PLACES TO SEE AND BE SEEN

Wealthy get-about Horris Melloray reports back from the hottest spots in town

Swish cocktail bars run by Professors of mixology are over! It’s all about Creditcrunch chic these days! The Three Lions on Camden Road, formally Father Ted, has been ironically fitted out in the style of a decaying working men's tavern with ironic staff and prices to match. The front opens up like Bar Soho in Old Compton Street and gives the venue a continental feel. The cliental are an un-lively lot who put on ironic cockney accents and ironically work blue collar jobs and live on council estates. No need to book.

IF YOU LIKED THIS WHY NOT TRY: The Little Crown, Deptford. Anywhere in Dagenham