London 1993 LGBT Venues

This is a transcription of the listings printed on the reverse of the Back Pocket Guide to Gay & Lesbian London, issue 2, published in autumn 1993 by JWH Design and given away free in London's gay venues. It records the bars, clubs, cafés, restaurants, shops, saunas and hotels trading in London at that date, and is reproduced here as a dated snapshot of the scene. Venues marked ★NEW★ in the original were newly opened.

Bars and pubs

• 1/2 Way to Heaven – 7 Duncannon Street, WC2
• The Angel – 65 Graham Street, N1
• The Attic Bar, at the Peacock – 13 Maiden Lane, WC1
• The Bell – 257 Pentonville Road, N1
• The Black Cap – 171 Camden High Street, NW1
• Brief Encounter – 42 St Martins Lane, WC2
• The Brixtonian Backayard – Neals Yard, WC2
• The Carpenters Arms – 12 Seymour Place, W1
• Central Station – 37 Wharfdale Road, N1
• The Champion – 1 Wellington Terrace, W2
• City of Quebec – 12 Old Quebec Street, W1
• The Cloudesley Arms – 34 Cloudesley Place, N1
• The Coleherne – 261 Old Brompton Road, SW5
• Comptons – 53 Old Compton Street, W1
• Crews – 14 Upper St Martins Lane, WC2
• The Edge – 11 Soho Square, W1
• Edward VI – 25 Bromfield Street, N1
• The Empire – Little Turnstile, High Holborn, WC1
• The Golden Lion – 51 Dean Street, W1
• Harpo's – 180 Earl's Court Road, SW5
• King's Arms – 23 Poland Street, W1
• Kudos – 10 Adelaide Street, WC2
• Locomotion – 18 Bear Street, Leicester Square, WC2
• Manhattans – 286 Fulham Road, SW10
• The Market Tavern – Market Towers, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, SW8
• New Recessions – Brunswick Centre, Russell Square, WC1
• Partners – 305 Kennington Road, SE11
• The Piano Bar – 8 Brewer Street, W1
• Regents – 201 Liverpool Road, N1
• The Royal Oak – 62 Glenthorne Road, W6
• Royal Vauxhall Tavern – 372 Kennington Lane, SE11
• The Salmon and Compasses – 58 Penton Street, N1
• Village Soho – 81 Wardour Street, W1
• Village West One – 38 Hanway Street, W1
• The Yard – 57 Rupert Street, W1 ★NEW★

Late bars

• Bar Industria – Hanover Street, W1
• Bromptons – 294 Old Brompton Road, SW5
• Hangar Bar at Soundshaft – Hungerford Lane, WC2 ★NEW★
• London Apprentice (the LA) – 333 Old Street, EC1
• Sub-Station – Falconberg Court, W1
• Village West One – 38 Hanway Street, W1

Clubs

• Bang – 157 Charing Cross Road, W1
• D.T.P.M. – 92 Kingsway, Holborn, WC1
• FF Club – 63b Clerkenwell Road, EC1
• Hash 11 – 11 Wardour Street, W1
• The Fridge – Town Hall Parade, Brixton Hill, SW2
• Heaven – Under the Arches, Villiers Street, WC2
• Madame Jo Jo – 8 Brewer Street, W1
• The Phoenix – 37 Cavendish Square, W1
• Queer Nation – 4 The Piazza, Covent Garden, WC2
• Rockys – 3 New Burlington Street, W1 ★NEW★
• Tatty Bogle – Kingly Court, Beak Street, W1
• Trade at Turnmills – 63b Clerkenwell Road, EC1
• Underground – 37 Wharfdale Road, Islington, N1
• Village Youth at the Limelight – Shaftesbury Avenue, W1

Of interest to women

• Ace of Clubs – 52 Piccadilly, W1
• Clit Club – 37 Wharfdale Road, N1
• Passion Pit (women only) – 11 Wardour Street, W1
• Silver Moon bookshop – 64–68 Charing Cross Road, WC2
• Venus Rising (women only) – Café de Paris, W1

Cafés

• Balans – Old Compton Street, W1 ★NEW★
• First Out – St Giles High Street, WC2
• Old Compton Street Café – 34 Old Compton Street, W1
• Patisserie Valerie – 44 Old Compton Street, W1

Restaurants

• Keable's – 26 Knights Hill, SE27
• Le Bistro Carapace – 30 Winchester Street, SW1
• Le Lavandier – 140 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, EC4
• My Old Dutch – High Holborn, WC2
• Narciso – 278 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 ★NEW★
• Rage, at Casper's on Mondays – St Anne's Court, W1 ★NEW★
• Roy's – 306b Fulham Road, SW10
• Steph's – 39 Dean Street, W1
• Wilde About Oscar – 30–31 Philbeach Gardens, SW5

Shops

• American Retro – 35 Old Compton Street, W1
• Bodytech – 48 Kenway Road, SW5
• Clone Zone – 64 Old Compton Street, W1
• The Colt Bookshop – 2 Berwick Street, W1
• Expectations – 75 Great Eastern Street, EC2
• Gay's the Word – 66 Marchmont Street, WC1
• HOM – 12a Fouberts Place, W1
• Obsessions – 30 Monmouth Street, WC2; 1 Coleherne Road, Earls Court, SW10; and 160 Heath Street, Hampstead
• Regulation – 17a St Albans Place, N1
• Sports Locker – 17 Floral Street, WC2
• Studio 40 – 69 Berwick Street, W1 ★NEW★
• Sweat – 75b Great Eastern Street, EC2
• Zipperstore – 283 Camden High Street, NW1

Health and leisure

• Centre Point Gym – New Oxford Street, W1
• Covent Garden Health Spa – 29 Endell Street, W1
• Drill Hall Arts Centre – 16 Chenies Street, WC1
• Earth Travel & Tickets – 49 Frith Street, W1
• One-on-One Health Gym – 48 Kenway Road, SW5
• ROX hair – 49 Old Compton Street, W1 ★NEW★
• SohoMen – 64 Old Compton Street, W1

Hotels

• New York Hotel – 32 Philbeach Gardens, SW5
• Philbeach Hotel – 31 Philbeach Gardens, SW5
• Redcliffe Hotel – 268 Fulham Road, SW5

Source

Back Pocket Guide to Gay & Lesbian London, issue 2, JWH Design / Back Pocket Guides, autumn 1993.