EBG Rating: 8.8/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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Despite a small bar, it is reasonably well stocked with a good broad base of options.

Style/Décor:
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Red, red, and more red. Sleazy, bawdy exterior which beckons you in, then continues on entrance. A woozy little bunker with small stage, pinball machine and old cinema stalls.

Atmosphere/Character:
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Smokey, sleazy, lively but deep and brooding. It has soul, in fact it feels like you’ve entered through a portal, leaving your life behind for a brief few hours.

Amenities/Events:
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Live music, snacks, smoking permitted, pinball machine.

Value For Money:
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Reasonable value for money overall.

Description:
By their own admission:
“We are really small, with us it is tight, hot and stuffy. We have no outdoor spaces and no WiFi. The toilets are ok. We open everyday at 8pm.“

Why then, would one seek out Heartbreak Hotel?

Set on the ‘Bermuda Triangle’, the lurid lighting of the bar glows street side, beckoning you in, possibly also giving you a hint of the bawdiness to be found inside.

Yes, it’s small, intimate and portal like. The outside world feels like it has vanished. In its place, a brooding red late bar with cinema stall, small stage, pinball machine and..well, a bar.

Opening at 8pm til late (sometimes crossing over until work hours the following morning), you won’t be arriving here for some post-prandial libation! Instead, more likely, you’ll be well-oiled and seeking to cap the evening off at somewhere with some soul and energy.

Heartbreak’s former owner Felix has passed operations over to his son, and although this has ruffled some feathers, most reviews report everything working as normal.

Impromptu encounters, music, and fun, there’s no way of knowing quite where a night at Heartbreak Hotel will take you, but whatever ordinary life has taken from you, Heartbreak Hotel can put it back, if just for an evening.