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From: coldy Category: Consumer Date: 31 January 2009 Time: 03:07 PM Review: Lost in London the endless search for child friendly café/bars, the feeling that somewhere in London must be a new place to be, a new way to be in London. A bar with a view, a pub quiet enough, something to serve the ever greedy population. Give us more, we need more options, we need new ways to be, new places to live out our London ensconced lives, or should we seek out the hotel bars, the oddness of places for tourists. Chinese new years has brought the crowds to the streets, there's no where to go and its far too cold. Apogee is just off Leister Square, a strange combination place with a bar with wooden chair to sit, the rows of wine bottles etc drew me in, it claims to be Mediterranean, inside Cuban buena vista type music and a variety of staff of all nations, the boss is friend to customers, stern with incompetent martini failing staff. It’s a puzzle what this place might be trying to be (black bored says your 'local' a nice idea for the alienating stranger full centre of London), but the boss might be Lebanese or something who cares but one wonders what the place is meant to mean, or what would be the best thing for it to be, at the moment a confusion which sells delicious ice cream, bottled beer, other mixed food (e.g. stir fried this, kebabed that, carrot cake). They have some books on a shelf, to reassure me that they care about my mind, a spiral stair case. This whole thing is the strange kind of mix one might expect to find in Mile end, Dalston, but not Lie cest er square. I like it, a new place to while away the hours.