25.6.07

more lists: cafes and bars

i have been yelled at via email for not writing enough lately. thing is, i have been a bit busy, but clearly that is no excuse, and i shall do my best to do better.
so while standing behind the till today at work, i started thinking of the best places where i like to hang out, and have a coffee or a glass of wine...and this is what i have come up with, but i suspect it is incomplete:
1> Freud, london. one of my favourite london hangout bars. they have really great cocktails. i sit on the stairs, no one else gets to sit there!
2.christophers martini bar, london. it is a bit ridiculous....but it is also near my job, and hence a regular pit stop.
3. szimpla/dupla, budapest: i have no idea how many nights of my life have been lost here, but more than i should be able to count. sadly, my other favourite budapest haunt, the goethe cafe, has now closed, and part of the building has been taken over by louis vuitton. it seems so wrong, goethe has the best tez cafe ever, and andrassy ut will never be the same again!
4.leopolds, mumbai. cmon, it is a classic. it has the best cheap food and drinks in the colaba, and the best atmosphere. if you dont believe me, read shantarum.
5.the bed, bangkok. this design of this place is wicked, adn the music is excellent as well.
6. random pit in prague. i cant remeber the name of the place where i spent so many evenings once upon a time in the mid 1990s. if was not far from the main square (and the national museum of rocks, as i called it) and it was undergrown in a wierd cave like construct. you had to climb up ladders to get into some of the rooms. i am sure it was an incredible fire hazard, which is probably why it is long gone, but it was truely spectacular.
7. plato, belgrade. no trip to serbia would be complete without spending hours gossiping with maysamba in plato....
8.the dome, mumbai. such an amazing view, and from the height of the top of the building, you cant smell the shit that fills the water below.
9. VIP room, paris. this place is also ridiculous, but for some reason it became a regular stop over place after work when i was working in paris. i cant even recall the number of times i missed that last metro because of the cocktails...
10. cafe delmas, paris. the location is perfect and they have outdoor heaters so you dont freeze in winter. excellent wine. and the food is good too. what i like about delmas is the odd variety of people: it is open all day and night and at any given time you can see everyone from pensioners to students sipping on coffee or munching a salad.
11. the eagle, cambridge. this place has the coolest ceiling ever, where american pilots carved stuff into the wood during the war. also something (DNA if i remember correctly) was discovered inside....definately my favourite cambridge spot, although the pickerel is a close second!

4 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

add szimpla kert mozi to szimpla-dupla
;)

naneh a dit…

yes you are completely correct, i just forgot!

Tatiana a dit…

there's also a lovely wine bar by Embankment, 30 seconds walk from you job...

naneh a dit…

really>>>>i dont know it! tell me!