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78-79 Chalk Farm Road,
London,
NW1 8AR

0872 148 4235 Calls to 0871 numbers will be charged at a fixed rate of 10p per minute (from a landline or a mobile) no matter where you are within the UK. This number is unique to viewlondon.co.uk.

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Reviewer Anonymous
25/08/2006
Bartok was dissapointing! Was asked by the Bartok doormen once inside the bar to remove my Calvin Klein top with a hood on it. Why? Because there was a hood on it. As a Met Police officer I found this quite amazing. Not to be repeated.
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Reviewer Anonymous
20/09/2005
Bartok is a great little place if you are looking for somewhere that is open late. It is a rarity in Camden, but Bartok is neither posh nor punk, and anyone would feel welcome. The drinks are good and not expensive.


The staff at Bartok are friendly, and although not the most experienced bar staff in the world, they make it up by being nice and actually trying (something rare in London). It is also somewhere you can actually have a conversation without screaming. Highly recommended.

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Reviewer Anonymous
15/02/2004
Bartok specialises in classical music? No, it doesn't. Five friends and I trawled across London to Chalk Farm, in the hope of experiencing London's only classical music bar.

After much persuasion on my part that it would be worth the journey- we're all 20+ classical music fans - this venue sounded promising. We arrived around 9pm on Saturday evening, to be confronted with a blackboard advertising ‘Latin Funk’. Not much ‘classical’ in that we thought.

We ventured in to the bar, which is much like any other, and instantly our hearts sank as we heard the ubiquitous sounds of the Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake. Not Classical (not even 'Latin Funk' come to mention it).

We were extremely disappointed, both because we spent over an hour travelling to a bar which turned out to be identical to dozens on our south London doorstep, but moreover because we had come in the exited hope of finding somewhere unique in London only to find it playing the sound same soundtrack you hear anywhere now.

I complained to one of the staff who informed me they only have 'classical music occasionally'. Don't think this really qualifies as 'specialising' in a musical style? On being proffered a flyer, I saw that none of the seven nights are down to playing classical music, apart from one that mixed classical/chillout (a Wednesday).

In short, very disappointing, not as advertised. I spy a large hole in the market?

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