Beware if you’re booking ahead! For a Saturday night hen do, we had called ahead to book an area for 16 people. We were charged £25 for this ‘honour’, and what we got were two tiny tables with nine chairs crammed around them. After protesting this roughly three times, we finally managed to get our money back, but the result of that is we didn’t get the food that came with the booking. The argument from the slightly unhelpful hostesses? We didn’t ‘specifically request’ a booth.

I know Saturdays are busy, but your mate only gets married once and this put a bit of a dampener on what had, up until that point, been a brilliant day. Bars know they can get away with this rubbish because people can’t be bothered to move on or complain. But it still sucks. If you request a spot for 16 people and PAY for it, you don’t expect to be given an area for 9. Especially when booths lay empty for hours behind us while people showed up late. We’d been on our feet all day and were looking forward to crashing out and drinking up. Sadly, no chance.

Aside from that hiccup, Motion is a nice bar, very big and well designed, it has a decent crowd and the drinks are good. Our £20 each kitty stretched to a lot of cocktail jugs, and the food was good for the price. Happy hour is 5 - 7pm and definitely worth checking out…just remember to be very specific when booking. Ask for a big booth area, or expect to be palmed off with something you could easily get for free elsewhere.

This is a different kind of club it’s got two floors on the upper floor there’s a cocktail bar where they serve drinks and play different types of music depending on the night but what’s interesting about this club is that it’s not only a club downstairs every Sunday of the end of every month they have song, spoken word, lyrics and poetry performances with a cocktail bar downstairs also and lounge space for you to sit back and enjoy the show. Anyone can perform the show starts at 8pm before 9pm tickets are £5 after its £7 and lasts for as many performances the worst thing is they hardly ever start on time so you could be waiting around for a bit.
There is talent in this room though however so you will not be disappointed if you’re a fan of talent of this type.

One of the best bars in London, in my humble opinion - not so cool it shrieks at you, just a very relaxed bar on two levels.

The top level has a snug area near to the door and stools and high "couches" which are very easy to slide off when you've had a few too many of their cocktails at happy hour. The drinks and bar food are always excellent value, especially at Happy Hour.

Downstairs is more of a club-effect, with lots of private "lounges" behind curtains which you can hire for private parties, plus low level seating and some high stools and tables. Very dark, very "factory-type" design but also excellent fun with everyone clearing the way for the dancefloor when the DJ comes on late in the evening.

Go on ... start sampling the cocktails at Happy Hour, and watch as the "Circle Line" drinking parties stagger in around 9pm.

Motion is in a gorgeous location. Service is friendly and efficient. The decor is lovely with modern wall papers and chandelliers. With its beautiful appearance and quality service you would expect inflated prices, however, we were suprised so much at the cost that we had to double chek we had doubles.