O’Neill’s and the Looney Doorman, Soho
by matt @ 5:46 pm. Blogged under Eating and Drinking
After a few hours spent in Waxy’s Little Sister my fellow drinkers and I moved on to O’Neill’s on the opposite side of Wardour street. Gaining entrance (beneath a large and confusing Ladbrokes sign) proved bizarre. As we all trooped in one of the doorman stopped the last three of us and said “you can’t go inâ€?. “Why notâ€? came our obvious reply, “You ain’t with them, I’ve seen you three hanging around here for ten minutesâ€?… I think my response of “OK sure no problem, let me just call the ten people who just went in and we’ll all leaveâ€? seemed to prove a point as doorman number two said “Go on inâ€? to which I laughed. “This ain’t no laughing matter sonny this is serious businessâ€? said the original looney doorman. I’m not sure what he’d been smoking, perhaps his wife had given him a beating before he left for work and he needed to reassert his ‘authority’.
On the top floor of O’Neill’s (up a very narrow and crowded stairwell) was a bar / nightclub which was playing some pretty decent house classics from the late 1990s. On the floor below was a large bar area with huge windows facing out onto the street beneath, a wonderful 180 degree vista of Soho, from where we watched the people outisde coming and going… and being arrested. The music at O’Neill’s was a bit too loud to have a conversation without straining your voice, so I’d recommend a trip to the nightclub upstairs instead for music after drinking and chatting in Waxy’s Little Sister.
O’Neill’s, Soho
33-37, Wardour St, London, W1D 6QT
Tel: 020 7479 7941
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