Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes

Ok, so I know this place is a cool, hip bar but listen, it’s also a GREAT place to study during the days. If you’re also a student with lots of free time on your hands: come here study during the weekdays. Before 5pm, it is completely empty and is just a great place to concentrate, with loads of light and space. It’s a delight to come here when it’s sunny and warm, because they open the windows and you literally feel like you’re studying outside! Honestly, look no further, this is the best place to study in Hoxton!

Turns out finding a bar open in London late on a Monday night is more difficult than you’d perhaps think. Not one for busy city bars we jumped in a can to Old street /​shoreditch area area and headed in to Dream Bags and Jaguar Shoes.
Pretty cool, laid back little bar. Good drinks, nice atmosphere.
Perfect and was open til 1am.
Except it wasnt, they decided to shut at midnight instead.
so in summary… great little place… if its open
but avoid if your not keen on the London greater spotted Hipster.

I can dig it!
Tip: come during the quieter evenings of the week. You will be frustrated and cramped (as you would *anywhere* on a weekend night in Shoreditch) otherwise. Trendy/​hip vibe, reasonably priced drinks, a good soundtrack, no real complaints. Would happily return… just not on a Friday/​Saturday night!

Poor service, ignored by staff despite being one of three people in the entire place. Once I got my drink and sat down to read I saw the staff behind the bar swigging straight from bottles while making themselves drinks. I know it’s a bar, not a five star hotel, but that seems unnecessary and disgusting especially considering it was a quiet afternoon. Atmosphere is bland, no outlets for laptops (maybe downstairs?) and the music is really loud and bizarre (and I like weird music).
Needless to say, I won’t be back.

I love a birthday! Any excuse for a drink me. We went with a friend who picked this place — and frankly I love it for the name alone!
The location is good, well situated on a busy shoreditch road. it doesn’t look like a bar from the outside, which I also like. Inside is very shabby chic, kind of a rundown but cool look. Plaster on the wall peeling in some places to reveal cement, we had a table reserved which was lucky on this busy Saturday night. Drinks were typically overpriced but not awful and service was fine.
The problem is the almost bland trendy atmosphere. You expect this in Shoreditch, so why is this place any more exciting? To me it wasn’t, it was a good space to start the night before moving on.
Great name though!

This is a very quirky place. In the window it says ‘made you look!’ And I did enjoy looking round and taking it all in to an unusual, but very good, soundtrack (songs i knew, but in very different arrangements than I was familiar with). I love that the name is a combination of two businesses that formerly occupied the area in which the bar now resides.
Its a shame that its just standard fare (Guinness and lagers) on the bar. An opportunity missed there I feel. Luckily though the fridge has some interesting, but expensive, bottles. Enjoyed a Sun Day from Brewers Union and a Hive honey beer (same beers found in The Grocery a few doors down)
You can order in pizza or pasta from Due Sardi which is basically next door. Looks worth a try!
I still don’t really know what a hipster is.

A hipster funky east London bar, way to crowded for me and I didn’t feel like it was that great of a place except for the people watching. I like a more speak easy place with creative cocktails, this isn’t that.

Came here last night before heading somewhere else, though I almost missed it because it’s so dark from the outside that I thought it was closed! There is a pretty good selection of drinks, and te staff know them well :)
I went downstairs and liked the multitude of tea-​lights/​candles that they have there.
Id definitly come back if I was in the area.

Love this place! Fun atmosphere, good drinks and a cool place to hang out!

+decent cocktails, nice music, nice atmosphere.
–hipster factor

Petit bar branché (mais pas spécialement chère) situé sur deux étages. Rapidement blindé le soir, les quelques tables disponibles sont prises d’assaut.
Quelques bières à la pression (je recommande la blanche pour ceux qui né sont pas fan de la bière anglaise) et quelques cocktails qui né sont pas à se taper le cul sur un shaker.

I’m a new explorer to the various boroughs of London, but the first time I visited Shoreditch, I fell in love with the neighborhood. Jaguar Shoes is definitely one of the reasons for my new obsession.
I can’t say much except that this place is «really, really cool.» Coming from San Francisco, I can appreciate a place for being unique, yet comfortable and welcoming. I really enjoy the selection of local beers and the ever-​changing, artsy décor is the icing on the cake! I dig.

If you can weave through the asymmetrical haircuts and manage to get a drink, you’re much better skilled than most. There’s some… interesting… folk in here. It’s like being on the set of an American Apparel photo shoot when they start to change the set over to shoot something else but all the models kind of hung around because they didn’t have anything better to do.
My favorite thing is spotting the banker hipsters who work out far too much but still pride themselves on being able to pull off skinny jeans and chunky glasses even though they probably prefer contacts monday-​friday.
mmmm… eh. I’m sure there’s a time and a place for this place. But I almost feel like they want you to hate it, so they’ve probably won.

