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Rinky Dink

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38 Clapham High Street,
Clapham,
London,
SW4 7UR

0872 148 2904 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 aussiesim
22/06/2008
This place is great!
I had my birthday drinks (with 15 others), and the staff really looked after us - we felt so special! They reserved an area for us and brought out a surprise bottle of champagne to celebrate! I even received birthday wishes from the owner. Drinks are great and the music is a great mix. It's nice to go to a bar where the the staff (and people) aren't pretentious, and just genuinely want you to have a good time! Well done Rinky Dink!!
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Reviewer Anonymous
04/12/2007
Love this place, i've being going back regularly since i had my birthday party there in September. The staff are always super friendly, the DJ's play really good music, perfect saturday night really. Love the decor as well super funky !!!
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Reviewer josephine1
12/10/2007
Had my birthday party at Rinky Dink last year and I have been a regular ever since!!
Nice and relaxed during the week with great pizzas and chilled out music..
But really comes into its own at the weekend,great place to go with a group of mates and let your hair down....
A cut above all the chain bars on the high street..
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11/10/2007
Rinky Dink is a really cool little bar on Clapham High Street. Usually go there on Fridays or Saturdays. Good crowd, nice doorstaff, and bar staff are all fit! The decor is really funky and i love the leather sofas. Its probably one of the best on the high street actually. If your after good music, friendly crowd and a bit of a boogie this is your place.
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Reviewer sarahbrown
11/10/2007
Been my friends and i favorite bar in Clapham for the last 12 months. Its got that cool shabby-chic feel about it, definitely an independant rather than a chain. Its really busy on fridays and saturdays but the staff work flat and are always super friendly. Great D\j's on the weekend. Probably a perfect a place for a birthday or leaving do. Never had any probs with the bar staff like the person below, its 2 for 1 cocktails on fridays i think, so thats why you may of waited a while, but hey 2 drinks for the price of 1 who cares !!! Highly Recommened.
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Reviewer Anonymous
17/09/2007
I was there for the first time this weekend, arrived at 9pm on Friday for a friend's birthday. I waited at the bar for 20 minutes, in 3 to 4 deep people, whilst we all watched rounds of cocktails being made by rather unenthusiastic staff at the cramped bar. I got served, ordered the first two beers of my night, and when I got my change had this conversation:



Me: Thanks - I reckon you guys would make more money if you didn't serve cocktails.



Him: What do you mean?



Me: I'm talking about helping the turnover of people at the bar.



Him: And what do you know about running a bar?



Me: I'm just trying to help with an idea to stop customers being at the bar for so long.



Him: You're a dickhead.



Me: Sorry buddy, just trying to help.



Lovely.
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Reviewer susan webb
26/06/2007
Rinky Dinky is my fave bar in Clapham because it has the best atmophere and really funky decor. Drinks wise lots of cocktails, nothing spectacular but if you like simply made drinks like mojitos you wont find better in Clapham. The staff are all friendly and always make an effort. Id say this is the perfect place for a birthday party, in fact I'm having mine here next month!
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Reviewer hemp3
18/06/2007
The music was okay but why then use the screens to display one of those phone in and vote music channels, nonsensical in my opinion. Is it because they think their clientele don’t have enough brain power to do anything more than stare at the pretty pop stars.



Talking of brain power, the bar staff aren’t exactly on the ball, the cocktails were appalling and even at two for one they are overpriced and badly thought out. Even the standard ones such as the mojito are just badly made.



It’s a lazy bar that does well because its more pretentious than anything in that part of Clapham. If I were you I would go towards the common.
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