]

i am sure that the cocktails will be fine and music better than compared to, say, oh i don't know, KFC or the back of a 176 up to town. but it just looks soulless, and that's from their own shots on the net. there's no personal touches in there...

[capt_birdseye]

The music in I72 was good but was played far too loud (sorry if that makes me sound like a codger). It really put me off as you couldn't have a conversation without shouting.

Hrumph.

[dulmum]

Christ alive, lets not mince words, everything about this place looks f*cking dreary. I was depressed when I72 shut and am even more depressed that this shower have got hold of the keys. 'Like yah, when i got back from travelling right, i got a 5% stake in this chain of wicked bars with toby. we are opening one in East Dulwich, which is like so totally up-and-coming. The next clapham right' Arrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh, i guess it will keep the hoxton-finned cnuts in foxtons away from the rest of us.

[Brendan]

Anyone notice this little gem on some of their signage: +VENTURE

[Jeremy]

I had a drink in Inside 72 a couple of weeks before it shut. It was empty. Yes, many of us liked that little bar, but quite clearly it wasn't popular enough to survive.

It just goes to show that you really need to support your favorite local businesses, especially if they're a little less "mainstream".

[Brendan]

It had plenty of support and was always full on the weekends and later in the evening. They didn?t close because of lack of business they just decided it was time to move on.

On in this case being out of London I think.

Although I?m sure +Venture are going to have plenty of support as well. Just of a different kind.

[VeryBerryCherry]

Funny this thread should pop-up as I had a nosey through their window this morning. Looks like they're making progress.

I hope so, because I was looking/hoping for a job there. I've been working at Firefly in Clapham and am tired of taking a 3am bus home with the resident drunk and druggies (of course I am always a model of composure when I get drunk in Clapham and catch the 37!) >:D<

I can give/make some great cocktails James.

My latest fave is an After Eight Martini :)-D