Got myself in here for an early evening pre-​dinner cocktail and it was pleasant as it was not crazy busy or full.
The décor is industrial hip that includes several walls being projected onto with repetitive and distracting footage. On this occasion it was troupes of dancers.
We took seats at the bar where we ordered our cocktails, I went for the Blueberry Caipirinha which was 9 GBP. Made with a lot of TLC, I watched patiently as each drink was constructed. The bartender took her time and made a fine job of it. My cocktail was top notch, yum.
Would I go back? Probably if I was passing the door and if there were free seats. I wouldn’t go out of my way or be squished in at those prices.

(Warning This Review Contains Swears and Sarcasm)
Busy, trendy as fuck and the service was slow. Nice, but slow. On a Thursday night no less.
And wouldn’t you know it, the only spot we could grab to sit down was, you guessed it, bench seating! Mother effer its like a conspiracy against me I swear!
To be fair to the nice bartender, the old fashioned was tasty. But here’s the beef:
On the menu on the wall «Black Cherry and Chocolate Old Fashioned». That sounds yummy right?
She starts making it, slowly searches for the ingredients apparently hidden around the bar (it’s not an easter egg hunt bitch organize your shit!), and then stirs… and stirs… aaaannnnnddd adds more ice… and then stirs again. After me commenting on the amount of stirring she mentioned that it should be stirred for ⁸¹⁄₂ minutes. I know an old fashioned is to be stirred but where the hell did she get this specific time from? And then apparently she mumbled something about not having (or finding) chocolate and just handed me the drink… uh what? Did you at least not charge as much? No? Full price? Ok whatever. Harumphh.
Like I said my cherry old fashioned was delicious. Just not what I ordered and not when I wanted to drink it. Lame.

Good music, interesting and Artsy décor.
Drinks are reasonably priced but everything else about the place seems a little… «Soul-​less»?
They can do a lot more with the space they have, didn’t feel too astounded by the spot. The clientele they attract is young and hip but no one’s really having too much fun there. Hmm. Not sure, I’m conflicted with this place.

If you can get past the über too cool for skool (or anything else for that matter!) crowd this is a nice little bar.
Cool décor (I get the imperession that they do the same type of thing as ‘Tina we salute you’ — which is having artists redecorate every now and then).
They serve up some fine pizza’s from the Due Sardi pizza joint next door.
Drinks are good, music is funky cool and they have a downstairs which opens in the evening where you can boogie the night away!
Only real downside for me is the sullen faced bar staff that are obviously soooo coool that they can’t even look at you or speak much when they are serving you. Bless them, must be tough being that cool!

Crazy busy on the weekends, Jaguar Shoes is a great place to chill out during the week.
The place has some few seating on the main floor, and extra more on the basement.
You’ve got wine, beers, champagne and a selection of 8 – 10 cocktails.
The apple cider mojito is not a bad choice.
Pros:
Hispter like décor with old signs (not always a pro for some, but for me the décor was fun)
Friendly staff
Good pizza!
Cons:
Bit small
Average price
Money Money Money:
Paid £30 pounds for 3 cocktails and a coke

A quirky bar that has a bar upstairs and downstairs.
When we visited this bar it was late on a Wednesday night and it was rammed full.
Whilst I appreciate this is a quirky bar they have some really awesome décor, some edgy artwork and the bar is well stocked, it was a little like world war 3 in there.
We ventured downstairs as there was a live DJ, but the music was far too loud and it was full of really battered people so we left quite quickly.
The cocktails were very tasty, but having to wait about 10 – 15 minutes to get to the bar.
I’d really like to go back to this bar when it’s a bit quieter as I believe it has a lot of potential and the staff are very enthusiastic about their drinks.
However till then I will be avoiding this place when it’s busy.

My boyfriend and I were invited for drinks with some friends at this great little place to watch the World Cup a couple of weeks ago. Although the result was disappointing, the Long Island ice teas and homemade pizzas were definitely not!
The staff are super friendly, the drinks and food are affordable and there is a massive basement which is opened in the evening for club nights. We walk past it almost every single day, I can’t believe I’ve never been in before. Definitely one of my favourite new Sunday lunchtime spots.

Iffff… shis. pisshed…yous.sees…simples…
Yup this night ended up with me thinking it was a good idea going in my flatmates room and jumping on my bed when I get home.
This is ultimate twatville, with the obscure leather furniture, oddly artistic signage and strangely dressed bar staff you couldn’t really have a bar like this anywhere else apart from Shoreditch. Actually that’s probably why I had never been here before, it just looked too much like it was trying to be f*#king cool, which obviously means it would suck. I was proved wrong… this could be one of two things, it could actually be a good bar without pretension or I’ve finally fully fledged into a Shoreditch dickhead. I’ll leave you to decide, try it for yourself and see…