Eat Out London!Big Red
Coal-black US-style rock bar with powerful jukebox, great food and frequent host to bands and music fairs.
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Big Red in Holloway, London Pub Review and Details
The subtly lit interior is dominated by a large rectangular bar, which is surrounded on three sides by seating, including several cosy booths.
Previously we found the bar staff tended to look aggrieved when you interrupted them by doing something audacious like ordering a pint, but this seems to have improved.
Wünderlust, London: restaurant review - olive magazine
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London street food legend Fleisch Mob is in residence at Deptford’s Big Red until NYE.
Its latest project, Wünderlust, combines trademark street food with a seasonal menu that ticks all the right boxes.
Step inside Wünderlust and you’ll be transported to a vibrant, cosy labyrinth, which winds from a vintage double decker bus, past the bar and out into a cocktail lounge, complete with mini cinema.
With a seasonal menu, the dishes may change but the huge flavours certainly won’t.
Determined to show London how the Austrians love to eat, drink and party, Wünderlust’s cocktail list certainly delivers.
Big Red | Bars and pubs in Holloway, London
Big Red - CLOSED | Restaurants in Deptford Bridge, London
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Under the long concrete curve of an elevated section of the DLR, and with an unloveable portion of Deptford Creek tucked mercifully out of sight, it’s a surprisingly convivial spot, in part due to the boss who, despite coming across as a little otherworldly, is very friendly and thoroughly content with his eccentric operation.
Drinks, served off a short blackboard list from a small booth by the entrance, run from a too heavily limed mojito (£5) via a couple of wines to some Meantime beers, while the food, produced in a small kitchen beside the bus, is pizza and a few salads.
There are seats and tables inside the stranded bus, of course, but also plenty more on the decking outside.
Some sofas have a little shelter against sun and rain, as well as low tables that encourage poor posture among those nodding to a soundtrack of Billie Holiday, Sade and Depeche Mode.
A sequence of tables for couples at the far end look like telephone booths built for the Chelsea Flower Show, awaiting wisteria, while planters of basil, honeysuckle, lavender and geraniums soften what might otherwise be too brutal an urban setting.