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Apogee - A STRANGE BUT PLEASANT BAR/RESTAURANT

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. 


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