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Evening Standard
David Ellis

David Ellis On the Sauce at The Colony Room Club: Old rogues' drinking den reborn, thanks to artsy new crowd

“How does someone like you,” said my best friend, looking about in bewilderment, “know a place like this?”

Could I have waspishly taken offence (“I write a sodding drinks column, idiot”)? Sure, but I saw what she meant. The whole thing is improbable. You don’t expect to find a proper boozers’ den underneath Ziggy Green, an elegant Australian restaurant best known for brunch.

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