Friday night · five rooms

Pick Your Friday

Doors open when you say so

Five ideas, honestly labelled. Punch the ones you like the look of — booking it is my problem.

No. 01 · live set

Conversation Room

Live music · small plates · low light

A room built around the band. The portions are small, the lighting is kind, and you're close enough to hear the amp hum between songs.

closest thing here to a proper gig night

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No. 02 · loud one

Grid

Food · music · high volume

The food delivers and so does the music. So does everyone else in the city — it'll be full, and it'll be loud.

brilliant night, terrible for talking

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No. 03 · quiet one

Olive

Cozy · quiet · good food

Warm, tucked-away, and the food is genuinely good. No soundtrack to compete with, which means we actually finish our sentences.

the one where we talk for three hours

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No. 04 · double bill

Shelves, then sky

Two stops · books first

  • Oxford Bookstore
  • the walk
  • LMNOQ Skybar

Start in the stacks and take as long as you want in there — I'm not rushing you out of a bookshop.

Then the good part: we walk to a rooftop from there, your hand in mine the whole way. LMNOQ, or wherever we've talked ourselves into by the time we arrive.

you pick the book, I'm paying for it

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No. 05 · your call

Soy Yum

Familiar ground · already approved

This one isn't my idea. It's been on your story highlights twice, which I noticed, and which I'm now openly admitting to.

Somewhere you already like beats somewhere I'm trying to impress you with. Ordering is entirely your department.

yes, I was paying attention

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Nothing punched yet

Encore

None of these doing it for you? Say so and I'll find something else — there's more of this city than five rooms.