The Social (Portland Street) Overview
What were we thinking? Or The Plan Back then, in 1999, our plan was pretty simple. We were stuck. We had nowhere to drink, nowhere to call home from home. We had spent the last few years running club nights, spending every Saturday night on the dancefloors and in the corridors of Turnmills in London’s then quiet Clerkenwell area. Then spending every weekday in the recovery position, moving from s**t house pub to crappy lifeless bar.
Nowhere seemed to play any decent music, every pub was either a pit or had been buffed up with all the same details that every gastro pub in London had, down to the Moby CD soundtrack. After one drunken evening back at the Heavenly office too many, we decided the only way we would ever stop complaining about how crap everything was in town was if we built our own place. Six months, a lot of head scratching and a whole bunch of drinking later and the first Social was up and running and ready for action. The initial plan was to roll out Socials all round the country, replicating what we were doing in London on a local level all round Britain. After opening the first bar, we set our sights to Nottingham where the second Social opening in December 1999.
Since then, partly due to the workload that has come with the continued rise of Heavenly recordings and partly due to a high level of perfectionism by all involved (ok, we are lazy), there has only been one more Social opened, also in London (Islington).
Additional Info: Cocktails, Non-Smoking Area, Children Allowed, DJ
Nearby Venues:
- Annex 3, Modern European (0.01km)
- Gaylord Restaurant, Indian (0.03km)
- Pho, Vietnamese (0.11km)
- Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen, Modern European (0.11km)
- The Slug and Lettuce - Great Titchfield Street, Modern British (0.11km)
- Carluccio's Caffe Market Place, Italian (0.11km)
- Soho Japan, [Other/Unclassified] (0.12km)
- Vapiano, Italian (0.12km)
- Ozer, Modern Ottoman (0.13km)
- La Tasca, Spanish (0.14km)
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