Top 5 London bars (that happen to have great loos)
By Josh Jones, Features Editor le cool, le cool London
There’s already a top five places to go when you need the toilet super urgently on here, so I thought I’d write up some places that have something a little bit special about their bogs, for when you’re out on the town. Here are five bars that have something a unique in their little boys’ and girls’ rooms.
This pub right opposite Liverpool Street Station is a bit grubby. It really is. I used to go there when me and my mates were 16 and would go to London from Essex and realised the big city was scary so go straight to first pub we saw. The reason this place has an interesting toilet is if you go to the furthest sit down toilet in the gents and look through the vent under the cistern, you can see directly on to the Circle Line platform at Liverpool St Underground. Which is a bit weird isn’t it?
When I first came to Bourne and Hollingsworth it was really hard to find the toilets - they had done that thing where they wallpapered the door as well as the wall so it was quite hard to find. Now it’s been there a while the door pokes out a bit more, but that’s not what makes it good. It’s because when you get into the musty toilets in this basement bar, you’ll find a treasure trove of really old books and bric-a-brac. It’s like doing your business in the corner of an antique store.
This is actually owned by the same guy who owns Bourne & Hollingsworth and I guess he likes his drinking establishments to have fine conveniences, because this literary pub (the bar’s made out of stacks of books) has a toilet made entirely out of Scrabble tiles. Which is a really nice sober, but makes you feel a bit sick when you’re really drunk and trying to focus.
Alright - this is a bit la-di-da as you have to be either a member or with a member to get in, but the men’s toilet’s walls, ceiling and floor and completely covered in a massive, continual Ordinance Survey map. So if you’re in there on your own, having a pee, you may or may not forget what you’re doing as you search for your street and realise too late you’ve just pissed all over Kennington.
The Hoxton Hotel toilet is massive, the stalls are big and nice so you actually feel obliged to go try and have a number two, there’s an ice bucket and shovel that you have to shovel into the trough after having a pee (apparently it’s an American thing and stops any smells or something) and they don’t lock down their posh squirty soaps so they’re quite easy to take home and make your own bathroom look a bit classier.
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