| TUESDAY
JUNE 2, 2009 |
| Our
Dirty Little Secret |
| New
restaurant/café/bar/club, The Bathhouse, opens
in East London |
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Aside
from the MI5/MI6 storage vaults, I suspect
there is nowhere in London that revels
in its secrets quite as much as Shoreditch.
Whether hidden dens of debauchery or rooftop
retreats of aerial alcoholism, the coolest
spots are so often the hardest to find
- tucked, as they are, far from the prying
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And
yet, standing with discrete pride at the
end of a churchyard beside Liverpool Street
station, East London's latest dirty secret
- a fantastic converted Turkish bathhouse,
which soft-launched last weekend - is
in fact anything but.
Hidden in plain view almost on the very
boundary between Shoreditch and the City,
The Bathhouse is out to offer a little
something for everyone, from flat-white-sipping
City daywalkers to Wh*reditch nightcrawlers
alike.
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Set
up by Tava O'Halloran (formerly
of Hoxton's infamous haven of iniquity,
333), this new and wonderfully individual
venue has everything from a sublime
daytime café and an 80-seater
Italian restaurant, to a deliciously
late-night bar set to host some
truly incredible live music. Just
try not to tell anyone - let's keep
it our little secret.
The
Bathhouse, 8 Bishopsgate Churchyard,
EC2M
Find more bars,
restaurants
or even real bathhouses
in the UJ
London Guide.
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TODAY'S
EVENT PICKS |
Anxieties & fantasies through computer animation and dance. 8pm, The Place, 17 Dukes Road, WC1H. £5-15. |
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Get involved in a piece of public art. 9:30am–6pm, 3 Bedfordbury Gallery, Covent Garden, WC2N. Free. |
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Celebrate the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth. 11am-5:30pm, Dr Johnson's House,17 Gough Sq, EC4A. £4.50. |
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Riflemaker’s new exhibition looks at the Art of Bullfighting. 10am – 6pm, 79 Beak St, W1F. Free.
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