The original branch of what is now a nationwide chain celebrated its 10th birthday in 2005 and it’s easy to see why it’s still hustling.
Square Meal
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perfect speed dating, says a match making pub boss – the pool table is where you’ll find the partner of your dreams
Islington Gazette
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An infinitely more stylish way to shoot a frame than funneling 20p pieces into a cranky old table in a pub backroom.
Voyager
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Kat Shakespeare leaned across the purple pool table and looked around. A stranger took the hint and shuffled in behind her. Clenched together, they lined up to pot the eight ball.
The Independent
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…the combination of pool hall and bar-nightclub is hugely successful, as proved by the dedicated following of punters that keeps this place short of its namesake on a busy night.
Time Out Bar Guide
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Now we know we gave over this page to The Elbow Room back in April, but we can’t help it if the guys behind the pool bar chain keep coming up with great new ideas. Bar ping pong is their latest innovation.
Class
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Cue the celebrations as Britain’s best pool halls turn ten.
GQ
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Happy Birthday to The Elbow Room, who is soon to celebrate its 10th anniversary, making it about 100 years old in bar years.
Class
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It’s relaxed, unposey and reckoned by many men to be a top place to meet members of the opposite sex.
Lonely Planet
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Justin Carter came up with the concept of The Elbow Room while shooting pool with Kiefer Sutherland in LA. Ten years on and the group has five high quality venues.
Flavour
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The Elbow Room is a pool hall with a difference: great decor, laid back atmosphere and reasonable drink prices…a pool hall like no other in the capital…relaxed and stylish.
Time Out Guide
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100 Best Things In The World – Number 92: The Elbow Room
GQ
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For anyone who’s taken even the slightest interest in the capital’s bar scene over the last couple of months, the name Arthur Baker should ring a few bells.
Class
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The Elbow Room pool Lounge and Bar is like New York. Only better.
The Independent Magazine
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pool is one of those activities like poker, skinning up and walking in stilettos that must be learned between the ages of 12 and 17, or not at all.
Class
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…as we stumbled away from an extremely agreeable afternoon, we went as far as to declare that it was the finest burger & chips to have ever entered our welcoming mouths.
Later
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I’m sick to death of men monopolising pool tables and using their cues to compensate for the size of the dicks.
Big Issue
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a wonderful pool hall/bar/restaurant…no wonder they call it the rebirth of pool. Your cue for a seriously good night out.
Time Out
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If your idea of a pool hall is a dive full of hustlers, gangsters and stale smoke then think again.
Evening Standard
an ingenious combination of pool hall and nightclub
GQ
easily the most impressive pool bar in London
Time Out
If there was somewhere like this in Stoke Newington I’d never go anywhere else. But then I’d be broke.
Time Out
Bringing the pool experience into the 90’s…it’s like walking on to the set of Carlito’s Way.
Sky Magazine
pool used to be about smoky dives, bourbon-swillers and American hustlers. But now it’s super-clean, ultra-modern and in Leeds.
Arena Homme plus
Redefines the nature of late 90’s clubbing … the ideal retreat for all Northern space age lounge lizards.
i-D
…devotees wonder how they ever did without this designer pool hall.
Guardian Guide
The Elbow Room in London’s Notting Hill is the coolest place to play pool.
Elle
pool seems depressing when played by low-life types in dingy basements, but rather groovy when taken up by attractive young women in Notting Hill…
Harpers and Queen