Very rude door staff, the guy on the door would keep you waiting and waiting for no reason (there are more people at the queue than inside the bar), even when you have a cigarette they keep you waiting to get back in. Very bad attitude, I certainly do not recommend it. Music was okay-ish but nothing worth the hassle.

Give this place a miss, rude door staff, really rude bar staff, the place is just a big room with very poor decoration. How can they charge people to get into that hole. Toilets were resonable if you could find one that locked. The icing on the cakes was been told i had to queue again to get back in, after going outside for a cigarette.

Worse place i've been to in a long time.

Actually a great place, as long as you dress the part. The burgers during the day are huge.

I've been here a few times now and have had the best nights, the music is always crowd-pleasing, fun and dancy, the people are friendly and jokes, a wide range of crazy dressers from new romantic/wave to electro/thrash looks. Read some of the comments on here where people had been turned away, I feel it's the kind of place you expect to have a dress code, but just relax dress-up abit and run with it. if you don't want to it's not your kind of place.

Bar Music Hall was dreadful. The door man is the most pretentious person I have ever come across. He told me that he decides who gets in on the basis of, Who's hot and who's not. I ask you. Totally unncessary, especially before 9pm in a practically empty bar. And it's just a bar for goodness sake, and an ordinary one at that. My birthday was only salvaged by going to the lovely bar below Shish around the corner.

Bar Music Hall is definitely one of the better places in Shoreditch due to the fact that it has less pretentious idiots there. Good music and a good crowd made Bar Music Hall a lot of fun.

Dress up is all I can say if you want to get in to Bar Music Hall on a Saturday night and have one of the best nights with some of the most friendly and outgoing people in London. If you don't dress up, you won't get in. Bar Music Hall is a Hoxton secret and they don't want chavs there. Plus, I I love the doorman!

Bar Music Hall was dreadful. I was told by the guy on the door that they let people in based on how hot they are. For goodness sake. There are plenty of other places in London to drink and have a good time without that sort of ridiculousness. Don't bother with Bar Music Hall.

I went to Bar Music Hall for the first time last Saturday to meet my boyfriend and friends. I tried to sort out a guest list, but with no luck. They said it was not possible as the list was closed, but if we turned up early it wouldn’t be a problem.


We arrived at half nine and I had to flirt my way past the he/she/it on door. When we got in I was surprised that Bar Music Hall wasn’t more packed. Even as the night went on it never got to a point where it felt like the greedy owners had packed people in.
Everyone was very friendly, and definitely real party people. Even though it was such a big place everyone I spoke to regulars and they were the must interesting bunch of people I have ever met.

We were surprised that the bar manager told us that we are not their type of guests as we have been living in Hoxton for five years. I have never been insulted like this. Anyway, we got in to Bar Music Hall finally and the place was half empty, the music was bad and the crowd was very mixes, so I have no idea how they could make a fuss about us.


I would not recommend Bar Music Hall to anyone who I know.

Don't bother going to Bar Music Hall unless you want to be exposed to a draconian door policy run by someone who wouldn't let anyone in unless they recognised them. Bar Music Hall was half empty. Avoid it.

I have been to Bar Music Hall many time, mostly during the week though. I live around the corner and often go there for the excellent beer and one of the absolute best consistent free Jazz night around.

That said, I have been turned away from Bar Music Hall before on Saturday nights for not dressing up enough which is a bit annoying considering the amount of times I have been there. But, being in the middle of Shoreditch it would be surprising if it wasn't a bit "too cool for school".

Top venue!

I arrived at Bar Music Hall to meet some of my friends for a birthday celebration so was upset to be told I couldn't come in by a thoroughly unpleasant and rude 'doorbunny'.



Living in Hoxton you often defend it against it's reputation of being poncy and pretentious, but unfortunately Bar Music Hall doorstaff lived up to the stereotype!

We went with friends to Bar Music Hall last Saturday and were turned away. They said after 9:00 the promoter chose who did and didn't get in. We arrived at 8:50 and even though a large group of friends were already inside Bar Music Hall, this made no difference to the door staff, so they had to leave and join us down the road.

We were turned away on Saturday from BBar Music Hall by a real life obnoxios Hoxton twat. It's people like him that give the area a bad name. Don't go to Bar Music Hall.

On the bright side of the Bar Music Hall the
door staff were not a real problem. There were lots of very drunk people who could not handle it. Bar Music Hall was very unpleasant.

Bar Music Hall has the rudest bouncer I have ever come across. I will never be going back there and I doubt that the 3 or 4 other groups of young professionals I watched get turned away for no reason, will either!

I was lucky and just walked pass Bar Music Hall last saturday night. The music was amazing so I popped in to suss it out, and the rest is history. What a night. Bar Music Hall is a great venue with cheap drinks and the staff were fantastic.

Long live Bar Music Hall.

Hey, whatever you think of Bar Music Hall from before you should check them out now. What a fantastic transformation and some pretty cute barmen too!

Bar Music Hall has a great DJ on Saturday night and real local crowd. Loos are still the brightest about!

Brilliant. Bar Music Hall is lively and friendly, with dancing on tables yet a sophisticated feel. Definitely recommend trying it.