Bar lovers with stamina enjoy participating in the frequent Icelandic rúntur, a night-long, marathon-style pub crawl.
And, as any Mounds-bar lover will attest, coconut is a fantastic match with chocolate.
For loafing, there's private-members' club Shoreditch House, eccentric cocktail bar, Lounge Lover and the Boundary "restaurant, rooms and rooftop".
In one segment Mr. Berger parodies the navel-gazing tendencies of mumblecore, and yet in its place "The Scenesters" — which, its publicity materials say, "deconstructs" noir — offers only clichés, like a killer in a mask, a lonely hero drinking in a bar and lovers kissing at sunset.
When my mother let loose a stream of consciousness list of fears that the world would visit on me for being openly gay – including never finding happiness, or being bashed coming out of a bar with my lover – the one she settled on was "…and you always wanted to be a father".
All the star names of the modern craft scene are present: Odell's and Flying Dog from the US, Norwegians Nøgne Ø, as well as the best of the British new wave: Siren, Partizan, Kernel, Redchurch, Wild Beer etc. Throw in Weihenstephaner's dunkel and weissbeer on draught, and you have a bar where beer-lovers of all stripes could happily wile away a few hours.
In the prologue to Kirsty Gunn's new collection, a writer sits in a low-lit bar with a former lover drinking tequila and discussing short stories.
At the bridge, she walks through the bar and finds her lover.
What's to Love: Impossibly young and even more impossibly accomplished sommelier Maniec designed her original Corbuzz as a wine lover's bar, restaurant, and event space.
You may even stumble across other restaurants that didn't make it onto the list but are still more than worth a visit, like gastropub Ox Cart Tavern, the romantic wine bar Castello Plan, hummus lover's haven Mimi's Hummus or Filipino-fusion Purple Yam restaurant (get the traditional iced halo halo for dessert).
That's still not cheap, but price does not seem to be a bar where besotted martagon-lovers are concerned.
