Under 25? Want to go gay clubbing, thinking of Candy Bar? Don’t be silly.

Unless you want to be stuck in a room with aging dykes I suggest you think again.

If this is the best there is for lesbians in London I am sincerely worried. Okay maybe I’m slightly biased at eighteen and have far higher expectations of clubs, but seriously, comparative to the straight clubs this is such a massive waste of time.

Yeah there are some hot girls there but to be honest like us they are only there because there is no where else.

Don’t even get me started on the loos, all I’m saying is bring your shepees. Charging on the door? Get over yourselves, this place is not worth a fiver.

The West End has very little cool places to offer girls and Candy Bar is far from being the top place to go and be seen!

It starts from the moment you have to pay to in the gaff!! Its a bar!

And a small one at that so charging on the door is ridiculous! The place needs a complete makeover to be honest.

Its small, cramped, smelly and pay attention to the other reviews on here that mention the toilets!

They are grim!!No one should be subjected to that and you can always judge a place on its toilets!

If I could give it no stars I really would - sorry! I sound so miserable but honestly Londons Lesbian scene sucks!

I've been with my girlfriend for 4 years and we've yet to find a cool, slick, clean, funky, friendly girl bar we can go to!

well reading the other reviews I have to say it seems like the place I was in was extremely different!!!

Was there for the very first time this weekend after travelling over from Ireland, and I have to say had a great time there......

the staff were very friendly, the clientelle was a mix of younger and older...... (when i say older maybe the oldest was about 40).....

toilets ok need improvement but overall the atmosphere was excellent......

A visitor to London with my girlfriend, we visited Candy Bar on a Friday night 23.01.09.I have to say the place is awful. If this is the best that the West End has to offer gay woman, that is so disappointing.

We paid £6 to get in, which was a total rip off because nothing was going on. The place has 3 different floors - upstairs is a cloakroom (which costs £2)and pool table - when I visited there was also a bucket catching water from the leaking roof. Downstairs is I guess a cellar bar, with a dancing pole - which was a little bizarre to say the least - a member of staff stood at the top of the stairs to the cellar bar counting how many people were going down - which was a laugh really becuse the place was pretty dead.

The highlight was when the ambulance turned up to help a young woman who had maybe had a few too many!!The toilets were awful - I managed to get some toilet roll from a member of staff, but this was only because I was telling her how awful Candy Bar was, including the toilets.

The toilets were dark, no lights, dirty and very smelly.The floor in the bar was also very sticky due to spilt drinks = you did keep sticky to the floor in this place.The best thing that happened is that we met a really nice couple in Candy Bar, who were also visiting London and don't leave too far from Leeds (where I come from) - we are going to stay in touch.

We did speak to the staff to let them know what we thought. I have to say travelling to the capital and going to Candy Bar, which is, you are told, the hub for gay girls in the West End - God they have some work to do. The staff told us we would be better coming back on a Saturday because it is an older crowd - I am 30 - obviously over the hill for Candy Bar!

its nice that there is a place that lesbians can go and be safe and party, but you are restricting those lesbians that have male friends that would like to understand their world, and would like to party with there lesbian friends.

I went here on the weekend with my lesbian friend - both her and I (one of each preference - sexually, I might add) - found the place to be calm and soothing. Friendly staff, not overly done in any way. Couples sitting down having a pint, reading the news, even some blokes where in there - friends with the barmaid apparently. Nice pink dim lighting. Only thing missing is a few tables.

End of sunshine story. The toilet facilities in this place is appalling! No lighting, no toilet paper, slippery floors, nothing had been cleaned... dirty toilets (as far as I could see) - and a foul funk wafting from the room itself...
- Get this sorted and you earn another star from me!

I heard so much about the Candy Bar and was very disappointed when I got there. Un-friendly, cliquey staff, over-priced drinks and absolutely FILTHY toilets: the sanitary disposal units were overflowing, horrible dank smell of urine and really poor lighting.Candy Bar seriously needs to sharpen up!

we went to the candy bar last week and it is much more friendly now, last year i went and it was really clicky, now the drugs and attitude are gone it has a much better vibe.

this one of the few places i would choose to relax or have a dance in the west end.