Bar Kick, Shoreditch  

Like its smaller relation in Exmouth Market, Bar Kick is a haven for table footy fans. A reasonably sized bar with friendly staff, this place serves up a range of bottled beers, spirits and cocktails and does a good line in well priced and decent food too. But, it's really for the table football that most people head here: the tables line up all down one side of the bar. There's a fair number of them, so you've probably got a fair chance of getting in a game if you fancy it. Like café Kick, the emphasis here is on all things Portuguese and Brazilian, but it's pulled off without any cheesy "Latin" set pieces. There was even decent music on the stereo, rather than one of those awful "Best Brazilian albums in the world ever" type affairs you might expect (and there was certainly no fado either). In fact, and again in common with the caff, the place in general manages to avoid falling into the usual traps you might associate with these kind of bars with trendy E1 postcodes. The emphasis is placed on having fun rather than be-mulleted pretension and that's really what makes this place work. Vamos a gente indeed.

reviewed:
14/8/2004

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