Medicine Bar (Islington)

Over-priced drinks, depressing decor, dirty toilet facilities, with cheap broken plastic pound shop seats make you wonder quite what the surly staff have to be so rude and up themselves. And, given that when we went it was hardly packed to the rafters, why they take so long to serve. You can stand there for an age whilst they converse amongst themselves. Why does this stretch of the Angel have such delusions of grandeur? A meer hop skip and jump to grotty Holloway Road afterall. I only went as some friends had pre-arranged a social. There are far, far better establishments around, with better ambience and fairer priced drinks.Medicine Bar could be good if they had a better pricing policy or at the very least, trained their staff to seem pleased to see/serve you. Or the decor was better. SOMETHING to justify their snotty attitude.As it stands, it makes for a fairly depressing evening out. The kind that wishes you'd stayed at home.
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Oh come on. Be fair. The service is far from being a "bit" slow. I found it non existant. I've sort of grown out of loitering around the DJ booth to eye the DJ's up but apparently if that's the sort of thing you're still into and you don't mind waiting... forever, then no doubt you will enjoy a night here.
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Anna Louise
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Sunday, January 22, 2006

I think the Medicine bar rocks! OK the service can be a little slow at times, but when you consider the amount of people crammed around the bar it's no surprise really. The cocktails are fab,the crowd is a nice mix and the music is great. A couple of the dj's are fit too!
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maria
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Food 7 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

I ventured onto Islington's Upper Street on a night out with my work crowd last week and was sorely disappointed with this bar. It's not as good as I remembered it used to be. The bar staff's service was non-existant until the manageress came and appeared to shove a rocket up their rears but even then the music was poor, the customers a bit chavvy and the atmosphere lacking..bring back the old medicine pleeeease!!
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Annabel K
Tuesday, September 20, 2005