We are offering one lucky winner and a friend the chance to win a 'Ministry of Sound VIP experience', including a table for two, a champagne cocktail upon arrival, a bottle of Ministry of Sound Vodka plus mixers to enjoy and a VIP gift bag including the Nightlife fragrance, CD's and some other delights.

Whilst not quite living up to its (inspirational if fractionally unattainable) name, The Last Days of Decadence is the newest bar/club kid on the Shoreditch block.

Who is this mysterious, debonair professional alcoholic they call the Bar Fly? Who is this hero of the libation revolution? He is a shadow, a secret, an unknown champion of the bar-rumour. Let's see what gossip he's dug up this week.?

In an Absolut World every night is a Masquerade... Here's a bit of help making any London night a masquerade.

Are we really just a city of speakeasies and gastropubs? Maybe it’s a knee-jerk response to all the middling-to-fair cocktails being thrown around this week, but hot-damn if we aren’t craving a good old fashioned knees-up. And clearly we’re not alone.

It may have had the darkest, dankest, most foul-smelling toilets this side of an unofficial US army detainee centre, but I miss the old Dragon Bar in Shoreditch. Yet it sits, caught between a demolition site and a still-unopened replacement venue round on Shoreditch High Street (it’s been due for a while: so eyes peeled!).