London underground bars

Expert's tip: The Moustache Bar, 58 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston

Just as skinny jeans and weird hair have been adopted by the suburban crowd, so has Shoreditch, leaving Dalston and Stoke Newington as the destinations-of-choice for London's trendsetters. Charge up Kingsland Road and downstairs into the Moustache Bar, a low-lit basement venue for sweaty late-night dance parties. It's covered in vintage postcards and reminiscent of a low-key, shabby kitsch Spanish bar with an arty twist - a trip to the toilets involves a private view of illustrator Martin Wollerstam's quirky black-and-white line drawings, and a fag break in the upstairs allows for a close look at Alex Noble's collages. Regular jazz nights take place on Tuesdays, and weekends are typically rammed and highly shambolic.
Chloe McCloskey, managing editor, Le Cool London

Reader's tip: Cellar Door, Aldwych

It's a tiny space decked out in retro burlesque style, entered by a dramatic (if small) glass entrance just in front of the Lyceum. A former men's loo, it is now rammed with high-tech stuff (SMS jukebox, automatically opaque loo doors) and somehow holds shows (can't imagine how) every night at 10pm. We went in for an early evening cocktail - there's a third off all drinks before 8pm. To be honest, it just feels like a pleasantly odd place to be drinking - huddled beneath the pavement sitting on leather seats shaped like buttocks.
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