Weird, ok service but you're not really bothered because it's kinda cool. Manager is nuts.

This is my first time in this area of London away from Camden and i must say i was extremely happy with what i found. Aces and Eights is a great little rock bar. It has a great vibe to it as soon as you walk through the door with its combination of excellent music and fantastic style. Also the the team behind the bar were very friendly and made you feel really welcome. They were having a good time as they worked which ifelt encourged me to have a good time.
I will definitely be back again.


Great Pizza too !

Been here a few times and really liked the music, spirit selection and the general vibe.

However will never go back again since suffering the rudest barmaid ever (mixed race girl with tattoos) last Sunday. Everything that is wrong with the worst sort of bartenders - arrogant, bristling aggro, inability to make a simple classic cocktail (a daiquiri) even though it was on the menu, and then then worst sort of couldn't-care-less attitude.
When we said we didn't want the strawberry daiquiri she'd made, having ordered a plain daiquiri, she got defensive and confrontational - "you should have read the menu before you ordered then". When we pointed out the normal daiquiri was on the menu she just said, "Oh yeah, that's the menu from Slim Jim's we don't do that here", and still wanted paying for the wrong drink.
Her colleague, when we asked to mediate was pretty spineless, just backing his work-mate up even though she plain lied about what she'd said. Can't really blame him for loyalty, but again a 0/10 for customer service. I get it - it's a rockers bar. Doesn't mean you've gotta be bitchy with your customers though. Would explain why it's so empty so often. It seems that apart from a hard-core of rockers and goths the rest of us are just not welcome.
It's a real shame, cos the European goth looking girl who had served us on previous occasions was a real sweetheart, but I'm not one for exposing myself to crap service and rude attitudes, so I won't bother with this place again.


A real shame though, cos I was really getting to like the place.

The staff are some of the rudest I have ever come across. Especially the owner (some sort of rude vertically challenged angry Irish fella) who threatened both me and my girlfriend for coming into his bar at last orders and made a big song and dance about it. He relented and gestured to the barmaid to let us have a drink in a way that it was like he just donated a kidney and we should be very grateful. We then bought our drink reluctantly and then asked us to leave before the last drop was drank. Frigging weirdo. On a constructive note I have been in the bar before and found it incredibly pretentious and fake. The decor has been thrown together and the food is overpriced.

I've been a bit of a regular here since it opened, it stands out in the area as there isn't really anywhere else like it, it's got good atmosphere and plays decent music (real jukebox!). The theme is well good, like a bar in Las Vegas or where ever and with drinks to match, I'm still trying to work my way through all the whiskey and the mojitos etc go down very well with the ladies (which reminds me the girls who work there are well fit). Nice pizzas too, which are definitely becoming my favourite bar food. Last time I was in there they had an offer on where if you bought a jd and coke you could be randomly picked to play a game to make it a double for the same price. What you had to do is they'd draw a card and you'd have to choose higher or lower. Then they'd draw another card and if you were right you won and got the extra shot for free! If you were wrong or it was an ace or an eight (like the name, geddit?) you didn't win, but out of a couple of goes you do end up winning once or twice. Definitely kept me coming back for more! So yeah, go for the decent tunes, grub and surprise card games that could win you extra booze!